Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn has pleaded not guilty to vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington, DC, after US President Donald Trump alleged vandalism.
NYTimes – US David Hearn was charged with a single felony count of property destruction last week Sign up for the Breaking News US email Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn has pleaded not guilty to vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Hearn, 67, from Maryland, was arrested last month after stopping by the pool on a bike ride. He told several outlets that he was detained for almost five hours after he reached into t…
Republican nominee has made slate of unsubstantiated claims about fighting human trafficking overseas and pledged to continue performing exorcisms, in person and by phone, if elected governor Sign up for the Breaking News US email Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn has pleaded not guilty to vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Hearn, 67, from Maryland, was arrested last month after stopping by the pool…
NYTimes – US The three individuals face misdemeanor charges of causing damage worth less than $1,000. Experts have said that the problems could have been caused by the pool’s makeover.
NYTimes – US Darline Graham Nordone, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham and backed by President Donald Trump, won the Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate in South Carolina against Representative Ralph Norman. She is temporarily filling the seat and will face the Democratic nominee in November's general election.
NPR – Politics Move by Canada comes after US president spent morning railing against the country, calling it the ‘most difficult’ nation he deals with Canada announces retaliatory tariffs on wide range of US goods Sign up for the US Breaking News email On Truth Social, however, the president shot down assertions that the US talks with Canada collapsed in part due a proposed trade deal that would have weakened French language prote…
NYTimes – US U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States is considering renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" amid an escalating trade war with Canada. The threat, made as U.S.-Canada trade talks broke down, follows his earlier push to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." Trump also told Canadian leaders to "fall in line" or face worse consequences than existing tariffs.
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