What to know about the judge who will handle the Trump case
Superior Court of Fulton County (ATLANTA) — Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants drew the newest judge on the Superior Court of Fulton County — Scott McAfee. Appointed to the bench by Republican Gov. Brian
Police raid on small Kansas newspaper sets off constitutional alarms
Courtesy of the Marion County Journal Newspaper (MARION, Kan.) — A police raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper is prompting a First Amendment fight. Surveillance video of the raid on the family-owned Marion County Record newsroom obtained
Maui wildfire now ranks as the fifth-deadliest in US history
Paula Ramon/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With dozens of people still unaccounted for, the conflagration that has caused widespread devastation across the Hawaiian island of Maui is now the fifth-deadliest wildland fire in U.S. history.
Trump's bid to remove judge in hush-money case is rejected
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan declined to recuse himself from overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case in New York, ruling Monday that Trump “has failed to demonstrate
Boy, 12, speaks out about ‘traumatic’ wrongful detention by Lansing police
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A 12-year-old who was wrongfully handcuffed and detained by police in Lansing, Michigan on Thursday while he was taking out the trash spoke out in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Good
Boy, 13, speaks after avoiding major injury in nearly 100-foot Grand Canyon fall
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A 13-year-old boy said he has no permanent injuries after surviving a nearly 100-foot fall into the Grand Canyon last week. Wyatt Kaufman, who was visiting the Grand Canyon on vacation with
Timeline: How the deadly wildfires took over Maui day by day
YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images (MAUI, Hawaii) — Dozens of people have been killed in the devastating Maui wildfires that also left thousands of structures — including homes, businesses and cultural centers — destroyed. The fires crept
'Cop City' protesters collect enough signatures to put referendum on ballot
Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Images (ATLANTA, Ga.) — The #StopCopCity protesters have collected more than enough signatures to move its referendum campaign forward in an effort to get the city to repeal the lease it has with
Montana youths win climate lawsuit against state for promoting fossil fuels
William Campbell/Getty Images, FILE (HELENA, Mont.) — A group of young people from Montana won a major climate case on Monday after arguing the state failed to protect their right to a clean environment by continuing to
Cecily Aguilar sentenced to 30 years in Vanessa Guillen case
David Talukdar/Getty Images (WACO, Texas) — Cecily Aguilar, who pleaded guilty to one count of accessory to murder after the fact and three other charges in the 2020 murder of U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén, has been