WASHINGTON — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Gov. Gretchen […]
San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girls
Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year […]
Discarded gender and diversity books trigger a new culture clash at a Florida college
When hundreds of books got hauled away in a dumpster from the library of the New College of Florida on Thursday, the tiny liberal arts college with a governing board […]
US envoy defends anti-drug cooperation with Mexico amid neighbor’s complaint on drug capo surrender
MEXICO CITY — The U.S. ambassador to Mexico on Friday defended cross-border anti-drug cooperation, after Mexican prosecutors publicly complained American officials aren’t giving them enough information. Mexico’s government was embarrassed […]
Her name was on a signature petition to be a Cornel West elector. Her question: What’s an elector?
PHOENIX — When Denisha Mitchell was asked why she filled out paperwork to serve as an Arizona elector for the independent presidential candidate Cornel West, her first response was “What?!” […]
Texas jurors are deciding if a student’s parents are liable in a deadly 2018 school shooting
DALLAS — An attorney for the parents of a Texas student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston told trial jurors Friday that they didn’t […]
Pharmacist blamed for deaths in US meningitis outbreak will plead no contest in Michigan case
DETROIT — A Massachusetts pharmacist charged with murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents from a 2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak has agreed to plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter, […]
Bronze statue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument
DECATUR, Ga. — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument […]
Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold in half the country
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. The court voted […]
Former DC employee convicted of manslaughter in fatal shooting of 13-year-old boy
WASHINGTON — A former Washington, D.C., city employee was found guilty of manslaughter Friday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old boy that sparked public uproar in the nation’s […]