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Family threatens legal action after track star is disqualified over celebration paying homage to Olympian

Family threatens legal action after track star is disqualified over celebration paying homage to Olympian

Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images (SALINAS, Calif.) — The family of a 16-year-old track star is threatening to take legal action after the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) disqualified their daughter and stripped her of her gold medal after she celebrated her win in the state final by spraying her feet […]

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Senate Democrats file bill to prevent ban on transgender military service

Senate Democrats file bill to prevent ban on transgender military service

Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic lawmakers will submit a bill in the Senate on Tuesday that would reverse the Pentagon’s new ban on transgender military service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria who now face being forced out if they had not previously self-identified as transgender. The “Fit […]

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Trump administration says it will appeal order granting El Salvador deportees due process

Trump administration says it will appeal order granting El Salvador deportees due process

Alex Peña/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration says it will appeal a court order requiring it to allow hundreds of noncitizens who were deported in March to El Salvador to challenge their detentions. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last week ordered the Trump administration to give the hundreds of […]

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1-year-old girl dies after being left in hot car for 9 hours; dad arrested for murder

1-year-old girl dies after being left in hot car for 9 hours; dad arrested for murder

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office (MADISONVILLVE, La.) — A Louisiana dad has been arrested for second-degree murder after he allegedly left his 1-year-old daughter in a hot car for over nine hours, authorities said. The incident unfolded after Joseph Boatman “consumed multiple alcoholic beverages” and then went to pick up […]

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Private astronaut mission marks next step toward a new space station

Private astronaut mission marks next step toward a new space station

NASA via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — NASA is planning on decommissioning the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2030. But before that happens, Axiom Space, a privately funded space infrastructure company based in Houston, wants to build a replacement. The company has begun construction of the world’s first […]

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Amid LA protests, what officials say about the rules of force for National Guard, Marines

Amid LA protests, what officials say about the rules of force for National Guard, Marines

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The Marines and the National Guard personnel deployed amid the protests in to Los Angeles will operate under the same rules of force and will not be engaging crowds unless necessary, according to two U.S. officials. That means they are tasked with […]

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Diddy trial day 23: ‘I don’t want any loose ends’: Witness testifies about Combs’ unraveling after Cassie’s lawsuit

Diddy trial day 23: ‘I don’t want any loose ends’: Witness testifies about Combs’ unraveling after Cassie’s lawsuit

Jefferson Siegel-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The walls were closing in on Sean “Diddy” Combs, his former girlfriend testified Monday, and the rap mogul turned fashion tastemaker was allegedly lashing out. “I remember we were sleeping and one of the sons knocked on the door and said that something happened, […]

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New Orleans jail escape: Girlfriend of inmate arrested for allegedly aiding in jailbreak

New Orleans jail escape: Girlfriend of inmate arrested for allegedly aiding in jailbreak

Derrick Groves. (Louisiana State Police) (NEW ORLEANS) — The girlfriend of one of the two remaining inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail last month has been arrested for allegedly helping in his escape, officials said Monday. Derrick Groves is among 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans […]

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DOJ says Milwaukee judge accused of helping undocumented immigrant evade arrest not immune from criminal prosecution

DOJ says Milwaukee judge accused of helping undocumented immigrant evade arrest not immune from criminal prosecution

Scott Olson/Getty Images (MILWAUKEE, WI) — Federal prosecutors argued Monday that a court should reject a Wisconsin judge’s attempt to have the obstruction case against her dismissed based on judicial immunity. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, 65, was arrested by the FBI on April 25 and is charged […]

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Trump says LA is under siege, but the mayor and governor paint a different picture

Trump says LA is under siege, but the mayor and governor paint a different picture

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — President Donald Trump defended his decision to send the National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quash protests that turned violent, saying in a social media post on Sunday that “if we had not done so, Los Angeles would have been completely […]

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