• The Kentucky House voted Thursday in favor of a sweeping criminal justice bill‚ which‚ if enacted‚ will deliver harsher sentences in an effort to deter illicit activity. • The bill now heads to the desk of a skeptical Gov. Andy Beshear. • "It's hard to comment on a bill that tries to do this many things‚" Beshear said of the legislation. "I think it properly should have been split into different bills." Republican lawmakers in Kentucky wrapped up work Thursday on a sweeping criminal justice...

​DUNDALK‚ Maryland — Salvage crews began their trip Thursday to the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s wreck site as both incoming commercial ships and first responders have found a helping hand from the shaken but resolute nearby community. The U.S. Coast Guard said crane-carrying barges set out for the Patapsco River with the goal of removing the metal and concrete from the channel after the cargo ship Dali lost power and struck one of the bridge’s support columns two days ago‚ sending the structure...

Mourners including former President Donald Trump and Mayor Adams filled a Long Island funeral home to salute slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller days after he was shot to death during a routine traffic stop in Queens. A sea of police officers filled the sidewalk and street outside the Massapequa Funeral Home for afternoon and evening wakes for the three-year cop and family man who was hailed as a hero for his dedication to public safety. A thin blue line...

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday will join grieving relatives and hundreds of uniformed officers at the wake for slain NYPD cop Jonathan Diller — as he continues to harp on rampant urban crime during his bid to reclaim the White House. Trump’s presence at the Massapequa funeral home promises to shine a spotlight on Diller’s senseless death during a traffic stop in Queens on Monday‚ with the slain cop serving as another tragic example. It is unclear what led to...

Former President Donald Trump arrived for a wake for Jonathan Diller‚ the first New York Police Department officer killed in the line of duty in over two years‚ on Long Island on Thursday—following months of claiming crime in New York City was on the rise. The former president joined about 1‚000 other mourners in Long Island‚ including Mayor Eric Adams. Diller‚ 31‚ was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop of a car illegally parked behind a bus in Far Rockaway‚ Queens....

House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify at a hearing as part of an ongoing impeachment inquiry into Biden and his family's businesses.  House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer‚ R-Ky.‚ made the invitation by letter.  "In light of the yawning gap between your public statements and the evidence assembled by the Committee as well as the White House’s obstruction‚ it is in the best interest of the American people for you to...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R.‚ Ky.) is officially inviting President Joe Biden to answer questions about his family’s foreign business dealings. Comer wrote a letter to President Biden Thursday afternoon asking Biden to testify so he can explain the role he appears to have played in his family’s alleged influence-peddling schemes‚ the main focus of the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into the president. “The Committee has accounted for over $24 million that has flowed...

House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses. Rep. James Comer‚ chair of the House Oversight Committee‚ sent a letter to the Democratic president‚ inviting him to sit for a public hearing to “explain‚ under oath‚” what involvement he had in the Biden family businesses. So far‚ the GOP-led inquiry...

They came to the United States for a chance at a better life. They found work filling pot holes on a bridge in the middle of the night‚ and they ended up dead in the Baltimore harbor. The six victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse were all immigrants from Mexico and Central America‚ doing the kind of grueling work that many immigrants take on‚ when a container ship crashed into a support pillar at 1:30 a.m. EST on Tuesday and sent them plunging into the icy Patapsco River...