A 15-year-old went to a Brooklyn parade. The NYPD wrongly accused him of a mass shooting
NEW YORK (AP) — Camden Lee was leaving high school football practice in September when he saw the photograph, splashed across the New York Police Department’s social media accounts, that would soon upend his life. In a
Passport applications got more complicated for transgender Americans under new Trump policy
The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Virginia, where they live. Getting a passport for Mellow, who is transgender, was urgent. In
Generations later, a remedy to destroying Black neighborhoods is fulfilled in Michigan
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit-area city was accused of destroying neighborhoods to get rid of Black residents. Decades later, the retired nurse has returned to Hamtramck,
A hidden gem of whitewater rafting faces an uncertain future after Hurricane Helene
ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) — After 24 years of guiding whitewater trips on the Nolichucky River Gorge for other companies, Patrick Mannion finally received a permit last year to operate his own outfitter business. But following the devastation
What has Donald Trump not done yet? Here are some policy areas where he might act next
ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump’s second administration has put forth an avalanche of policy changes and political pronouncements that have jolted Washington and the world. That agenda is taken largely from his “Agenda 47” campaign proposals, the
The Trump administration is throwing more Pentagon reporters out of their workspaces
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday doubled the number of news organizations it is evicting from their workspaces at the Pentagon in order to rotate in more friendly outlets. CNN, The Washington Post, the
US judge declines to block Elon Musk’s DOGE from Labor Department systems
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday declined to block Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting department from accessing the U.S. Department of Labor’s systems, an initial setback for the government employee unions resisting his efforts to shrink the
US cities, counties challenge Trump’s ‘sanctuary’ city crackdown
By Nate Raymond and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A coalition of U.S. cities and counties on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to force so-called sanctuary jurisdictions to cooperate with his immigration
Aaron Hernandez’s brother sentenced to time served in shooting threats case
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The brother of the late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was sentenced Friday to 18 months of prison time already served for threatening to carry out a shooting at the University
Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two former Albuquerque police officers pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of racketeering, extortion and accepting bribes in a sweeping corruption investigation into a scheme that allegedly allowed people arrested for driving
