Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, once seen as a leading candidate to become Tehran’s next supreme leader, was confirmed dead along with other officials Monday after their government helicopter crashed in a mountainous region in Iran’s eastern province over the weekend. Source link
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63. Source link
Republican leaders are urging the Secret Service to widen a security perimeter around the site of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to protect delegates and attendees from potentially dangerous clashes with pro-Palestinian demonstrators who plan to swarm the event in July. Republicans say the Secret Service, along with local and state officials in Wisconsin, […]
BALTIMORE — Crews are expected to conduct a controlled demolition Monday evening to break down the largest remaining steel span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, a major step in the cleanup as officials seek to fully reopen the port’s busy shipping channel by the end of the month. Engineers have been […]
BALTIMORE — The body of the last missing construction worker killed in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March has been recovered, officials announced Tuesday as demolition crews prepared to use explosives in the ongoing cleanup effort. Officials said the crew of the Dali will remain on board the grounded container ship […]
PITTSBURGH — A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around 10:40 a.m. Friday in the city’s Oakland neighborhood, where the University of Pittsburgh’s new sports performance center […]
Former President Donald Trump got a loud and warm reception Thursday from construction workers in midtown Manhattan before another day in his hush money trial. Mr. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, is using his extended stay in the borough to campaign where he can, even if it includes stops in the Democratic stronghold […]
NEW YORK — The Vessel, a climbable sculpture that drew hordes of tourists to the Hudson Yards megadevelopment on Manhattan’s west side before a string of suicides forced its closure in 2021, will reopen to the public later this year with added safety measures. The towering honeycomb-like attraction will feature new steel mesh barriers on […]
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi House leader said Tuesday that he won’t move forward with a bill to allow a casino in the capital city of Jackson – a proposal that would have been a dramatic change in a decades-old a state law that limits casinos to areas along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi […]
Police in Central California said Friday they have arrested and charged a man with swiping a person’s severed leg after the victim was killed by a passing train. The Kern County Sheriff’s Office said they took Resendo Tellez, 27, into custody on charges of taking evidence from the scene. Authorities said Mr. Tellez had other […]
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