The retired federal agent called 911 from his Gardena home, a barrage of bullets sounding in the background. “My son’s been shot,” Lester Campbell, a retired Homeland Security Investigations agent, told the operator. Screaming and crying could be heard on the line. By the end of it, Campbell’s son, Evan, was dead, shot 10 times […]
The Australian military will begin recruiting some non-citizens in a bid to boost troop numbers, the country’s government has said. Only people from other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partnership who hold Australian permanent residency will be eligible. The move is part of a push to build a military that can resist foreign coercion […]
About 1 in 10 Americans who work in construction are women, according to a report from Labor Finders. Boise’s Micron wants to change that. And the federal government is taking the lead. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced in May the creation of the CHIPS Women in Construction Framework, an initiative that aims to double […]
Republicans say they will mobilize more than 100,000 people in battleground states to ensure “transparency and fairness” in the 2024 election, an announcement criticized by some as risking potential voter intimidation. “Whenever a ballot is being cast or counted, Republican poll watchers will be observing the process and reporting any irregularity,” the Republican National Committee […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Davante Jennings cast his first ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Republican Donald Trump‘s election that year, he says, turned him from an idealistic college student to a jaded cynic overnight. Jennings walked away from a system he thought ignored people like himself, a young Black man who […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The No Labels group said Thursday it will not field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization failed to attract a high-profile centrist willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. “No Labels has always said we would only offer our […]
TALLAHASSEE — A recruit for the Florida State Guard — a civilian military force under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ control — was removed from a Jacksonville training facility and sent to a hospital for a mental health evaluation in February after he reportedly told others he wanted to kill Jews and Palestinians and “blow up” a […]
Mar. 31—Sisters Cora and Ruby Bixby grew up attending Santa Fe’s First Presbyterian Church, where they have fond memories of making crafts in Sunday school as young children and attending the annual Palm Sunday service on the Plaza. But after things got busy for their family, the Bixby girls fell out of the routine of […]
Mar. 30—Sisters Cora and Ruby Bixby grew up attending Santa Fe’s First Presbyterian Church, where they have fond memories of making crafts in Sunday school as young children and attending the annual Palm Sunday service on the Plaza. But after things got busy for their family, the Bixby girls fell out of the routine of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — When No Labels’ critics got the loudest, it was Joe Lieberman who came to the group’s defense. The former Connecticut senator was a founding chairman of the centrist organization that focused, above all, on promoting bipartisanship in national politics. Despite its benign stated mission, No Labels inflamed many people across politics […]
Mar. 19—The Marine Corps echoes through the room of the Elks Club on a Friday afternoon like light reflecting off a fractured glass. The flag behind the podium. Hoodies, T-shirts, bearing the Eagle, Globe and Anchor of the service branch. EGA pins on the soft covers, the logos old and new on ball caps, the […]
Larry Hogan might not be running for Senate this year but for a letter he received in early January. The popular former Republican governor of Maryland had rebuffed years of entreaties and lobbying from a parade of powerful Republicans. But when he received an emailed letter from a lifelong Maryland resident on Jan. 8 making […]