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A federal judge has temporarily barred the University of California from punishing members of a conservative student group for using names or pronouns tied to biological sex rather than gender identity. US District Judge Fred W. Slaughter, sitting in Los…
Demetrius Beatty, 40, has been charged with first-degree felony murder after prosecutors say he beat his girlfriend’s infant daughter to death and attempted to blame the killing on his autistic 6-year-old son. The Washington, D.C. Man was ordered held without…
A UC Berkeley junior is speaking out after surveillance cameras captured a homeless man scaling her apartment gate and chasing her inside the building. Eden Winograd, a 21-year-old student, said Bay Area she had just returned from walking her dog…
A judge cut loose a repeat transit offender who had just allegedly chomped into a police sergeant’s arm during a violent arrest fight. Derrick Daniels, 23, of New Jersey, was already wanted on a bench warrant when two officers spotted…
Nichole Schmidt is urging social media users to pause and share missing-person flyers, five years after her daughter’s killing drew national attention. Schmidt, 45, said on Friday that a single share can create a “ripple effect” that leads to someone…
Ellie Freeman carried her twin brother’s baby and uncovered a hidden cancer threat that may have saved his life. Adam Braitberg, 47, and his husband Omer Kuchman turned to Adam’s sisters when they decided to start a family near Melbourne,…
A common gum problem may raise dementia risk by more than half, according to a decade-long study of older adults in Japan. The research, published in The Journal of Clinical Periodontology, tracked nearly 1,400 participants for almost ten years as…
A NORAD fighter jet intercepted an aircraft that violated restricted airspace over Camp David on Saturday while President Trump was staying at the Maryland retreat. The First Air Force, part of US Northern Command, disclosed the incident in a post…
Astronomers have officially catalogued the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, a milestone that highlights both how far planetary defense has come and how much of the sky remains unmapped. The European Space Agency, which announced the tally this week, estimates that nearly…
Lea Michele disclosed in her memoir that she once dated a second Glee co-star. The revelation landed in her 2014 autobiography ‘Brunette Ambition,’ released less than a year after the death of her boyfriend and fellow cast member Cory Monteith.…
Claudia Tacoronte’s sister is demanding answers after a third female student was murdered at their Mexican university. The University of Granada, 21, had been in south-central Mexico only since August when she was stabbed to death at a medicinal plants…
Kit Barrus, 28, says she torched a “love hex” left inside her home by a college friend who refused to accept she would never date him. The OnlyFans creator, who draws roughly 10,000 subscribers a month and has amassed some…
Sophie Sparks is speaking out after doctors repeatedly dismissed her daughter’s leukemia as routine daycare bugs. Sparks, 37, of Rainham, Essex, spent six weeks pleading for answers while her 17-month-old daughter Darcey cycled through soaring temperatures, relentless coughs and infections…
The transit workers union is demanding judges be removed from the bench after accused assailants walked free without bail. John Chiarello, president of TWU Local 100, is “mad as hell” over two cases where men who attacked on-duty employees were…
A fruit fly’s digitized brain checkmated a leading AI chess model in 11 moves, its creator revealed. Maxime Labonne, a machine-learning engineer, wired the newly mapped connectome of an adult male fruit fly to a chess engine and watched it…
NYC officials told Queens residents they must pay hundreds of dollars to remove a basketball-sized hornets’ nest from a city tree themselves. The Parks Department rejected pleas from Councilman Phil Wong’s office to handle the bald-faced hornet colony hanging roughly…