Tricia Asselin was enjoying a night off at bowling alley Just-in-Time Recreation in Lewiston, Maine —an establishment that her family had frequented for years –when she heard a shot ring out on Wednesday night. Asselin, 53, had been standing with her sister Bobbi, and at first, neither registered the noise …
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A judge has rejected University of Idaho stabbing suspect Bryan Kohberger’s efforts to have the case against him dismissed. Kohberger was in the courtroom during Thursday’s hearing, where his defense attorney argued for the standard of proof to be raised to a “beyond a reasonable doubt” instead of Idaho’s typical …
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Scholastic, the children’s book publisher, will no longer separate titles that deal with race, gender, and sexuality at book fairs, according to The New York Times. The company, which runs more than 120,000 book fairs in elementary schools a year, had controversially started listing 64 such books in a catalog …
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A self-described “former incel” named Michael Pengchung Lee was allegedly planning a mass shooting at the University of Arizona before he was arrested, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. He is charged with “transmit[ing] in interstate commerce a communication of a threat to injure the person of another.” On …
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Sam Bankman-Fried will take the rare, and potentially precarious, step of testifying on his own behalf at his ongoing criminal fraud trial, The New York Times reports. Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, confirmed the embattled FTX founder’s plan to testify during a recent hearing with prosecutors and the judge overseeing the …
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Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, accusing it of building and operating platforms that have caused serious harm to young people and adolescents. The lawsuit, filed Oct. 24 in district court in Northern California, claims Meta’s platforms have “profoundly altered the psychological and …
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Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film: true crime. It seemingly tells the viewer that, in a realm focused on death and destruction, it’s vital to remember …
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After “fighting for her life” in the ICU with pneumonia, Mary Lou Retton is now back home and recovering. “Mom is HOME & in recovery mode,” Retton’s daughter, McKenna Lane Kelley, wrote in a statement shared on Instagram. “We still have a long road of recovery ahead of us, but …
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The president of a Detroit synagogue board was found dead outside her home Saturday morning, police confirmed. Samantha Woll, president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in downtown Detroit, suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene after officers were called Saturday morning about …
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Since Elon Musk‘s takeover of X, formerly Twitter, the company’s dismantlingof content moderation teams, shift to a pay-for-verification model, and the launch of engagement-based revenue sharing have led to a flood of misinformation on the site. This has led to a social media platform struggling to keep up with misinformation …
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