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Samuel Woodward testifies in Orange County Superior Court, on June 13, 2024, in Santa Ana, Calif. (Orange County Register via MediaNews Group via Getty Images, FILE) (NEW YORK) – -Samuel Woodward, a California man accused of murdering his former classmate in 2018, has been found guilty in the hate crime case. Blaze Bernstein — a […]
kali9/Getty Images (LYNNWOOD, Wash.) — A 13-year-old girl died Wednesday after being hit by gunfire during a fight in a mall in Lynnwood, Washington, police said. Jayda Woods-Johnson was “tragically murdered” at the Alderwood Mall, the Lynnwood Police Department said. “The suspect has been identified as a 16-year old male from Edmonds,” the department said […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that Kentucky’s then-law requiring that a copy of the Ten Commandments be posted in public classrooms “had no secular legislative purpose” and was “plainly religious in nature.” Nearly twenty years before that, the Supreme Court ruled that school-sponsored devotional prayer and Bible readings […]
K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met for lunch on Wednesday — likely their first one-on-one interaction since the president’s lackluster debate performance. However, unlike previous meetings, this one comes as momentum builds for Harris to replace Biden at the top of […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Heat alerts have been issued for 21 states from Washington to Florida on Wednesday, with more than 90 million on alert for extreme weather. Several wildfires also exploded in the West on Tuesday due to dry conditions and ongoing heat. The dangerous heat is just beginning in the West, but […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Some of the more than 20 Democratic governors meeting with President Joe Biden Wednesday evening at the White House are saying beforehand they hope to hear candidly from him about the path forward for his reelection campaign, and to get a sense of how he plans to speak about himself […]
George Bridges/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (KOKOMO, Ind.) — A former Indianapolis Colts player has been arrested after his teenage son, who had been missing for two weeks, was found at the family’s home in Kokomo, Indiana. Bryson Muir, 14, was found “safe and well” and is now in the care of the Cass […]
seng kui Lim/500px/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — A lawsuit filed against Northwestern University’s law school claims that its hiring practices give preference to less-qualified women and applicants of color, taking away opportunities from better qualified white men. The lawsuit, which was filed in Federal District Court in Chicago, alleges that faculty hiring practices at universities in […]
GraphicaArtis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have immunity for “official acts” goes against all of the principles the nation’s founders pushed for as they drew up the Constitution, historians and legal experts argued. Fifteen constitutional historians, represented by the liberal non-profit policy institute the Brennan Center for Justice, filed a friend-of-the-court […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl is slamming Jamaica with life-threatening impacts. The eyewall of the Category 4 storm is scraping the south coast of Jamaica Wednesday afternoon and looking, at this time, like it will not make official landfall. Wind gusts were up to 175 mph as the storm moved past the south […]