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June 30, 2021

Northwest to cool off as Northeast remains hot

While temperatures closer to the coast in the Pacific Northwest cool off a bit over the next several days, the interior West will remain hot with Excessive Heat Warnings still in effect.

June 29, 2021

'The Five': Democrats unable to spin 'defund the police'; Can't 'play race card' or use Trump 'crutch'

Democrats are having a tough time trying to shirk responsibility for the Defund the Police movement amid skyrocketing urban crime rates and their own words on-tape, “The Five” discussed on Monday.

June 29, 2021

NASA studies Louisiana delta system in effort to combat global climate change

Erosion, sinking land and sea rise from climate change have killed the Louisiana woods where a 41-year-old Native American chief played as a child. Not far away in the Mississippi River delta system, middle-school students can stand on islands that emerged the year they were born.

June 27, 2021

Boston-area man plows stolen truck into house, guns down 2 people before being shot dead by police

A bizarre shooting incident in a suburb outside of Boston has left three people dead, including a suspect, after a stolen delivery truck plowed into the side of a house in Winthrop and its driver allegedly hopped out and gunned down two people before being fatally shot by police, authorities said.

June 23, 2021

New Hampshire felon out on supervised release on weapons charge shoots Boston father in front of kids: police

A New Hampshire man who was out on federal supervised release is accused of gunning down another man in front of his children at a summer gathering on Father’s Day in a Boston neighborhood.

June 21, 2021

Boston Bombing survivor calls out acting mayor's opposition to death penalty for Tsarnaev

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey proclaimed her opposition to the death penalty for Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, just one day after the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Tsarnaev.

June 15, 2021

Retired Police Commissioner Bill Bratton: 'I wouldn't take' top cop job in any major city

William Bratton, the retired former police commissioner of Boston, Los Angeles and New York – the latter twice – said Tuesday that if offered the job leading a major city's police force at this time, he wouldn't “take the keys.”

June 15, 2021

Biden admin asks Supreme Court to reinstate death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

The Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling and reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

June 15, 2021

US military guns keep vanishing, some used in street crimes

Government records covering the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force show pistols, machine guns, shotguns and automatic assault rifles have vanished from armories, supply warehouses, Navy warships and elsewhere.

June 5, 2021

Massachusetts police officer dies after trying to save drowning teen

A Massachusetts police officer died Friday afternoon after he jumped into a pond to save a drowning teen, according to reports.