Cathy Burke

Jun 24, 2024 | newsmax.com | Cathy Burke

The U.S. Postal Service rarely denies requests from police and federal agents looking for information displayed on letters and packages — without a court order. The Washington Post reported Postal Service officials have gotten more than 60,000 such requests since 2015; 97% of them were approved. Records show postal inspectors recorded more than 312,000 letters and packages between 2015 and 2023, the outlet reported.

Jun 20, 2024 | newsmax.com | Cathy Burke

The mother of a worker at a Georgia state prison reportedly learned an inmate had killed her daughter after another convict called the mom using a contraband phone. Food company Aramark worker Aureon Grace, 24, was at Smith State Prison’s kitchen June 16 when inmate Jaydrekus Hart fatally shot her, according to a statement from the Georgia Corrections Department,  the Independent reported. Hart then shot himself and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

May 25, 2024 | newsmax.com | Cathy Burke

The thousands of supporters who showed up to Donald Trump's South Bronx rally Friday wanted to hear "the truth," Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told Newsmax on Saturday. The former president is gaining popularity in the deep blue borough because of a "unifying message that you’re not hearing from the White House," Burchett said on Newsmax TV's "The Count." "He was telling the truth," Burchett said.

May 25, 2024 | newsmax.com | Cathy Burke

Some faculty members at the elite private Collegiate School in Manhattan blamed "wealthy and influential" Jewish parents for tensions at the school after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack, according to an internal report on antisemitism. Faculty, parents and students came close to "one of the oldest and most pervasive antisemitic tropes," the May 17 report charged, the New York Post reports.

May 25, 2024 | newsmax.com | Cathy Burke

A U.S. soldier deployed on the Gaza pier mission has been critically wounded in a noncombat-related incident and taken to a hospital in Israel, reports Military.com. Two other soldiers injured in the mishap have returned to duty, according to an unnamed defense official who spoke with the news outlet. The soldier taken to the hospital was injured on a staging platform two miles off the coast of Gaza being used to transfer aid from the cargo ship MV Roy P.