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(PROVO, Utah) -- A video compilation that prosecutors say shows conservative activist Charlie Kirk's alleged killer's movements on the campus of Utah Valley University before and after the shooting played in court on Tuesday over the vigorous objections of defense attorneys.Attorneys for the defendant, Tyler James Robinson, 23, argued that the video footage Judge Tony Graf allowed prosecutors to play publicly at Robinson's preliminary hearing will likely taint a potential jury pool."We […]

(BOSTON) -- More than 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital and 450 Mass General Brigham home care clinicians are scheduling a strike Wednesday morning, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association. The strike would be the largest nurse and healthcare professional strike in Massachusetts history, according to a Massachusetts Nurses Association press release."At both bargaining tables, the nurses and clinicians made significant efforts to compromise and offered to continue negotiating to […]

Office buildings tower over midtown Manhattan on October 16, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Several Midtown Manhattan blocks were evacuated Tuesday morning after construction workers discovered the structure of an office building being converted into residential housing was compromised on the 21st floor, officials said.New York City Fire Department and Department of Buildings crews went to 235 East 42nd Street, which is one block west of […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Iranian American Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the Trump administration has been sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government.According to the complaint filed in Washington, D.C., many Iranian asylum seekers are pro-democracy protesters, members of religious minorities, or members of the LGBTQ community who seek refuge in the U.S. "because of the grave dangers they face in Iran.""Disclosing their confidential information […]

(NEW YORK) -- A Mississippi community is mourning the death of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells, whose body was believed to be recovered after going missing over the weekend.Wells vanished after going on a boat trip with friends on the 4th of July, officials said. He was last seen on Horn Island, a barrier island about 10 miles from the Gulf Coast, officials said."[The friends] left [Horn Island] and went back […]

Heatwave hot sun (chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images) A 2-year-old girl has died after being left in a hot minivan while in the care of a babysitter, police in Florida said.Officers found the little girl when they responded to a home around 1:35 p.m. Sunday in Hallandale Beach, about 20 miles north of Miami, Hallandale Beach police said.The heat index – what the temperature it feels like with humidity – soared to […]

(NEW YORK) -- Health officials in New York City said they are investigating a cluster of Legionnaires' disease.As of July 6, 23 cases of Legionnaires' disease have been confirmed in two of Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhoods, according to the New York City Department of Health. So far, no deaths have been associated with the cluster.In a notice to the two neighborhoods -- Carnegie Hill and Yorkville -- the department […]

(OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) -- The roof of a BJ's Wholesale Club in New Jersey partially collapsed during heavy rain on Monday, temporarily entrapping two people who were able to safely escape, authorities said.No injuries have been reported following the incident at the big-box store in Ocean Township, authorities said.Video from the store's security camera captured the collapse, showing a portion of the roof fall near the bakery section as a deluge of water […]

(NEW YORK) -- More than 60 million people from Ohio to Massachusetts and Virginia are bracing for possible flash flooding on Monday following a deadly holiday weekend heat wave that left much of the East Coast sweltering in triple-digit temperatures.New York City and Long Island appear to be in the center of the storm zone, with a level 3 out of 4 threat for flash flooding. Southern Connecticut, Rhode Island and southeast […]