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The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died, aged 67, after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara. ...

A local small business has gotten the attention of some bigwigs in Washington, D.C. CoreTrans earned a visit from U.S. Senator Rand Paul Wednesday, as Paul brought business owner/CEO Brian Whitaker a certificate naming the trucking company the Senate Small Business of the Week. Paul is the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and as such knows how difficult small businesses have it in this climate. "There's a lot that goes into this," Paul told CoreTrans's employees, meaning an owner has to make sure there is enough money coming in to manage the salaries...

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Emmett Till protesters stormed a senior living facility in search of the woman who has been accused of setting a lynch mob on him after a 1955 arrest warrant was unearthed in a Mississippi courthouse. Carolyn Bryant Donham, now in her 80s, of Raleigh, North Carolina, reportedly accused Till of whistling at her in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi, in 1955. A week later, the 14-year-old Till was abducted, tortured, fatally shot and dumped into the Tallahatchie River, where his body was found swollen and mutilated three days later. His open casket shocked the nation. Donham's husband, Roy Bryant,...

Cindy McCain said the Republican Party has lost its way and that her late husband, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), would be pushing back if he were still alive. “I don’t believe my husband would recognize it,” McCain said of the GOP on “MSNBC Reports” Thursday morning. “I do know one thing: He would be fighting like the dickens to pull it back together and bring it back to what it was during previous Republican administrations and previous administrations as well.” McCain now serves as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome. President Biden,...

In an effort to protect those with information about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and increase the influx of reports about them, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc) has introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. "The amendment would establish a process within the government for reporting UAPs and provide whistleblower-like protections,” Gallagher’s spokesman Jordan Dunn told The War Zone Thursday morning. For a multitude of reasons, U.S. troops and government contractors have traditionally been reluctant to come forward with information about these incidents, regardless of their validity. Beyond that, there have also been long-standing allegations that the...

Japanese police officials have identified Tetsuya Yamagami, a resident of Japan’s Nara city in his 40s, as the person who attacked Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe. Yamagami attacked Abe with a shotgun while he was delivering a speech near the Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City. Abe fell to the ground and was bleeding from the chest as per photos shared by Japanese news agencies. Abe was campaigning for the upcoming Upper House elections. Yamagami was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and was brought to Nara Nishi police station. The police also confiscated the gun and the confiscated gun...

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An angry customer attacked a street food vendor and the brazen violence was all caught on camera. Video shows a woman dumping food from containers then hitting an employee. Employees tell FOX 11 that the woman, identified as 30-year-old India Duerson, bought a burrito earlier in the day, came back demanding another plate, saying she didn’t like the burrito. Employees said no problem; they told Duerson to bring back the burrito, and they’ll give her something else. But the burrito was gone... so employees told her to pay for another plate. That’s when Duerson got angry.

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A Tennessee restaurant is 'snipping' their prices by offering diners a free milkshake if they can hand over proof of vasectomy – and it's bringing all the 'boys to the yard.' Daddy's Dogs, a hot dog restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, put a sign up advertising their 'Snip for Shake Deal' throughout the month of July and some diners wondered whether it was a joke. 'Putting it in writing for those who still don't think it's real,' restaurant owner Sean Porter - who is also known as 'Dr. Big Daddy' - wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of the sign. 'Dr....

Shocking footage has been released by Illinois State Police of the moment an officer in a patrol car was surrounded by a mob and his vehicle came under attack. The violence happened in the early hours of July 3 at the intersection of Division Street at Elston Avenue in just north of Chicago's downtown. A trooper was driving southbound on I-90 near Division Street at about 2am and noticed that traffic on an exit ramp had completely stopped. Upon driving over to investigate, a mob of mostly angry young men appeared out of nowhere as they sprinted towards the officer's...

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday authorized state forces to apprehend and transport migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border, claiming the enforcement powers of federal agents and pushing the legal boundaries of the Republican's escalating efforts to curb the rising number of crossings. 'This is actually a response to the overwhelming number of people who are coming across the border,' Abbott, a Republican, told Fox News. He also ramped up his criticism of President Joe Biden's handling of the border. 'It was only a year-and-a-half ago that we had the lowest border crossings in decades under President Trump. And now, under...

All 25 Republican members of the Ohio Senate were mailed envelopes full of feces on Thursday morning launching a federal investigation. The packages arrived after being sent almost a week earlier from a Cleveland post office. The packages were intercepted by Statehouse, Cleveland and Akron post offices before reaching the senators, according to a statement from Ohio House spokesman John Fortney. He wasn't able to say whether similar envelopes had been sent to Ohio House Republicans as well. **SNIP** On a personal level as a Statehouse employee, Fortney said he felt the act was cowardly and not only impacted state...

(CNN)Bradford Clark Freeman, believed to be the last surviving original member of the historic World War II parachute infantry regiment of the US Army known as Easy Company, died Sunday in Columbus, Mississippi. He was 97.

DALLAS - Dallas County DA John Creuzot expects more than 1,000 people will sign up to have their criminal records cleared and a chance in some cases to begin again. The DA announced Tuesday that the county will host an expunction expo again this year. It's the sixth expunction expo that's helped more than 1,700 people since it began in 2017. Last year, nearly 700 people had criminal records partially or completely cleared.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) is joining Democrats, as well as the big business lobby, in asking President Joe Biden for more legal immigration to the United States to fill American jobs. Even as the nation’s foreign-born population has hit record highs, Thune says the Biden administration is not importing enough H-2B foreign visa workers to fill blue-collar seasonal jobs in the U.S.

ABC News partner NHK reported that Abe was bleeding when he collapsed. Abe's heart is in a "stopped condition," ABC News has learned, and there are no vital signs.