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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Saying he received lots of “feedback and suggestions and opinions” about a law he signed that limits LGBT protections, North Carolina’s governor has ordered anti-discrimination rules be expanded for state employees. Gov. Pat McCrory also wants lawmakers to soon restore the ability of all workers to sue over employment bias in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he believes his former secretary of state did not intentionally endanger national security in her handling of classified information. But he also says he’s not trying to influence his administration’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The White House on Tuesday was under pressure to reconcile those […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A task force Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel established to look into police practices said the department must acknowledge its racist past and overhaul the way it handles excessive force allegations, as City Council members neared a final vote on Emanuel’s hand-picked choice for chief — an African-American with 27 years on the […]
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s wife was ordered on Tuesday to continue her deposition in a civil defamation lawsuit in Massachusetts filed by seven women who allege the comedian sexually assaulted them decades ago. A federal magistrate judge ruled that Camille Cosby must sit for another day of questioning from the women’s lawyers. The […]
SEATTLE (AP) — A man dismembered a nurse and mother of three in her suburban home then drove her head and other remains to Seattle, where they were found in garbage bags in a recycling bin, authorities said Tuesday. The disclosure came as a King County judge ordered the suspect in the case, John Robert […]
No one seems to be able to upstage Donald Trump on live national television during the 2016 presidential campaign. But that all changed Monday night.
Newly released surveillance video shows that former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith may have been involved in a hit-and-run accident just before he was shot and killed Saturday night, according to Fox News.
A video has surfaced showing 63-year-old Mary Hastings slapping the crap out of one of her students as he sits at his desk in class. The teacher can be overheard in the 12-second video saying something to the effect of, “Because you’re stopping him from graduating you idiot!,” as the poor kid ducks his head […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The two Southern University students slain during a shootout at an off-campus party appeared to be “innocent bystanders” who were caught in the crossfire, authorities said Monday. A former Southern University football player remained jailed on charges he traded gunfire with another man in a shootout that killed the two […]
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — A Utah judge handed down the maximum sentence Monday to a mother who acknowledged lying to investigators after what police call her 2-year-old son’s beating death over potty training at the hands of her boyfriend. The judge gave Jasmine Bridgeman at least a year and up to 15 years at the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday marks Equal Pay Day, a symbolic event dramatizing how much longer it takes a woman to earn as much as a man — and an annual opportunity for Democrats to lambast Republicans for inaction on the issue. This time it comes amid a presidential campaign where the Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, […]
