Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver the 2022 commencement address at Tennessee State University, a historically Black university, on May 7, according to a White House official. TSU President Glenda Glover expressed her excitement over Harris — who is the first HBCU graduate to serve as president or vice president …
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McAlester Okla. — Anti-death penalty advocate Lea Rodger says she’s keenly aware of the realities facing her and Richard Glossip, who she married this week inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary — where he sits on death row. Glossip, 59, already has narrowly escaped execution three times and could be the …
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A retired police SWAT commander testified Thursday that he fatally shot a man in a movie theater eight years ago during an argument sparked by cellphone usage and escalated by a thrown popcorn bag because he feared he was about to be attacked by an “out-of-control” person who “looked like …
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The Trump Organization and former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg on Tuesday asked a judge to dismiss the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal fraud and tax evasion charges against them, claiming they’ve been targeted because of politics. Former President Donald Trump’s eponymous company was accused in July of providing executives with …
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A gunman who went on a shooting rampage in several locations around the Denver area, killing five people and wounding two, targeted his victims based on previous personal and business dealings, authorities said Tuesday. Lyndon James McLeod, 47, was also killed Monday night after he shot a police officer who …
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The woman who was riding with Daunte Wright when he was pulled over by police testified Thursday about the chaos right after an officer shot him, saying she screamed at Wright trying to get a response but that he “wasn’t answering me and he was just gasping.” “I grabbed whatever …
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Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of engineering a massive medical scam, expressed some remorse while on the witness stand Tuesday, but denied trying to conceal that her company’s blood-testing methods weren’t working as she had promised. In her third day of testimony during the high-profile criminal trial, …
Read More »The mayor of Southlake, Texas calls a federal civil rights probe into its school district a “costly distraction” that may be politically motivated, CBS Dallas reports. The probe, to be conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, comes after several racially charged incidents. Mayor John Huffman suggested that the Carroll …
Read More »A Georgia sheriff’s deputy died Monday from a gunshot wound she received when responding to a domestic dispute, according to authorities. CBS affiliate WGCL-TV reported the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office identified the deputy as Lena Nicole Marshall. “It is with a heavy heart that I advise you all that we lost …
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Award-winning musicians Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will share the stage for the first time ever at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime performance, Pepsi, the NFL and Roc Nation announced Thursday. “This year we are blowing the roof off the concept of collaboration,” PepsiCo’s …
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