Bridget J. Crawford, Pace University New York Attorney General Letitia James hit former president Donald Trump with a US$250 million lawsuit on Sept. 21, 2022, citing “staggering” amounts of falsified business information and fraud. The civil lawsuit alleges that Trump, his company…
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted R. Kelly of several child pornography and sex abuse charges in his hometown of Chicago. 55-year-old Kelly, who used to be one of the biggest R&B stars in the world, was found guilty of…
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Roberto Lucchini, Florida International University The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World…
John Logan, San Francisco State University Labor Day 2022 comes smack bang…
Linda C. McClain, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The ruling in Dobbs…
3 people died, and at least 50 others were injured after an Amtrak train derailed. The crash was caused after the train hit a dump truck in an uncontrolled public crossing in…
Authorities said 46 migrants were found dead while 16 others were hospitalized after a tractor-trailer truck was found Monday on a remote back road in southwest San Antonio, Texas. The incident was…
A 5-year-old boy left strapped in a hot car for hours under the Texas heat died on Monday. According to the preliminary information from Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, the child, his mother, and…
Two women received life-threatening injuries after a fatal crash while skydiving in Wisconsin. A 28-year-old woman from Racine and a 49-year-old woman from Chicago had been tandem skydiving at Skydive Midwest Skydiving…
James Densley, Metropolitan State University and Jillian Peterson, Hamline University When the Columbine High School massacre took place in 1999 it was seen as a watershed moment in the United States –…
David Godwin, University of Florida Wildfires fueled by dry, windy conditions have destroyed dozens of homes in Texas and threatened hundreds of others there and in Oklahoma and Florida this March. They’re…
Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell It’s widely known that Asian Americans felt – and were – persecuted during the pandemic. But the extent of this violence, and its uneven geographic distribution across the…
Amy Fried, University of Maine and Douglas B. Harris, Loyola University Maryland The Republican National Committee has legitimized the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attacks. The RNC declared on Feb. 4, 2022, that…
Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College The Federal Reserve on Jan. 26, 2022, signaled plans to begin raising interest rates “soon” – possibly in March – in a…
