President Biden to sign Emmett Till anti-lynching bill into law

PHILADELPHIA - Activists gathered Tuesday outside a Philadelphia bar where law enforcement sources say a bouncer punched an intoxicated patron who later died at the hospital.Police say surveillance video from Apr.16 shows 41-year-old Eric Pope being escorted out of Tabu Lounge and Sports bar in Center City around 1 a.m. for being overly intoxicated.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A former MTV reality show star was arrested in Annapolis on sex trafficking charges. The Anne Arundel County Police Department says Kevin Barnes, who appeared on the show "Making the Band 2" and goes by the name "Chopper," was arrested on a Las Vegas warrant on April 14. Detectives believe Barnes, 37, used his large social media following to recruit women to be sex workers. They think there may be local victims.SUBSCRIBE TO FOX 5 DC ON YOUTUBEDownload the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherBarnes starred on MTV's "Making the Band 2" for three seasons.

energy-efficient light bulbs, accelerating a longtime industry practice to use compact fluorescent and LED bulbs that last 25 to 50 times longer than incandescent bulbs. The Trump administration had slowed an earlier phaseout of incandescents, saying it was targeting rules that burden businesses.Once the new rules are fully in place next year, consumers should save nearly $3 billion per year on their utility bills, the Energy Department said.

NEW YORK - Three out of every four U.S. children have been infected with the coronavirus and more than half of all Americans had signs of previous infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers estimated in a report Tuesday.The researchers examined blood samples from more than 200,000 Americans and looked for virus-fighting antibodies made from infections, not vaccines. They found that signs of past infection rose dramatically between December and February, when the more contagious omicron variant surged through the U.S.The most striking increase was in children.

PHILADELPHIA - Law enforcement sources tell FOX 29 that investigators in Philadelphia have identified a suspect in two separate incidents, including a sexual assault, on SEPTA properties. Sources say 28-year-old Quintez Adams is wanted on multiple charges in connection with incidents that occurred on Apr. 4 and Apr.

PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced on Tuesday that a 55-year-old Philadelphia man was sentenced to almost 22 years in prison for multiple attacks against US postal workers.  September 2021, authorities say James Chandler pleaded guilty in to charges in connection with two incidents that occurred on January 11 and February 4, 2021.

New COVID-19 seroprevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the Omicron surge infected a huge swath of Americans, with overall seroprevalence rising from 33.5% in December of 2021 to 57.7% in February 2022. 

HARRISONBURG, Va. - Lauren Bernett, a star softball player at James Madison University, has died, the school announced Tuesday. She was 20.Bernett's cause of death was not immediately released."College athletics is great because of the people with whom we get to interact every day.

In this photo illustration, a woman holds a smartphone with the Burger King (BK) logo displayed on the screen with the Burger King (BK) website displayed in the background. LOS ANGELES - Like most fast-food chains, Burger King has entered the rewards program trend.This means consumers have the chance to get free munchies but with a slight catch.

died at the age of 71 following a lengthy health battle.The band’s frontman Philip Bailey confirmed the news, informing fans that Andrew had been struggling with his health for six years.Philip announced Andrew’s death on his Instagram page late on Monday evening.He shared a picture of them smiling together as he broke the sad news to his 52,400 followers.He told fans: “I met him in High School, and we quickly became friends and bandmates. “Andrew Paul Woolfolk was his name. We lost him today, after being ill of over 6 years. “He has Transitioned on to the forever, from this Land of the dying to the Land of the Living. “Great memories.

Israelis aged 60 and older given a fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine amid the Omicron surge had a 64% lower risk of hospitalization and 78% lower risk of death than those who received three doses, suggests an observational study published yesterday in Nature Medicine.Clalit Health Services researchers compared the outcomes of 328,597 pati

The FBI said this image from a police officer's bodycam shows Thomas Webster (circled in green) of Orange County, N.Y., during the riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A three-month-old baby who was kidnapped from San Jose was found on Tuesday and three suspects were taken into custody, police said. "This is every parent's worst nightmare," San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said at a news conference, adding that he was glad this kidnappings had a "positive outcome." The discovery at about 9:30 a.m. capped about 20 hours of an intense hunt to find missing Brandon Cuellar, who was taken from an apartment complex on Monday around 1 p.m.

Center: Ian McKellen in "King Lear." Left, from top: Hailee Steinfeld in "Romeo & Juliet," Tim Roth and Gary Oldman in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead." Right, from top: "Kiss Me, Kate," Michael Fassbender in "Macbeth." CHICAGO - Let’s face it, high schools everywhere have been doing William Shakespeare a disservice. The famed Bard wrote plays that were meant to be seen onstage, not read in a classroom.

The exterior of a 767-400ER aircraft. (Photo: Chris Sweigart/via Delta Air Lines) ((Photo: Chris Sweigart/via Delta Air Lines))Delta Air Lines, which has narrowly fought off several attempts to unionize its flight attendants, will begin paying cabin crews during boarding, a first for a major U.S.

Counterfeit Stanley Cup Championship rings seized in New York. (U.S. Customs and Border Patrol)Border agents in New York made a slightly more unusual bust than what they are probably accustomed to seeing – 10 counterfeit National Hockey League (NHL) 1936 Stanley Cup Championship rings. The rings were seized at the Champlain Port of Entry cargo facility in very northern New York earlier this month, according to a news release from the U.S.

Florida bride and caterer have been arrested after they were accused of spiking a reception dinner with cannabis without their guests’ knowledge.Danya Svoboda, the 42-year-old bride, and Jocelyn Bryant, the 31-year-old owner of the catering company, were charged with delivery of marijuana, culpable negligence and tampering after many wedding guests became ill from the laced food.Seminole County police responded to the Feb. 19 wedding after a 41-year-old guest reported that it felt like there “were drugs inside” him, despite only having consumed food and alcohol at the party.Body camera footage retrieved from police who were on the scene shows guests being taken away on stretchers and a grinning bride.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial: What has happened so far?Johnny Depp feared ‘bloodbath’ during Amber Heard argument, court hears in audioPrincess Bride actor Cary Elwes ‘airlifted to hospital after rattlesnake bite’Woolfolk rejoined Earth, Wind & Fire as a saxophone in 1987, playing with them for six more years before leaving.In the year 2000, Woolfolk was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the iconic group, whose biggest hits include Shining Star.Got a story?If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you.

Two thirds of family members restricted from visiting their loved ones admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for COVID-19 had significant symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 3 months later, with the greatest severity in those of Hispanic ethnicity, female sex, and previous use of a psychiatric drug, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Photo of the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which covers the number 4 reactor unit, on the 36th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images) CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive places, Russian soldiers dug trenches.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Authorities have released a dramatic video showing the moment a car slammed into a school bus, causing it to roll over while children were inside.Albuquerque Police said the crash happened Feb. 13.Officers charged Mario Perez, 49, with two counts of great bodily harm by vehicle, a third-degree felony. However, they are asking for the public’s help in locating another driver who was possibly involved and got away from the scene.

New coronaviruses armed with the capacity to cause severe human disease are becoming more frequent, raising the stakes for global preparedness, along with a need for a vaccine that could broadly protect against the most dangerous ones, such as SARS-CoV-2.

Coronation Street.Viewers have recently watched him become embroiled in a tricky romance with Eileen Grimshaw.The 54-year-old actor has appeared in a slew of impressive roles before he stepped onto the Cobbles.Fans of the ITV soap may recognise him from his secret Corrie role dating back 30 years while others may know is his voice from a major Harry Potter role.From a little-known appearance in a rival soap to several major appearances in Hollywood blockbusters, Daily Star has taken a look into Tony's life away from the cameras.The star snagged a major role when he appeared in Harry Potter’s fifth blockbuster instalment, The Order of the Phoenix.Tony played Hagrid’s giant half-brother that he brings back from his travels.But the star has since revealed that playing Grawp was one of the toughest roles of his career.While voicing the half-human, half-monster character, Tony said he needed a golf buggy to be transported across the set because his costume was too heavy.Tony recalled to Female First: "I played Grawp in Harry Potter: The Order Of The Phoenix, and it was one of the hardest jobs I've ever done playing half-human, half-monster!"I was weighed down with these huge monster feet that were so heavy, that I could never get into the canteen and back in time.

TORETSK, Ukraine - Russia pounded eastern and southern Ukraine on Tuesday as the U.S. promised to "keep moving heaven and earth" to get Kyiv the weapons it needs to repel the new offensive, despite Moscow's warnings that such support could trigger a wider war.For the second day in a row, explosions rocked the separatist region of Trans-Dniester in neighboring Moldova, knocking out two powerful radio antennas close to the Ukrainian border and further heightening fears of a broader conflict erupting across Europe.

BENSALEM, Pa. - Bensalem police are looking for a suspect after three 7-Eleven robberies over the past two months.One robbery occurred at the 7-Eleven on the 3500 block of Street Road at 2:20 a.m. on April 20.Police say a man, 25-30 years of age, in a Philadelphia Eagles hoodie attempted to rob the store at gunpoint.

David Hofmann, 62, was sentenced to 25 - 50 years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a boy for a 12-year period.  BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A Bristol Township man was sentenced to 25 - 50 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a boy during a 12-year period. According to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office, David Charles Hofmann, 62, was found guilty on charges of rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 13, indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old and related charges. During sentencing on April 25, the victim said Hoffman destroyed his childhood and impacted every part of his life. According to the DA's office, Hofmann began sexually abusing the victim in 1995 and most of the assaults took place at the victim's home. The victim said Hofmann bought him several gifts over the years to buy his silence. Authorities say he was considered a friend of the victim's family who was referred to as "Uncle Dave." Hofmann also lived with the victim's family at various times over the 12-year-period he abused the victim, officials say. ___MORE LOCAL HEADLINESIn 2007, the victim told his parents about the abuse, but it was not reported to police at that time, authorities say, but the victim's parents recorded a video conversation with Hofmann, where he admitted to sexually abusing their child. The video conversation was played in court during the trial, the DA's Office says. Hofmann also admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing the victim when he was a child in a phone conversation. The victim, who is now in his 30s, reported the abuse in February 2020, 13 years after it ended, authorities say. Advertisement"With his brave decision to come forward

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Watch the full press conference with Tyre Sampson's mom, Nekia Dodd, in the player above.The mother of Tyre Sampson said she wants the Orlando FreeFall drop tower ride at ICON Park to be taken down after her son fell to his death while on the ride in March, and also demanded that there be stricter laws for those types of rides.CONTINUING COVERAGE: Orlando FreeFall Death Investigation"They can take the ride down completely. Get rid of it altogether.

FILE - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. on March 16, 2022.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve, according to two people familiar with the decision, in a bid to control energy prices that have spiked as the U.S. and allies have imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.The announcement could come as soon as Thursday, when the White House says Biden is planning to deliver remarks on his administration's plans to combat rising gas prices.

FILE IMAGE - President Joe Biden delivers remarks regarding COVID-19 in the South Court Auditorium at the White House on March 30, 2022. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is commemorating Transgender Day of Visibility by celebrating prominent transgender Americans and advocating against what his administration terms "dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks" that have passed in statehouses across the country.Biden on Thursday is announcing new measures aimed at making the federal government more inclusive for transgender people, including a new "X" gender marker on U.S.

Oil pumpjacks stands in the Inglewood Oil Field on Nov. 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is expected to receive his second COVID-19 booster shot Wednesday as well as update Americans on the country’s progress in the war on the pandemic. Biden is expected to speak around 1:30 p.m. ET Wednesday from the South Court Auditorium.Biden received his first booster shot in September.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia's district attorney is calling for a multi-million dollar forensics lab after President Joe Biden offered billions to pay for state and local governments to hire more police.District Attorney Larry Krasner made his pitch for a beefed up forensics lab Monday while reporting the details of a 26-year-old convicted of a gun-felony despite a key piece of forensics equipment being broken. Krasner said Bashir Moore was arrested on New Year’s Eve in 2019 for firing his weapon into the air. Police never found Moore’s gun, but convicted him by using gun residue even when a key piece of equipment needed in the investigation was broken at the time.Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said the city needs a new multi-million dollar forensics crime lab to help thwart gun crimes in Philadelphia.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday marveled at the spirit and resolve of Ukrainian refugees in the aftermath of Russia’s deadly invasion as he embraced mothers and children and promised enduring support from Western powers.Biden, while in Poland's capital, listened intently as children described the perilous flight from neighboring Ukraine with their parents. Smiling broadly, he lifted up a young girl in a pink coat and told her she reminded him of his granddaughters.

US President Joe Biden (L) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R) hold a joint press conference in Brussels, Belgium on March 25, 2022. (EU Commission/Pool/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) BRUSSELS - The United States and European Union on Friday announced a new partnership to reduce the continent's reliance on Russian energy, a step top officials characterized as the start of a years-long initiative to further isolate Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine.U.S.

Ukrainian authorities in the besieged ruins of Mariupol said Friday that about 300 people died when a Russian airstrike blew up a theatre where hundreds of civilians were sheltering — a catastrophic loss of civilian life that, if confirmed, is likely to further crank up pressure on western nations to step up military aid.In a vain attempt to protect those inside the grand, columned theatre from missile and airstrikes that Russia has rained down on cities, an enormous inscription reading “CHILDREN” in Russian was posted outside the building and was visible from the air.For days, the government in the battered port city was unable to give a casualty count for the March 16 attack. The post on its Telegram channel Friday cited eyewitnesses.

WARSAW, Poland - President Joe Biden’s visit to Poland as his final stop in Europe this week offers a chance to underscore the U.S. commitment to protect a key NATO member on Ukraine’s doorstep, and thank Poles for their generous welcome to refugees fleeing Russia's invasion.But Poland is also a complicated ally whose populist leaders are accused by some European partners of riding roughshod over democratic norms, and many liberal Poles will be seeking a sign that the U.S. remembers its role in promoting democracy.The two-day visit starting Friday follows a trio of emergency war summits in Brussels.

PHILADELPHIA - The United States is expanding efforts to help Ukrainian refugees. It has agreed to accept up to 100,000 people escaping from the war and to increase support for Eastern European nations that have taken in most of the people fleeing Russian forces.While in Brussels to meet with European allies, President Joe Biden said the United States would admit up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees and provide $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to countries affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The financial support is important because most of the approximately 3.6 million refugees who have fled Ukraine are in neighboring countries such as Poland, Moldova, and Romania and are posing a substantial burden."This is not something that Poland or Romania or Germany should carry on their own," said Biden, who said he hopes to meet with refugees on his European trip.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The White House has removed Dr. Mehmet Oz — best known as daytime TV's host of "The Dr.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: U.S. President Joe Biden walks towards members of the press prior to a Marine One departure from the White House on March 23, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

File image - Women with children are seen outside the main railway station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, near the Polish-Ukrainian border, as refugees from Ukraine wait to get on buses to other destinations in Poland, on March 24, 2022, following WASHINGTON - The United States will expand its sanctions on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine, targeting members of the country’s parliament and the central bank’s gold reserves, the White House announced Thursday. At the same time, Washington will increase its humanitarian assistance by welcoming 100,000 Ukrainian refugees and providing an additional $1 billion in food, medicine, water and other supplies.The White House announced the initiatives as U.S. President Joe Biden and world leaders gathered in Brussels for a trio of summits in response to the Russian invasion, seeking new ways to limit the economic and security fallout from the conflict.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the day's first meeting, an emergency NATO summit, where he called for "military assistance without limitations." He pleaded for anti-air and anti-ship weapons, asking "is it possible to survive in such a war without this?""It feels like we’re in a gray area, between the West and Russia, defending our common values," Zelenskyy said during the video address.

WASHINGTON - Legal experts and interest groups will weigh in on Ketanji Brown Jackson as the Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up four days of hearings on her historic nomination to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.Jackson faced down a barrage of Republican questioning over two days about her sentencing of criminal defendants, her bid to join the Supreme Court veering from lofty constitutional questions to attacks on her motivations on the bench.On Thursday, the last day of hearings, interest groups including the American Bar Association and civil rights organizations will testify about Jackson's suitability for the court. Witnesses chosen by Republican senators will also speak.The American Bar Association, which evaluates judicial nominees, last week gave Jackson its highest rating, unanimously "well qualified."On Wednesday, her final day of Senate questioning, Jackson declared she would rule "without any agendas" as the high court's first Black female justice and rejected Republican efforts to paint her as soft on crime in her decade on the federal bench.Ketanji Brown Jackson, associate justice of the U.S.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Western allies opened the first of three summits Thursday focused on increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin over his war in Ukraine while tending to the economic and security fallout spreading across Europe and the world.Biden and the leaders of other NATO countries met at the alliance's headquarters where they posed for a group photo memorializing the urgent gathering before retreating behind closed doors for their summit, which was expected to last several hours.Over the course of Thursday, the European diplomatic capital is hosting an emergency NATO summit as well as a gathering of the Group of Seven industrialized nations and a summit of the 27 members of the European Union.

KYIV, Ukraine - Nearly one month has passed since the biggest land invasion in Europe since World War II, and there have been no major breakthroughs on the battlefield or the negotiating table.Russian forces appeared bogged down outside major cities in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance. Strikes on cities continued to wreak destruction across the country.Ukraine's capital Kyiv shook early Wednesday with Russian shelling that sparked fires in high-rise buildings, injuring four people.

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MEDYKA, Poland (AP) - The president of Poland compared Russia’s attacks on Ukraine to Nazi forces during World War II, saying Tuesday that besieged Mariupol looks like Warsaw in 1944 after the Germans bombed houses and killed civilians "with no mercy at all."President Andrzej Duda, who will host President Joe Biden later this week in a Warsaw rebuilt from the ashes of that war, spoke as traumatized people bearing witness to the horrors inflicted on Ukraine by Russian forces continued to flee. They arrived by the thousands in Poland and other neighboring nations.The United Nations refugee agency announced a staggering milestone Tuesday: More than 3.5 million refugees have now left the country.Among them was Viktoria Totsen, a 39-year-old from Mariupol who entered Poland as part of an exodus that has become Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.She described how the bombing by Russian planes had become incessant, prompting her to flee with her two daughters."During the last five days the planes were flying over us every five seconds and dropped bombs everywhere," she said.Military personnel are seen as civilians being evacuated along humanitarian corridors from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol besieged by Russian military and rebel forces, on March 20, 2022.

drop in Biden's approval rating last July was largely the result of a decline in approval among political independents. Their rating of the president has not risen above 50% since. Democrats' current 84% rating of Biden is more than twice independents' 38% and dwarfs Republicans' 5%.Line graph.