Author: Press Room

British actor William Rush, best known for the British TV series Waterloo Road, has passed away at the young age of 31. The actor’s mother, Coronation Street actress Debbie Rush, revealed her son’s death in an Instagram post telling fans that William died on December 17. “As a family, our hearts are completely broken, and there are no words that can truly capture the depth of our loss,” she wrote on the Instagram post. “Even in our darkest moment, William gave the most precious gift of all.” “Through being an organ donor, he has given hope and life to other…

On Thursday night, FOX News reported that the Brown University shooting suspect was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Breitbart News noted that the “person of interest” whom police had pursued had been identified earlier in the day. Moreover, law enforcement was eyeing a possible connection between Saturday’s Brown University shooting and Monday’s slaying of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. MIT professor Loureiro was shot multiple times at his home Monday night and rushed to the hospital, where he died. Later in the day, the search for the person zeroed in on a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, where the New York…

As Republicans in his state’s legislature considered joining a Donald Trump-backed effort to redraw congressional maps in the GOP’s favor, Rep. Frank Mrvan kept quiet. The new lines would have doomed the low-key Democrat representing Indiana’s northwest corner, but only now — after Republicans in the state Senate roundly rejected the Trump push — is he speaking out with a message for both parties: It’s time to lay down arms on redistricting. “I do not believe all-blue and all-red states benefit anyone,” Mrvan said in an interview. “We need to have unifying factors that bring our country together again, like…

The Australian government has announced plans for a national gun buyback following last week’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney. The scheme is expected to take hundreds of thousands of weapons out of circulation, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday. The Bondi Beach shooting left at least 15 people dead, and more than two dozen injured. The attackers, who allegedly pledged allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), targeted a Hanukkah celebration organized by the local Jewish community. Police said one of the shooters had held a firearms license and legally owned six registered guns,…

On Friday’s broadcast of “Bloomberg Surveillance,” U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer stated that there isn’t a specific direction to ensure tariffs going forward don’t impact affordability and “Whenever we’re imposing tariffs or doing deals, the purpose of the trade program is to re-shore American manufacturing and protect American food security. It’s really about jobs and increasing wages” and stating there are other policies on prices, “So, we don’t see the trade policy really as driving prices, we see it as driving jobs.” Greer said that prices for certain staples have fallen over the past month, and “When we saw inflation…

During a Thursday night press conference, Providence police chief Colonel Oscar Perez noted that the deceased Brown University shooting suspect was “a Portuguese national.” Perez credited “ground work, public assistance, and good old-fashioned policing” for law enforcement being able to identify and close in on the shooting suspect. Perez noted that a video provided law enforcement with information that led to a vehicle they traced to the suspect. The pursuit of the vehicle “led to a car rental place,” from which law enforcement gathered footage of the suspect. Breitbart News reported that police descended on a storage facility in Salem,…

The BND will reportedly be allowed to conduct sabotage and breach suspects’ homes to install spyware The Chancellery in Berlin has proposed granting Germany’s currently mostly surveillance-focused foreign intelligence agency powers to carry out sabotage and other offensive operations abroad, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday.The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) was created in 1956 in post-war West Germany and, like the armed forces, was initially limited in its powers. Until now, the BND has only been allowed to gather and analyze information.A new draft bill seen by German media would allow the spy agency to act far more aggressively, granting permission to…

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) stated that “the healthcare system is broken and we need to fix it.” But doing so “requires Republicans deciding to abandon their my-way-or-the-highway approach” to that and other issues. Co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked, “Leader, let me ask you this, and I recognize the complications and costs to the American public. There is a question, and maybe you’d say it’s a longer-term question that has to be dealt with later, but the true question, ultimately, underneath all of this is how we’re going to actually lower…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A jury found a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal authorities guilty of obstruction Thursday, marking a victory for President Donald Trump as he continues his sweeping immigration crackdown across the country. Federal prosecutors charged Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan with obstruction, a felony, and concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor, in April. The jury acquitted her on the concealment count, but she still faces up to five years in prison on the obstruction count. The jury returned the verdicts after deliberating for six hours. Dugan faces up to five…

US forces struck more than 70 alleged terrorist targets with over 100 bombs, according to CENTCOM The Pentagon has released combat footage showing US and allied forces carrying out large-scale strikes against alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist targets in Syria as part of Washington’s retaliation for the recent killing of American personnel.In a post on X late Friday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American and Jordanian forces struck more than 70 targets across central Syria using over 100 precision-guided munitions. The Pentagon said the strikes were conducted under Operation Hawkeye Strike and involved US fighter jets, attack helicopters,…