Joey Pellegrino

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. The case marks the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making […]

Following a series of CBS News reports that revealed potential safety dangers in vehicle seats, Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal will reintroduce legislation that would require a new strength standard. “Seatback strength standards have not been substantially updated since 1967, allowing thousands to be injured and killed when their car’s front seats collapse after […]

A Texas man was found guilty of impersonating law enforcement Friday after his 2019 arrest in Collier County. The trial of Hugo Lujambio Carabajal, 40, of Cypress, Texas, ended with a guilty verdict for charges of impersonating a law enforcement officer with a weapon or firearm, unlawful use of blue lights, and three counts of […]

Police are looking for an unidentified person who stabbed a man near the intersection of Lincoln Boulevard and Ford Street in Fort Myers early Friday morning, according to the Fort Myers Police Department. At around 12:30 a.m., officers responded to the reported stabbing near the intersection. The victim was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital to […]

NASA held a news conference following Friday morning’s successful SpaceX launch, with the following participants: Steve Jurczyk, acting NASA administrator Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, JAXA’s Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate Frank de Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA SpaceX representative […]

Update: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon capsule lifted off successfully at 5:49 a.m. Original story below. After a one-day delay, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is slated for a pre-dawn launch Friday to boost a Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts into orbit for a one-day trip to the International Space […]

The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell last week to 547,000, a new low since the pandemic struck and a further encouraging sign that layoffs are slowing on the strength of an improving job market. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications declined 39,000 from a revised 586,000 a week earlier. Weekly jobless […]

Yum Brands’ profits slumped hard last year as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants around the U.S. That didn’t stop the fast-food giant from awarding its CEO a multimillion-dollar bonus. The company, whose restaurant brands include KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, disclosed in a recent regulatory filing that CEO David Gibbs had failed to qualify […]

One of the co-sponsors of the House police reform bill said Tuesday that the police reform bill passed earlier this year that stalled in the Senate has “absolutely more momentum” after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd. And a key Republican senator said Tuesday that police reform is a “is a topic ripe […]

Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis after the guilty verdict in George Floyd’s death, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The announcement comes a day after former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty […]