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Police in San Jose, California, have located a 3-month-old baby who was inexplicably kidnapped from home while his grandmother unloaded groceries. In an update post on Twitter Tuesday morning, the San Jose Police Department informed the public that "Baby Brandon" had been located and one suspected kidnapper had been taken into custody. Police added that Brandon Cuellar was found alive and apparently well, but said he would be taken to […]

Explosions rocked the small, Russian-aligned breakaway region of Moldova known as Transnistria Tuesday, raising concerns that a new front could open in the war in Ukraine. Two explosions Tuesday morning took out a pair of powerful radio antennas along the Ukrainian border, Transnistrian police said. The incident follows reports of several explosions on Monday at the break-away region’s Ministry of State. Transnistria, a Kremlin-friendly strip of land in eastern Moldova, […]

Anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. hit an all-time high in 2021, with the states of New York and New Jersey accounting for nearly 30% of the reported total.According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), incidents (being defined as vandalism, harassment, or assault) were up significantly last year. According to the ADL’s annual summary, these incidents are due to pandemic restrictions decreasing and a retaliatory backlash in response to Israeli airstrikes in […]

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday issued three pardons and 75 prison sentence commutations in his first grants of clemency since taking office. All of the commutations and two of the three pardons went to people convicted of federal drug offenses. “Today, I am pardoning three people who have demonstrated their commitment to rehabilitation and are striving every day to give back and contribute to their communities,” Biden said in […]

Jeff Bezos questioned whether China could gain influence over Twitter as the result of Elon Musk's purchase of the social media company — but after raising the prospect, Bezos said he does not think Musk will pursue a path of censorship."Interesting question. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?" Bezos asked when retweeting a post about Tesla's ties to China. "My own answer […]

North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator will be resigning after a report revealed the lawmaker exchanged text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. “Recent news stories have become a distraction for the important work of the legislative assembly during its interim meetings,” Republican Ray Holmberg, 79, said in a statement announcing his resignation, effective June 1. “I want to do what I can, within my power, to lessen […]

A woman who had been accused of being biased in favor of abortion when she worked as a CBS reporter announced that she was hired on by Planned Parenthood. Kate Smith worked as a CBS reporter covering abortion issues until she left the outlet in July 2021. On Monday, she announced that she had been hired on at Planned Parenthood as the abortion provider's senior director of news content. "Thrilled […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hailed Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter on Monday as a victory for free speech and a blow to “legacy” media outlets such as CNN and NBC. DeSantis argued that social-media platforms were originally hatched as forums for open dialogue but have since become free-speech suppressants. “They were used to go around a lot of those failed legacy media outlets like NBC and CNN that no one […]

President Joe Biden nominated Geoffrey Pyatt – a participant in a controversial leaked phone call with State Department official Victoria Nuland about Ukraine – to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. The nomination of Pyatt, who currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to Greece, was announced on April 22nd and, if confirmed, would make him the president’s leading official on energy security. Pyatt previously served in the […]