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Tennessee called off the scheduled execution of Tony Carruthers on Thursday after officials spent more than an hour trying and failing to establish an intravenous line, prompting Gov. Bill Lee to grant a one-year reprieve. Carruthers, 57, was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994. The Tennessee Department of Corrections said in a statement that medical personnel were able to establish a “primary vein” but were unsuccessful in finding a required backup line. “The team continued to follow the protocol, but could not find another suitable vein,” the statement read. “The team attempted to insert a central line…

A coalition of Republican lawmakers, Trump administration officials and religious leaders convened in Washington this week to confront what they described as a growing antisemitic influence emanating from the right-wing podcast world — and to organize a counteroffensive. The National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism held its summit at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, drawing speakers including Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who discussed her new book on campus antisemitism. National Security Council Senior Director for Counter Terrorism Sebastian Gorka addressed jihadist threats and the administration’s new National Strategy for Counterterrorism. Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the…

new video loaded: Trump Settled a Case With Himself. Was That Legal?The Trump administration this week created a $1.8 billion fund to dole out taxpayer dollars to the president’s political allies, and declared that Mr. Trump is immunized from tax audits. Our chief legal affairs correspondent, Adam Liptak, explains how these legally questionable moves test the Constitution’s limits on the president’s power.By Adam Liptak, Paul Abowd, Nikolay Nikolov, Rafaela Balster, Jon Miller and Whitney ShefteMay 21, 2026 Source link

Federal prosecutors on Thursday released video of a stark vehicle ramming attack on an ICE officer, showing an SUV smashing a law enforcement pickup truck down a Chicago street. With tires smoking, a Chevrolet Tahoe bum-rushes the white pickup through the parking lane of the street before finally stopping. An armed officer gets out of the pickup and rushes over to the SUV, which peels away and drives off. Authorities released the video as they announced the indictment of Diego Emmanuel Reyes, 21, accusing him of driving the Tahoe in the crash. He faces a charge of assaulting the U.S. Immigration and…

A Virginia judge tossed out the criminal case Thursday against a former assistant principal in connection with a 2023 elementary school shooting in which a 6-year-old took aim at his teacher. Judge Rebecca Robinson dismissed all eight counts of felony child neglect against Ebony Parker after the then-assistant principal was accused of ignoring multiple warnings about the boy having a gun in his backpack prior to him shooting his first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary in Newport News. Jurors were instructed to return to court Thursday to begin deliberations, but Judge Robinson said the case was legally insufficient for jurors to…

The runway at LaGuardia Airport in Queens where a sinkhole was discovered Wednesday is projected to reopen around noon Thursday. That’s the earliest it will be back in business, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which has jurisdiction over the airport, told Gothamist. “That sounds crazy. I hope they get this fixed soon. We don’t know what to do,” traveler Rohan Nepal told cable news channel NY1. Initially, the Federal Aviation Administration said the affected runway would be closed through at least 6 a.m. Thursday, according to ABC News. Port Authority crews inspecting the runway discovered the…

A coalition of gun-rights groups has asked the Supreme Court to step in and block a Maryland law that bars even concealed-carry permit holders from carrying firearms at “sensitive places” such as state parks, museums and mass transit. A lower appeals court upheld Maryland’s law, saying some public locations must be able to be off-limits for guns. But the law’s opponents say the state has put so much of the public space out of bounds that it could undermine “a meaningful right to public carry at all.” The Supreme Court has shied away from the sensitive locations debate, but the…

DC Water’s top executive told Congress Wednesday that federal officials still have not explained why they never approved repairs to the aging sewer line that ruptured this winter, spewing nearly 250 million gallons of untreated human waste into the Potomac River. CEO David Gadis told lawmakers that the repair approval process, which began with the National Park Service in 2018, continues even after the Potomac Interceptor pipe ruptured in January, causing an ecological disaster in the waterway. Rep. John Joyce, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, pressed Mr. Gadis…

President Trump told U.S. Coast Guard graduates on Wednesday they will play a critical role in protecting and serving the U.S. at a “great time” for the “hottest country in the world.” Mr. Trump condemned his predecessors and said he’s leading a national revival that relies in part on a strong military. “I hate to say it, but I will — the last administration, we were a dead country. Right now, we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world,” he said during a commencement address to the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. “We’re respected all over the world.…

BOSTON — At Harvard University, earning straight A’s is about to get harder. Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it would limit the number of A grades awarded to undergraduates, adopting one of the most ambitious efforts by a major university to curb grade inflation. The decision was made by faculty vote earlier this month. The move comes after top grades became so common that some Harvard faculty argued they no longer reliably distinguished exceptional work. More than 60% of all grades awarded to undergraduates in recent years were in the A range, according to university data…