A New York City psychiatrist who pleaded guilty to plotting the murder-by-sledgehammer death of her child’s father was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in state prison, but not before a dramatic moment in court in which Pamela Buchbinder tried to take back her plea, claiming she was maced by guards […]
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WH press secretary reflects on coming out as gay: ‘Wasn’t an easy thing’
Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly gay White House press secretary, marked National Coming Out Day on Tuesday with a personal story — sharing in a series of tweets and then remarks to reporters how “coming out wasn’t an easy thing to do.” On Twitter, Jean-Pierre wrote that she was proud […]
DOJ asks Supreme Court not to intervene in Trump documents dispute
The Department of Justice on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to avoid intervening in the government’s ongoing documents dispute with Donald Trump, asserting that the former president is not entitled to have the court put the materials before an independent arbiter. Trump had asked the court to put more than […]
Scientists pan analysis Florida’s surgeon general posted on COVID-19 vaccines
Vaccine experts are pushing back on an analysis published by Florida’s surgeon general that warns COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of cardiac-related deaths in young men, calling the study poorly designed and dangerously misleading. The warning against vaccines from Dr. Joseph Ladapo is the latest move by the state surgeon […]
Police respond to hoax shooting reports at multiple schools
Police departments in Florida responded to “swatting” calls at multiple high schools on Tuesday. Swatting is a hoax where someone calls emergency services and reports a nonexistent crime to get law enforcement officials — generally a SWAT team — to show up to an address. Boca Raton police said they […]
Student loan forgiveness will be ‘easy,’ WH says as it releases sample application
Biden administration officials on Tuesday previewed the Department of Education’s much anticipated student loan forgiveness application process, which they said would be “easy,” “straightforward” and resistant to fraud. But the officials did not signal when the loan cancellation applications would be available online beyond saying it would be sometime in […]
HBCU president questions why bus taking students to conference was pulled over
A bus driving students from a historically Black college to an economic conference was likely targeted when it was pulled over and searched, the university’s president said. Eighteen students of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and two staff advisers were on their way to the Center for Financial Advancement […]
36% of counties in US lack maternity care, new report finds
Maternal care is becoming increasingly difficult to access in the United States, according to a report released Tuesday by the March of Dimes, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of pregnant people and babies. More than a quarter of counties in the U.S., 36%, have no obstetric hospitals […]
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to disrupt its orbit. It worked!
NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid in a mission last month that tested a strategy to defend against a potential asteroid headed toward Earth, the agency said on Tuesday. “This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said […]
Charges dropped against subject of ‘Serial’ podcast
Prosecutors in Maryland have dropped charges against Adnan Syed, the man who was convicted of killing his former girlfriend in 2000, a case made popular by the 2014 “Serial” podcast that investigated issues with the prosecution. Syed, who is now 41, had been serving a life sentence for the past […]