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SOPA Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Department of Homeland Security is urging schools to stay vigilant Friday amid unfounded threats of violence spreading on social media. “DHS is aware of public reporting that suggests possible threats to schools on December 17, 2021,” the agency tweeted Friday morning. “DHS does not have any information indicating […]

(PLAISTOW, N.H.) — Since the start of the school year, some teachers in New Hampshire said they’ve been on edge due to a new policy that they said punishes those who teach about oppression in America’s past and present. “If you raise a generation without a moral backbone to recognize oppression, to recognize exclusion, to […]

(NEW YORK) — The devastating twisters that tore through the South and the Midwest this weekend marked the deadliest tornado outbreak in the U.S. in a decade. Here’s a closer look at the tornadoes by the numbers: 90 lives lost At least 90 people were killed across five states: 76 in Kentucky; six in Illinois; […]

(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.3 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 803,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 61% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, […]

(NEW YORK) — The holiday travel rush is well underway and experts are predicting U.S. airports and roadways will be nearly as busy as they were pre-pandemic. About 109 million travelers are expected to take to the roads and skies for Christmas and New Year’s, according to AAA, which represents more than 90% of the […]

GUNNAR WORD/AFP via Getty Images (BOWLING GREEN, Ky.) — A 13-year-old girl who was the last person missing in Bowling Green, Kentucky, from the tornadoes has been found dead, officials said Thursday. Bowling Green initially had 244 people reported missing, police said, and Nyssa Brown was the last person still missing as of Wednesday. On […]

(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — The prosecution wrapped up its arguments in the trial against Kim Potter, who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April. In its case, the state is zeroing in on Potter’s training as a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer. Police officers and use of force experts have been called […]

Courtesy of Conrad MacKethan (NEW YORK) — The last of the three teens arrested in the murder of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors has pleaded guilty. Majors, 18, was fatally stabbed in Morningside Park, just off the Columbia University campus, on Dec. 11, 2019, rattling New York City. Rashaun Weaver, who prosecutors said wielded the […]

(NEW YORK) — Defense attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, began to present their case on Thursday after a judge denied their request to allow three of their anticipated witnesses to testify under a pseudonym or using only their first names. In her decision, Judge Alison Nathan of […]

(MAYFIELD, Ky.) — Workers at the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory where eight people were killed by tornadoes last weekend filed a class-action lawsuit against their employer late Wednesday night. The factory was destroyed when tornadoes tore through nine states, leaving 89 people dead. The lawsuit, filed in the Graves Circuit Court in Kentucky by […]