• Man found guilty of killing trans woman in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity

    Man found guilty of killing trans woman in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity

    Feb 24, 2024 06:31 PM EDT

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation’s first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity. After deliberating for roughly four hours, jurors convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter of a hate crime for the ...

  • WATCH: Biden tells governors he's eyeing executive action on immigration

    WATCH: Biden tells governors he's eyeing executive action on immigration

    Feb 23, 2024 08:51 PM EDT

    ... executive order. “Over time, our laws and our resources haven’t kept up with our immigration system and it's broken," Biden told the governors, lamenting that "petty politics intervened” to kill the deal. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, the Republican chair of the association, told reporters later that Biden didn ...

  • Russia's forces turn their focus on Ukraine's northeast in what may be an ambitious new offensive

    Russia's forces turn their focus on Ukraine's northeast in what may be an ambitious new offensive

    Feb 22, 2024 07:43 PM EDT

    ... has not shifted much in the run-up to the war’s two-year anniversary on Feb. 24. Moscow’s troops are driving forward around Lyman and Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region that borders Russia, ignoring casualties or equipment losses, according to Illia Yevlash, spokesperson for the operational group overseeing ...

  • First federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman's killing

    First federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman's killing

    Feb 21, 2024 01:15 AM EDT

    ... that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that in August 2019, Daqua Lameek Ritter lured the woman — who is referred to as “Dime Doe” in court documents — into driving to a sparsely populated rural county in South ...

  • Exhibit chronicles rich history of independent Black cinema

    Exhibit chronicles rich history of independent Black cinema

    Feb 20, 2024 11:25 PM EDT

    The films highlight that African American experiences are not a singular story. Jeffrey Brown : The exhibition does reckon with the pervasive racial stereotypes in early films, including the minstrel performances of Bert Williams, who starred in the unreleased "Lime Kiln Field Day," the earliest surviving feature film with an all ...

  • How stalled U.S. aid for Ukraine exemplifies GOP's softening stance on Russia

    How stalled U.S. aid for Ukraine exemplifies GOP's softening stance on Russia

    Feb 19, 2024 04:32 PM EDT

    ... When Putin attacked Ukraine, there was bipartisan condemnation. Even a year ago, most Republicans in Congress pledged support. But around the same time, Trump was lamenting that U.S. leaders were “suckers” for sending aid. By the fall, the party was divided. Republicans refused to include another round of Ukraine ...

  • Iowa phenom Caitlin Clark breaks NCAA women’s basketball record for career points

    Iowa phenom Caitlin Clark breaks NCAA women’s basketball record for career points

    Feb 16, 2024 11:15 PM EDT

    Amna Nawaz: ... and for the history of the sport. Caitlin Clark: There's been so many people that have come before me and lay such a great foundation for women's basketball, and that has to be celebrated too. Amna Nawaz: That includes Kansas star Lynette Woodard, who holds the ...

  • WATCH: Embracing dictators and global isolation is 'dangerous, destabilizing,' Harris says

    WATCH: Embracing dictators and global isolation is 'dangerous, destabilizing,' Harris says

    Feb 16, 2024 01:19 PM EDT

    ... and I therefore reject that view.” Earlier, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres delivered a stark and somber assessment of the current state of the world, lamenting not only the war in Ukraine but also the current situation in Gaza, where Israel appears poised to launch a major operation against Hamas ...

  • What is Alaskapox? Here's a quick guide

    What is Alaskapox? Here's a quick guide

    Feb 13, 2024 11:18 PM EDT

    People with Alaskapox have developed one or more bumps or pustules on the skin, as well as joint or muscle pain and swollen lymph nodes. Nearly all patients had mild illnesses that resolved on their own after a few weeks. But people with weakened immune systems can be in danger ...

  • Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announces U.S. Senate run

    Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announces U.S. Senate run

    Feb 09, 2024 07:44 PM EDT

    ... in 2015. Hogan sent the National Guard to help restore order. In June of that year, Hogan was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma but continued working while receiving treatment. He has been in remission since November 2015. Maryland’s last Republican U.S. senator was Charles Mathias ...