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(NEW YORK) — Oklahoma 16-year-old Nex Benedict died by suicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Benedict, a member of the 2SLGBTQ community, died one day after getting into a physical fight with several other students at Owasso High School. Benedict was nonbinary and went […]
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for recruiting and grooming the underage girls who Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused, […]
(NEW YORK) — A settlement has been reached in the challenge against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, HB1557, known by LGBTQ+ advocates as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The settlement, announced Monday, clarifies the scope of the legislation, which prohibits any classroom curriculum about sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Attorneys for Donald Trump say they will not invoke a formal “advice of counsel” defense when the former president is put on trial later this month for allegedly falsifying business records in New York, but they signaled in a court filing on Tuesday that Trump will argue he did not […]
In this April 26, 2023, file photo, E. Jean Carroll departs the Southern District of New York Court on Pearl Street after a long day of testimony, in New York. (NY Daily News via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Judge Lewis Kaplan has approved Donald Trump’s $91,630,000 bond in the defamation case brought by columnist […]
(NEW YORK) — A former Boeing employee who raised numerous concerns about the company’s production standards died from a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound Saturday, per a coroner’s report. The former employee was actively engaged in a whistleblower complaint against the company prior to his death, the employee’s attorney confirmed. John Barnett, 62, was found by police […]
(MILWAUKEE) — President Joe Biden is continuing his campaign ramp-up with a visit to battleground Wisconsin on Wednesday, a day after he clinched the Democratic nomination. Biden’s first stop will be an official event to talk infrastructure at a Boys & Girls Club. He’s going to tout millions in funding for a project to improve […]
(NEW YORK) — Doors are closing for 1,000 Dollar Tree and Family Dollar locations after the discount variety store chain announced an unexpected surprise fourth-quarter loss in its earnings report Wednesday. Dollar Tree plans to shutter 600 Family Dollar stores in the first half of fiscal 2024. Over the next several years, the company intends […]
(WASHINGTON) — The chairman and chief executive of the insurance company that guaranteed former President Donald Trump’s $92 million bond in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case said in a letter Wednesday that the company’s participation “has nothing to do with the underlying merits or with favoring any of the parties in the case.” He […]
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — A University of Missouri student was caught on several surveillance videos before he vanished during a night out in Nashville. Riley Strain was last seen by friends at 9:52 p.m. Friday after drinking downtown at a bar on Gay Street in the city’s Broadway area, Nashville police said. Strain’s friend told police […]
