Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, a policy consultant and chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, will run for the congressional seat vacated by her husband, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, who died last month. “I am, of course, devastated at the loss of my spouse, but his spirit is with me,” she told The Baltimore Sun on Monday. “I’m going to run this race and I’m going to run it hard, as if he’s still right here by my side.”
Daniel Cameron, a former legal counsel for Sen. Mitch McConnell, won his race for attorney general of Kentucky on Tuesday, making him the first black person to be elected to the office in the state.
A man in North Carolina was arrested on Thursday for the murder of Barry Crane, a renowned Hollywood director and bridge player who was bludgeoned and strangled to death more than three decades ago in his Los Angeles home.
A man in North Carolina was arrested on Thursday for the murder of Barry Crane, a renowned Hollywood director and bridge player who was bludgeoned and strangled to death more than three decades ago in his Los Angeles home.
Josh Bratchley, a British diver who helped rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thai cave in July, was himself rescued from a Tennessee cave on Wednesday.
Less than a month after suing Twitter for allowing its users to insult him, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said he was suing the McClatchy Co., a newspaper chain, over what he called “character assassination.”
A special jury in California ruled Thursday that two women killed themselves and their six adopted children in a murder-suicide in March 2018, officially determining the cause of the family’s fatal plunge over a 100-foot cliff.
At least 19 people were injured at a memorial for the slain rapper Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles on Monday night, as a stampede broke out when mourners tried to flee the area.
At least 10 people were injured at a makeshift memorial for the slain rapper Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles on Monday night, as a stampede broke out when mourners tried to flee the area.
Stung by obscene and pointed criticism, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has sued Twitter and three users for defamation, claiming the users smeared him and the platform allowed it to happen because of a political agenda.
NEW YORK — Cloaked in green, perched high above the city and offering the kind of privacy that would appeal to mob bosses, Todt Hill on Staten Island would in many ways be a fitting location for an old-fashioned Mafia hit.
Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor who clashed with Jared Kushner during his brief stint running President Donald Trump’s transition team, issued a sharply personal attack on Kushner’s father Tuesday, saying he had committed a “loathsome” and “disgusting” crime.
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