OU School of Drama to open ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ exploring complexity in politics, religion A play about a conversation between four politically conservative Catholic young people, “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” opens Wednesday in the E. Frank Gilson Lab Theatre. 04/30/2024 - 11:09 am | View Link
Florence police investigating Monday night shooting A Monday night shooting in Florence left a man hospitalized as authorities continue to investigate, authorities said. Officers responded to the 1100 block of June Lane after reports of a shooting. 04/30/2024 - 12:24 am | View Link
Illinois lawmakers consider measures aimed at making mental health care more accessible Illinois legislators advanced two measures pushed by proponents of reform in the state’s behavioral health system that are aimed at expanding insurance coverage for those seeking help. 04/28/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Systemic racism, politics prevent Black expectant mothers from getting needed health care It was just Black Maternal Health Week, and Mother’s Day is just around the corner — a perfect time to focus on the fact that the critical health care an expectant mother needs remains unavailable for ... 04/28/2024 - 9:36 pm | View Link
Governor’s health care budget proposals would help NC’s most vulnerable Now that Gov. Roy Cooper has checked expanding Medicaid off his gubernatorial to-do list, he has shifted his health care focus to the needs of North Carolina’s most vulnerable — the young, the old and ... 04/28/2024 - 2:57 am | View Link
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Threats of jail time.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing that cannabis be reclassified from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a classification that comes with steep penalties, to the less severe Schedule III, for drugs with significant medical use. If the White House Office of Management and Budget approves the decision, the DEA would be able to offer its proposal for public comment.
Eight years ago, in his 2016 run for president, Donald Trump said that women who have abortions should be criminally charged. “There has to be some form of punishment,” Trump said at the time. The comment caused a firestorm and his campaign walked it back within hours. It marked one of the few times that Trump recanted.
Early Tuesday morning, Columbia student protesters took over a building on campus, pledging not to leave until their demands—for the university to divest from Israel, financial transparency from Columbia’s endowment, and amnesty for pro-Palestinian protesters—are met.
The group of “autonomous protesters” took over Hamilton Hall, an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus, shortly after midnight, according to a media advisory from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group that organized the Gaza Solidarity Encampment over the past few weeks.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for violating a gag order—and he warned Trump that any further violations might result in jail time.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for his role in a 2016 scheme to cover up an alleged extra-marital affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.