After mistrial, feds move to retry ex-Louisville cop who fired shots in Breonna Taylor raid
(AP NEWS) – Federal prosecutors told a judge Wednesday they intend to retry former Louisville officer Brett Hankison after a jury deadlocked last month over charges he used excessive force the night Breonna Taylor was killed by police in 2020. […]
Read MoreFrom creeks to clouds: The invisible invasion of microplastics
Will Atwater – NC Health News Judging by recent developments, microplastics have risen to the status of supervillain. Reports about these new anti-heroes read almost like celebrity sightings. The tiny particles are everywhere: in water, on land, on mountaintops, in humans […]
Read MoreDemocrat-turned-Republican Tricia Cotham draws a Democratic challenger
NC NEWSLINE – Rep. Tricia Cotham, the Democrat-turned-Republican who upended North Carolina politics, has a Democratic challenger in the Mecklenburg House district where she’s running for another term. Yolanda Holmes, the Democrat who came in second to Cotham in a […]
Read MoreThe Supreme Court will rule on limits on a commonly used abortion medication
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last […]
Read MoreFDA approves 2 gene therapies for sickle cell. One is the first to use the editing tool CRISPR
Laura Ungar (AP NEWS) – Regulators on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration said […]
Read MoreGeorgia election worker suing Rudy Giuliani tells jurors that his lies made her fear for her life
WASHINGTON (AP) – Scared for her life after Rudy Giuliani and other Donald Trump allies falsely accused her of fraud, former Georgia election worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss told jurors Tuesday she seldom leaves her home, suffers from panic attacks and […]
Read MoreThis land is our land: States crack down on foreign-owned farm fields
Kevin Hardy – Stateline Andy Gipson gets concerned even when American allies such as the Netherlands and Germany invest in large swaths of Mississippi’s farmland. “It just bothers me at a gut level,” he said. For Gipson, Mississippi’s commissioner of […]
Read MoreYears in the making, North Carolina celebrates billion-dollar investment in passenger rail
NC NEWSLINE – U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said it has been decades since the country has properly invested in the speed and reliability Americans want when it comes to passenger rail. But that is about to change. Buttigieg was […]
Read MoreSupreme Court will hear a case that could undo Capitol riot charge against hundreds, including Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot, including against former President Donald Trump. The justices will review a charge of obstruction of […]
Read MoreUS agency takes first step toward requiring new vehicles to prevent drunk or impaired driving
DETROIT (AP) – U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Tuesday that it is starting the process […]
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