High-profile users who lost their blue checks included Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey and former President Donald Trump. But it also included accounts for major transit systems, national parks and official weather trackers
Detroit Lions wide receiver Quintez Cephus and safety C.J. Moore and Washington Commanders defensive end Shaka Toney are suspended through at least the the 2023 season for betting on NFL games in the 2022 season
Hartford police say the shooter or shooters appeared to target three males who were standing on a sidewalk Thursday night. The girl was was shot in her head as she sat in a parked car
An estimated 16,000 private U.S. citizens are registered with the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum as being in Sudan, where warring factions are in a violent conflict
At least four people have died in mass killings once every six and 1/2 days this year. The numbers exclude perpetrator deaths.
Speaker Matt Regier said Thursday he would not recognize any representative that he doesn’t feel can “maintain decorum.” A conservative group of lawmakers referred to Rep. Zooey Zephyr using male pronouns in a letter that called for a “commitment to civil discourse”
The sliver of a neighborhood is tucked deeply away near the historic Latin Quarter and the magnificent, domed Pantheon. For diehard, beret-wearing fans of the show, it has become a landmark of its own
The justices are weighing arguments that allowing restrictions contained in lower-court rulings to take effect would severely disrupt the availability of the drug mifepristone
It’s hard to imagine that even A-list owners anticipated the unscripted drama created by this unlikely union between Tinseltown and a former mining town in Wales
The top diplomats from G-7 nations on Tuesday had condemned the North’s recent ballistic missile tests and reiterated their commitment to the goal of North Korea’s denuclearization
Their goal? Not only to keep their place in the top league but also to remind everyone that despite the occupation that will soon hit the one-year mark, Mariupol remains a Ukrainian city.
The Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged that a weapon accidentally released by one of its own Su-34 bombers caused the blast.
The announcement comes one day after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak received findings into eight formal complaints that the politician had been abusive toward staff members
The measure would cover more than 50 types of guns, including AR- or AK-style rifles. It bans the future sale, distribution, manufacture and importation of these firearms
Third grade has always been pivotal in a child’s academic life, but pandemic-fueled school interruptions have made it much harder
Team president said the team finalized the deal to buy the 49-acre site last week where the A’s will plan to build the stadium that will seat between 30,000 and 35,000 fans
Using 50 different satellite estimates, researchers show in Thursday’s study that Greenland’s melt has gone into hyperdrive in the last few years
Volunteerism in America has declined for decades, but according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps survey, it dropped another 7% between 2019 and 2021
Four young people were killed and 32 others were hurt in Saturday’s shooting at the birthday celebration in Dadeville, a small city in east Alabama. It was the 16th mass killing in the U.S. this year
Most of those manufacturers’ cars sold in the United States over the last decade do not have engine immobilizers. This device prevents the engine from starting unless the key is present
The festivities are overshadowed in many parts of the region, like Sudan, Yemen and Indonesia by conflict and tragedy
In a statement released Thursday, the family says they are working “vigorously” to see that the rifle is destroyed. They said federal agents took possession of the rifle on Monday
While two-thirds of the country now offers legal sports betting, only six states offer online casino gambling, confounding industry hopes of similar growth
Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill declined to say what led to the shooting, citing the ongoing investigation. But he says a broad search is underway for the perpetrator
After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them
The fighting, which began as the country attempted to transition to democracy, already has killed hundreds of people and left millions trapped in urban areas, sheltering from gunfire, explosions and looters
Baldwin, who was also a producer on the film, was pointing a pistol at Hutchins during a rehearsal when the gun when off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza
