U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday fired the commissioner of Social Security after the official refused to resign, and Biden accepted the deputy commissioner’s resignation, the White House said. Biden asked commissioner Andrew Saul to resign, and his employment was terminated after he refused the Democratic president’s request, a White House official said. Deputy […]

Members of Indianapolis’ tight-knit Sikh community joined with city officials to call for gun reforms Saturday as they mourned the deaths of four Sikhs who were among the eight people killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx warehouse. At a vigil attended by more than 200 at an Indianapolis park Saturday evening, Aasees […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will lay out its recommendations on the Dakota Access oil pipeline at a federal court hearing on Friday, and the industry has grown worried that President Joe Biden’s administration will decide to shut it down. Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) ships up to 570,000 barrels of North […]

Police say a would-be thief was captured on video trying to steal a bike outside an Oregon police station, and then captured by a police officer a few seconds later. Security footage from the police station in Gladstone, Ore., shows a male suspect attempting to take the only bike in the bicycle rack outside the [...]

[ad_1] It’s an Auld Lang Syne of the times: For the first time, a police drone will be keeping watch over the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square. READ MORE: A crowd of 2 million in Times Square on New Year’s? Experts say that’s impossible The unmanned eye-in-the-sky is the latest wrinkle […]

A bumbling “idiot” of a porch pirate epically struggled while taking off with a big screen television that he barely managed to fit in a getaway car after the thief tripped and fell on the large parcel. Police in Maryland released security camera footage showing the not-so-smooth criminal snagging the large TV from outside of […]

[ad_1] Police released security camera footage Monday that appears to show the exact moment a bridge collapses in Genoa, Italy, killing 43 people. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Parisians are rallying behind a woman who was hit in the face during a confrontation with an alleged street harasser. Marie Laguerre said she was walking to her home in Paris on July 24 when a man whistled at her and said “humiliating and provocative” things to her. READ MORE: London committee aims to […]

[ad_1] James Hausman was awarded $5 million for his injuries and $16.5 million for punitive damages by a jury after he was injured by an automatic sliding glass door on a Holland America cruise ship. Jenny Sung explains. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] SEATTLE – A federal jury in Seattle awarded an Illinois man $21.5 million in damages after a cruise ship’s automatic sliding-glass door slammed shut on his head. The verdict includes $16.5 million in punitive damages and $5 million for James Hausman’s past and future pain and suffering. Hausman’s attorneys told the jury dozens of other […]