The incident occurred in the Highland Cross area of north Harris County, Texas, during the early morning hours of Tuesday. An unnamed man, 22, for reasons that have yet to be determined, opened fire on his 58-year-old mother at point-blank range, leaving her with multiple gunshot wounds. Neighbors told ABC 13 News that something might have gone wrong between the two at a Fourth of July cookout earlier in the night, noting that the son at one point began acting strangely....

In fact, it’s possible to read Oates’s Norma Jeane Baker–“Marilyn” is a persona Norma Jeane fears and loathes–as an oblique portrait of the artist. Although we see the actress hard at work, other characters repeatedly deny that she’s acting: she seems to them a sort of idiot savant who channels rather than creates her characters. That’s about the way many readers see the famously prolific Oates (this is at least her 33rd novel): a writer so gifted with inspiration she seems freakish, even laughable....

I’ve been a Mets fan since Sept. 5, 1995 — that’s the day I was born. All I remember from my first Mets game was everything I did before the game, but nothing about the game itself. I’ve been told the Mets played a doubleheader that day, and I impressed my parents by lasting through two whole games, but I really don’t remember that. In fact, I don’t remember much about being a Mets fan until 2006....

Why the frenzy over goobers? Because 1 percent of American children are now estimated to have a peanut allergy. Roughly 100 Americans die from all food allergies every year, according to the Food Allergy Network, and the peanut is the top killer on the list. While most reactions are far from fatal, kids are the most susceptible, and many schools are unprepared for the speed and severity of the attacks....

The 2021 results set a number of records. The Gooding & Company Pebble Beach auction did not take place in 2020 due to the pandemic, however in 2019, the auction totaled $76.8 million in sales, with an average price of $711,340 per car and 17 lots that sold at or above $1 million. This year’s average price was $930,829 per lot with eight lots that sold at or above $3 million....

Born on this day in Mexico City back in 1845, Peralta’s career took off at the young age of eight following her solo performance of a cavatina (an aria) from the Italian opera “Belisario,” Google says. She was inspired to nurture her talent in Italy after making her operatic debut at the age of 15 at one of Mexico’s premier opera houses of the 19th century. Her performance at the Gran Teatro Nacional was critically acclaimed, according to Google....

Attorney Susan Shogren Smith was sanctioned by a Minnesota court on Friday after she “bamboozled” voters into being named as plaintiffs in five complaints aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election, Pioneer Press reported. “Susan Shogren Smith … perpetrated a fraud against this court and, more importantly, perpetrated a fraud against these plaintiffs,” Ramsey County Chief District Judge Leonardo Castro said Friday. Friday’s ruling came after Shogren Smith filed five complaints in a state court on December 1, naming as defendants Secretary of State Steve Simon, Congresswoman Omar, and every other Democratic candidate who won their congressional races....

Jarrin Jackson, a Republican running in Oklahoma’s District 2 state senate race, posted a video on Rumble last week that shows him firing several shots into an old printer, which has “Dominion” written on it, equating it to a Dominion voting machine. This comes as Dominion is fighting in court for similar accusations. In the video, Jackson, who is “patrolling the mean pastures of the homestead” on a John Deere mower as the theme song to the show Cops plays in the background, comes across the voting machine, which is laying in the middle of the field....

GOP candidate Tim Eyman equated Inslee’s preventative measures with the May 25 death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after his neck was pinned to the ground for nearly 9 minutes by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “Jay Inslee has his knee on the neck of business owners and citizens throughout the state and they’re suffocating under that,” Eyman said during a Facebook Live video on Thursday....

The woman, Dr. Simone Gold, posted photos Friday on Twitter of Gohmert presenting her with the flag, and wrote: “I am honored to receive this recognition from Congressman Gohmert, a true believer in freedom and a fierce defender of our constitutional rights.” The Republican lawmaker then retweeted Gold, and stated that she “is a patriot and an American hero.” In March, Gold pleaded guilty to entering or remaining inside a restricted building, and agreed to pay a fine for her other charges including disorderly conduct, demonstrating inside the Capitol, and obstruction of a government proceeding....

Gaetz threatened Cohen with details of an alleged affair on Twitter in February, a day prior to the ex-Trump attorney’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Earlier today, the House Ethics Committee announced an investigation into Gaetz to determine whether he purposely tried to intimidate Cohen. During his appearance on Fox News on Friday night, Gaetz told host Martha MacCallum that the investigation “highlights the double standards that exist with today’s left” and accused Democrats of simply attempting to “get to the president through me....

Angela Stanton-King is running to fill a traditionally Democratic congressional seat in Atlanta that civil rights leader John Lewis held until his death earlier this year. During her recent interview with The Guardian, Stanton-King denied that she is a spokesperson for President Donald Trump, whose policies she said she supports, and also denied having connections with QAnon. “I’m not a spokesperson for Donald Trump,” Stanton-King told the paper. “I don’t know why this reporter keeps asking me about Donald Trump....

In a Monday interview on the MSNBC show Andrea Mitchell Reports, Mitchell asked Kinzinger about comments he made Sunday on CNN calling Trump’s reasons for vetoing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) “nonsensical.” Kinzinger has publicly criticized the president for refusing to sign the latest COVID-19 stimulus bill until the last minute. The lawmaker also called Trump and Republican efforts to overturn the election a “scam.” Kinzinger told Mitchell that Trump had made the final weeks of his presidency difficult for congressional Republicans....

In a series of tweets, GOP Representative Jody Hice accused New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “and the Squad” of having “deliberately misled the American people by claiming that detainees are ‘drinking from toilets’.” In one of his posts, Hice shared video of his visit to a detention center in El Paso, Texas, where he noted that, in at least one cell, a “potable water” drinking tap above a toilet appeared to be functional....

Shortly after taking office, Meijer voted to impeach Trump, becoming one of 10 Republican representatives to do so. He’s now facing several challengers for his Michigan seat in the 2022 midterms, and while he says Trump could make another run for office, he is more concerned about the former president inspiring other people. “The real threat isn’t Donald Trump; it’s somebody who watched Donald Trump and can do this a lot better than he did,” Meijer told The Atlantic in a recent interview....

The Economic Impact Payments to all Americans plan proposed by Republican Senators Bill Cassidy of Maryland, Steve Daines of Montana, Mitt Romney of Utah and Marco Rubio of Florida would give every American adult with a Social Security number a $1,000 payment. Couples filing jointly would receive $2,000. Children with Social Security numbers would also be eligible for the $1,000 payment, meaning families of four would receive $600 more than they have under the bipartisan CARES Act, which was passed in March....

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent the letter to blast “the league’s apparent decision to strictly limit messages players can wear on their jerseys to a few pre-approved, social justice slogans while censoring support for law enforcement officers or the military and any criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).” Hawley criticized the NBA’s July 3 decision to allow players to include messages on the backs of their jerseys. The reportedly approved list of slogans that was agreed upon by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association, the labor union representing players, include “Black Lives Matter,” “Say Their Names,” and “I Can’t Breathe....

Murkowski is up for re-election next year and filed to run for a fourth term back in 2017. The Alaskan lawmaker was one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict Trump in his Senate impeachment trial last month for inciting his supporters to violently attack the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Despite Trump’s staunch opposition to Murkowski and other Republicans who backed his impeachment and conviction, Barrasso—who chairs the Senate Republican Conference—said he continues to support at least two that came out against the former president....

Sykes, founder and editor-in-chief of conservative news website, The Bulwark, discussed Kennedy’s TV appearance with MSNBC anchor, Nicolle Wallace, who played a clip of the exchange between the Louisiana senator and Chuck Todd. “For the second Sunday in a row—in defiance of facts, intelligence assessments, reason—Senator John Kennedy was out peddling Vladimir Putin’s talking points and demonstrating his utter capitulation to Putin and Donald Trump,” Wallace said. In the interview, Todd asked the Louisiana senator if he was “concerned [he’s] doing Russian intelligence work” while Kennedy continued to push a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine was behind the 2016 DNC hack....