An Idaho mother charged with murdering her 18-month-old twins insists routine vaccinations caused their deaths, while prosecutors say she suffocated the children. Murder charges A grand jury indicted 23-year-old Andrea Shaw on two counts of first-degree murder, accusing her of killing her 18-month-old twins, a boy and a girl, through premeditation or during aggravated battery. […]
The median price of an existing U.S. home rose to an all-time high in June, even as sales fell, underscoring that homebuyers remain squeezed by high prices, high mortgage rates and limited housing supply. The median existing single-family home price climbed 1.8% from a year earlier to $440,600, the highest price on record, the National […]
A musician gets a message from their friend saying a group just released a database of music that may have been used to train an artificial intelligence music program. The musician pulls up the website, types in their name and hundreds of their songs fill the screen. In that moment, their years of work breaking […]
On the first day of the Iran war, a U.S. missile destroyed an unlikely target: a school for girls. Nearly 200 children and adults died. More than four months later, a new report claims that senior U.S. military commanders approved the target after disregarding warnings that intelligence about the site was years out of date. […]
Two years after a study in the scientific journal Environment International found 14 different tampon brands contained toxic metals, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded its own study into the effects of those metals. In July 2024, Environment International found evidence of arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel and other metals in both organic and non-organic […]
One of rock’s most distinctive voices has gone silent. Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer behind the classics “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” has died at the age of 75. Ironically, the raspy voice that made her famous was never part of the plan. After surgery on her vocal cords […]
Artificial intelligence is redrawing the map of global economic winners and losers. But the same technology now lifting parts of the world economy could also threaten it, the International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday. In its July World Economic Outlook Update, the IMF projected global growth of 3% in 2026 and 3.4% in 2027, a forecast […]
President Donald Trump spent three years and multiple rounds of appeals trying to avoid paying author and journalist E. Jean Carroll a $5 million jury verdict. But that fight cost him about $800,000 more. On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered the release of $5.8 million to Carroll after the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s […]
A former Wisconsin judge will not go to prison for helping a Mexican national escape immigration enforcement. That’s after a jury convicted her of felony obstruction in the case. A U.S. District Judge sentenced Hannah Dugan to no time behind bars, but she will have to pay a $5,000 fine. Dugan had faced five years […]
The author of the Ohio-based political blog “The Rooster” said he plans to fight hard — and take his legal case all the way to trial — after he was put in handcuffs for texting a state senator a picture of Shrek’s penis. The blogger now faces the prospect of jail after he was busted […]
