Newly released body camera video shows the moment officers shot and injured a man who was suffering a mental health crisis in Queens. His family says they called 911 for medical aid, not police.
President Trump has announced a list of Black historical figures who will be included in his National Garden of American Heroes . The big picture: Trump's Black History Month announcement comes amid his administration's broader suppression of Black history and culture across the U.S. as well as diversity and inclusion efforts in corporations , hospitals , federal government agencies and beyond. Driving the news: The National Garden of American Heroes, which Trump originally announced during his first term, will include multiple Black heroes, he announced in a proclamation on Tuesday. - The park will "honor our greatest Americans, including black icons like Booker T. Washington, Jackie Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King,…
FBI Director Kash Patel is planning a trip to Tucson, Arizona, as President Trump deploys federal resources to find "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother , two sources tell Axios. The big picture: Trump said on Truth Social he'd spoken with Guthrie, whose mother went missing from her home outside Tucson over the weekend in what law enforcement called "suspicious" circumstances, and was "directing ALL Federal Law Enforcement to be at the family's, and Local Law Enforcement's, complete disposal, IMMEDIATELY." - Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has known Guthrie for more than 25 years, also spoke with her on the phone Wednesday and is receiving constant updates on the case, Axios has learned. - Patel, who was already heading to…
Elon Musk and State Department officials must sit for depositions over their role in dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. - The big picture: The order is a win for the anonymous USAID employees suing over what they say was an unlawful effort by officials of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to gut the world's largest humanitarian aid organization. - U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang wrote that there was "no alternative" to the depositions, citing plaintiffs' inability to obtain information through documents or lower-ranking officials, whose deposition requests went unanswered. - Chuang also pointed to earlier rulings finding that Musk made decisions to dismantle USAID…
In Cortina d’Ampezzo, a hub for the Games in northern Italy, some residents, including a former Olympian, are annoyed about all the construction. Others are annoyed that they’re annoyed.
Emails, texts, photos and videos show how Jeffrey Epstein, even after becoming a convicted sex offender, burnished his ties to royal family members from several countries and their advisers.