Sarah McBride could be 1st openly trans person in Congress, but her focus is on results for Delaware
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival(DOVER, Del.) — Sarah McBride is used to being first. She was the first openly transgender person to work in the White House, the first to speak at the Democratic National Convention and the first to…
Grand jury declines to indict Travis Scott, 5 others in deadly Astroworld crowd crush
Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images(HOUSTON) — A grand jury has declined to indict rapper Travis Scott and five others in connection with the deadly crowd crush at the 2021 Astroworld Festival in Houston, prosecutors said.
Harris County Distr…
Judge denies Trump’s request to dismiss E. Jean Carroll’s remaining defamation claim
Scott Eisen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to dismiss E. Jean Carroll’s original defamation claim against him, ruling his arguments lacked merit.
Carroll, a former Elle …
Former Parkland school cop Scot Peterson, who allegedly fled shooting, found not guilty on all counts
Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) — The former Parkland, Florida, resource officer accused of failing to confront the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter who killed 14 students a…
Permanent children’s bereavement center established in Uvalde
Wu Xiaoling/Xinhua via Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas) — In the 13 months after the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting, resources from across the state flowed into the small Texas town, including the Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas.
Now,…
Supreme Court just threw out the college admissions process as we know it: ANALYSIS
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Thursday’s decision by the Supreme Court ends affirmative action in higher education as we know it, even as it allows schools to continue some limited consideration of an applicant’s race.
The 6-3 ruling by the…
Charges dropped against 2 parents in college admissions scandal
David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(BOSTON) — Federal prosecutors in Boston are dropping charges against two parents in the college admissions scandal known as Varsity Blues, according to a court filing Thursday.
The decision followed a r…
Fire breaks out at Tiffany & Co.’s flagship NYC store
Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The flagship Tiffany & Co. store in Manhattan caught fire on Thursday, months after the renovated jewelry store’s grand reopening, the New York City Fire Department said.
An underground transformer c…
Students react to landmark Supreme Court affirmative action decision
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Students debated the fairness of a landmark Supreme Court decision on Thursday that sets new limits on race as a factor in admissions to public and private colleges and universities.
The court held that the current race-conscious…
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasts ‘let-them-eat-cake obliviousness’ in Supreme Court affirmative action dissent
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of a “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness” on the issue of race in its landmark ruling on affirmative action.
Th…