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Stacie-Marie Laughton, a former New Hampshire lawmaker who is believed to be the first elected openly transgender lawmaker in U.S. history, recently pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges in federal court. According to WMUR, the 41-year-old ex-politician recently entered her plea in a Boston federal courtroom. The charges included sexual exploitation of children involving child sexual abuse materials.Laughton, who authorities identify using feminine pronouns, is accused of working with her […]

A Mexican national living in the U.S. illegally for more than a decade after ignoring a federal deportation order was arrested in Orange County, California, on Friday after allegedly killing a 71-year-old man in a DUI hit-and-run crash, according to federal law enforcement sources.Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle, The Orange County Register reported.They found 71-year-old Barry William […]

A manhunt is underway after federal immigration agents were targeted in four violent attacks Saturday while conducting enforcement operations in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, where rioters opened fire, hurled debris and rammed vehicles in what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called an unprecedented assault on law enforcement.According to DHS, agents were boxed into a street and alley while making an arrest when a man driving a black Jeep opened […]

More than six decades after a 9-year-old girl was raped and murdered inside a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, church, investigators say they finally know who did it.Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn announced that a grand jury investigation identified William Schrader as the man who killed Carol Ann Dougherty inside St. Mark’s Church in Bristol on Oct. 22, 1962.The 53-page grand jury report concluded that Schrader alone was responsible for the […]

A top Ivy League college is offering a class where students will study the intersection of gender studies and what the course calls the "genocide" in Gaza.The 200-level course, called Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide, will be offered to students at Princeton University next spring."This seminar explores genocide through the analytic of gender, with a central focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza," says the course description on Princeton's website. "Drawing […]

A startling rise in violent attacks and threats against historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) throughout the country is raising concerns among students, administrators and experts, as multiple shootings and fake threats have been reported across campuses.Last month, gunshots rang out in the areas surrounding two HBCUs, leaving administrators scrambling as schools attempted to ramp up security in the wake of the violence.On Oct. 24, as Howard University was hosting […]

A Nebraska felon whose prison sentence was reduced under a Biden administration clemency initiative is accused of possessing a gun linked to multiple crimes, intensifying scrutiny over whether reform efforts have come at the expense of public safety.Federal prosecutors say 31-year-old Khyre Holbert, who had served roughly seven years of a 20-year federal sentence for gun and narcotics offenses, was arrested after an Oct. 4 shooting in Omaha’s Old Market […]

An 11-year veteran of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) died in the line of duty on Saturday, Commissioner Robert S. Tucker and Mayor Eric Adams announced.Firefighter Patrick Brady, 42, was working on the roof of an all-hands apartment fire in Brooklyn "when he suffered a medical episode and went into cardiac arrest," a media release said.Fellow FDNY firefighters and emergency medical services members treated him […]

A cleaning lady was shot and killed by an Indiana homeowner when she arrived at the wrong address for a house-cleaning appointment, according to officials.Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, was found dead in her husband's arms on the front porch of a home in Whitestown, Indiana, after the pair mistakenly showed up at the wrong address for a cleaning on Wednesday.Whitestown police responded to the home for a possible home […]