Month: May 2023

The store owner, who had a concealed weapons permit, was charged after an autopsy showed the middle school student was shot in the back and deputies spoke to witnesses and reviewed video. [MORE]

The vote comes as lawmakers race against the clock to beat a June 5 deadline for a potential federal default. [MORE]

From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers’ efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California. [MORE]

A jury reached the verdict after deliberating for seven days spread over two weeks. They could not reach a verdict on the third count, that alleged “That ’70s Show” star raped a longtime girlfriend. [MORE]

After distancing himself from former President Donald Trump, the former vice president is ready to announce his bid for the White House at an event in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday. [MORE]

In recent years, the demands on the NEDA helpline, and the humans who ran it, escalated. The organization says it was unsustainable. But some have worries about new plans for an online chatbot. [MORE]

The Mountain Valley Pipeline got an extraordinary boost in the debt ceiling deal. Court challenges have stalled the controversial natural gas pipeline stretching from West Virginia to North Carolina. [MORE]

Investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology will begin testing concrete cores and reinforcing steel in a search for answers from the Surfside, Fla. condo collapse. [MORE]

Brazilian Indigenous leaders and environmentalists are outraged after lawmakers approved a measure that would affect claims to Indigenous land, and potentially, environmental protections. [MORE]

As controversy swirls around the benefits Thomas and his wife Ginni received from a conservative billionaire, filmmaker Michael Kirk examines the couple’s path to power in a new PBS documentary. [MORE]