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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man accused of making threats on Facebook. The justices ruled Monday that it was not enough for prosecutors to show that the comments of Anthony Elonis would make a reasonable person feel threatened. Elonis was prosecuted for making illegal threats after […]
A Virginia high school teacher allegedly showed teenage students before-and-after photos of her breast augmentation during class. According to reports, Melissa Kidd, 34, resigned from her job at Woodside High School in Newport News on April 17 amid accusations that she’d shown three students, ages 16-18, “photos of her nude and exposed breasts” on her […]
Roland Martin talks to Lonnie Bunch about the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the major international research into slave ship wrecks focusing on the 1794 wreck of the São José off the coast of South Africa. “I wanted to have at least a piece of a slave […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A massive air-conditioning unit being lifted by a crane to the top of a Manhattan office building broke free Sunday, fell 28 stories and landed in the middle of Madison Avenue, injuring 10 people, officials said. Two were construction workers, while the others were pedestrians and occupants of passing cars, Mayor […]
Police are willing to use lethal force in a library but won’t say why? NOW is not the time for silence. #KevinAllen pic.twitter.com/PedG0KxEc5 — Alex…
GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bicycle crash Sunday after striking a curb and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international conference on combating the Islamic State group. He planned to return to the United States on Monday. Kerry was staying overnight in […]
DOVER, Del. (AP) — He was the privileged son of a longtime U.S. senator and two-term vice president, yet Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III was no stranger to personal adversity. When he was only 3, just weeks after his father, Joe Biden, had been elected to the Senate, the younger Biden was seriously injured in […]
CICERO, Ind. (AP) — A University of Indianapolis basketball player drowned after he fell into an Indiana reservoir without a lifejacket, investigators said Friday. A dive team found the body of 22-year-old senior Dai-Jon Parker around 6 p.m. Thursday at the bottom of Morse Reservoir, north of Indianapolis, according to Sgt. Blaine R. Gillan of […]
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis County judge is set to resume hearing arguments in a lawsuit seeking an independent probe of the county prosecutor’s handling of grand jury proceedings in the Ferguson police shooting of Michael Brown. Judge Joseph Walsh III will continue hearing the case Friday after suspending proceedings last month while […]
The American Civil Liberties Union has released an appalling video of California police confronting a pregnant Black woman. Mandated body cameras captured officers in Barstow, California, slamming a woman named Charlena Michelle Cooks during a January incident where they were called to her daughter’s school. Cooks, who was eight months pregnant at the time, was […]
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Dizzying temperatures caused water shortages in thousands of Indian villages and killed hundreds more people over the past day, driving the death toll from a weeks long heat wave to at least 1,826, officials said Friday. Meteorological officials called the heat wave “severe” and warned that it would continue for at […]
6:45 a.m. (CDT) Johnson County officials say they have evacuated 12 people who were caught in floodwaters. Officials said some homes in the county some 50 miles south of Dallas were inundated with water late Thursday. Some people were rescued from stranded vehicles. Texas has been dealing with flooding since heavy rains began at the […]
