Peterson responded, saying through his attorney that he thought the shots emanated from outside of the school, near the football field, and he responded in accordance with his training.
"The allegations that Mr. Peterson was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue," a statement from his lawyer said.
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For more than an hour Wednesday morning, the families of Cosmo DiNardo’s victims lashed out in anger at the 21-year-old Bucks County man who murdered four young men and buried their bodies on his family’s farm.
“It’s taking everything I have not to [expletive] kill you right now,” one mother cried out, before apologizing to Judge Jeffrey Finley for her language.
After listening to DiNardo’s curt apology during Wednesday’s hearing where he admitted the crimes, Finley described it as “false and insincere.” The judge noted that he listened to a reco
...Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has released congressional testimony transcripts and other material related to the committee's inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer.
President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya were among those attending the meeting that raised questions about
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President Trump shocked the world, accepting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to discuss a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. It’s historic and high-stakes. Just the FAQs
President Trump and Kim Jong Un(Photo: KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration declared Wednesday that it's up to North Korea to follow through on its threats to cancel a summit with Kim Jong Un, saying the United States remains prepared to meet.
"We'll see what happens," Trump told reporters during a photo opportunity with the
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"All of a sudden out of nowhere, you just hear pop, pop, pop!" he told NBC Chicago. "Sounds like firecrackers, and then there's dead silence. Then all of sudden a teacher comes in and says, 'Go, go, go!' and everybody floods out of the school and into the cafeteria."
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — An explosion that ripped through a Southern California day spa killed the owner, and investigators Wednesday were looking into whether she was targeted in the crime.
Authorities declined to publicly say if they believed the spa owner was targeted, but one official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press that she had been the intended recipient of an explosive package.
Remnants of an explosive device were found inside the badly damaged spa where the powerful explosion Tuesday afternoon shook the city of
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro (second from left) leaves his hotel in Beijing on May 4. On Wednesday, he wasn’t named on a Treasury Department list of U.S. officials who will meet with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and the rest of the Beijing delegation at Treasury this week. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo
Sources say Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and trade adviser Peter Navarro had a public shouting match in Beijing.
On Tuesday night, the British tabloid The Daily Mailreported that Michael Cohen had asked Ahmed al-Rumaihi, who runs a $100 Qatari sovereign wealth fund, to send him “millions” of dollars, which he would then pass on “to Trump family members.”
The tabloid attributed this claim to a “senior Kuwaiti government source” – who said that al-Rumaihi had told him of the attempted bribe “so that he would not appear to be ‘going behind Kuwait’s back’ in his relationship with the Trump administration.”
As Jonathan Chait noted Wednesday morning, there was
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Inmates at a crowded Caracas detention center revolted on Wednesday, with jailed opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a Mormon missionary from Utah begging for freedom and medical attention in postings on social media.
Relatives of inmates react outside a detention center of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), where a riot occurred, according to relatives, in Caracas, Venezuela May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
There was no official information on the incident, but in videos posted
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Gov. Cuomo deployed the National Guard to aid storm-damaged Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Sullivan counties, where some 157,000 customers remained without power.
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