Video shows high school band director shocked with stun gun, arrested after refusing to stop music
Police body camera video shows an Alabama high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers in front of screaming students, in a chaotic scuffle that broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game
2023-09-20 07:22
Biden administration urges 16 states to address funding disparities faced by land-grant HBCUs
The Biden administration demanded governors in 16 states address a more than $12 billion funding disparity between land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their non-HBCU counterparts, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
2023-09-20 07:20
Southern Baptists expel Oklahoma church after pastor defends his blackface and Native caricatures
The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another
2023-09-20 07:18
What we know about the Marine Corps F-35 crash, backyard ejection and what went wrong
The crash of an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in South Carolina over the weekend has raised numerous questions about what prompted the pilot to eject after experiencing a malfunction and how the $100 million warplane was able to keep flying pilotless for 60 miles before crashing
2023-09-20 07:18
Explosion in Union Pacific's massive railyard in Nebraska appears accidental, investigators say
Investigators say a blast that prompted evacuations near Union Pacific's massive railyard in western Nebraska last week appears to be accidental
2023-09-20 06:53
Kentucky Supreme Court reviews state's Republican-drawn legislative, congressional maps
Kentucky Democrats have taken their legal fight to the state’s highest court in challenging Republican-drawn boundaries for state House and congressional districts
2023-09-20 06:53
Mexican railway operator halts trains because so many migrants are climbing aboard and getting hurt
A Mexican railway operator has announced it is suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process
2023-09-20 06:25
West Point sued over using race as an admissions factor in the wake of landmark Supreme Court ruling
West Point has been sued in federal court for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions
2023-09-20 05:28
Witness claims 'violent confrontation' occurred before death of Patriots fan at Gillette Stadium
A man who attended Sunday night's New England Patriots game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, said he witnessed a "violent confrontation" leading up to the death of a fan, according to an interview with CNN affiliate WCVB.
2023-09-20 05:00
Russian drone attack on a city in western Ukraine sparks an inferno at a warehouse and kills 1
A Ukrainian governor says Russia launched a massive drone attack on the western city of Lviv, burning down a warehouse said to house humanitarian supplies and killing one man
2023-09-20 04:58
FTX attorneys accuse Sam Bankman-Fried's parents of unjustly enriching themselves with company funds
Lawyers for collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading are accusing Sam Bankman-Fried's parents of exploiting their influence over their son and the company he founded to enrich themselves by millions of dollars
2023-09-20 04:24
Tunisian president's remarks on Storm Daniel have been denounced as antisemitic and prompt an uproar
Tunisian President Kais Saied’s remarks that have been denounced as antisemitic have prompted an uproar on social media across the world
2023-09-20 04:24