A local man is making a comeback after he couldn't finish the Detroit Free Press Marathon last year. Tommy Kornieck will be getting a special medal ceremony at the finish line and he's excited to take in the moment.
Former President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans Thursday, speaking to the group just two weeks after he was convicted on 34 charges in his hush money trial and as GOP senators have increasingly rallied around him. The invitation was issued by Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the chairman of the GOP conference, and Trump has accepted, according to two people familiar with the planning who requested anonymity to discuss the closed-door meeting. The gathering will be the first time that Trump has met with the GOP conference since he was president, and the first time since the attack by his supporters on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Former President Donald Trump attended a pre-sentencing hearing on Monday with a New York probation officer, a standard procedure for defendants found guilty in criminal cases prior to being sentenced by a judge.
A landslide that wiped out a vital two-lane road in western Wyoming is causing a mountain of headaches for thousands of commuting tourist town workers at the outset of the Yellowstone region's busy summer season. After the slide sent both lanes crashing into a ravine near Teton Pass on Saturday, it's anybody's guess when Wyoming Highway 22, between Jackson, Wyoming, and eastern Idaho, will reopen. Most visitors don't go over Teton Pass, and park access remains unimpeded.
Chronic absenteeism is becoming a bigger issue in schools. Here's why parents need to keep an eye out for it with their kids.
The Biden administration is considering a plan to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants who are the spouses of U.S. citizens and get them access to work permits, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
Foster mom Emma Patterson, 88, has fostered more than 40 children in Montgomery County, Maryland. She was recently honored for her service.
A woman who claimed in a lawsuit that GSK's discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her breast cancer dropped her case shortly before it was set to go to trial in Illinois state court on Monday, the company announced. GSK said in a statement that it did not settle with the woman, Eugenia Kasza. A lawyer for Kasza did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A massive three-alarm fire broke out at a Miami apartment building Monday morning and an employee of the building was found shot at the scene, officials said.
Florida’s top attorney is betting that revitalizing an old program that distributes playing cards in jails and prisons will help crack some of the state’s cold cases.
The pastor was a close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and an advocate of nonviolent protest.
Europe's stock markets and the euro slid Monday after far-right parties performed well in EU elections, prompting French President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary poll and plunging the bloc into political turmoil.Macron's political gamble came after far-right parties in France, including National Rally, managed to take almost 40 percent of the vote in France's EU poll.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveils his Conservatives' agenda for government on Tuesday, promising to offer voters in an election on July 4 the kind of financial security he says the opposition Labour Party can never provide. With his governing party well behind in the opinion polls just weeks before the national election, Sunak will again try to convince voters that he has a bold plan to cut taxes, boost the economy and curb migration. So far, his message has failed to start closing the gap with Labour, and he now faces a challenge from the right-wing Reform UK party, which, under the leadership of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, has vowed to lead a "revolt" against the Conservatives.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will close a costly Texas detention center and reallocate the funds to increase overall detention capacity as the agency ramps up operations to implement new U.S. border restrictions. In a memo to U.S. lawmakers on Monday, ICE said it would shutter the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, freeing up money to expand detention bed space elsewhere. Biden, a Democrat seeking another term in Nov. 5 elections, rolled out a policy last week that bars most migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from claiming asylum.
A New Jersey businessman who prosecutors say bribed Sen. Bob Menendez testified Monday that the Democrat told him in summer 2019 that he’d look into a state criminal probe threatening his business and later assured him there was no threat and boasted about saving him. At the time, Jose Uribe said in Manhattan federal court, he assumed that Menendez knew he had made a $15,000 down payment and was making monthly payments on a Mercedes-Benz for Menendez’s girlfriend, who married Menendez a year later. Prosecutors contend that the car, along with gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash found in the couple's Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home, were bribes paid by three businessmen, including Uribe, to get the senator to use his influence to serve their purposes and earn them money from 2018 to 2023.
The U.S. military said Monday that it plans to stockpile aid shipments on a secure beach in Gaza during a U.N. pause on distributing food from the American-built pier after one of the deadliest days of the Israel-Hamas war. The U.N. World Food Program, which works with U.S. officials to transfer desperately needed aid from the month-old pier to warehouses and local relief teams in Gaza, tweeted Monday that the U.N. would conduct a security review to assess the safety of its staff in handling aid deliveries from the pier. A humanitarian official familiar with the situation said the security review is expected to conclude within a few days and U.N. officials would then make decisions on resuming operations.
Democratic Sen. Jon Tester and Republican Tim Sheehy met in Montana’s first Senate debate Sunday, an early showdown in one of the nation's most important races.
President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that he was confident French voters would make the "right choice" in snap elections he called after the far right crushed his centrist alliance in Sunday's EU ballot."I am confident in the capacity of the French people to make the right choice for themselves and for future generations," Macron wrote on X on Monday.
David Hosier is set to die by lethal injection for the 2009 murder of Angela Gilpin, a mother who was trying to patch things up with her husband.
New details are emerging about one of the most dramatic and deadly events of Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza.
Jury deliberations began on Monday in the trial of Hunter Biden on federal gun charges, a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president.The 12-member jury began deliberations after prosecutors and Hunter Biden's defense team presented their closing arguments.
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