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TikTok (NEW YORK) — After former President Donald Trump spent the day in a courtroom in downtown Manhattan last Tuesday, one of the star witnesses in the criminal hush money case against him went live on social media to talk about the trial as thousands listened. “Trump 2024?” said Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and “fixer” who is now a …

Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — Ralph Puckett Jr., Colonel, United States Army, Retired. A name of honor and now for history. Medal of Honor recipient Puckett’s cremated remains will lie in honor Monday afternoon at the center of the Capitol rotunda — one of the nation’s highest honors. To lie in state or honor at the U.S. Capitol is …

Getty Images – STOCK (SALIDA, Colo.) — Suzanne Morphew, the Colorado mom who went missing on a bike ride in May 2020, died by homicide, according to an autopsy released Monday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Her death was determined to have been caused by “Homicide by undetermined means in the setting of butorphanol, azaperone, and …

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A line of strong thunderstorms is pushing through Louisiana and southeastern Texas on Monday, making for a stormy morning from Houston, Texas, to Jackson, Mississippi. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for the area until 9 a.m. CT on Monday. Flash flood warnings are also in effect along the line of storms. About 1 …

Lena Badr’s grandmother, Aziza Badr, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Az-Zawayda neighborhood in Gaza on Dec. 23, 2023. (Lena Badr) (NEW YORK) — When Palestinian American Lena Badr learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, she said she was “horrified and immediately concerned” about what Israel’s retaliation would mean for the Gaza Strip where part of …

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Three police officers were wounded in a fatal standoff with a gunman in Louisiana on Sunday, officials said. Kenner Police were called to the 700 block of Farm Avenue at approximately 9:45 a.m. local time after two people were shot outside of a residence, according to a statement from Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto …

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza. Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish students on the campuses have called the protests antisemitic and said they are scared for their safety. …