Month: December 2024

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a tart response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual year-end news conference Thursday, hurling a rude epithet at the Kremlin leader in comments online.

As the U.S. wrestles with an apparent drone threat, a Dutch company says its radar can help.

FBI agents interviewed Alexander Paffendorf, 20, late Tuesday, according to a court order obtained by The Washington Post.

Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the Dec. 4 killing of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson, faces two separate sets of murder charges in state and federal court in New York. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Thursday charged Mangione, 26, with one count of murder through use of a firearm, one count of using a firearm silencer during a violent crime, and two counts of interstate stalking for allegedly surveilling Thompson.

The House of Representatives is in chaos amid a last-minute bid to avert a Friday government shutdown.

House Democrats are rallying in overwhelming opposition to the Republicans’ second stab at a government funding bill, vowing to sink it on the House floor and force GOP leaders back to the ta…

Also, country music was ubiquitous in 2024. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

Luigi Mangione had a busy Thursday, with a whirlwind two-state courthouse tour turned spectacle featuring a helicopter ride, a throng of escorts – including the mayor of New York City at one point – and new revelations of his alleged intent to “wack” an insurance company CEO.