Author: Audrey Baker

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued StubHub on Wednesday, accusing the online ticket exchange platform of deceptive pricing. The lawsuit alleges that StubHub uses a system called “drip pricing,” in which the platform advertises a deceptively low price to ticket buyers but charges a much higher total at checkout after adding on hidden fees.…

Hamas’s top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Iran on Wednesday, Iran and the Palestinian militant group said. Both blamed Israel for the assassination, and Iran’s supreme leader has vowed revenge.  Here’s what to know about Hamas’s political chief. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); Early life Haniyeh was born in 1963 in Gaza’s Shati refugee camp,…

Amazon is responsible for recalling more than 400,000 hazardous products sold by third-party sellers on its website, the Consumer Product Safety Commission found. The CPSC issued a decision and order against the company Tuesday, finding that Amazon was a “distributor” of products that were defective or failed to meet federal consumer product safety standards. The…

The DC Circulator bus service will end on Dec. 31 after a phased-in elimination beginning Oct. 1, the District Department of Transportation announced Monday. The decision was made as part of the district’s fiscal 2025 budget. “We greatly appreciate the valuable service DC Circulator provided to the District over the past 18 years,” acting DDOT…

The second man who was critically injured during the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump has been released from the hospital.  James Copenhaver, 74, was discharged from Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh on Friday, according to a spokesperson for Allegheny Health Network. Copenhaver sustained “life-altering injuries” when a gunman opened fire at Trump’s campaign…

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it had apprehended two alleged top leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful drug trafficking groups in the world. Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as “El Mayo,” and Joaquin Guzman Lopez were arrested in El Paso, Texas, for leading the cartel’s deadly fentanyl manufacturing and…

Former President Donald Trump slammed the FBI director’s testimony that he may have been struck by shrapnel instead of a bullet in the July 13 assassination attempt on his life. “FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even…

Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH) showed off her gymnastics skills in a campaign ad as the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics in Paris is set to unfold Friday afternoon. The ad shows Sykes, a former state gymnastics champion, flipping off the end of a balance beam. “They’ll twist everything to scare you,” she said. “But…

Monday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, breaking a record set just one day before, data show. The global average temperature reached 62.87 degrees Fahrenheit on July 22, breaking Sunday’s record of 62.76 degrees, according to preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Although Sunday’s temperature was nearly indistinguishable from…

Former President Donald Trump called for a one-year jail sentence for anyone who desecrates the American flag after anti-Israel protesters burned a flag at Washington’s Union Station on Wednesday. “You should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag,” Trump said Wednesday on Fox & Friends. “Now, people will…