Johnson’s future as speaker in question despite efforts to sway undecided Republicans

House Speaker Mike Johnson met with Republican holdouts to his bid to retain the gavel in the new Congress one day before the House convenes for the election.

2 autopsies for Black man found hanging in Alabama produce differing conclusions

A state autopsy determined that the Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home died by suicide, according to the local sheriff

New Orleans inches toward normalcy while mourning victims of deadly New Year’s rampage

Street performers and football fans returned to New Orleans streets as the city inched back toward normalcy

Justice Department enters consent decree with Fulton County over jail conditions

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous county after finding that violence and filthy conditions in county lockups violated the…

Detroit sees a drop in homicides and violent crime, according to preliminary 2024 data

Preliminary year-end statistics show that homicides in Detroit have dropped to levels not seen since before the mid-1960s

After holiday pause, South Carolina begins scheduling executions again

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas holidays

New Orleans officials were warned Bourbon Street was vulnerable to car-ramming

New Orleans city leaders were warned in a 2019 confidential physical security assessment that Bourbon Street was vulnerable to a vehicle-ramming attack.

‘Mean Girls’ star demands ‘justice’ for relative’s brutal murder after discovering harrowing family secret

Amanda Seyfried is digging into her family roots.  The “Mean Girls” actress was stunned when she discovered that her third great-grandfather, John P. Ebert, was brutally murdered in 1905. The…

Washington state Democrats accidentally email their ‘radical’ tax plan to entire Senate

Washington state Democrats appeared to have accidentally emailed their sweeping revenue plans and internal talking points on tax hikes to the entirety of the upper chamber’s members in Olympia, Fox…

The step I take to clear my inbox every January

Right now, I’m sitting here beaming because my inbox is empty. Really! Did I read and reply to every single message? Well, no. I’m not an “Inbox Zero” person. Watch this…