The number of trans people who were murdered in the U.S. nearly doubled between 2017 and 2021, according to data released Tuesday by the non-profit Everytown for Gun Safety. Of the total victims, 73% were killed with a gun. Everytown’s Transgender Homicide Tracker found that there was a 93% increase in tracked homicides …
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An El Paso woman is accused of kidnapping the baby of a migrant woman who had recently crossed the border and holding him for ransom for several months. Jenna Leigh Roark, 45, was arrested in September on charges of hostage-taking and aiding and abetting, according to a federal criminal complaint. …
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Nearly every single Alaskan got a financial windfall amounting to more than $3,000 Tuesday, the day the state began distributing payments from Alaska’s investment fund that has been seeded with money from the state’s oil riches. The payments, officially called the Permanent Fund Dividend or the PFD locally, amounted to …
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A New York judge Wednesday granted disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein an appeal of his 2020 conviction, where he was found guilty of rape in the third degree and committing a criminal sex act. Janet DiFiore, chief judge for the New York State Court of Appeals, granted Weinstein’s application for …
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The winner of the $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot may never be revealed to the public, but whoever has the ticket for the second-largest prize in the game’s history is coming into a life-changing amount of money. Many winners have seen their luck run out, suffering personal setbacks, dealing with …
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Wisconsin Senate Democratic Minority Leader Janet Bewley was involved in a fatal car crash Friday that left a 27-year-old mother from Pennsylvania and her 5-year-old daughter dead, police said Monday. Ashland Police Chief Bill Hagstrom told the Ashland Daily Press on Monday that Bewley was not injured in the crash and the …
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Shonka Dukureh, a Nashville musician who portrayed singer Big Mama Thornton in the recent “Elvis” film, has died, officials said Thursday. Dukureh was found dead in her Nashville apartment, where she lived with her two young children, the Metro Nashville Police Department said in a statement. Police said that just …
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Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just restarted after being closed for several months, contributing to a national shortage. Production for Abbott’s EleCare specialty formula has been suspended, but there is enough supply to meet demand until production is …
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Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other PGA Tour members who teed off in the Saudi-funded golf league Thursday are no longer eligible for PGA Tour events under penalties Commissioner Jay Monahan shared soon after the first tee shot was struck. Still to be determined is whether those players are ever …
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The Kansas Supreme Court Friday disbarred a prosecutor who it said engaged in “a serious pattern of grossly unethical misconduct” during a 2012 trial that led to a woman being sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her ex-husband and his fiancee. Prosecutor Jacqie Spradling “repeatedly made arguments …
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