(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court's ruling Friday narrowing a key obstruction statute used against more than 300 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol could affect dozens of cases brought by the Justice Department in the three years since prosecutors say a mob of…
(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Friday denied ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon's request to remain out of jail while he continues to appeal his contempt of Congress conviction.Bannon earlier this month was ordered by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to report to prison by July 1 to begin serving…
(WASHINGTON) -- Homelessness advocates are condemning the Supreme Court's ruling that an Oregon city's ordinance to bar anyone without a permanent residency from sleeping outside does not amount to "cruel and unusual" punishment under the Eighth Amendment.In 2013, the Grants Pass city council attempted to ban anyone "from using a…
(NEW YORK) -- Severe storms ravaged the country from Montana to Florida on Thursday, with winds gusting to 91 mph in South Dakota and hail as large as golf balls in Montana.In Melbourne, Florida, a tornado ripped through a neighborhood, damaging homes."Fortunately no one was injured," Melbourne Mayor Paul Alfrey…
(NEW YORK) -- Mark Segal was 18 years old and had only lived in New York City for six weeks when he found himself at the center of the Stonewall Uprising in 1969.The very spot where Segal once danced, drank and took part in one of the most consequential moments…
(DES MOINES, Iowa) -- Health experts are warning of the possibility of floodwaters containing "fecal soup" after an agriculture-heavy region in Iowa was inundated with an unprecedented amount of precipitation.Torrential rain began falling in the Midwest last week, prompting road closures, evacuation orders, helicopter rescues and failure at some water…
(NEW YORK) -- The summer season in New York City is informally marked each year by the hoisting of Pride flags on The People's Beach, a queer haven tucked away on the far eastern corner of the city's Jacob Riis Park in Queens."When I was a runaway, when I had…
(NEW YORK) -- A gigantic fish measuring 6 feet long and weighing 220 pounds has been caught in the Hudson River in New York during an environmental survey, officials said.The catch happened last week during an Atlantic sturgeon survey when staff from the Hudson River Estuary Program captured the enormous…
(UVALDE, Texas.) -- Former Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been indicted in connection with the investigation into the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, court records show.Arredondo was charged with 10 counts of abandoning and endangering a child in connection with 10 of…
(CHICAGO) -- The search has expanded for a Chicago woman who went missing while on a yoga retreat in the Bahamas last week, police said.Taylor Casey, 41, was last seen on June 19 in Paradise Island at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, which reported her missing the following day when…
