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American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa credit cards are displayed for a photograph in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, May 18, 2010. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- U.S. household debt, including mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and student loans, reached an all-time high of $18.8 trillion in the first three months of the year, according to new data Tuesday from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.The […]

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks to the Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center on May 6, 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that members of the media "should not be surprised" if they receive subpoenas for information related to their sources on stories pertaining to national security-sensitive matters, following a Wall Street Journal report […]

: In this aerial view, salvage crews continue to remove wreckage from the Dali six weeks after the cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge May 08, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (BALTIMORE) --  The federal government indicted two foreign companies Tuesday in connection with the cargo ship crash that collapsed Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in 2024.A shoreside superintendent of the M/V Dali, […]

A Frontier Airlines plane lands at San Francisco International Airport on April 15, 2025, in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (DENVER, Colo.) -- Passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight were forced to deplane at the gate Sunday evening in Denver after an ammunition magazine was found on the aircraft as it was preparing for departure, according to the airline. Frontier says preliminary investigation indicates the magazine belongs to a law […]

The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool as it is painted blue on Thursday, May 7, 2026. President (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) -- A nonprofit organization is attempting to stop the Trump administration's repainting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, alleging that the plan "willfully disregards legal limits established by Congress."The Cultural Landscape Foundation filed a lawsuit on Monday in D.C. federal court asking a judge to halt the renovations […]

(NEW YORK) -- Beachgoers planning out their summer swims on the East Coast may take a moment to consider the yearly arrival of a famed ocean predator.A juvenile white shark named Nori has been coasting its way north along the eastern seaboard and pinged a shark-tracking system off the coasts of New Jersey and New York last week.According to OCEARCH, a nonprofit tracking shark movements, Nori is "the first tagged […]

A view of the University of Washington campus on February 14, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) (SEATTLE) -- A student at the University of Washington in Seattle was found stabbed to death in a campus housing building, Seattle police said, and now authorities are searching for the killer.The victim -- a 19-year-old transgender woman -- was found in a laundry room at about 10:10 p.m. Sunday, according to […]

(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- Attorneys representing the family of Florida State University shooting victim Tiru Chabba have filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and its artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT, alleging that the company could have done more to prevent the shooting.The complaint, which was filed on Sunday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, also names the shooting suspect, Phoenix Ikner, as a defendant.According to ChatGPT logs released by […]

Image released of accused White House correspondents' dinner shooter Cole Allen taking a selfie of himself in his hotel room before allegedly trying to breach security at the event while armed with multiple weapons. (Department of Justice) (WASHINGTON) -- Cole Allen, the suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, pleaded not guilty on Monday to all counts.Allen -- who is accused of trying to assassinate President […]