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Haley Taylor Schlitz (DALLAS) — Haley Taylor Schlitz made headlines in 2019 after getting accepted into nine law schools. She was just 16 at the time. Now, after three years of classes, long nights, clerkships and [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The Texas Supreme Court reversed the statewide halt on investigations into parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children on Friday. However, the court also stated that the Texas [Read More…]

WLS (ELGIN, Ill.) — Betty Brown was rejected by Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Illinois, for nursing school 71 years ago because she is Black. This year, the now-retired 90-year-old is being named an honorary chief [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A storm system that caused damage in South Dakota and Minnesota Thursday is moving east into the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River valley on Friday. Damaging winds are expected [Read More…]

Andrew Brookes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Texas inmate serving life for murder managed to break free from his shackles, overpower a bus driver and escape from custody, officials said. Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was on [Read More…]

amphotora/Getty Images (KENOSHA, Wis.) — The family of a 12-year-old girl has taken the first steps towards suing a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who they say kneeled on the girl’s neck while trying to [Read More…]

Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Stargazers all over the world will have an opportunity to see a blood moon over the weekend as a lunar eclipse moves into Earth’s orbit. The penumbral [Read More…]

Stocktrek Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 11 people are dead and dozens were rescued after a boat capsized Thursday off the coast of Puerto Rico, officials said. The vessel, which was “suspected of taking [Read More…]

Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images) (HOLYOKE, Mass.) — Massachusetts has reached a $56 million settlement with the families of the dozens of veterans who died and were sickened during the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home’s widespread COVID-19 outbreak in the [Read More…]

ABC (NEW YORK) — Dr. Susan Hillis, who has spent years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is the lead author of several reports on Covid-related orphanhood and caregiver death, spoke recently about [Read More…]

U.S. Army (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) — Officials have identified a U.S. Army soldier who died after sustaining injuries in a bear attack Tuesday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. Staff Sgt. Seth Michael Plant, 30, an infantryman [Read More…]

Richard Williams Photography/Getty Images (DALLAS) — Two suspected gunmen were arrested in connection with a mass shooting at a concert in Dallas last month that left one man dead and 16 people injured, including three juveniles, [Read More…]

Liberty County Sheriff’s Office (NEW YORK) — Delaware officials are calling for an investigation into allegations of racial profiling after Georgia deputies conducted a drug search of a bus transporting female student-athletes at a historically Black [Read More…]

Philadelphia Police Department (PHILADELPHIA) — A $20,000 reward is being offered in the search for a pair of gunmen caught on security video apparently stalking and then opening fire in broad daylight at a busy [Read More…]

Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.) — A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California that has destroyed more than 20 homes grew to approximately 200 acres as of Thursday morning, according to [Read More…]

FILE photo – Ed Sloane/World Surf League via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Aviation Administration this week revoked pilot certificates for the two men involved in a Red Bull-sponsored plane swap that resulted in [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images, FILE (MIAMI) — A nearly $1 billion settlement in last year’s shocking collapse of a Miami Beach-area condo building was unexpectedly announced during a routine status conference in a Florida courtroom Wednesday [Read More…]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — What was once unthinkable — is now a reality. One million Americans have now died from the coronavirus, according to an announcement made Thursday by President Joe Biden, marking a [Read More…]

Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Several homes were destroyed in Southern California Wednesday night as the Coastal Fire continued to spread. At least 20 homes were burned down in [Read More…]

kali9/Getty Images (DALLAS) — Three women in Dallas were shot Wednesday afternoon after a suspect opened fire at a hair salon located in the city’s Koreatown, a historically Asian district. The women suffered nonfatal injuries [Read More…]