Two intellectually disabled half brothers who spent more than three decades in prison after they were wrongfully convicted in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl have been awarded $75 million by a jury in a federal civil rights case in North Carolina. Henry McCollum, 57, and Leon Brown, 53, spent 30 years 11 […]
While pandemic puppies are being returned to animal shelters at alarming rates, pets whose owners are keeping them aren’t quite in heaven. Many dogs have grown used to having their moms and dads working at home and are experiencing separation anxiety as their owners go back to their offices. The separation anxiety is so real […]
A former suburban Minneapolis police officer accused of fatally shooting black man Daunte Wright after apparently mistaking a gun for a Taser appeared in court to learn her trial will move forward. Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu ruled on Monday that there was probable cause to support charges against former Brooklyn Center cop Kim Potter. […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear a case from Mississippi that could undermine Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. The new case, concerning a state law that seeks to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, will give the court’s new 6-to-3 majority […]
Top local Republicans are hitting back at Donald J. Trump and fellow party members in the State Senate over a review of Arizona ballots. By Michael Wines For weeks, election professionals and Democrats have consistently called the Republican-backed review of November voting results in Arizona a fatally flawed exercise, marred by its partisan cast of […]
A 47-car freight train carrying hazardous material derailed and caught fire in the US state of Iowa on Sunday. Thick black smoke wafted into the air after the Union Pacific train came off the tracks causing a huge pile-up of cars near Sibley, in the north west of the state. There were no reports of […]
Anti-abortion activists across the country expressed optimism on Monday that they might be on the cusp of achieving a long-held goal of the movement: overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that extended federal protections for abortion. The Supreme Court announced on Monday morning that it would consider in its next term a […]
The welcome team was in place. A 1:45 a.m., four transit workers scrubbed benches, disinfected stair rails with bleach and washed the grime away from a subway station in Brooklyn. Four uniformed police officers kept watch. Nadav Shahaf, 18, a high school student wearing a black mask and a bright red sweatshirt, came bounding down […]
They waited more than 50 years to put on their caps and gowns: That rite of passage had been denied to the members of the Class of 1970 at what is now Jackson State University in Mississippi, after a deadly police shooting at the historically Black college that spring brought their college years to an […]
Face coverings have been a political flash point for more than a year. But now, the backlash is directed at people who don’t plan to take them off. By Sarah Maslin Nir Whenever Joe Glickman heads out for groceries, he places an N95 mask over his face and tugs a cloth mask on top of […]