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Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims
The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday sent letters to 60 colleges and universities it says are under investigation for alleged violations “relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination,” warning institutions of possible consequences if they don’t take adequate steps to protect Jewish students.
Los Angeles DA opposes resentencing request for Menendez brothers and accuses them of lying about self-defense
Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Monday he would not support Erik and Lyle Menendez’s efforts to be released from prison because he believes they have maintained a decades-long lie that the 1989 murders of their parents were committed in self-defense.
A visual timeline of the New Year’s attack that left at least 15 dead in New Orleans
New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street devolved into a grisly crime scene just hours into the new year as a driver plowed a three-ton pickup truck through crowds of holiday revelers, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others in what the FBI is investigating as a possible act of terrorism.
What we know about the Madison, Wisconsin, school shooting that left a student and teacher dead
Police are investigating why a teenage girl brought a handgun to a small Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin and opened fire, fatally shooting a student and a teacher and wounding several others — casting the tight-knit religious community into mourning just days before the school was set to close for Christmas.
How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide
When Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth last year, Sarah began taking days off work to drive hundreds of miles from her home in Nashville to a North Carolina clinic that could treat her transgender son.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs arrested in New York, his attorney tells CNN
Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who has faced a parade of sexual assault lawsuits and a federal human trafficking probe in the last year, has been arrested, the producer’s attorney tells CNN.
Tropical Storm Francine nears hurricane strength as it approaches Gulf Coast. Louisianans are already closing the floodgates
Tropical Storm Francine is expected to strengthen into a hurricane Tuesday as it charges toward Louisiana where some communities were evacuating and slamming closed their floodgates in anticipation of the storm’s likely landfall there on Wednesday.
Alaska city issues evacuation orders after landslide leaves 1 dead and 3 injured. Officials worry another slide could strike
A landslide in southern Alaska on Sunday left one person dead and three others injured, and some residents have been ordered to evacuate as officials warn another slide could strike nearby.
Gena Rowlands, star of ‘The Notebook’ and ‘A Woman Under the Influence,’ dead at 94
Oscar-nominated actress Gena Rowlands, whose screen career spanned nearly seven decades and more than 100 film and TV credits, has died at 94.
Houston area residents struggle without power and water as excruciating heat continues
Half a million Houston-area homes and businesses may not have their power restored until next week amid sweltering summer heat, even as many in the region struggle to access fresh food, air conditioning and safe drinking water.
