Ryan Herron/Getty Images (NORTH CAROLINA) — Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is in an ongoing battle with the IRS and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Board of Trustees after the historically Black school’s previous finance department “mismanaged” a $34 million budget, according to university officials. HistoricallyRead More →
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza. Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish students on the campuses have called theRead More →
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been triedRead More →
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Spring may be short-lived in the South, with the first major heat wave of 2024 expected to scorch Southern states from Texas to Florida next week. After a weather year filled with deep freezes, atmospheric rivers and destructive tornadoes across parts of the U.S., weatherRead More →
A stolen car is recovered in Portland. — Portland Police Bureau (PORTLAND, Ore.) — Police in Portland, Oregon, are arresting more suspected car thieves and reducing the number of vehicles stolen, thanks to a partnership with cancer researchers. Officer Michael Terrett said he came up with the idea of aRead More →
mphotoi/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A homicide investigation is underway after a pregnant woman was found stabbed to death in her Los Angeles County home, authorities said. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a residence in Palmdale Tuesday night to conduct a welfare check, authorities said. “When deputies arrivedRead More →
President Joe Biden speaks alongside Jill Biden during a “Teachers of the Year” State Dinner, an event honoring the 2024 National Teachers of the Year, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 2024. (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) —Read More →
Views divided on Israel-Hamas War. — ABC News/Ipsos (WASHINGTON) — Nearly four in 10 Americans in a new ABC News Ipsos poll say the United States is doing too much to support Israel in its war with Hamas, up from about three in 10 in January. And more trust formerRead More →
Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith (WASHINGTON) — The diverse group of names from politics to activists and entertainment include Biden’s 2020 Democratic primary opponents and former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Vice President Al Gore, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jim Clyburn, Elizabeth Dole andRead More →
Al Seib/ Los Angeles Times (SANTA CRUZ, Calif.) — The captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people, was sentenced to four years in federal prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice said. A federal jury found Jerry Boylan, 70,Read More →
