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Getty Images – STOCK (DETROIT) — School officials are investigating after a now-former employee at a Michigan middle school allegedly choked a 14-year-old student with a shirt, in an incident captured on surveillance footage. The employee is no longer working at Ypsilanti Community Schools “effective immediately,” the school district said Monday. The alleged “assault” occurred […]
ABC (ATLANTA) — One person was fatally shot in connection with a bus hijacking that prompted a police chase through two Georgia counties on Tuesday, authorities said. The incident began at approximately 4:35 p.m. ET in downtown Atlanta, when police responded to a report of gunfire on a Gwinnett County Transit bus and a “possible […]
Getty Images – STOCK (COLUMBIA, S.C.) — South Carolina’s Department of Education has decided to eliminate Advanced Placement African American Studies in its high schools, saying districts can choose to offer it instead as a locally approved honors course without college credit. The move has been criticized by free speech and civil rights groups including […]
Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip are pictured on June 4, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, negotiations are apparently stalled to secure the release of hostages taken […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts had no comment Tuesday after a woman posing as a conservative Catholic allegedly secretly recorded them at a black-tie event last week. Lauren Windsor — seeking out the justices at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual gala — apparently attempted […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — President Joe Biden, in his first comment after Hunter Biden was found guilty on all three counts in his federal gun trial, expressed love for his son and vowed to accept the verdict handed down by the jury on Tuesday. Biden reiterated much of his statement from when the […]
Ian Maule/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden joined gun control activists Tuesday in pushing forward more initiatives to combat gun violence and trumpeted his administration’s stricter gun laws. Biden’s prescheduled remarks at the advocacy group Everytown’s Gun Safety University conference in Washington, D.C., came hours after his son Hunter was convicted on three felony […]
Getty Images – STOCK (SANTA CRUZ, Calif.) — A kite surfer stranded on the California coast was rescued after officials say his “HELP” sign — written out of rocks in the sand — was spotted by a helicopter flying overhead. The unnamed man was stranded south of the Davenport Landing in Santa Cruz, California, on […]
A visitor looks at the new official portrait of King Charles III, painted by British artist Jonathan Yeo, displayed at the Philip Mould gallery, on Pall Mall, central London, on May 16, 2024. (Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — A recently unveiled portrait of King Charles was vandalized in a London gallery on Tuesday […]
Getty Images – STOCK (ATLANTA) — At least three people have been shot in a food court at an Atlanta shopping center, according to Atlanta police. The suspect was also shot at the Hub at Peachtree Center in downtown Atlanta, police said. All are “alert, conscious and breathing,” police said. The Hub at Peachtree Center […]
