Day: October 13, 2023

Clashes on Ivy League campus as tensions flare following Hamas terrorist attack in Israel

11:03 pm October 13, 2023

Protests supporting both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples keep tensions high on Columbia University’s campus, where an Israeli student was attacked Wednesday with a stick outside the school’s main library. At least 2,300 people have died since Hamas launched thousands of rockets on Israel over the weekend, pushing Israel to declare it was at war […]

Illinois child welfare worker guilty of endangerment after 5-year-old beaten to death by mom

11:01 pm October 13, 2023

A judge convicted a former state child welfare worker Friday of child endangerment in connection with the 2019 beating death of a 5-year-old suburban Chicago boy by his mother, but the judge acquitted the man’s supervisor. Lake County Judge George Strickland found Carlos Acosta, 57 of Woodstock, who was a case investigator for the Illinois […]

Polish party leaders make final appeals to voters as close election nears

10:59 pm October 13, 2023

The main party leaders facing off in Poland’s upcoming parliamentary election called on voters to give their respective parties winning support as they held final campaign rallies Friday. Opinion polls suggested a close race. The election Sunday will decide whether the ruling conservative, Euro-skeptic Law and Justice party will win a third straight term or […]

Gas balloon crashed into Texas power lines while attempting to land amid gunfire, pilot says

10:58 pm October 13, 2023

The pilot of a gas balloon that crashed into power lines in North Texas earlier this week said he and his co-pilot were being shot at and attempted to make an emergency landing. “We heard more and more automatic guns. It was not one shot. It was, ‘Do, do, do, do, do, do!’” Krzystotf Zapart, […]

Group of moderate Dem lawmakers offer deal to expand McHenry’s powers amid speaker fight

10:51 pm October 13, 2023

A group of moderate Democrat lawmakers offered a deal to House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., to expand his powers in exchange for more bills on the floor. Four House Democrats from the embattled bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus sent a letter to McHenry saying the House selected a speaker pro-tempore “with very limited authority” […]