Vietnam has detained the director of a think tank that works on energy issues in the country — the sixth expert working on environmental and climate issues that authorities have taken into custody in the past two years, a rights group said Wednesday. Ngo Thi To Nhien, the executive director […]

A South Carolina man was shot and killed Tuesday night after a state trooper tried to pull him over, authorities said. The man killed was identified as Brian Dustin Shumway, 36, according to the Pickens County Coroner’s Office. An autopsy has been scheduled to gather more information about how he […]

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, blasted Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice Department’s handling of investigations into parents at school board meetings and pro-life groups Thursday. Garland testified for several hours before the House Judiciary Committee, fielding questions ranging from Hunter Biden to the alleged investigations. Roy pressed Garland on […]

High school band director Johnny Mims is calling on his students to forgive police officers and not “hold a grudge” against them after he was tasered at a high school football game. “My biggest prayer is, first of all, that these students will not hold a grudge. That they would […]

Body camera footage captures the moment an Ohio stripper calls a police officer “handsome” and tells him to tase her because she likes it “kinky” after admitting she downed six shots of Patrón during a hit-and-run arrest. Grace Spoonamore, 20, was behind the wheel of a Buick Enclave when she […]

The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a last-chance effort to revive criminal charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal, waving away an appeal by prosecutors who have desperately tried to get around a 2022 decision that gutted the cases. The attorney general’s office used an uncommon tool […]

A white 84-year-old homeowner who is accused of shooting a Black teenager after the high-schooler mistakenly came to his Kansas City home entered a not guilty plea Wednesday, and the judge scheduled his trial for next year. Andrew Lester, a retired aircraft mechanic, is charged with first-degree assault and armed […]

Dallas Police have released body camera footage of the shootout and arrest of an illegal immigrant who allegedly shot and killed his roommate in broad daylight and injured a police officer.  Police say that last Thursday, Officers Derek Williams and Christopher Mazin were driving past a business located at 4847 […]

An officer with London’s Metropolitan Police force who fatally shot an unarmed Black man has been charged with murder, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chris Kaba, 24, was killed in south London on Sept. 5 last year, after police pursued his car and tried to stop it. His vehicle was hemmed in […]

Is it time? Are we living in the future? Are the robots taking over? No … but for Austin-based startup Apptronik, robots are being developed and are here to stay. Meet Apollo: Apptronik’s latest “general purpose humanoid robot” powered by artificial intelligence (AI).  Apollo is a 5-foot-8-inch, 160-pound robot intended […]