A series of acquittals in cases of sexual abuse and growing instances of sexual images taken of girls and women without their consent have triggered public outrage, prompting the new revisions.
Rob Hill, commanding officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people when it collided Thursday. The crash left 10 injured
The producer, Alex McCaskill, offered to resign with two weeks’ notice, but was told to clean out his desk and leave immediately, according to his version
Ellsberg had announced in February that he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. A letter released by his family says he died Friday morning
The hefty fine caps off a two-year investigation into the mayor’s use of taxpayer dollars to cover the travel costs of NYPD officers who accompanied him during cross-country campaign stops
The Grizzlies player was shown in the video in May flashing a gun while sitting in the passenger seat of a car. The livestream on Instagram came after Morant served another suspension for a similar video
Jurors must now decide whether the 50-year-old should be sent to death row or sentenced to life in prison without parole as the federal trial shifts to a penalty phase expected to last several weeks
The sweeping two-year civil rights investigation concluded that systemic problems in the Minneapolis Police Department ‘made what happened to George Floyd possible,’ according to the DOJ
About 475,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma as of Friday morning, as another series of fierce storms made its way through Southern states
The first political rally of the president’s reelection campaign is being held at a union gathering in Pennsylvania, punctuating just how much the president is counting on labor support to carry him to a second term
Strong winds have damaged transmission lines, causing a blackout in India. The full extent of the damage in western India wasn’t immediately known
The 26-year-old Mäder crashed on a fast downhill road approaching the end of the mountainous fifth stage into La Punt
Their diverging prospects illustrate the differences in the two countries and how a parliamentary system is harder for populists to crack than the U.S.’s two-party presidential one
The walkout happened despite voters passing a ballot measure in 2022 that disqualifies lawmakers with 10 or more unexcused absences from reelection
The woman’s attorney, Ariel Mitchell, said her client has provided Miami police with the clothing she was wearing that night and that a report was filed
What law says and does, and the reactions of tribal leaders and the law’s opponents are among the things to know after the Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision Thursday upholding the law
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the migrants were sent to Los Angeles because California had declared itself a “sanctuary” for immigrants
They call themselves Abeja Negra SOS — a group of mostly women working hive by hive to relocate bees that would be exterminated if they remained in Mexico’s crowded capital city
A former National Security Agency contractor who pleaded guilty to the charge in 2019 after investigators found classified documents strewn about his home, car and storage shed was sentenced to nine years in prison
Students see their old buildings under attack as teachers take shelter. They’re physically safe but experience trauma. An advocate calls the situation “a disaster in slow motion”
39% of U.S. adults said they had “a great deal of confidence” in the scientific community, down from 48% in 2018 and 2021
The Food and Drug Administration’s scientific advisers said the next round of shots in the U.S. should only include protection against the newest variants that are now dominant worldwide
He was arrested in April on charges of sharing highly classified military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine and other top national security issues in a chat room on Discord, a social media platform that started as a hangout for gamers
In closing arguments on Thursday, a prosecutor told the jury that Robert Bowers targeted his victims because of their religion: ‘He is filled with hatred for Jews’
‘Twitter is largely a cesspool now. You can’t post without getting attacked. There’s no room for conversation. It is just about hand-to-hand combat,’ said Sarah Kate Ellis, the head of GLAAD
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also dismissed suggestions by some oil executives that fossil fuel firms can keep up production if they find a way to capture carbon emissions
Jurors in Camden, New Jersey found that race was a determinative factor in the company’s firing of Shannon Phillips
