BOULDER, Colo. — Prosecutor Ken Kupfner loaded dummy bullets into a 30-round magazine in a hushed courtroom Friday morning.

He slowly pushed each bullet into the magazine — the same type of magazine used by the man who carried out a mass shooting at a Boulder King Soopers grocery store in 2021, killing 10 shoppers, employees and a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the summer of 2017, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, attended a party filled with drugs and paid escorts that was hosted by former state Rep. Chris Dorworth at his Heathrow home, according to witness testimony in newly filed federal court documents.

One of the escorts attending the get-together was the 17-year-...Read more

Google has monopolized the technology used to buy and sell online display ads by restricting or eliminating the choices of its customers — both website publishers and advertisers — the U.S. Justice Department alleged at a federal antitrust trial.

Antitrust enforcers have sought to illustrate how the Alphabet Inc. unit’s complex ad ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris Friday denounced former President Donald Trump for pushing extreme abortion bans after a bombshell new published report called the deaths of two Georgia moms “preventable.”

The Democratic presidential nominee slammed Trump for backing restrictive abortion laws like Georgia’s, which a state panel said played a...Read more

BOSTON — The ACLU is calling for a federal investigation into the death of Massachusetts State Police recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia.

Delgado-Garcia, 25, died after suffering a “medical crisis” following a boxing “training exercise” earlier this month at the New Braintree Academy, according to the MSP.

An ACLU statement said his “...Read more

NEW YORK — A business jet hit a terminal building at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport Thursday night after rolling off the ramp while maneuvering, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The incident, first reported by NJ.com, occurred just before 10 p.m.

A Dassault Falcon business jet with five people on board had just ...Read more

NEW YORK — Federal authorities slapped Mayor Eric Adams’ asylum seeker operations director, Molly Schaeffer, with a subpoena Friday requiring her to turn over records, including communications with Tim Pearson, a top adviser to the mayor with deep involvement in city migrant contracts, the Daily News has learned.

Schaeffer, a 10-year city ...Read more

ATLANTA — As Georgia students walked out of their classrooms on Friday to demand safety from gun violence, one of their own was laid to rest.

At St. Matthew Catholic Church in Winder, a funeral mass was held in honor of 14-year-old Christian Angulo, who was remembered for his gentle soul and the love he exuded for the people in his life. His ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Death penalty opponents began rallying outside the Broad River Correctional Institution Friday afternoon as South Carolina prepares to execute its first death row inmate in more than 13 years.

Freddie Owens, 46, was sentenced to death for the Nov. 1, 1997, murder of Irene Graves, a gas station clerk. A jury found that Owens, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida health officials reiterated Thursday that state law allows abortions at any point in pregnancy to save the life of the mother, responding to concerns that Florida’s new six-week abortion ban is tying doctors’ hands and putting women in danger.

The state’s “provider alert” said abortions can be performed “to...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Michael Reid moved to Wynnefield about 25 years ago, he came upon a small, unkempt plot of weeds and trash at 54th Street and Wynnefield Avenue during a stroll around his new neighborhood.

Curious, he pushed aside the overgrown grass to get a closer look and found a long hidden memorial plaque attached to a boulder. It ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The families of the four Pepperdine University students who were struck and killed on Pacific Coast Highway last year and a fifth student who was injured in the incident have sued the local and state agencies they say are responsible for the deadly roadway.

In four separate lawsuits filed in the Santa Monica Courthouse, the ...Read more

BOULDER, Colo. — Prosecutor Ken Kupfner loaded dummy bullets into a 30-round magazine in a hushed courtroom Friday morning.

He slowly pushed each bullet into the magazine — the same type of magazine used by the man who carried out a mass shooting at a Boulder King Soopers grocery store in 2021, killing 10 shoppers, employees and a ...Read more

While fellow firefighters were battling voracious blazes throughout Northern California, Cal Fire engineer Robert Hernandez is accused of igniting his own fires, according to authorities.

Hernandez, 38, was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of committing arson on forest land in the areas surrounding Geyserville, Healdsburg and Windsor, ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia Election Board’s Republican majority voted Friday to require a hand count of all ballots after polls close on election night, a new requirement that could delay results of the presidential race.

County election directors universally opposed the eleventh-hour counting mandate, saying it would undermine voter confidence ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear declined Friday to comment on the motive behind the shooting of an Eastern Kentucky judge by a sheriff.

As a former prosecutor, Beshear said at a morning news conference in Frankfort, it was not appropriate to discuss what may have led up to Thursday’s death of Letcher District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54.

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BEIRUT — With the danger of a wider Middle East war looming, Israel on Friday bombarded part of the Lebanese capital, killing at least 14 people and wounding 66 others, Lebanese authorities said.

The strike came just days after thousands of sabotaged electronic devices exploded across the country, killing 30 and wounding thousands, an action...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida health officials reiterated Thursday that state law allows abortions at any point in pregnancy to save the life of the mother, responding to concerns that Florida’s new six-week abortion ban is tying doctors’ hands and putting women in danger.

The state’s “provider alert” said abortions can be performed “to...Read more