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U.S. Senator John Fetterman has been hospitalized overnight following lightheadedness he experienced at a Senate retreat Wednesday. "Towards the end of the Senate Democratic retreat today, Senator John Fetterman began feeling lightheaded," a statement from his office read.

President Biden praised John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, during a trip to the state on Thursday. “We need John badly. Not a joke,” Mr. Biden said during a fundraising reception in Philadelphia with Mr. Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. The president said Mr. Fetterman has integrity: "You never have to wonder that he means what he says.” Mr. Fetterman’s Republican opponent, celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, “is for undoing everything we have done,” Mr. Biden said. “I want to be standing next to big John when he wins, because John, you have character, pal, and it...

Lowndes County Sheriff John Williams was fatally shot when he approached a truck because the music was loud, and he was asking an occupant of the pickup to turn it down, according to law enforcement and an eyewitness. About 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Williams was shot at the QV convenience store near the Lowndes County Courthouse on the downtown square in Hayneville. Law enforcement apprehended the suspect William Chase Johnson, 18, after a nearly four-hour search when he walked up to the shooting scene about 12:05 a.m. Sunday with a firearm in his hand and was taken into custody after the...

Gov. Kay Ivey tweeted that Lowndes County Sheriff John Williams had been “tragically killed” in the line of duty and that she offered her prayers and sympathy to his family and the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department. Montgomery County Sheriff Derrick Cunningham told news outlets that Williams was shot at a gas station in the community of Hayneville, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of Montgomery. Details remained sketchy as law enforcement agents converged on the community. Video from WSFA-TV showed a heavy law enforcement presence late Saturday outside a QV gas station. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Cpl. Jess Thornton...

Ryan Belcher, 29, was at the end of his workday Thursday when he heard a loud crash outside. He explained to "Fox & Friends" on Monday he noticed a Jeep Cherokee flipped upside down, and he rushed outside toward the wreckage. When he got there, he found a man trapped underneath the vehicle calling out for help. "When I first approached the vehicle, there was a good four men there, and they were all trying to move this vehicle and I seen it wasn’t happening and I figured what a better time now to use what I know I can actually...

Beloved “Big John,” the USS John F. Kennedy, is armed and ready for the thousands expected to flood the South Boston docks this weekend for a final salute to the Camelot-burnished carrier “I don’t think there could be a more fitting place for the JFK to make a final port than the city of Boston,” said Rear Adm. H. Denby Starling II. Starling, in charge of decommissioning the JFK, told the Herald the crew has planned hard for this pivotal weekend. They are expecting more than 60,000 visitors Saturday and Sunday. Crowds will see level-orange security complete with metal detectors...

Carrier’s run-in with dhow raises red flags Officials seek answers after ship struck, sank small boat BY MATTHEW DOLAN THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT     How could a small boat designed for fishing in the Persian Gulf get so close to a multibilliondollar American carrier equipped with state-ofthe-art radar and armed with its own air force?     That’s the question Navy investigators are still asking after the carrier John F. Kennedy struck and sank the mysterious boat in the Persian Gulf on July 22.     No survivors or remains from the small boat, known as a dhow, have been recovered. The crew of the Mayport, Fla.-based...

(CNSNews.com) - Cultural conservatives are cheering the federal obscenity prosecution of a Los Angeles pornography distributor and two of its executives while pointing out that it is the first such indictment of an L.A.-based pornography firm in a decade. Most of the adult film industry is based in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. The 10-count indictment originates from a federal grand jury in Western Pennsylvania and names Extreme Associates, Inc., of North Hollywood, as well as the husband-and-wife team of Robert Zickari and Janet Romano of Northridge, Calif. Extreme Associates' website touts its content as the "Hardest Hardcore on the...