Inflation pushed 71M people into poverty since Ukraine war
A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks followi...

Blake Masters’ Political Posts in a CrossFit Chat Room Co...
As a Stanford student in 2007, the Arizona candidate, now 35, chose a CrossFit chat room to express his opposition to U.S. involvement in World War II and do...

Reports: Law enforcement officers shoot man on W.Va. highway
News outlets are reporting that several law enforcement authorities shot a man on a federal highway in West Virginia

Police: Highland Park shooting suspect confessed, conside...
Authorities say the suspect in the Highland Park parade shooting confessed during police questioning and had considered another attack in Wisconsin. In an ex...

Russia proposes 6-month cross-border aid renewal for Syria
Russia has agreed to continue humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria for six months -- not a year, as many U.N. Security Counc...

Today in History: July 7, female cadets at West Point
Today in History Today is Thursday, July 7, the 188th day of 2022. There are 177 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 7, 1976, ...

Mercury hold public rally in support of Brittney Griner
PHOENIX >> They shared laughs, smiles, memories. There also were tears, fears, unease.

Police officer and suspect both killed in Detroit shooting
The father of the fallen officer recently retired from the same department, the Detroit police chief said.

Long COVID symptoms cost woman her job
Nearly one in five COVID patients will experience long-haul symptoms that can last months or even years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

Ex-cop Chauvin to get federal sentence for Floyd's killing
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is about to learn his sentence for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd

CBS Evening News, July 6, 2022
Police: Highland Park shooting suspect confessed, considered second massacre; Jury finds man guilty of murdering Nipsey Hussle

Ex-cop Chauvin to get federal sentence for Floyd’s killing
MINNEAPOLIS >> Derek Chauvin will learn his sentence Thursday for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, with a deal in place that would extend the for...

Jerry Harris, former "Cheer" star, gets 12 years in feder...
Harris pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge and a traveling for illicit sex with minors charge in February.

Finding rifle was pivotal to capturing parade shooting su...
Despite two encounters with police in 2019 involving threats of violence, the suspect's parents' attorney said they saw no warning signs.

Elon Musk fathered twins with one of his top executives l...
Elon Musk fathered twins with a top executive at his artificial intelligence startup Neuralink, court documents show.

One year of NIL: How much have athletes made?
After the first year of college sports’ name, image and likeness era, football and men’s basketball still claim the throne for the number of deal...

Detroit officer, gun-wielding suspect dead after shooting
A Detroit police officer and a suspect have been fatally shot on the city’s west side

States move to protect abortion from prosecutions elsewhere
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Democratic governors in states where abortion will remain legal are looking for ways to protect any patients who travel there for the proc...

Highland Park Shooting Reveals Limits of Illinois’s Gun R...
Legislators and gun control advocates are asking how the 21-year-old suspect was able to buy several weapons despite alarming police encounters and relativel...

Man imprisoned for decades alleges 1977 conviction was pa...
Vincent Simmons, now 70, made the accusation in a civil rights lawsuit filed in federal court.

South American women’s soccer improving but some way to go
BUENOS AIRES >> The Women’s Copa America soccer tournament starts Friday in Colombia at a time when the sport is clearly evolving in South America but ...

EU Merger Control and Digital Markets
On 31 May 2022, Skadden, Compass Lexecon and Concurrences convened for a fireside chat to discuss developments in merger control and digital markets, followe...

Prep softball: Wahlert throttles Waukon in regional tourn...
She missed a home run by mere inches and only reached first base.

A Georgia monument, seen by some as satanic, was damaged ...
The roadside attraction was built in 1980 from local granite, commissioned by an unknown person or group under the pseudonym R.C. Christian.

4 bears killed in Alaska campground reserved for homeless
Alaska wildlife officials have killed four black bears in a campground recently reserved for people in Anchorage who are homeless after the city’s larg...

Scramble as last Mississippi abortion clinic shuts its doors
JACKSON, Miss. >> Mississippi’s only abortion clinic has been buzzing with activity in the chaotic days since the U.S. Supreme Court upended abortion r...

Hampered Nadal gets past Fritz at Wimbledon; Kyrgios next
WIMBLEDON, England >> Wincing from abdominal pain, unable to ply his customary relentless style of tennis, Rafael Nadal thought he might need to stop playing...

Police officer missed chance to shoot Uvalde gunman by se...
There were several missed opportunities to stop the massacre at Robb Elementary School before it started, a new assessment of the law enforcement response says.

Inquest: Seattle police shooting of pregnant woman justified
An inquest jury has determined that two Seattle police officers were justified in fatally shooting a mentally unstable, pregnant, Black mother of four childr...

Simona Halep gets back to semifinals in Wimbledon return
WIMBLEDON, England >> In a roundabout way, Simona Halep is finally getting a chance to defend her Wimbledon title.

Seattle police shooting of pregnant woman justified, inqu...
SEATTLE >> An inquest jury found Wednesday that two Seattle police officers were justified in fatally shooting a mentally unstable, pregnant, Black mother of...

Former 'Cheer' star sentenced in federal sex crimes case
Former "Cheer" star Jerry Harris was sentenced on Wednesday to 12 years in prison for sex crimes charges.

FBI director calls China 'biggest' US threat, details att...
FBI Director Christopher Wray called China the "biggest long-term threat" to both the U.S. and the U.K.

Ex-‘Cheer’ star Harris gets 12 years for seeking photos, sex
CHICAGO >> A federal judge Wednesday sentenced Jerry Harris, a former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” to 12 years in prison for c...

OIG Submits HUD Semiannual Report to Congress
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has recently submitted its HUD Semiannual Report (Report) to Congress. The scope of the Report runs from the period Oc...

EXPLAINER: Should red-flag law have stopped parade shooting?
Days after a rooftop gunman killed seven people at a parade, attention has turned to how the assailant obtained multiple guns and whether the laws on Illinoi...

Uvalde officer missed chance to take down gunman, report ...
An Uvalde officer had the gunman in his sight before the shooter entered a school and killed 21 people, according to a new report. The officer asked a superv...

Police say tip helped thwart shooting allegedly planned a...
Police in Richmond, Virginia, said two suspects were planning a mass shooting at a Fourth of July celebration.

CT add state retirement plan
Connecticut announced the launch of MyCTSavings, a new retirement savings option for the more than 600,000 Connecticut private-sector workers who aren’t cove...

Richmond police: Tip prevented possible mass shooting
Authorities in Richmond, Virginia, say they stopped a mass shooting that was planned for the Fourth of July thanks to a tip from a "hero citizen."

Jury finds man guilty of murdering Nipsey Hussle
A Los Angeles jury convicted Eric Holder of murder in the 2019 shooting death of Grammy-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle. Prosecutors said Holder shot Hussle 10 ...

Ninth Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenges to Sectio...
In Moore v. United States, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected arguments that the mandatory repatriation tax imposed under section 965 ...

Upcoming Changes to NIH Harassment and Hostile Work Envir...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires recipient institutions—i.e., any entity receiving funding from the NIH—to have policies that foster a harass...

The fettering of “feta” and other product names under the...
New Zealand has secured a free trade deal with the EU, which is set to remove barriers to trade by eliminating tariffs for certain exporters. As part of the ...

FTC Enforcement Action Limits Noncompetition Agreements i...
On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order, in which he described the nation’s antitrust laws as the “first line of defense against the monop...