Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, challenging President Joe Biden for the nomination. Phillips believes Biden cannot win the 2024 general election against former President Donald Trump, and is running for president to address the high cost of living and wages not keeping up with inflation. He is a distillery heir and one of Congress' wealthiest members, and it remains to be seen if he can gain enough support to challenge Biden for the nomination.
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Robert Card, a 40-year-old firearms instructor, has been found dead by law enforcement near a recycling plant in the Lisbon area, eight miles southwest of Lewiston, Maine. He had been named a suspect in Wednesday's mass shooting at two businesses in Lewiston, which killed 18 people. Hundreds of state and local police and federal agents had been involved in the manhunt since the shootings. A news conference is scheduled for 10 p.m. ET Friday night to provide further information.
Maine officials have lifted a shelter-in-place order as they search for Robert Card, the suspect in the Lewiston mass shooting that killed 18 people on Wednesday night. Hundreds of law enforcement officers are scouring the woods and hundreds of acres of family-owned property, sending dive teams with sonar to the bottom of a river and scrutinizing a possible suicide note. Joseph Giacalone, a retired New York Police Department sergeant, said it is highly unusual for a winding manhunt to follow a mass shooting in the U.S.
Law enforcement officers in Lewiston, Maine are searching for Robert Card, the suspected perpetrator of a massacre that left 18 people dead. Maine Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck has announced regular 10 a.m. media briefings and the deployment of divers to the area near the boat ramp to check for evidence. Dozens of local, county, state and federal law enforcement officials are using sonar, helicopters, and dams in the search, and are asking anyone with information to contact the Lewiston Police Department.
A sailor who had been missing for two weeks was found alive off the coast of Washington State's Cape Flattery on Thursday by a group of good Samaritans on a fishing trip. The man had been a passenger on the 43-foot vessel Evening, which departed from Grays Harbor, Washington on October 12. The Coast Guard had searched 14,000 square miles of water before suspending the search on Wednesday, but the man was found two days later by the group of good Samaritans. The search for the other passenger is still ongoing.
A 5-year-old boy, Prince McCree, was found dead in a Milwaukee trash dumpster on Thursday. Two people, including a 15-year-old boy, have been arrested in connection with the case and are being treated as persons of interest. The Milwaukee community is mourning the loss of Prince McCree, and police are continuing to investigate the cause of death.
Maine Law Enforcement Intensifies Search for Suspect in Mass Shootings that Killed 18 and Injured 13
Maine Law Enforcement Intensifies Search for Suspect in Mass Shootings that Killed 18 and Injured 13
Hundreds of police officers and FBI agents, as well as federal marshals and personnel from other agencies, are actively searching for Robert Card, the suspect in the mass shootings that killed 18 people and injured 13 in Lewiston, Maine. Commissioner Michael Sauschuck of the Maine Dept. of Public Safety refused to comment on whether law enforcement had been warned about the suspect prior to the shootings. The search continues as law enforcement works to bring the suspect to justice.
Hamas' attack on Israel has been ongoing for three weeks, with both sides showing no signs of backing down. Israeli forces have responded with airstrikes, resulting in over 7,000 Palestinian deaths, while former U.S. intelligence and military officers believe the attack was primarily aimed at disrupting negotiations with Saudi Arabia and the U.S.