The mother of a teenager accused of spray-painting racist graffiti on two Missouri schools spoke out about her son’s arrest and why she turned him in to police. St. Louis County Police arrested 18-year-old Patrick Sloan, who allegedly painted racist symbols and messages on the buildings of Affton High School and Rogers Middle School earlier...
An Indiana police officer faces criminal charges and could lose his job after forcing his 6-year-old daughter to stand alongside a road in 18-degree weather earlier this year holding up a confessional sign alleging she wanted to stab and kill her brother. The sign continued, “I even take an antipsychotic. If you need to give...
Executive action on student debt forgiveness draws constitutional scrutiny In a significant shift for federal education policy, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would deny student loan forgiveness to individuals engaged in what the administration describes as “anti-American” advocacy work. The March 7 directive threatens to fundamentally alter access to a long-established...
Donald Trump has long vowed to keep the country out of “foreign wars,” but California Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters reiterated Thursday that she is concerned the president is steering the country toward an armed conflict within its borders and among its citizens. “I’m worried that Trump is on the edge of creating a civil war,”...
Former First Lady Michelle Obama implored the audience not to live their lives online as she recorded an episode of her podcast “IMO” at SXSW, but didn’t address wild speculation that her marriage is in peril. The national media took note that the former first lady appeared at the music and entertainment festival in Austin,...
A judge has denied a request for early release from a former college student who was convicted of a racist attack on a young Black woman at a Kentucky school. Sophia Rosing’s attorney filed a motion requesting that the 24-year-old be released from prison only four months into her 12-month sentence. Sophia Rosing, 23, pleaded...