Rutgers president plans to leave top job at New Jersey’s flagship university
The president of Rutgers University, New Jersey’s flagship institution of higher learning, announced Tuesday that he will step down next year. Jonathan Holloway, 57, who became the university’s first Black president when he took office in the
VP says woman’s death after delayed abortion treatment shows consequences of Trump’s actions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that the death of a young Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill shows the consequences
A Southern California man pleads not guilty to setting a fire that exploded into a massive wildfire
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — A California man has pleaded not guilty to starting a fire that authorities said ballooned into a massive wildfire and forced the evacuation of thousands of homes. Online court records show Justin
Biden won’t block potential strike at East Coast ports, administration official says
By Lisa Baertlein and David Shepardson LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden does not intend to invoke a federal law to prevent a port strike on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico if dockworkers fail
UN considers resolution demanding Israel end its occupation of Palestinian territories
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is considering a Palestinian resolution Tuesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year and calling for sanctions and an
Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and Vance lies slandered Haitians over dogs and cats
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats — the vast majority that officials said came from overseas —- after former President Donald Trump and
Harris to sit down with Black journalists for a rare interview
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is set to conduct a rare extended campaign interview Tuesday, taking questions from a trio of journalists from the National Association of Black Journalists just a month after former President
KEYWORD NOTICE – US court upholds British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. court on Tuesday upheld disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction on sex trafficking charges for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls. Maxwell’s lawyers had argued that her convictions
Speaker Johnson sets House vote on government funding bill after a one-week postponement
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, despite the headwinds that prompted him
Court appeal, clemency petition seek to halt execution of Missouri man who claims innocence
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court a judge’s ruling upholding the conviction and death sentence for Marcellus Williams, whose execution is one week away. A
