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Courtesy Kristi Maris (HOUSTON) — Two teachers say they were fired from their school after attending a drag performance and posting about it on social media. Kristi Maris, one of the former teachers at the First Baptist Academy in Baytown, Texas, said she had worked at the school for roughly 20 years before she was […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Senate voted to expand compensation for victims of the radiation exposure that resulted from nuclear arms development in the American Southwest on the heels of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer taking in $80 million at the box office last week. Some Navajo Nation residents, who are among the most affected […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (GERMANTOWN, Tenn.) — A third section of Germantown, Tennessee, was allowed to resume drinking and using tap water Thursday, however, others remain under restrictions that have now been in effect for a week after it was discovered the water supply was contaminated with diesel fuel. The nightmare began for the city, a […]
Hoover Police Department (NEW YORK) — The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Bessemer Division office has talked with police about potentially pressing charges against Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing for two days, prosecutors confirmed to ABC News. Chief Assistant District Attorney Lane Tolbert told ABC News […]
Caroline Purser/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House quickly rejected the idea of a pardon for Hunter Biden, the president’s son, after his plea deal with federal prosecutors fell apart in court. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked during Thursday’s briefing if there was “any possibility” that President Joe Biden would wind up […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Victims of the 2021 Oxford school shooting in Michigan appeared in court to give emotional testimony Friday in a hearing that will determine whether the shooter, Ethan Crumbley, could be sentenced to life in prison or have the possibility of parole. The hearing — called a Miller hearing — […]
amphotora/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — The Department of Justice is investigating whether law enforcement in Memphis, Tennessee, engaged in “discriminatory policing,” including in how it conducted traffic stops, in the wake of the death of Tyre Nichols earlier this year, officials said Thursday. The Memphis Police Department intends to cooperate with the probe, also known […]
DOJ via US Southern District of Florida (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice’s superseding indictment of former President Donald Trump and two co-defendants revealed new allegations that they allegedly mishandled government documents and plotted to block the federal investigation. Carlos De Oliveira, the head of maintenance at the Florida residence, has been charged along with […]
Louisville Police Dept. (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — A Louisville, Kentucky police officer critically wounded in a mass shooting at a bank in April will finally be heading home on Friday. Officer Nickolas Wilt, a 26-year-old rookie who was shot in the head, will be discharged Friday after more than three months of hospitalization and rehab treatments. […]
fstop123/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — The medical examiner’s office in Arizona’s Maricopa County is over capacity and has had to bring in refrigeration units due to a spike in deaths this month amid a record-breaking heat wave, officials said. It’s the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office […]
