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‘5 shots, 7 holes’: Border patrol supervisor appeared to brag about shooting woman, defense attorney says

Scott Olson/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum testified Wednesday that he had no role in the decision to release his government-issued vehicle after it was involved in a collision that led to him shooting a woman on Chicago’s southwest side last month.“I was told to pick it up, [so] I picked it up,” Exum said, adding that he believed the vehicle had no remaining evidentiary value after it was processed and released by the FBI.An attorney for […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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Peloton voluntarily recalls over 800,000 bikes for potential seat post issue

Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Exercise equipment company Peloton is voluntarily recalling approximately 833,000 exercise bikes due to a potential issue specific to the bike's seat post, the company announced Thursday.According to the company announcement, the recall affects "certain Original Series Bike+ models manufactured from December 2019 through July 2022 for sale in the U.S. and Canada.""The Original Series Bike+ seat post can break during use, posing a potential fall and injury risk to consumers," the company stated.Peloton […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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DC sandwich thrower found not guilty in misdemeanor assault case

Andrew Leyden/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A jury found Sean Charles Dunn, the man accused of throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington, D.C., not guilty of misdemeanor assault after three days of testimony and dozens of exhibits.After the verdict, Dunn hugged his attorneys and said, "I’m relieved and look forward to moving on with my life."“I’m so happy!” his lawyer Sabrina Shroff shouted as she left the courtroom.Dunn, a former Department of Justice staffer, had been […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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‘5 shots, 7 holes’: Border patrol supervisor appeared to brag about shooting woman, defense attorney says

Jeff Topping/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum testified Wednesday that he had no role in the decision to release his government-issued vehicle after it was involved in a collision that led to him shooting a woman on Chicago’s southwest side last month.“I was told to pick it up, [so] I picked it up,” Exum said, adding that he believed the vehicle had no remaining evidentiary value after it was processed and released by the FBI.An attorney for […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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Where you can see the northern lights in the US this week

Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- One of the strongest geomagnetic storms of the year will create auroras in a large swath of the northern continental U.S., possibly even as far south as Oregon and Illinois.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center is tracking four "notable" coronal mass ejections [CME] -- a sudden eruption of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's corona -- that occurred between Monday and Wednesday.At least one of the CMEs […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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Jury awards $10 million to teacher who was shot by 6-year-old student

Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) -- A Virginia jury found that an assistant principal acted with gross negligence when a then-6-year-old student shot his first grade teacher in a lawsuit filed over the 2023 shooting.The jury awarded the teacher, Abby Zwerner, $10 million in damages, with award interest beginning on June 1, 2024.The verdict comes after the jury began deliberations Wednesday afternoon in the high-profile civil case.Zwerner was shot in January 2023 in her […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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Jury awards $10 million to teacher who was shot by 6-year-old student

Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(VIRGINIA) -- A Virginia jury found that an assistant principal acted with gross negligence when a then-6-year-old student shot his first grade teacher in a lawsuit filed over the 2023 shooting.The jury awarded the teacher, Abby Zwerner, $10 million in damages, with award interest beginning on June 1, 2024.The verdict comes after the jury began deliberations Wednesday afternoon in the high-profile civil case.Zwerner was shot in January 2023 in her classroom at […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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9 people remain missing after UPS plane crashed at Louisville airport, killing at least 12: Officials

Stephen Cohen/Getty Images(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Nine people remain missing after a UPS plane departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky on Tuesday crashed in a ball of flames, killing at least 12 people. Officials continue to search through half a mile of "charred, mangled" debris to find any additional victims, authorities said."It's been a long 36 hours of tragedy," Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said at a press conference on Thursday.UPS Flight 2976 crashed around 5:15 p.m. local time on […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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Appeals court revives Trump’s effort to remove hush money case to federal court

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered a lower court to take another look at whether President Donald Trump's criminal hush money prosecution in Manhattan deserved to be heard in federal court.After Trump was convicted last year on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, he sought to move the case into federal court from state court due to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling last year granting the president immunity for official acts.U.S. District Court […]

todayNovember 6, 2025

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