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CNN reports Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college. This is the first of several possible new laws restricting the rights of transgender people through Republican legislators. Nineteen other states have imposed restrictions on transgender athletes.
On August 27, 1979, a sunny day off of Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo in Ireland meant good fortune for those who wanted to enjoy the last few weeks of summer. What began as a normal boat ride turned deadly when a bomb detonated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army killed Lord Louis Mountbatten, one of his grandchildren, a boat worker, and Doreen Bradbourne.
Convictions arrived today for Adam Fox and 46-year-old Barry Croft Jr., who had conspired to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They may receive up to life in prison.
Seeking the truth behind the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, Mexican federal prosecutors have arrested the former Mexican attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, for his involvement in the multi-agency coverup.
Last Thursday, 42-year-old Columbus man Ricky Shiffer attempted to attack the FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio. He posted an admission of his actions to Truth Social before being shot in a confrontation with police.
Building up evidence in one of the former President’s many legal entanglements, the FBI searched Trump’s estate yesterday for classified documents that may have been illegally retained or damaged. Proven mishandling of these files would amount to a federal crime.
For over 20 years, Ferrone Claiborne and Terrence Richardson have been imprisoned for a crime they did not commit, the murder of a police officer that has been blamed on them with no evidence, and poor eyewitness claims. Read on to hear their harrowing story and how you can help.
A police raid conducted in Rio de Janeiro’s densely-populated Complexo do Alemão on Thursday resulted in at least 18 deaths. The community was raided by nearly 400 police officers in a several-hour operation.
The once powerful now disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh pled not guilty Wednesday to the murders of his wife and son who were found dead on their property in June 2021.
International shock followed Abe’s shooting last night. The politically-motivated murder by 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami is an outstandingly rare case in Japan, where strict gun control has made the country one of the safest in the world.
Last night, a 20-year-old woman, name unreleased, was fatally shot in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She was pushing her 3-month-old infant in a stroller, and the infant was unharmed.
For years, power couple Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein trafficked teenage girls among their powerful peers. Maxwell’s sentencing today brings closure for some of those victims, but it’s not the end of the battle.
From a nobleman’s child in Transylvania to the commander and impaler of tens of thousands, Vlad III made his mark on Wallachian history in blood.
In a long-fought court decision that disturbed international journalism groups today, Washington has won its appeal to return Assange to the U.S. for his 18 charges of espionage.
In 1660, Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for her protests against Puritan anti-Quaker laws. Her civil disobedience laid a path for the religious tolerance that the American government was founded on a century later.
Four decades after he shot President Ronald Reagan, a judge in Virginia has granted the unconditional release of John Hinckley Jr. from any and all court supervision.
20-year-old Delmar man Austin Jacob Allen Davidson faces his bail hearing today for the fatal shooting of 41-year-old sheriff’s deputy Glenn Hilliard on Sunday, June 12th. Alongside Davidson’s trial today, the alleged leniency of his previously suspended jail sentence has come under fire.
Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator and presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy was pronounced dead the next day at the age of 42.
Shot in the stomach, 27-year-old Marshae Jones lost her fetus, and didn’t expect to risk losing her freedom as well. But when the jury dropped manslaughter charges against her shooter, 23-year-old Ebony Jemison, they indicted Jones instead for the crime of her own miscarriage.
