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(LEXINGTON, S.C.) — The family of a 15-year-old Black honor student is suing her South Carolina school district, alleging she was assaulted by a school staffer who she said was upset she hadn’t stopped to acknowledge the Pledge of Allegiance. Lawyers for the family of Marissa Barnwell, a student at River Bluff High School in Lexington, […]
(NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday completed his testimony before a Manhattan grand jury investigating a 2016 hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Cohen answered questions from each of the grand jurors over the course of about two hours, before emerging from the courthouse and declaring […]
(WASHINGTON) — The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is putting deregulatory reforms implemented under former President Donald Trump back in the spotlight. The abrupt implosion of the country’s 16th-largest bank last week resulted in swift finger-pointing in Washington. President Joe Biden and many progressive Democrats have blamed, in part, a 2018 law that rolled back some […]
(PHARR, Texas) — Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz told lawmakers on Wednesday that parts of the southern border are in “crisis” and that U.S. authorities do not have “operational control” despite recent declines from the historically high levels of illegal migration seen in the past year. “The migration flow represents challenges and — in some […]
(OLYMPIA, Wash.) — Washington state legislators are looking to get ahead of some technological tools used for political misinformation before they say they further disrupt the public trust in government. The state Senate passed a bill last month that would provide political candidates with legal safeguards in civil court against “deepfake” videos, audio and images that […]
(PROVIDENCE, R.I.) — A Rhode Island woman who pleaded guilty to carrying out what prosecutors said was a massive fraud — pretending to be a Purple Heart recipient and Bronze Star-decorated U.S Marine — was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison Tuesday. Sarah Cavanaugh told people she defrauded she was injured in Iraq, […]
(WASHINGTON) — Following a series of close calls involving commercial flights, aviation leaders met Wednesday to discuss the incidents and work to identify patterns and factors fueling risks to the industry. At the safety summit in Washington, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and acting Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Billy Nolen both acknowledged an “uptick” in close […]
(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that he spoke with Russia’s defense minister about what he called “risky” behavior by Russian fighter jet pilots who the U.S. says caused an American drone to crash into the Black Sea near Ukraine. “This hazardous episode is a part is part of a pattern of aggressive, risky, […]
(WASHINGTON) — While the investigation of Shanquella Robinson still has no conclusion, a letter sent from her family’s attorneys to President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken describes new details leading up to the death of Robinson, including a statement from a villa concierge to the Baja California State Attorney General’s Office stating that she […]
(WASHINGTON) — Several top GOP senators are pushing back on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ position that “becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia” is not a vital U.S. national interest. DeSantis’ statement terming the war a “territorial dispute” sparked backlash from members of his own party, including Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. […]
