Virginia Beach – Police say 11 people have been killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach. Police Chief James Cervera said Friday that a shooter opened fire and shot “indiscriminately” at workers inside an operations building in the Virginia Beach Municipal Building Friday afternoon. Cervera said [...]

Beirut – Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said on Friday it was a duty to confront the U.S. Middle East plan that President Donald Trump has touted as “the deal of the century”. “This is a religious, moral, humanitarian, jihadi duty…The deal is a historic crime,” Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech.

Virginia Beach, VA – Virginia Beach Police said one person is in custody following a report of an active shooter at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center Friday afternoon, WTKR reported. The shooter opened fire around 4 p.m. inside Building 2 in the 2400 block of Courthouse Drive, WTKR reported. Police said multiple injuries have been [...]

Chicago – A California company says its experimental blood test was able to detect many types of cancer at an early stage and gave very few false alarms in a study that included people with and without the disease. Grail Inc. gave results in a news release on Friday and will report them Saturday at [...]

Bronx, NY – New York City officials are considering a plan to turn an island where poor and homeless people have been buried for 150 years into a park. The City Council held a hearing Thursday on a proposal to turn Hart Island over to the Parks Department to be run as a park that [...]

Mexico City – Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that Mexico won’t respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of coercive tariffs with desperation, but instead will push for dialogue. A day after Trump’s threat to impose a 5% tariff — that could increase incrementally to 25% — on all Mexican imports, López [...]

Los Angeles – As the California Democratic Party State Convention opens on Friday, Fox News reports that proposed resolutions include some that link Israel with “virulent Islamophobia,” mandating Democratic officials to “nullify” US President Donald Trump’s Israeli policies, among them moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Fox said the document the station obtained is secret. [...]

Silver Springs, MD – CBD products have surged in popularity despite confusion around their legal status . Now U.S. regulators are exploring ways to officially allow the hemp ingredient in food, drinks and dietary supplements. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration held a hearing Friday to collect information about cannabis compounds such as CBD, which [...]

Washington – U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who led a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, could have reached a decision on whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, but chose not to. Mueller said this week that he could not indict Trump because of a Justice Department [...]

West Bank – The U.S. blueprint to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, still in draft form after almost two years, is seen by Palestinians, and by some Arab officials and politicians, as a plan to finish off the Palestinian cause. The initiative, driven by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House [...]