Alex Johnson

Florida reported 21,683 new cases Friday, its highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic.

LOS ANGELES — Shelley Morrison, a beloved character actor known for memorable roles on two classic TV sitcoms, “The Flying Nun” and “Will & Grace,” died Sunday at 83 after a brief illness, her husband confirmed. Morrison died at Cedars Sinai Medical Center from heart failure, the filmmaker Walter Dominguez, her husband of many years, with whom she adopted three sons and three daughters, said in a statement. Morrison, the daughter of Spanish immigrants to New York City who primarily spoke Spanish…

The man charged with strangling Chicago honors student Ruth George did so because he was angry that she was ignoring his unwanted advances, prosecutors said in court documents. Ruth George, 19, of Berwyn, a suburb of Chicago, was found dead in her car at a campus parking garage at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Nov. 23. Donald Thurman, 26, of Chicago was arrested the next day and is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault. Thurman was released from prison on paro…

It’s Thanksgiving Day. Of course the National Dog Show was won by a short round dog that looks like it just swallowed a full turkey — the bulldog. Diamond Gold Majesu Pisko Bulls (but you can call him Thor) beat out more than 2,000 other dogs for Best in Show at the Kennel Club of Philadelphia’s National Dog Show. The competition took place on Nov. 16 in Oaks, Pennsylvania, but the results were kept in strictest secrecy until the show aired Thursday on NBC. “I love this dog,” trainer Eduardo Par…

Richard Spencer, who was fired as secretary of the Navy for resisting President Donald Trump’s advocacy of a Navy SEAL who was acquitted of murder, said Wednesday that he had personally asked the president to stay out of the case but was rebuffed because the president doesn’t understand the military. In an op-ed column in The Washington Post, Spencer wrote that from the start, Trump personally involved himself in the case of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, who was convicted in July of posin…

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer was fired Sunday by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who ordered that a Navy SEAL who was acquitted of murder be allowed to remain in the elite commando corps, the Defense Department said. Esper asked for Spencer’s resignation after President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher would retain the gold Trident insignia signifying his status as a member of the Sea, Air, and Land Teams, or SEALs. Spencer told reporters Friday that he beli…

A Michigan mother says the Catholic priest who presided at her son’s funeral last year betrayed her trust by disclosing that the young man had died by suicide and condemning him for it. Linda Hullibarger of Temperance, about 50 miles southwest of Detroit, alleges in a lawsuit filed last week in Wayne County Circuit Court that the Rev. Don LaCuesta disregarded the family’s request for a “positive, uplifting and loving message” at the funeral for Maison Hullibarger, 18, who died Dec. 4. Instead,…

Four men were killed and six others shot in what police say was likely a targeted shooting Sunday night at a backyard football watch party in Fresno, California, and authorities are investigating a possible link to Asian gang violence. Police say some 35 to 40 family and friends were watching a football game in the southeast section of the city when one or more people sneaked onto the property and began shooting. They did not appear to have actually entered the house, Fresno police Deputy Chief…

The decision means that unless the president appeals to the Supreme Court and wins, his accountants must turn over years of records to House investigators.

Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros are investigating new allegations that the Texas team illegally used electronic equipment to steal opponents’ pitching signs during their championship season two years ago, the Astros said Tuesday. Four people associated with the Astros during the 2017 season said the team used a camera in the outfield to steal the signs that catchers flash to pitchers during home games, the subscription sports site The Athletic reported. That was the year the Astros…