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August 1, 2020 | 1:36am | Updated August 1, 2020 | 2:08am An Alaska state lawmaker and six others were killed when two small planes collided in midair about 150 miles southwest of Anchorage on Friday, authorities said. Rep. Gary Knopp, 67, a member of the state House of Representatives, was piloting one of the…

Some of the survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing -- that left three people dead and hundreds more injured -- wasted little time Friday reacting to news that a federal appeals court had overturned convicted killer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.“He needs to die,” survivor Adrianne Haslet wrote on Instagram about Tsarnaev, who was convicted…

There were no survivors of the crash, Alaska State Troopers said (Representational)ANCHORAGE, Alaska: A midair plane collision in Anchorage on Friday killed seven people, including a state lawmaker who was piloting one of the aircraft, Alaska officials said.There were no survivors of the crash near the airport in Soldotna, a city on the Kenai Peninsula,…

Less than a year after taking office as California's attorney general in 2011, current U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris reached a nearly $35,000 settlement deal with a top aide in her office who had been fired over an undisclosed dispute.Now a senior adviser to the senator says Harris -- a Democrat said to be under consideration to become…

Former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss and Harper's Magazine columnist Thomas Chatterton Williams appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday to explain the open letter they penned decrying "cancel culture."Earlier this month, Chatterton spearheaded a letter signed by prominent liberals including "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, political activist Noam Chomsky, and feminist icon Gloria…