Ben Crump Law (NEW YORK) — Music producer Derrick Harris filed a lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York Police Department alleging he was wrongfully accused of sexual assault and imprisoned for four years on Rikers Island. Harris was acquitted on some of the charges in 2015 […]
Getty Images/ThinkStock (WASHINGTON) — A top Justice Department official has a stern warning for Russian oligarchs who attempt to evade U.S. sanctions: Nobody is out of the DOJ’s reach. “The point of going after Putin’s cronies and Russian oligarchs who seek to violate our laws and shield their assets is to […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, claiming the agency has failed to help preserve Florida manatee habitats as the species faces rising deaths. Nearly 1,100 manatees died in 2021, which is roughly 20% of the east coast population of […]
Obtained by ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s daughter once penned a letter to then-President Barack Obama requesting he nominate her mom for a seat on the Supreme Court. Leila, who was an 11-year-old middle schooler in 2016, wrote the missive touting the credentials of her […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images/Stock (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — A jury in Louisville, Kentucky, has found Brett Hankison, the former police officer charged with recklessly shooting into a neighboring apartment during the course of the raid that ended with the death of Breonna Taylor, not guilty on all three counts. Hankison was charged with […]
Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After a chaotic week, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from performances at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. “It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera,” Met Opera general manager Peter Gelb said in a statement Thursday. “Anna is […]
Courtesy Jillian Enderton (NEW YORK) — A New York girl is on a mission to brighten the lives of cancer patients in her community. Sophie Enderton of Newfane, New York, started her “Sophie’s chemo bags” initiative after seeing her late grandfather, Terry Enderton, undergo chemotherapy after he was diagnosed with pancreatic […]
U.S. Navy-contracted diving support vessel (DSCV) Picasso, successfully retrieved the F-35C Lightning II aircraft that crashed during routine flight operations earlier this year in the South China Sea, March 2. – U.S. Navy (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Navy said Thursday it has recovered the stealth F-35C fighter jet that […]
Boys Basketball 1A State Quarterfinals RICHFIELD, Utah-Tuck Davis posted 22 points and 8 rebounds and the No. 3 Manila Mustangs overpowered No. 6 Tabiona 52-38 in the 1A state quarterfinals Thursday at the Sevier Valley Center. Carter Curry posted 11 points and 4 rebounds in defeat for the Tigers. Manila […]
Joe Reed, the father of former US Marine Trevor Reed, stands next to a placard of his son outside the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. – JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Trevor Reed’s fate hangs in the balance amid sky-high tensions between the U.S. and Russia, where […]
