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Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse on Thursday identified the man whose remains were discovered in a barrel in the shallow waters of Lake Mead in 2022 as Edward Lelburian Jackson, a homicide victim believed to have been killed decades…
2026-10-16 · 3 MIN READWilliam H. Draper III, a pioneering Silicon Valley venture capitalist who helped build the early technology-investing industry from a scattering of fruit orchards south of San Francisco, died Sept. 8 at the age of 98, The Wall Street…
2026-10-15 · 4 MIN READAustralian Greens senator Jordon Steele-John took leave from the party room on Thursday after seven party members demanded an investigation into allegations he made inappropriate comments to a number of women, the Nine newspapers reported.
2026-10-15 · 3 MIN READA 27-year-old Pennsylvania woman has been charged with two counts of criminal homicide after she allegedly killed her husband and their three-year-old son at a Great Wolf Lodge resort in the Poconos mountains of Pennsylvania, according to…
2026-10-14 · 4 MIN READThe family of Jordan Yap, a 30-year-old Australian hiker from Melbourne, said he has been found dead in Peru after going missing on a remote Andes trek. Yap last made contact with friends and family on 14 September before a planned 10-day…
2026-10-11 · 4 MIN READA decade-old system that Arizona's Maricopa County nonprofit leaders once billed as the "Amazon of homeless service systems" connected only 6% of assessed families with permanent housing by 2023, according to a ProPublica investigation…
2026-10-09 · 4 MIN READUniversity of Maryland President Darryll Pines announced Wednesday night that student Dilan Ashar, 22, had been found alive after a multi-day search that drew support from family, elected officials, and the campus community, according to a…
2026-10-08 · 3 MIN READGuojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, have been charged with multiple counts of abusing at least 14 surrogate-born children — some as young as two months old — and with dissuading a witness, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced…
2026-10-07 · 4 MIN READCanadian military families and veterans are pressing Trump administration officials for an apology after a series of remarks by Vice President JD Vance, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the…
2026-10-06 · 3 MIN READPolice said Tuesday that Silvia Zhang and her husband, Guojun Xuan, of Arcadia, California, have been arrested on child abuse charges following an investigation into a surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 children. The Los Angeles County…
2026-10-06 · 3 MIN READThe last part of Washington DC's pets in housing amendment act, known as "Roscoe's Law," took effect Thursday, prohibiting landlords from refusing tenants based on a dog's breed, size or weight and barring related special charges.…
2026-10-01 · 5 MIN READCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation ending the practice of child marriage in the state, with the law scheduled to take effect January 1, 2027. The bill sets a minimum marriage age of 18, closing a system in which California…
2026-10-01 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a custody dispute between a California couple and a surrogate who continued the pregnancy after the couple asked her to terminate it following an in-utero diagnosis of a…
2026-09-23 · 3 MIN READVista Grande Villa, a Michigan memory care facility, asked Marjorie Tingley's five sons in December 2024 for permission to sedate the 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient with antipsychotic medications after Vista Grande behavior logs recorded…
2026-09-30 · 7 MIN READ
A Massachusetts prosecutor urged a judge Tuesday to keep juror notes from Lindsay Clancy's mistried first-degree murder trial sealed, arguing that outside attention has created a "chilling effect" on potential jurors. Defense attorney…
2026-09-29 · 4 MIN READJaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old U.S. Navy communications specialist, died by suicide aboard the amphibious transport dock USS Fort Lauderdale on June 20, about a month before the ship returned to Norfolk, Virginia, in July, from an 11-month…
2026-09-29 · 4 MIN READNew York Times engineer Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was fatally shot at a Dublin, California park on Sunday, allegedly by his in-laws, who were arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after the attack, the Guardian reported. Witnesses told CBS…
2026-09-28 · 5 MIN READA top deputy to FBI Director Kash Patel is resigning after roughly a year on the job, people familiar with the matter said. Andrew Bailey, a co-deputy director, told the workforce in an email that he needed to spend time with his family,…
2026-09-28 · 3 MIN READA private mountain rescue crew is searching Peru's remote Huayhuash mountain range for Jordan Yap, a 30-year-old Melbourne man last heard from on 14 September ahead of a planned 10-day solo trek. Family and friends of Yap, described by…
2026-09-27 · 3 MIN READJosé Padilla reunited with his partner Alma Ramirez and their children at Union Station in Los Angeles on August 4, 2026, six months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained him while he was working as a car washer. Padilla, 41,…
2026-09-25 · 5 MIN READThree UK women in their early 20s have described to the BBC how they navigate rent, bills and job searches without the financial support that many of their peers receive from family. The accounts, published Tuesday by BBC Your Voice,…
2026-09-22 · 4 MIN READA 23-member Jackson County grand jury that returned a "no true bill" Monday in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells drew from six ethnic groups, according to the grand jury report posted to District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath's Facebook…
2026-09-22 · 3 MIN READAt least 17 family-annihilation killings have occurred in the United States so far this year, up from six such attacks across all of 2025, according to data compiled by Northeastern University and reported by the Guardian. The sharp rise…
2026-09-19 · 3 MIN READWarren Buffett announced Friday he is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, naming his 71-year-old son Howard "Howie" Buffett as his successor at the $1 trillion conglomerate Warren has controlled since 1965. Howard Buffett has…
2026-09-18 · 3 MIN READA national survey conducted between April and June 2026 by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that 40% of pediatricians have seen families staying away from medical care due to immigration concerns. A separate 30% of pediatricians…
2026-09-17 · 4 MIN READBarack Obama announced Wednesday on social media that Sunny, the family's Portuguese Water Dog, had died the previous day at age 14. The former president called Sunny 'a force of nature' and said the family had lost 'a cherished member of…
2026-09-16 · 3 MIN READTwo reproductive health research organizations, Guttmacher and Power to Decide, released an interactive county-by-county map on September 16 documenting contraception access gaps across the United States, with their data showing that more…
2026-09-16 · 3 MIN READLos Angeles prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against Nick Reiner, who is accused of stabbing to death his parents, director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Tuesday ahead of a…
2026-09-15 · 3 MIN READThe jury foreperson in the Lindsay Clancy trial said in a Tuesday interview with Boston's NBC10 that a single holdout juror had doubts about her guilt but still would not vote to acquit. The interview aired four days after a judge declared…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READLate last month, a scammer used a group text message to send what appeared to be an AI-generated sexual image of a Missouri family's 24-year-old daughter to multiple relatives across two households, including in-laws and a 16-year-old…
2026-09-05 · 4 MIN READU.S. District Judge David A. Bragdon ruled Friday that former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued in North Carolina under the state's alienation-of-affection law over her romantic relationship with a member of her security detail,…
2026-09-04 · 3 MIN READAn Associated Press analysis published this week found that hundreds of thousands of children were sitting on childcare assistance waitlists in 23 states and the District of Columbia as of this spring, with many eligible families turned…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal reports that families have several federal exclusions for transferring money to children and grandchildren during life. Individuals can give up to $19,000 per recipient in 2026 generally without filing a gift-tax…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READPsychologist Nibia Pizzo, writing in UPI's 'LATAM Perspectives' series, compiles official civil-registry data from Chile, Uruguay and Mexico and UN population estimates documenting simultaneous declines in marriage and birth rates…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READThe population of children under 18 in Seattle and Washington, D.C. grew 10% between 2015 and 2024, diverging from other expensive U.S. cities that have seen their child populations shrink, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of…
2026-09-01 · 4 MIN READDolly Parton has been buried next to her late husband Carl Dean at a Nashville mausoleum following a private family funeral on Friday, her great-niece said. The country music star, who died earlier in the week at age 80, was interred at…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READFour of Gerald J. Ford's adult children are suing to gain control of their father's more than 26% stake in Hilltop Holdings, a Dallas-based financial-services holding company, according to court filings reported by The Wall Street Journal.…
2026-08-30 · 3 MIN READDolly Parton, the country music star and philanthropist, died this week at age 80. Her Imagination Library literacy program, launched in 1995 in her home Sevier County, Tennessee, had distributed more than 300 million free books to…
2026-08-29 · 3 MIN READAbdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, is concentrating roughly two-thirds of his post-primary television ad spending on a single spot featuring his white step-grandparents and their Michigan roots, according to data from…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READFederal immigration officers have detained more than 50 people in Danbury, Connecticut, this week in an operation that began Monday, according to the advocacy group Danbury Unites for Immigrants. ICE officers, some wearing masks, made…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READJurors in the Massachusetts triple-murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, 36, are expected to begin deliberations this week after five weeks of testimony. Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 24, 2023, deaths…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READAlan Smith, 44, killed his grandmother, his parents, his younger sister, and her children at a home on the outskirts of Billings, Montana, where the family had gathered for Sunday dinner, according to authorities. Smith died of a…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READMultiple people — including children — were killed Sunday evening in a shooting at a home in Billings's west end area that was also set ablaze, according to authorities. The suspect in the case was found outside the home with a…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READThe wife of an active-duty U.S. Army sergeant was deported Monday to her native Honduras, according to her family and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Associated Press identified her as Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo and…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READThe Brown-Forman family is fighting internally to maintain control of the Jack Daniel's whiskey parent company as the company faces shrinking profits, a 60% share-price decline over five years, and a $15 billion hostile takeover bid, The…
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READAn estimated 400,000 children were on waitlists for federal childcare assistance programs in the second half of 2025, according to a May report from the National Women's Law Center — a figure that has more than tripled in roughly two…
2026-08-19 · 4 MIN READEmily Moreno, the ex-wife of Republican Rep. Max Miller, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Ohio congressman and his attorney alleging they shared a nude image of their infant daughter through a publicly accessible Dropbox folder. The…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READAn AP-Ipsos poll finds higher-income U.S. families are more likely than lower-income families to enroll their K-12 children in organized sports, with American parents broadly citing major benefits to youth athletics.
2026-08-13 · 3 MIN READA California couple's surrogate gave birth Wednesday in Texas, a day after a judge in Dallas ordered life-sustaining care for the newborn amid a dispute over a congenital heart condition. The child was receiving stabilizing care and was…
2026-08-13 · 3 MIN READPresident Trump's endorsement of 26-year-old Michael Alfonso, the son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, has not cleared the Republican field in Wisconsin's Seventh Congressional District, where four challengers remain ahead of…
2026-08-09 · 3 MIN READYolanda Olejniczak Marodi, 54, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to second-degree murder in the February 2025 stabbing death of her wife, Rebecca 'Becky' Marodi, a California fire captain who fought the Eaton blaze. The 49-year-old victim was…
2026-08-07 · 5 MIN READA Florida woman who gave birth to triplets as a surrogate for a Chinese father and then raised the surviving twins for 20 months is fighting a custody battle that has drawn in state officials over birthright citizenship. The children were…
2026-07-31 · 3 MIN READThe number of children under 18 living in big U.S. cities has fallen 6% in the past decade, with the drop even steeper among the youngest children, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Census Bureau data. The number of children…
2026-07-27 · 3 MIN READMore than 330,000 Haitian immigrants in the United States are set to lose their ability to legally live and work in the country as the Trump administration prepares to terminate their Temporary Protected Status, displacing families and…
2026-07-26 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday plans to speak at a Georgia high school to promote the Trump Accounts program, which provides $1,000 in seed money to children born during his second term. The Treasury Department reports 6.5 million…
2026-07-22 · 3 MIN READA judge revoked the $2 million bond for Andrea Shaw, the Idaho mother charged with murdering her 18-month-old twin children, ordering her held without bail after prosecutors argued she posed a threat to her newborn baby. Shaw, 23, appeared…
2026-07-15 · 4 MIN READAndrea Shaw, 23, has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the May 2025 deaths of her 18-month-old twin children, Tyson and Dallas. The children were found dead in a shared bed in Payette, Idaho, on May 1, 2025. Shaw had…
2026-07-06 · 3 MIN READUnintentional child drowning deaths in the United States have risen since 2019, reversing decades of progress and prompting pediatricians and public health advocates to renew calls for stronger safety measures and expanded swimming…
2026-07-04 · 3 MIN READWealthy families are increasingly choosing alternative K-8 schools that emphasize life skills, entrepreneurial thinking and AI-based learning, according to parents and school founders. Schools such as Alpha School and Forge Prep are…
2026-07-04 · 3 MIN READSixteen children from the same family were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio after being confined to a single room in deplorable conditions for much of the past four years, authorities said Wednesday. The children, ranging in…
2026-07-01 · 4 MIN READAuthorities in Plantation, Florida, said Tuesday they are investigating after a child was found dead Monday inside a vehicle parked outside A World of Discovery Academy. The child's father arrived at the school to pick up his child and…
2026-06-30 · 3 MIN READTwo new reports from the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan thinktank, found that imprisoning women costs up to 75% more per year than incarcerating men, while halving women's prison sentences would produce negligible increases in…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READChildren-centered organizing is on the rise across New York City, as progressive churches, family groups and advocacy coalitions integrate young children into activism instead of separating them into a small Sunday school room during…
2026-06-28 · 3 MIN READA Michigan couple has been charged with second-degree murder after their 7-year-old son died weighing 255 pounds, authorities said Friday. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton charged Damien O'Brien, 40, and Jessica O'Brien, 41, with…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READFormer U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was briefly separated from his four-year-old twins this week after an anonymous allegation prompted police to conduct forensic interviews and order him not to be alone with the children,…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READMonique Di Liberto spent 17 years as a full-time parent. When she began looking for paying work again, she said she felt paralyzed by self-doubt — a feeling familiar to millions of Americans navigating career breaks after layoffs,…
2026-06-25 · 4 MIN READA ransom note reportedly sent to the family of Savannah Guthrie and to news media in the days after the 84-year-old was abducted from her Tucson home in January claimed that she had died.
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READA wattled jacana chick hatched days before Father's Day at the San Diego Zoo, and the male bird is handling all of the chick's care, zoo officials said Monday.
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READNew Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's July 2025 directive requiring the state's child welfare agency to seek custody of all newborns exposed to drugs or alcohol in utero has drawn legal challenges from Native American tribes and civil…
2026-06-21 · 4 MIN READBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer this week announced a comprehensive ban on social media for children under 16, covering platforms including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, Snapchat and YouTube, according to reports from the Guardian.…
2026-06-20 · 3 MIN READFor generations of Black Texans, the annual Juneteenth feast at Comanche Crossing near Lake Mexia was more than a celebration — it was a living tradition of food as a symbol of freedom and resistance. Bobby J. Smith II, an associate…
2026-06-19 · 4 MIN READA Florida couple who gave birth to a child after a fertility clinic implanted the wrong embryo will retain permanent custody under a confidential agreement reached with the biological parents, court filings show. Steven Mills and Tiffany…
2026-06-17 · 4 MIN READA 68-year-old Michigan man who forgot to tell a store clerk to skip a specific lottery game ended up winning a $1.05 million progressive jackpot, the Michigan Lottery reported.
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READSK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and his former wife, Roh Soh-yeong, failed to reach an agreement in a court mediation session Monday for the division of their assets, sending the high-profile divorce settlement case back to trial…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READFamily members visiting detainees at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, say guards have repeatedly rejected them over an arbitrary dress code — including toddlers in onesies and a 4-year-old in leggings…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READA Maryland man who bought three identical Pick 5 tickets using the digits from his employee ID number won a total of $150,000, lottery officials said. The La Plata man purchased the $1 tickets at a local liquor store and discovered his…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READErika Kirk, widow of slain activist Charlie Kirk, delivered a faith-centered vision for conservative Christian womanhood at Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio last weekend, where roughly 3,000 attendees heard…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READAmanda Sloat, a professor of practice in international relations at IE University in Madrid, wrote a personal essay published Thursday in The Guardian reflecting on how her father, a psychologist, taught her to confront death from an early…
2026-06-11 · 4 MIN READNEW YORK — In the new Apple TV+ mystery dramedy 'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,' Jake Johnson plays Karl, a father caught between his unstable ex-wife and his manipulative new spouse as a murder investigation complicates their family dynamic.
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