The News Roundup For September 27, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pauses while a Pro-Palestinian demonstrator is forcibly removed from a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing where he is testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pauses while a Pro-Palestinian demonstrator is forcibly removed from a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing where he is testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesNew York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday on at several federal criminal charges. Investigators have spent months looking into allegations of campaign finance violations and foreign influence in Adams' election.
A new Senate report released this week revealed troubling details about the Secret Service's handling of security at the Pennsylvania rally where former President Donald Trump was shot. The document details "foreseeable, preventable" problems that have yet to be addressed.
Despite prosecutors and the victim's family asking he be spared, Marcellus Williams was executed by the state of Missouri for the killing of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter who was stabbed to death in her home in 1998.
Israeli military officials have informed service members that its air strikes in Lebanon might lead to an invasion of the country, supposedly aimed at allowing Israelis displaced by fighting at the border to return to their homes.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress that he and his agency had not concluded that Israel had deliberately blocked humanitarian aid from entering Gaza during its attacks in the area. However, new reporting from ProPublica indicates that two other government agencies concluded that Israel had indeed blocked aid, and had informed Blinken of that fact.
We cover these stories and more during this week's News Roundup.
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