What pro-divestment and anti-genocide demonstrations look like on college campuses Hundreds of people, including students and faculty, have been arrested at universities across the country for trespassing and resisting arrest as of Friday. Some have faced suspensions and other ... 04/26/2024 - 10:29 am | View Link
The News Roundup India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the release of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) manifesto ahead of country's upcoming general elections, at the party headquarters in New Delhi. 04/26/2024 - 5:12 am | View Link
KCRA Weekend Roundup: Sacramento region things to do for April 26-28 Rawlings, known for playing Ashly Larry on "The Chappelle Show," will headline Punch Line Sacramento Thursday through Sunday. The comedian has toured with comedy legends Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. 04/26/2024 - 1:18 am | View Link
Area prep sports roundup for Thursday, April 25 The Eagles’ Sophie Rerrick pinged a three-run home run to center field in the fourth inning and ended 3 for 5 with four RBI. Maizey Carr hit a two-run homer in the third inning. Olivia Davidson was 2 ... 04/25/2024 - 7:16 pm | View Link
Prep roundup: Ben Wartinger’s big day leads Ridgeline baseball over North Central; Maliyah Mann homers twice, throws one-hitter for U-Hi softball University 6, Mead 5 (9): Shaun Lee hit a walk-off single in extra innings and the Titans (10-9, 9-7) beat the visiting Panthers (13-6, 11-5). David Barnes led Mead with three hits. Marco Longo and ... 04/25/2024 - 7:01 pm | View Link
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
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.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.