Diyosa Carter/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 10,000 books were removed from school library shelves over the 2023-2024 school year, free expression advocacy group PEN America said in a new report released Monday at the start of national Banned Books Week. The tally marks a nearly triple-fold increase from […]
Credit: ABCNews.com (NEW YORK) — Schools in the U.S. remain deeply divided along racial, ethnic and economic lines, even as studies show that the K-12 public school population is becoming more diverse. More than a third of students attend schools where 75% or more of those in attendance are of […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental nonprofit groups are suing ExxonMobil for the company’s alleged role in the global plastics pollution crisis. The state claims the oil and gas giant engaged in a “decades-long campaign of […]
seng kui Lim / 500px /Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former FTX executive Caroline Ellison said she deserves no prison time for her role in one of the largest financial frauds in history and federal prosecutors seem inclined to agree. Ellison’s attorneys urged Judge Lewis Kaplan to be lenient when […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A potential hurricane — which would be named Helene — is churning in the Caribbean and is forecast to make landfall in Florida on Thursday. The system is forecast to become Tropical Storm Helene early Tuesday morning. It will then move into the Gulf of […]
John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images (GETTYSBURG, Penn.) — A Gettysburg College swimmer is no longer enrolled at the school after allegedly carving a racial slur on his teammate’s chest at an on-campus residence during an informal social gathering, according to school officials. The student, who has not been named by […]
Kali9/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Officials have announced up to $100,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrests of the gunmen behind a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama. Multiple shooters are wanted for killing four people and injuring 17 others outside a lounge in the Five Points South […]
Bettmann / Contributor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jimmy Carter will turn 100 years old on Oct. 1. The former president of the United States will reach the milestone birthday, about 20 months since entering home hospice care in February 2023. Carter’s late wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, died on […]
Law enforcement officials work at the crime scene outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on September 16, 2024, following Sunday’s attempted assassination on former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged on Monday with possession of a firearm as […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Four people were killed and at least 17 others injured in a shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday night, police said. The shooting — which occurred just after 11 p.m. in the 2000 Block of Magnolia Avenue South, in the Five Points South Entertainment […]
