Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A suspect is dead after reports of an active shooter at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. University police said shots were reported at Beam Hall as well as the school’s student union. There “appears to be multiple victims,” according to police. Beam Hall is home …
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Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Advanced Placement African American Studies course that sparked controversy among some conservative lawmakers has been revised and was released by the College Board on Wednesday. The updated curriculum is now set to launch in the 2024-25 school year. “This is the course I wish I had in high school,” Brandi Waters, senior director …
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ElOjoTorpe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NASA and its astronauts are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the International Space Station being in orbit. The federal space agency broadcast a live conversation between the Expedition 70 crew and NASA Associate Administrator Robert Cabana and Joel Montalbano, space station program manager on Wednesday afternoon. The ISS launched on Nov. 25, 1998, but it …
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Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the loved ones of three Black people killed in a racially-motivated shooting in August at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida, accusing the bargain discount chain store and the gunman’s parents of negligence. The lawsuit was filed in a Florida court, accusing the retailer of failing …
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ABC News (NEW YORK) — Record-breaking rainfall has inundated the Pacific Northwest — and more rain is on the way. Some areas in western Washington state saw 6 to 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours — on top of the snow melt and the 6 inches of rain from over the weekend. In western Washington, homes flooded, …
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Yuba County District Attorney’s Office/Facebook (NEW YORK) — A man has been sentenced to four years in prison after a 6-minute video that his 9-year-old child took of him beating and injuring his wife emerged, authorities said. Miguel Lazaro-Castillo was sentenced to the maximum term allowed on his charges of four years in prison last Friday by Yuba County Judge …
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Tim Drivas Photography/GETTY Images (NEW YORK) — A 28-year-old New York City man has been indicted on hate crime charges stemming from an October antisemitic attack on a 23-year-old Israeli tourist in Times Square, prosecutors said Tuesday. Yehia Amin was indicted by a New York State Supreme Court grand jury on charges of stalking in the first degree as a …
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amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A teacher has been arrested after allegedly knocking out a 12-year-old student’s tooth with his elbow and throwing a basketball at him in a fit of rage, police say. The alleged assault took place at the Putnam Academy of Arts and Science School in Palatka, Florida — some 60 miles south of Jacksonville and 100 …
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Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two students have been arrested for allegedly supplying THC edibles and psilocybin mushrooms that sent at least seven students to the hospital for observation when they all ingested the drugs during the school day, police said. Last Friday, at approximately 12:33 p.m., Cabarrus County Schools contacted the Concord Police Department after a number of …
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kali9/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Police in Texas said they were investigating possible connections between a series of shootings in Austin and a fatal shooting near San Antonio that left six dead in total and injured several others on Tuesday. A suspect in his 30s was booked into the Travis County Jail and charged with capital murder on Tuesday night, …
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