On Monday, NASA was successful in flying its four-pound helicopter from the surface of Mars. At around 3:30 a.m., the twin carbon-fiber rotor blades started rotating furiously, and the Ingenuity chopper flew off the surface of Mars, reaching an altitude of about 10 miles, where it hovered, rotated, and landed gently in a 30-second autonomous
According Austin-Travis County EMS, three people were pronounced dead at the site of a shooting in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. UPDATE: Active Attack incident in the 9600 blk of Great Hills Trl; To this point #ATCEMSMedics have obtained Deceased On Scene pronouncements of 3 adult patients. This is still an active scene, please continue to
Incarcerated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been on a hunger strike for three weeks, criticizing the lack of medical care he has received while imprisoned. His doctor is now concerned that he will die soon. Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s spokesperson, said the 44-year-old politician is in poor health and has lost feeling in his arms
A man was killed and a woman was wounded when a gunman opened fire inside a Nebraska shopping mall on Saturday, according to police. At noon, Omaha police officers rushed to news of shots fired at the Westroads Mall, where they discovered a man with bullet wounds outside a JCPenny on the first floor. According
The deadly mass shooting at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis this week shook the area’s Sikh culture, which lost four members in the gruesome attack. A former FedEx employee opened fire at a facility near Indianapolis’ main airport before taking his own life Thursday night, killing eight people and injuring many others. Investigators are
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) named the gunman in a shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility as Brandon Scott Hole, 19, of Indiana, during a press conference on Friday afternoon. Hole was also a former FedEx employee, according to police. The Marion County Coroner’s Office was still operating Friday afternoon to locate the victims
A US Army Sergeant has been charged with assault after a video of him shouting, threatening, and shoving a Black man in a South Carolina neighborhood went viral. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told reporters Wednesday that the soldier, identified as Jonathan Pentland, was charged with third-degree assault and battery in the April 8 attack.
Taliban has said that they want all foreign forces out by May 1st. This comes after President Joe Biden announced that he is withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan. President Biden announced Wednesday that the United States would pull its remaining troops from Afghanistan’s “forever war,” claiming that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 20 years earlier
Protesters took to the streets for the third night in a row in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where a white police officer killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop on Sunday. Police launched bullets at a protest in front of the Brooklyn Center police department, calling it illegal and ordering reporters to
Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua are pushing the production of their forthcoming film “Emancipation” out of Georgia in defiance of the state’s recent voter suppression laws. Smith and Fuqua write in a joint statement, “We cannot in good conscience provide economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict
On Monday, a former deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was sentenced today to 7 years in federal prison for planning and directing a $2 million armed robbery. In full uniform, he “fake” a search and stole more than half a ton of marijuana, and over $600,000 in cash was stolen at a
As the royal family plans the funeral of Price Philip who passed away last week at the age of 99, Prince Harry, his grandson says he will attend his granddad’s funeral. On April 10th, the royal family announced that Prince Harry will travel from California to the United Kingdom for the memorial service. However, amid
