Baby and young mom killed in Connecticut drive-by shooting

A 4-month-old baby was gunned down alongside his young mom in a broad-daylight drive-by shooting in Hartford, Conn.  Little Messiah Diaz was inside a vehicle with his 20-year-old mom Jessica Mercado and an unidentified man around 3 p.m. Tuesday when another car pulled up and someone opened fire, according to cops. All three were dropped off at a local hospital …

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Bill Clinton predicts first US female president will be conservative Republican woman

Former President Bill Clinton said during a recent interview that the country may not be ready for a female president following Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump, and suggested a Republican woman might have an easier time getting elected.  “Maybe,” Clinton replied to CBS’ Tracy Smith’s question about whether the US isn’t ready for a woman president. “I think …

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Trump assassination attempt task force subpoenas 2 ATF employees, alleging stonewalling

The congressional task force investigating the July and September assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump has accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) of stonewalling. The Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump on Monday issued subpoenas seeking testimony from ATF employees after the bureau had not responded to lawmakers’ multiple requests for documents …

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Minnesota man, Kirk Edward Hazlett III, executes father inside hunting cabin

A Minnesota man was on “a mission” when he executed his father in front of fellow relatives after he broke into the older man’s rural hunting cabin and shot him multiple times before fleeing. Kirk Edward Hazlett III allegedly fired nine shots at his father, 64-year-old Kirk Edward Hazlett II, including once in the head, leaving him to die in …

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2 dead, 1 hospitalized after house explodes in Ohio

A house explosion rocked a small town just southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio on Tuesday morning, killing two people and injuring another. Local firefighters in Bethel, Ohio responded to a call reporting a house fire with possible entrapment at 8:44 a.m. While they were en route, crews heard reports of the explosion, Bethel-Tate Fire Chief Christopher Cooper confirmed. The explosion in Bethel, …

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Colonial period silver coin shatters auction record, sells for $2.5 million

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence coin was made in 1652 in Boston, mere weeks after the first mint was set up in the colony, according to a statement from Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the auction …

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