Diyosa Carter/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 10,000 books were removed from school library shelves over the 2023-2024 school year, free expression advocacy group PEN America said in a new report released Monday at the start of national Banned Books Week. The tally marks a nearly triple-fold increase fromRead More →
Credit: ABCNews.com (NEW YORK) — Schools in the U.S. remain deeply divided along racial, ethnic and economic lines, even as studies show that the K-12 public school population is becoming more diverse. More than a third of students attend schools where 75% or more of those in attendance are ofRead More →
Wolfgang Deuter/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Russia and Iran are using artificial intelligence to influence the American election, U.S. intelligence officials said on Monday. “Foreign actors are using AI to more quickly and convincingly tailor synthetic content,” an official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said. “The ICRead More →
SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With about six weeks until Election Day, former President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail with stops in battleground Pennsylvania on Monday. Vice President Kamala Harris is in Washington to meet with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan amid escalatingRead More →
Jason Marz/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental nonprofit groups are suing ExxonMobil for the company’s alleged role in the global plastics pollution crisis. The state claims the oil and gas giant engaged in a “decades-long campaign ofRead More →
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A potential hurricane — which would be named Helene — is churning in the Caribbean and is forecast to make landfall in Florida on Thursday. The system is forecast to become Tropical Storm Helene early Tuesday morning. It will then move into the Gulf ofRead More →
John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images (GETTYSBURG, Penn.) — A Gettysburg College swimmer is no longer enrolled at the school after allegedly carving a racial slur on his teammate’s chest at an on-campus residence during an informal social gathering, according to school officials. The student, who has not been named byRead More →
seng kui Lim / 500px /Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former FTX executive Caroline Ellison said she deserves no prison time for her role in one of the largest financial frauds in history and federal prosecutors seem inclined to agree. Ellison’s attorneys urged Judge Lewis Kaplan to be lenient whenRead More →
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Sen. JD Vance prepares to face Gov. Tim Walz in next week’s vice-presidential debate, the Ohio senator is turning to Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer to help him in debate rehearsals by playing Walz, sources familiar with the plans told ABC News. One of theRead More →
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Murders in the United States were down 11.6% in 2023, according to statistics released by the FBI Monday morning. The murder rate went down from 6.2 per 100,000 people in 2022 to 5.7 per 100,000 people in 2023. The steep decline last year comes afterRead More →
