A group of people, organizations and businesses opposed to a law that restricts drag performances and bans drag reading events at public schools and libraries asked a federal judge to declare Montana’s law unconstitutional without requiring a trial. “Motivated by an irrational and unevidenced moral panic, legislators took aim at …
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A man holding a woman inside a semitruck was fatally shot by an Indianapolis police officer after he entered the truck’s cabin and found the man on top of the bleeding woman, police said. Officers were called to a parking lot on Indianapolis’ south side Thursday night by a bystander …
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A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for murdering her two youngest children and another woman has pleaded not guilty to charges in Arizona of conspiring to kill her estranged husband and her niece’s ex-husband. Lori Vallow Daybell, dressed in an orange jail uniform, stated her name and …
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A Russian man who flew on a plane from Denmark to Los Angeles in November without a passport or ticket told U.S. authorities he did not remember how he got through security in Europe, according to a federal complaint filed by the FBI. Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava arrived at Los Angeles …
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As the age-old adage goes, don’t mess with success. The Grammy Awards aren’t, bringing Trevor Noah back as host in 2024. Noah shared the news Wednesday night on his podcast “What Now? With Trevor Noah.” For those keeping count, the 66th Grammys will mark his fourth consecutive year of hosting …
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Top Polish leaders joined members of the Jewish community for a Hanukkah celebration in parliament Thursday after a far-right lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out burning candles on a menorah earlier this week. The attendance of the president, speaker of parliament and other top legislative officials sent the …
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Since the pandemic first upended American education, an estimated 50,000 students are still missing from any kind of U.S. school. That’s according to an Associated Press analysis of public, private and homeschool enrollment as of fall 2022, and U.S. Census data in 22 states, plus Washington, D.C. The reasons students …
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Authorities have identified a teenage girl killed by the Green River serial killer in Washington state four decades ago. Lori Anne Razpotnik was 15 when she ran away from her home in Lewis County in 1982. Her family never saw her again. Her remains were found in 1985 over a …
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A Dutch man, who was convicted in British Columbia of charges including extortion and harassment related to a Canadian teenager who took her own life after he blackmailed her online, had his sentence cut Thursday by an Amsterdam court from 13 years to six. Aydin Coban wasn’t present in Amsterdam …
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The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its existing plant that dates to the 1930s or the new $18.5 million one it is building. Then …
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