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A police officer shot and killed a man who allegedly tried to enter an elementary school in northeast Alabama Thursday morning, authorities said. Gadsden City Schools Superintendent Tony Reddick told reporters that a "potential intruder" tried to open several doors at Walnut Park Elementary School, which had students and staff inside for summer school. A school resource officer with the Rainbow City Police Department came outside to "engage the guy in conversation" before the interaction began to escalate, Etowah County Sheriff Jonathon Horton told ABC News. MORE: Uvalde probe will be 'nonpartisan,' 'thorough,' Texas state lawmakers vow The SRO called...

An aide to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol said Thursday that the first public hearings, scheduled for prime time broadcast, would largely recapitulate what “has been reported” already. The Washington Post reported: Committee aides sought to temper expectations of any shocking revelations during Thursday’s hearing and instead framed the session as an opening argument. “[Thursday] night is connecting the dots,” said a second aide. “A lot of this has been reported and bits and pieces of it have been shared. But our aim is to tie all that together in...

For much of his life, Frank Sinatra dealt with allegations that he had ties to the mafia. The singer denied these rumors, but they have persisted even after his death. His associations allegedly grew irritated with him because Sinatra failed to get them a direct line to the Kennedy White House. In a conversation in a bugged restaurant, one reportedly offered to get rid of Sinatra and his friends. Sinatra began dealing with whispers about his alleged mob ties early in his career. This, coupled with his left-leaning politics, meant that the FBI began tracking him. The rumors were so...

MSNBC’s Joy Reid and "The View" co-host Joy Behar followed the same playbook on the heels of an armed man being arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home Wednesday morning and used the potential assignation attempt to scold Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., over gun control. Reid went first, addressing the Kavanaugh situation on "The ReidOut," with coverage of McConnell’s attacking House Democrats for not passing legislation to increase security for justices, which the Senate passed unanimously amid protests at justices' homes last month. Those protests followed the leak of a draft opinion that indicated the Supreme Court is likely...

The latest inflation figures are due on Friday and will reveal if consumer prices are signaling a peak or will remain at four-decade highs that have financially devastated American households. For months, households have been battered by soaring fuel, grocery-store food, and power bill costs — all rising at double-digit annual rates for the first time since 1981, according to Bloomberg. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg forecast consumer prices in May will be around 8.2%, versus 8.3% in April, though some leading estimates suggest a move between 8.3% to 8.4%. The print isn’t expected to deviate too much from the 40-year...

[Catholic Caucus] “Many ‘on the one hands’ and ‘on the other’ around a Francis resignation” — Michael Charlier on the end of a pontificate In Catholic media, but also to some extent in the secular press, there was a lot of speculation at Pentecost about a possible resignation of Pope Francis before the end of this August. The trigger—in addition to pictures of Francis in a wheelchair—was the announcement of a trip to L’Aquila immediately after the consistory planned for Aug. 27, at which Francis plans to explain his curia reform to the cardinals. L’Aquila is the site of...

It's time to debunk this urban legend.There are many contentious debates when it comes to pizza. Cheese or pepperoni? New York- or Chicago-style? Pro- or anti-pineapple? While all of these arguments may never be resolved, we're here to discuss one that should have a definite answer: Should you put used pizza boxes in the recycling bin or the trash? One of the reasons for this cardboard confusion is that the answer may vary based on where you live. Recycling centers across the country each have their own guidelines for what you can recycle. In New York City, for example, you're...

UPDATE: The man killed Thursday morning has been identified as 32-year-old Robert Tyler White of Bunnlevel, North Carolina. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said a school resource officer tried to stop White as White attempted to break into a police vehicle. White resisted and tried to take the officer's firearm, ALEA said. He was then injured by gunfire and pronounced deceased, according to ALEA, who is investigating the incident. The agency's findings will be turned over to the Etowah County District Attorney's Office once the investigation is complete. ----- From earlier: A shooting near a Gadsden elementary school Thursday morning...

After the Civil War, a majority of whites in Southern states weren’t ready to see ex-slaves become full citizens. Instead, they wanted them subjugated, deprived of power, bereft of land, retained as sharecroppers in quasi-slave arrangements, disarmed by the police, and terrorized by roving vigilantes such as the Klan.As a condition of getting back their representation in Congress, their states had been forced to ratify the Reconstruction amendments. Those amendments abolished slavery, granted full citizenship to black Americans, guaranteed them their right to vote, and ensured them equal protection under the law.White Southern politicians knew that these amendments were grossly...

<p>Russia started the special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February, following a request for assistance from the Donbass republics. The latter had been suffering from Ukrainian bombardment over the past eight years as Kiev delayed the implementation of the 2015 Minsk agreements.</p>

IS THAT TECHNICALLY EVEN PIZZA?We Crust Object Chicago, California, Detroit, and even Ohio all have their own regional takes on the classic pizza pie — and now the International Space Station does too, apparently. In an Instagram post made over the weekend, NASA gave a glimpse of an ISS pizza party, replete with photographic evidence of what may be the grossest-looking "pizza" ever captured on camera. And that's including Chuck E. Cheese. In the photos, the international team of space adventurers look like they're having the time of their lives chowing down on what looks to be personal, self-made...

Appearing Wednesday on NBC News, House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Democrats should “stop all the sloganeering” amid growing concerns that the party will lose its majority in Congress in the 2022 midterm elections.

An Arizona man convicted of murder in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl was put to death Wednesday in the state’s second execution since officials resumed carrying out the death penalty in May following a nearly eight-year hiatus. Frank Atwood, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the killing of Vicki Hoskinson, whose body was found in the desert, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a statement. Vicki went missing months earlier after leaving her home in Tucson to drop a birthday card in a nearby mailbox.

Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for governor in Michigan, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. After the execution of a search warrant on his home in Allendale, Mich., Kelley was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. The arrest comes hours before the committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 is set to hold its first public hearing. While the real estate broker had downplayed his involvement in the violence at the Capitol, analysis of multiple videos show Kelley on the steps outside the building rallying the crowd. Last summer,...

We have got a critical situation. I really think we have a problem for the next six months. … [O]nce it gets to these parabolic states, markets can move and they can spike quite a lot.’ — Jeremy Weir, Trafigura That’s Jeremy Weir, who heads up Trafigura, one of the world’s largest commodity traders, sounding the alarm bell at the FT Global Boardroom conference on Tuesday, according to the Financial Times. He’s the latest bigwig to raise an alert over the potential for global economic turmoil as the Russia-Ukraine war stokes energy-market volatility. JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon...

A hero dog credited with defending her female owner from a mountain lion attack in Northern California has died, the woman said Wednesday. Eva, a 2.5-year-old Belgian Malinois, began having seizures last weekend at her home, Erin Wilson, 24, told the Sacramento Bee. Her condition worsened from there, despite being taken to an animal hospital at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. SNIP “We said goodbye at 9:20 this morning,” the post said. “There were no changes to her condition overnight. Goodbye my beautiful sweet girl. You are my world, my light, my best friend. The world is a...

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced an increase in the optional standard mileage rate for the final 6 months of 2022. Taxpayers may use the optional standard mileage rates to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business and certain other purposes. For the final 6 months of 2022, the standard mileage rate for business travel will be 62.5 cents per mile, up 4 cents from the rate effective at the start of the year. The new rate for deductible medical or moving expenses (available for active-duty members of the military) will be 22 cents for...

Editorial: Colleges must stop persecuting unvaccinated (Only a link can be posted)

Republican House candidate Carl Paladino praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s ability to rouse “the crowds” and declared Hitler “the kind of leader we need today” in a February 2021 interview on the radio station WBEN in Buffalo, New York. Paladino, a businessman and leading GOP figure in New York state who was the party’s gubernatorial nominee in 2010, is running for the Republican nomination to replace the retiring Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-N.Y.).

The Biden administration could terminate thousands of Border Patrol agents who have refused the coronavirus vaccine in the coming days, even as the federal government struggles to stay staffed amid the greatest migration crisis in national history. Internal data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shared with the Washington Examiner show that nearly 4,000 of 21,000 total agents admitted to being unvaccinated as of late November 2021, shortly after the government required that all employees disclose their status. President Joe Biden's September 2021 mandate that all federal workers be fully vaccinated was put on hold in court in January, but...