John Moore/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Defense plans to send 1,500 additional active-duty troops to support the security mission along the U.S.-Mexico border for a temporary three-month period ahead of an expected surge of migrants with the end of Title 42 restrictions on May 11, according to U.S. officials. […]
amphotora/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Preston Hemphill, the white officer seen on body camera footage during Tyre Nichols’ traffic stop, will not be charged in Nichols’ death, according to Hemphill’s attorney. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy also announced Tuesday that he will not bring any criminal charges against Hemphill […]
Sorapong Chaipanya / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A friend of writer E. Jean Carroll, testifying Tuesday in Carroll’s civil defamation and battery case against former President Donald Trump, said that Carroll called her and described the alleged attack minutes after alleged assault took place. Carroll, who brought the lawsuit […]
Courtesy of Rasheem Carter’s family (LAUREL, Miss.) — A national nonprofit organization is offering a $50,000 reward for any information that will lead to the “arrest and conviction” of a 25-year-old Black man’s killer. Rasheem Carter was reported missing last October and was last seen in Laurel, Mississippi. His mother, […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images Former police officer Tou Thao found guilty in George Floyd’s death Bill Hutchinson, ABC News (MINNEAPOLIS) — Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao has been found guilty of a charge of aiding and abetting in manslaughter, stemming from the 2020 death of George Floyd. Hennepin County Judge […]
ABC News (DAVIS, Calif.) — The UC Davis community is on edge in the wake of three stabbings — two of them fatal — within one week in Davis, California. The most recent stabbing took place at about 11:45 p.m. Monday at a transient camp in Davis, about 15 miles […]
ABC News (DAVIS, Calif.) — The UC Davis community is on edge in the wake of three stabbings — two of them fatal — within one week in Davis, California. The most recent stabbing took place at about 11:45 p.m. Monday at a transient camp in Davis, about 15 miles […]
Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Shootings have continuously made headlines in just the first few months of the year. As of May 1, at least 13,959 people have died from gun violence in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive — which is an […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — On the one-year anniversary of a student’s death, an elite boarding school in New Jersey released a statement publicly admitting its failure. The Lawrenceville School released a statement acknowledging that it failed to protect student Jack Reid, who died by suicide in 2022, from bullying, […]
Courtesy of Kelly Shannon (NEW YORK) — Kelly Shannon was excited when she found out she was pregnant. With a daughter under the age of 2, Shannon and her husband had been actively trying for a second child. The Alabama couple’s happiness quickly turned to heartbreak when testing revealed just […]
