Three officers have died following a shooting incident in Charlotte‚ North Carolina‚ including one deputy US Marshal and two local task force officers – a law enforcement source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. Authorities earlier cleared the scene outside a residence in Charlotte‚ North Carolina‚ where multiple police officers were shot Monday afternoon‚ Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. The officers were met with gunfire during a US Marshals task force investigation‚...

More than 100 immigrant‚ refugee‚ human rights and humanitarian organizations sent a letter Monday demanding Congress and President Joe Biden reinstate funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The letter‚ first seen by HuffPost‚ was addressed to President Biden‚ House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) a week after Congress passed a foreign aid package that finalized the Biden administration’s suspension of U.S. funding for the UNRWA...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Biden Sunday to help prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials in connection with the war in Gaza‚ two Israeli officials told Axios. Why it matters: Israeli officials have grown increasingly concerned over the last two weeks that the ICC is preparing to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu‚ Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Herzi Halevi....

A fiery battle between former President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is heating up as polls begin to show that the third-party candidate represents just as much of a threat to the former president as he does to President Biden. “RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant‚’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden‚ the Worst President in the History of the United States‚ get Re-Elected‚” Trump wrote on Truth Social last week.  “A Vote for Junior’ would...

Shortly after returning from his first leaders-level visit to Washington‚ D.C.‚ Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sat down with Newsweek for an exclusive interview in his Tokyo office to discuss the main takeaways from his trip‚ as well as the historic changes he is overseeing in his nation's military‚ economic and diplomatic strategies. Kishida‚ who took office in October 2021‚ is looking to fortify his country's long-standing alliance with the United States and expand regional ties. At...

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information. The FCC is finalizing fines first proposed in February 2020‚ including $80 million for T-Mobile‚ $12 million for Sprint‚ which T-Mobile has since acquired; $57 million for AT&;T (T.N)‚ opens new tab‚ and nearly $47 million for Verizon Communications (VZ.N). The carriers sold &;quot;real-time location information to data...

A group of Republican senators shared concerns over ideological bias at National Public Radio (NPR)‚ with the organization's controversial CEO Katherine Maher following high-profile criticism from former senior editor Uri Berliner‚ who recently resigned from his role citing her &;quot;divisive views.&;quot;  &;quot;We have deep concerns regarding the editorial direction under NPR's national leadership‚&;quot; wrote a group of Republicans in a letter on Monday led by Sen. Kevin Cramer‚ R-N.D. In the letter‚...

The U.S. economy is showing signs of stagflation as growth slumps down and prices continue to surge for average Americans‚ experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. U.S. annual economic growth measured just 1.6% in the first quarter of 2024‚ following a report of persistently high inflation in March of 3.5% year-over-year. The combination of both low growth and high inflation‚ in conjunction with continuously high amounts of government spending and debt‚ has led to signs of stagflation...

Just over half of Americans say that they support the mass deportation of illegal immigrants‚ a recent poll found as the issue takes center stage in the race for the presidency. A slim majority of Americans‚ 51 percent‚ said that they support the mass deportation of illegal immigrants‚ a policy that former President Donald Trump has promised if he is reelected to the presidency in November. Support for mass deportations varied widely by partisan affiliation‚ with 68 percent of Republicans‚...