Presidential candidate Tim Scott announces he is dropping out

Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott announced late Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race, about two months before the start of voting in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.

The South Carolina senator made the surprise announcement on “Sunday Night in America” with Trey Gowdy. His campaign spokesperson Nathan Brand confirmed the news to The Associated Press.

The news comes as Scott continued to struggle in the polls and days after the third Republican primary debate. Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, announced his intention to run in May.

Jury finds Nygard guilty of 4 sexual assault charges

Peter Nygard, who once led a women’s fashion empire, was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault in a Canadian court on Sunday but was acquitted of a fifth count plus a charge of forcible confinement.

Nygard, 82, had pleaded not guilty to all charges, which stemmed from allegations dating back from the 1980s to the mid-2000s.

Five women — whose identities are protected by a publication ban — had testified that they were invited to Nygard’s Toronto headquarters under pretexts ranging from tours to job interviews, with all encounters ending in a top-floor bedroom suite where four of them were sexually assaulted.

Nygard is still facing criminal charges in three other jurisdictions.

3 dead, 14 injured in Brooklyn house fire

A fire in a Brooklyn row house early Sunday left three people dead and 14 others injured, police officials said.

The fire, at 242 Albany Ave., in the Crown Heights neighborhood, was first reported on the ground floor of the building about 4:30 a.m. When firefighters responded, they found all three floors ablaze.

By about 6:30 a.m., the fire was contained. An 81-year-old woman and two men, 58 and 33, were pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital, police officials said. At least one firefighter was taken to the hospital with serious injuries that fire officials said were not life-threatening.

Thousands call for climate action ahead of Dutch election

Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Amsterdam on Sunday calling for more action to tackle climate change, in a mass protest just 10 days before a national election.

Organizers claimed that 70,000 people took part in the march and called it the biggest climate protest ever in the Netherlands.

Capitol rioter may run in Arizona’s 8th congressional district

Jacob Chansley, the spear-carrying rioter whose horned fur hat, bare chest and face paint made him one of the more recognizable figures in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, apparently aspires to be a member of Congress.

Online paperwork shows the 35-year-old Chansley filed a candidate statement of interest Thursday, indicating he wants to run as a Libertarian in next year’s election for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District seat.