The Atlanta City Council in Georgia unanimously voted on Monday to settle with a former Atlanta police officer who was acquitted in a deadly 2019 shooting. The city council has agreed to settle with Oliver Simmonds for $1.4 million, according …
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The Empire State Building in New York is shining gold and white tower lights for a four-hour window Monday night and into Tuesday morning in memory of Pope Francis following his death. The building was shining starting at 10 p.m. …
Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its “unlawful” multibillion dollar freeze of research funding to the university. “Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the …
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The 17-year-old suspected of stabbing Frisco, Texas track star Austin Metcalf to death has been moved to an “undisclosed location” for his own safety, according to a group representing his family. A statement from the Next Generation Action Network (NGAN) …
A man in Washington State was arrested Saturday and charged with assault after allegedly breaking a 72-year-old partially disabled veteran’s jaw in a hotel lobby in a dispute over coronavirus masks.
A Florida police officer who feared for her life shot and killed a suspect while he was choking her Friday night, investigators said.
Hundreds of Christians gathered outdoors in Portland on Saturday to sing worship music amid the state’s coronavirus social distancing measures—just hours before a riot was declared across town and a separate crowd of demonstrators lit fire to the city police …
At least one person was killed and several others were wounded in a shooting that broke out in southeast Washington, D.C. early Sunday morning, according to reports.
Gunfire late Saturday at a motorcycle club in Birmingham, Ala., left at least one person dead – and left an off-duty police officer and several others wounded, according to a report.