Sioux City, Iowa — Democratic Senate hopeful Josh Turek was standing with former Sen. Tom Harkin in a driveway in a small Western Iowa town when the former senator pulled out his phone to show the candidate something. “Oh my God,” Turek said as he leaned over to glance at Harkin’s phone, which appeared to…
Prosecutors in Lindsay Clancy’s case said Monday they plan to have her stand trial a second time for the murders of her three children, with the judge leaning toward a possible March retrial. What isn’t known yet is what charges Clancy would face. In her first trial, Clancy’s attorney admitted she killed 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan…
It began with a phone call. A grassroots write-in campaign had been launched weeks before Tuesday’s midterm election in an effort to keep longtime Alabama Sheriff Jay Jones in office. Jones was ousted in May by about 300 votes in a bitterly fought Republican primary in Lee County by a former sheriff’s deputy, Cameron Hunt. …
A federal magistrate judge on Monday dismissed a criminal complaint charging two former senior FBI counterintelligence officials with lying to Congress about their roles in the bureau’s Hunter Biden investigation, saying the politically charged case lacked evidence and appeared to be timed with the midterm election. In a scathing, hour-long oral ruling, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui rebuked…
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded…
Residents of Villa Vie Odyssey — which remains stuck in Cambodia — have been informed the cruise ship is now under control of its lender, according to a message sent to residents and obtained by CBS News. The ship will soon be moved from Cambodia to Singapore, where it could eventually be auctioned off, according…
It’s trite but true; Jimmy Stewart played the Everyman better than everyone. He had the gawky innocence to be an idealistic senator, in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”; an eccentric with a six-foot-tall rabbit pal in “Harvey”; and a depth, in “Rear Window” and “Vertigo,” that even Alfred Hitchcock found mysterious. But it was director…
On the night of Feb. 25, 2023, outside Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, Blaise Taylor was answering police questions about how a date turned into a medical emergency. BLAISE TAYLOR (police bodycam): We were together having a date night. Authorities wanted to know what happened to 24-year-old Jade Benning, who had been rushed to…
A multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit by President Trump against The Wall Street Journal over a story reporting his ties to a birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein has been thrown out. In a 20-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice on Saturday, ruling that Mr. Trump did not prove the…
Harper We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Returning to movie screens after his service in World War II, actor Jimmy Stewart was nervous about appearing in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” – a film now acknowledged as one of his very best. In his biography of the…
