NYPD investigating how apparent 911 caller was shot by police in the Bronx The NYPD said a 32-year-old man holding a kitchen knife was shot inside the stairwell of a Bronx apartment building by officers responding to a 911 call for an attempted robbery. 01/13/2025 - 4:45 am | View Link
Man allegedly armed with a knife shot by police in the Bronx: NYPD A 32-year-old man was shot by an NYPD officer in the Bronx Sunday evening, according to the NYPD. The shooting happened around 5:38 p.m. at 335 East 148th Street. Police say the man approached ... 01/12/2025 - 11:46 am | View Link
NYPD officers shoot armed suspect in Brooklyn, police say NEW YORK — New York City police officers shot an armed suspect in the stomach in Brooklyn on Friday night, police say. It happened around 9:45 p.m. on East 80th Street near Flatlands Avenue in ... 01/10/2025 - 4:25 pm | View Link
SAPD releases body cam footage of officer-involved shooting that killed an armed man SAPD officer James Lopez fired over a dozen rounds at Jeffrey Schopp after he pulled out a gun while leading officers on a foot chase through a North Side drainage ditch on Dec. 3, police said. Schopp ... 01/5/2025 - 5:43 am | View Link
Oakland police officer shoots man, leading to standoff OAKLAND — An Oakland police sergeant shot a man who then hid in a nearby home before surrendering after a standoff early Saturday, authorities said. 01/4/2025 - 3:51 pm | View Link
Gov. Gavin Newsom posted on social media that California is preventing insurance companies from being able to cancel or not renew the policies of Southern California wildfire victims on Friday. Via GVWire:
On Thursday, the California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance cancellations and non-renewals for Southern California homeowners affected by wildfires.
The measure, stemming from Gov.
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Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, and the rocket company is poised for its most defining moment to date: sending a vehicle to orbit for the first time. Via CNN:
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is set to make its inaugural launch attempt as soon as 1 a.m.
The wildfires sweeping through LA are a heartbreaking reminder of our times. I spoke with one of my best friends Adam Roth, who lives in Pasadena, about what it’s been like on the ground. He and his family had to abandon their home, not knowing what they’d return to. Thankfully, as of now, his house is ok.
On this day in 1962 Chubby Checker's song "The Twist" (which is credited with starting the dance craze of the same name) went to #1 in the charts two years after first reaching number one spot.
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Here we go again. CNN's Jake Tapper allows another Republican senator to dance around his questions and lie to his face. This time it was Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. We all remember Britt from her infamous SOTU response which was trolled perfectly by Scarlett Johansson on Saturday Night Live.
Britt was a guest on this Sunday's State of the Union, and was asked by Tapper about her support for corrupt Trump nominee to be Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Britt responded by ignoring Bondi's election denialism, pretending there's any reason to believe she won't politicize the department, and continuing to spreading the lie that the DOJ was politicized under Biden.
TAPPER: You're on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi will testify before your committee later this week.
Last Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” (PDS) red flag warning to Los Angeles and Ventura counties about incoming strong winds. “This is about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather,” the warning for Tuesday through Thursday said.
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Over the next three days, fires whipped by gusts of up to 100 m.p.h.