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John Hinckley, Jr. spoke about Jodie Foster in a bizarre new podcast interview. He shot President Reagan in a twisted attempt to impress the actress. NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports.

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Military official says AH-64 Apache had been on a routine training flight near Fort Hood when it went down An army Apache helicopter crashed in a central Texas field on Wednesday, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes to be evacuated, a sheriff’s official said. Officials from nearby Fort … Read more

Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White says the critics who are trying to “hijack” the WNBA can “go to hell.” It comes after Fever guard Sophie Cunningham spoke against transgender women and girl athletes in an ESPN interview, and Cunningham being on the receiving end of a flagrant foul. NBC News’ Sam Brock reports.

Police said they believed deceased man was assailant in domestic-related homicide at daycare center A man killed a woman and their child inside a small in-home daycare center they own in Minnesota before taking his own life, police said on Wednesday. Hopkins police department said in statement they responded to a report of a stabbing … Read more

On 13 August, three states are set to carry out executions by lethal injection. It’s the first time since 2010 that three people will be put to death on the same day in the US. In Tennessee, the execution of Darrell Hines is in the spotlight, because the last lethal injection in the state was … Read more

A repeat offender has been arrested in Charlotte after a disturbing social media video showed him recording himself screaming at a woman and punching her in the same city where Iryna Zarutska was stabbed last year, according to police. The man, Di-Quan Schafar Hunt, 32, has a long record of arrests, including being arrested nine … Read more

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed recently escalated his feud with Republican nominee Mike Rogers, who is more than 20 years older than El-Sayed, challenging the former FBI agent to a bout of tackle football after accusing Rogers of being “too afraid” to debate him. “Since you’re too afraid to debate me, how about you … Read more

US president announced departure on social media, saying Leavitt was leaving to ‘spend more time’ with family US politics – live updates Karoline Leavitt will step down as White House press secretary at the end of August, Donald Trump announced. The US president revealed her departure on social media, saying Leavitt was leaving “so she … Read more

A California judge in the Bay Area released an illegal immigrant who had been in custody on burglary charges one day before prosecutors say he murdered a 68-year-old retiree in his Martinez neighborhood. Marcos Iriarte-Valdez had a prior criminal record and was facing burglary charges stemming from at least two incidents elsewhere in Contra Costa … Read more