Jacey Fortin

1 day ago | nytimes.com | Tim Arango |Matt Stevens |Jacey Fortin

Lyle and Erik Menendez were resentenced on Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole, setting the stage for their possible release after more than three decades behind bars for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. The decision, by Judge Michael V. Jesic of Los Angeles Superior Court, came after a day of testimony by family members, who said the brothers had turned their lives around inside prison through education and self-help groups.

2 days ago | sun-sentinel.com | Charles Ballaro |Halina Bennet |Jacey Fortin

As a boy growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the future Pope Leo XIV did not pretend to be a cowboy or a bank robber. Instead, he liked to play priest, according to his eldest brother, Louis Prevost. “We teased him a lot about, ‘Na na na, you’re gonna be the pope,’” Prevost, 73, recalled in an interview Friday at his home in Port Charlotte, Florida. But it came as a bit of a shock when Robert Francis Prevost — Rob to his family — was in fact elected to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jacey Fortin

Cory Bowman will next face Aftab Pureval, the Democratic incumbent, who outperformed him in Tuesday's nonpartisan primary. A half brother of Vice President JD Vance who is running for mayor of Cincinnati advanced on Tuesday to compete in the general election. The candidate, Cory Bowman, a Republican coffee shop owner, won a small share of the votes in Tuesday's nonpartisan primary, according to The Associated Press. He came in second to the current mayor, Aftab Pureval, a Democrat.

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Katie Benner |Jacey Fortin

As Senate Democrats debate the House bill passed on Tuesday that would fund the government through Sept. 30, one flashpoint will be the legislation’s impact on Washington, D.C. While the measure slightly decreases federal spending overall, it forces a crippling cut of more than $1 billion from the remaining six months of the District of Columbia’s budget.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Campbell Robertson |Jacey Fortin

Local government crews in Washington began on Monday morning to remove the Black Lives Matter mural that was painted near the White House nearly five years ago. The mural, spelling “BLACK LIVES MATTER” in bright yellow letters, covered two blocks of 16th Street NW. It was painted in June 2020, turning the pavement into a pedestrian zone called Black Lives Matter Plaza.