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Daniel Park, a suspect charged earlier this month in connection with the bombing outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has died in federal custody, the Bureau of Prisons said Tuesday. The 32-year-old from Seattle was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, according to a …

A suspect in custody has been charged with murder following targeted shootings that killed one Minnesota lawmaker and injured another. Gov. Tim Walz called the shootings “politically motivated” in a news briefing on Saturday.  State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot at their home in Brooklyn Park, Walz …

In a rematch that lived up to its billing, Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty galloped to victory over Journalism in muddy conditions at the 157th Belmont Stakes in Saratoga Springs, New York, on Saturday in the third leg of the Triple Crown. Sovereignty, who entered the race with 2-to-1 odds, defeated …

A car has crashed through the roof of a Missouri veterans hall for the second time in three months.  Video shows a car careening off a nearby road and crashing into the Clay-Ray Veterans Memorial Hall in Excelsior Springs. The vehicle collides with the roof of the building and sends …

Oliver Miller, a beefy center who helped Arkansas advance to the Final Four before playing nine seasons in the NBA, has died. He was 54. Several of Miller’s former teams announced his death on Wednesday, as did the National Basketball Retired Players Association. A cause of death was not disclosed, …

The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reinstated rapper Kanye West on Saturday, about eight months after his account was suspended for posting antisemitic comments. Last December, West, who performs under the name Ye, posted an image that appeared to show a swastika interlaced with a Star of …

Actor Billy Baldwin, the younger sibling of actor Alec Baldwin, said on Friday that he went to high school with the man who police have taken into custody for his alleged connection to the Gilgo Beach murders.  Rex Heuermann of Massapequa, Long Island, was taken into custody as a suspect …

Norovirus outbreaks spiked on cruise ships this year, with data showing more outbreaks happened between January and June than over the course of any other full calendar year in the last decade. Thirteen norovirus outbreaks have been reported on cruises so far in 2023, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease …

A state police officer was fatally shot Friday in southern West Virginia, and a suspect was later arrested, authorities said. Sgt. Cory Maynard was killed in the shooting, Gov. Jim Justice said in a statement, adding that he was “absolutely heartbroken.” He and first lady Cathy Justice extended their sympathies …

The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March.  The Central American natives, seized from a smuggler at Miami International Airport, are being raised by the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation – …