Day: March 8, 2024

Houston police chief apologizes, vows improvement after 264K cases dropped due to staff shortage

12:51 pm March 8, 2024

Houston’s police chief pledged on Thursday to restore public trust in his department following revelations that more than 264,000 cases, including over 4,000 involving sexual assault, were dropped in the past eight years due to a lack of personnel. Last month Chief Troy Finner announced that hundreds of thousands of incident reports, including for sexual […]

Delaware House pass bill requiring fingerprinting, training and permit before buying handgun

12:43 pm March 8, 2024

Delaware’s Democrat-led House voted mostly along party lines Thursday to approve a bill requiring anyone who wants to buy a handgun to first be fingerprinted, undergo training and obtain permission from the state. Thursday’s vote came exactly two weeks before a federal appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments on Maryland’s decade-old permit-to-purchase law, which […]

Jurors in Trump’s hush money criminal trial to be anonymous

12:14 pm March 8, 2024

The jury in former President Donald Trump’s upcoming hush money criminal trial in New York will remain anonymous to the public, although their names will be revealed to Trump and his legal team. A judge overseeing the trial, the first-ever criminal trial of a U.S. president, issued a protective order on Thursday after a request […]

5 key highlights of SOTU address, Trump feisty reaction to Biden’s speech and more top headlines

12:10 pm March 8, 2024

BREAKING DOWN SOTU – 5 key highlights from President Biden’s SOTU speech. Continue reading … ‘TERRIBLE JOB’ – EXCLUSIVE: Trump reacts to Biden’s feisty State of the Union as 2024 race comes into focus. Continue reading … ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’ – Alabama Sen. Britt shreds Biden for ‘despicable’ border crisis in Republican rebuttal. Continue reading […]

Fear of transit crime resurfaces in US cities

12:03 pm March 8, 2024

Fear of crime on subways and buses is back as a top concern in some U.S. cities, and so are efforts to persuade public officials to take the issue seriously. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday she would task 750 members of the National Guard with helping patrol the nation’s busiest subway system, saying […]