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Charlotte mayor scores primary re-election victory amid national backlash over gruesome train murder

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Charlotte mayor scores primary re-election victory amid national backlash over gruesome train murder

Mayor Vi Lyles of Charlotte, North Carolina, won Tuesday's Democratic Party mayoral primary in an election overshadowed the past few days by the deadly stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a city train.The stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska last month on a light-rail train by a man with a history of mental illness and over a dozen arrests quickly grabbed national attention and reignited a conversation about crime after security […]

todaySeptember 9, 2025 6

Hawley pushes legal action against Meta after whistleblowers detail child abuse in VR

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Hawley pushes legal action against Meta after whistleblowers detail child abuse in VR

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called to "open the courtroom doors" so parents can sue Meta, accusing founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of misleading Congress after whistleblowers detailed child safety failures on the company’s virtual reality (VR) platforms.Two former Meta researchers told a Senate panel Tuesday that the company buried child harm evidence in VR, killed age-verification studies and let AI chatbots flirt with kids, prompting a bipartisan push to pass […]

todaySeptember 9, 2025 5

Thune’s suitcase nuke – and the filibuster’s latest blast injury

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Thune’s suitcase nuke – and the filibuster’s latest blast injury

It was a full-on nuclear explosion.Just like the Pacific Testing Grounds near the Marshall Islands and French Polynesia.But this political blast tore through the Senate chamber.In November 2013, late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., detonated the first Senate "nuclear option." He curbed the filibuster to confirm executive branch nominees — except the Supreme Court. Rather than 60 votes to break a filibuster, such nominees would only need a simple […]

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Mayor of sanctuary city advances to November election amid ICE crackdown resistance

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Mayor of sanctuary city advances to November election amid ICE crackdown resistance

Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston on Tuesday easily came out on top in a preliminary municipal contest to advance to November's mayoral election, amid a new crackdown in Massachusetts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Voters in New England's most populous city cast ballots to narrow the mayoral field to two in Democrat-dominated Boston.Wu, the first woman and person of color elected Boston mayor, faced off against three challengers. Philanthropist […]

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California man accused in dating app murders wore eerie white mask in past burglary spree, police reveal

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California man accused in dating app murders wore eerie white mask in past burglary spree, police reveal

A California man, accused of wearing a mask that made him appear White in dozens of robberies, was charged on Monday with allegedly using an online dating app to lure men into meetings that ended in murder, disappearance and a near-fatal assault, according to Los Angeles prosecutors.Rockim Prowell, 34, of Inglewood, California, was charged with two counts of murder with a special circumstance allegation of multiple murders, according to a […]

todaySeptember 9, 2025 6

Authorities reveal cause of death in killing of retired college professor

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Authorities reveal cause of death in killing of retired college professor

Authorities believe the man accused of killing a retired Auburn University professor ambushed her and repeatedly hit her with a sharp object while she walked her dog Saturday.Police in Auburn, Alabama, said Julie Gard Schnuelle, 59, was found dead Saturday in a wooded area of Kiesel Park with injuries consistent with an assault. Harold Rashad Dabney III, 26, was arrested on two counts of capital murder in the death of […]

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