Costco has urged its shareholders to vote against efforts to reduce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) commitments. The move comes as Costco received a proposal about eliminating the policies.
A Washington state inmate has filed a federal lawsuit alleging repeated sexual assault and harassment by a transgender cellmate who was transferred to a women’s prison after changing gender identity. Mozzy Clark, the plaintiff, claims that state corrections officials knowingly placed her in a cell with Christopher Scott Williams, a 6-foot-4 convicted child molester, leading to months of abuse.
A 16-year-old boy was critically injured Sunday evening after being stabbed five times in Brooklyn, New York. Law enforcement sources reported that the attack occurred around 6:50 p.m. at the intersection of Carroll Street and Rochester Avenue in Crown Heights.
Outgoing West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin expressed strong disapproval on Thursday over President Joe Biden's decision to commute the death sentences of two men convicted in the brutal 2002 murder of Samantha Burns, a 19-year-old student at Marshall University. The two men, Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks, had been sentenced to death for their roles in Burns' killing. On Monday, as part of a larger commutation effort, Biden reclassified their sentences from execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole, along with 35 other inmates on federal death row.
A majority of likely voters support an FBI investigation of Liz Cheney, a key member of the partisan January 6 Committee, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Thursday. Some House Republicans are calling for an FBI investigation into Cheney for allegedly tampering with “at least one” witness of the partisan panel.
BioNTech has entered into two separate settlement agreements with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennsylvania regarding royalty payments for its COVID-19 vaccine.
Haitian gang violence claimed the lives of two journalists and a police officer during a press conference on Tuesday at Haiti’s largest public hospital, highlighting the ongoing instability in the nation’s capital.
Farmers and voters in California's Central Valley, the state's agricultural heartland, are facing uncertainty over the potential impact of mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.
