[ad_1] POCATELLO, Idaho — Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s office said it will not seek criminal charges against four Pocatello police officers who shot a nonverbal teenager with autism, who later died, while responding to a call in April. “The death of 17-year-old Victor Perez was a tragedy,” Deputy Attorney General Jeff Nye wrote in…
[ad_1] Washington — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration violated Harvard University’s First Amendment rights and federal law when it froze nearly $2 billion in federal grants because of the Ivy League school’s handling of antisemitism on campus. In a victory for Harvard, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs blocked Trump administration officials…
[ad_1] Heading toward fall, Americans are continuing to rate the U.S. economy negatively, as most pick “uncertain” and “struggling” to describe its current state. Ratings dipped again slightly over the last month. A third of Americans pick the descriptors “rebounding” or “expanding.” (Respondents could pick multiple words.) And more than twice as many said “unfair”…
[ad_1] Fifteen people were killed and 18 were injured after a funicular streetcar derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal, authorities said Wednesday. The crash took place on a popular streetcar line called the Elevador da Glória, a landmark located in central Lisbon and often visited by tourists. It opened in 1885. Five of the injured…
[ad_1] More than 1,000 current and former Health and Human Services employees penned an open letter Wednesday calling for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to either resign or be fired. The letter — whose signatories were not publicly named — was released at a tense time for the health agency. Last week, Centers for…
[ad_1] Americans are expected to rein in spending this holiday season by the most amount since the pandemic, as they continue to face pressure from high prices and tariffs. That’s according to a new survey released by accounting firm PwC on Wednesday, which predicts Americans this year will reduce holiday spending to $1,552 a person…
[ad_1] Sneak peek: The Death of Todd Stermer – CBS News Watch CBS News ENCORE: A woman accused of setting her house on fire and then intentionally running over her husband as he escaped the flames speaks out. “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty reports Saturday, Sept. 6 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+….
[ad_1] Washington — The Defense Department is considering authorizing up to 600 military attorneys to serve as temporary immigration judges, a defense official confirmed. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement that at the request of the Justice Department, the Defense Department is in the process of “identifying qualified Judge Advocates and civilian attorneys…
[ad_1] An 18-year-old Navy seaman who was killed aboard a U.S. destroyer during World War II has been accounted for more than 80 years after his death, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Navy Reserve Seaman 2nd Class Jerome M. Mullaney, 18, was assigned to the destroyer USS Glennon in the summer of 1944, the Defense…
[ad_1] After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors. The bestselling novelist and true crime writer announced Wednesday the first 12 recipients of grants from his “Go Finish Your Book” campaign. Authors each will receive up to…
