Day: September 1, 2023

US House Foreign Affairs Committee head says partnership between China, Russia is greatest threat since WWII

12:51 pm September 1, 2023

The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Friday that a partnership between the Russian and Chinese leaders worried him, adding, “We have never seen a threat this large scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.” An alliance between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir […]

Former New Hampshire state senator accused of using COVID-19 relief funds to buy luxury cars

12:13 pm September 1, 2023

A former state senator was accused Thursday of lying in order to get a COVID-19 relief loan for his casino and using the money to buy luxury cars for himself and his wife, a Republican leader in the New Hampshire House. The allegations against former Sen. Andy Sanborn were announced by the attorney general’s office, […]

Small West Virginia university declares bankruptcy after announcing planned closure

11:32 am September 1, 2023

A small, private university in West Virginia declared bankruptcy on Thursday, a month after announcing that it planned to stop operating. Alderson Broaddus University filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the state’s northern district. According to the filing, the university estimated it had between $1 million and $10 million in total […]

Smugglers funnel migrants toward remote Arizona desert, despite temperatures reaching 118 degrees

11:27 am September 1, 2023

Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for the short trip in triple-degree heat to a canopied field intake center. The […]

Ohio police set to release bodycam footage of fatal shooting of pregnant Black woman

11:18 am September 1, 2023

Body camera footage showing the final moments of a pregnant Black woman who was shot and killed by police in an Ohio parking lot last week is expected to be released to the public on Friday. Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old from Columbus, was pronounced dead shortly after the Aug. 24 shooting outside a grocery store […]