The city of Detroit is on-track to see its fewest yearly homicides in nearly six decades, officials said Monday. Through Nov. 30, Detroit had recorded 228 homicides — an 18% decrease over the same period last year. In 2018, Detroit had 261 homicides, the fewest number since 1966, when there […]

New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh squashed a report that Zach Wilson is “reluctant” to become the team’s starting quarterback again, as the team ponders what to do after Tim Boyle and Trevor Siemian struggled on Sunday. Boyle, who started against the Miami Dolphins last week and the Atlanta […]

A Florida couple was arrested and faces felony animal abuse charges after over 100 animals were rescued from their property, according to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office. In a post on Facebook, authorities said that Faustino Alfredo Valladares, 66, and Patricia Maria Villadamigo, 46, were arrested on animal cruelty charges […]

A Virginia judge has dismissed felony charges against a former county elections official accused of misconduct in the 2020 election, a decision made after state prosecutors said a key witness changed his story. At the prosecutors’ request, the judge on Friday dismissed a felony charge of corrupt conduct and one […]

The private Park University in Missouri is laying off faculty, cutting programs and closing campuses after a sharp drop in enrollment that echoes what is happening nationally. The school, which is based in the Kansas City area, said it planned to cut 16 faculty positions, mostly in low enrollment areas, […]

A Nigerian military attack that used drones to target rebels instead killed some civilians, government and military officials said Monday. The misfire during a religious celebration was the latest such errant bombing of local residents in Nigeria’s violence hot spots. Muslims observing Maulud on Sunday night in Kaduna state’s Igabi […]

A Pennsylvania doctor allegedly tried setting fire to a home belonging to the grandmother of a woman who was dating her ex-boyfriend.  Dr. Amy Cohen, 35, allegedly set fire to the front porch of a home in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion, FOX Philadelphia reported.  INFANT ABDUCTED OUTSIDE DELAWARE […]

Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has not put any major bills on the floor since the upper chamber returned from Thanksgiving recess, causing blowback from some Republicans. Instead, the majority leader prioritized President Biden’s judicial nominees during their first week back, and “we are nowhere closer to a deal […]

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused Monday to condemn comments from a top progressive lawmaker who called for “balance” when condemning Hamas’ use of sexual violence against Israeli women. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said “we have to be balanced about bringing in the […]

A small twin-engine plane was forced to make an emergency landing Monday in the southern Paris suburbs, France’s civil aviation safety agency said. French media said the aircraft landed near a populated area in the town of Villejuif. FRENCH MINISTER WARNS COUNTRY ‘DURABLY UNDER THREAT FROM ISLAMIST TERRORISM’ AFTER PARIS […]