Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 05/26/2023 - 5:00am
One of the wonderful things about modern use of the internet is the widespread dissemination of information, some of which serves to be educational, awareness-provoking, and community-building, albeit most of it encompasses information folks would not have known but for social media attention and Google searches.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 05/26/2023 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — The United States Attorney’s Office will add three additional federal prosecutors, with one focusing on violent crime, another handling government fraud, and the third leading the office’s eLitigation program.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 05/26/2023 - 3:00am
A new lawsuit against a Florida school board marks a “first-of-its-kind challenge to unlawful censorship”.
On May 17, the world’s largest English-language publisher, Penguin Random House, free-speech organization PEN America, five authors (including bestselling queer YA author David Levithan) and two parents joined forces.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 05/24/2023 - 2:00am
The Supreme Court has made it more difficult to quote from existing imagery, music and text, and harder to critique society by borrowing and amplifying others’ works.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 04/21/2023 - 5:00am
In the span of six days, four young people across the U.S. have been shot — one fatally — for making one of the most ordinary and unavoidable mistakes in everyday life: showing up at the wrong place.
A man shot and wounded two cheerleaders outside a Texas supermarket early Tuesday after one of them said she mistakenly got into his car thinking it was her own.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 04/21/2023 - 4:00am
People in prison rarely get to go to college.
But an expansion in access to federal financial aid through Pell Grants for those who are incarcerated will soon make higher education a bit more available.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 04/21/2023 - 3:00am
Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 04/20/2023 - 5:00am
In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies purchased a string of properties on a quiet residential street in Savannah, Georgia. It wasn’t a marquee acquisition for the real estate magnate, just an old single-story home and two vacant lots down the road. What made it noteworthy were the people on the other side of the deal: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his relatives.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 04/20/2023 - 3:00am
Barb Anderson, director of Haven House in Jeffersonville, Indiana, works with homeless people to place them into housing. It’s a job that has shown her firsthand the severe health issues facing unhoused people in southern Indiana, where many people live in tents in the woods and under bridges.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Mon, 04/17/2023 - 2:00am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury selection began behind closed doors Thursday in a defamation lawsuit seeking to hold Fox News responsible for repeatedly airing false claims related to the 2020 presidential election.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis previously made clear that the selection would be done out of public view to ensure the privacy and safety of potential jurors.