ATLANTA — When word spread that President Joe Biden would serve as Morehouse College’s 2024 commencement speaker, a loud contingent of students and alumni demanded that the Atlanta-based Black college rescind the invitation.

They argued that Biden was on the wrong side of the Israel-Hamas war and that he was using Morehouse as a prop to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday finalized a rule to regulate most tests developed in a lab, in a move that observers expect will face legal challenges and prompt intervention from Congress.

The rule effectively reclassifies tests developed and performed in a lab as medical devices for the purposes of FDA regulation. It...Read more

In December 2022, Vanderbilt University neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel published a paper that caused an uproar in the dinosaur world.

After analyzing previous research on fossilized dinosaur brain cavities and the neuron counts of birds and other related living animals, Herculano-Houzel extrapolated that the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex ...Read more

NEW YORK — (S)he’s ba-a-a-ck — and it’s all for a good cause!

Ex-Rep. George Santos on Monday is reviving his long-hidden drag queen persona for what he claims is a charity fundraising effort after the collapse of his political career.

The disgraced former lawmaker tweeted that he will record personalized short videos using the cross-...Read more

ATHENS — Police broke up a protest of Israel’s war in Gaza on the campus of the University of Georgia on Monday morning, detaining several young demonstrators.

Around two dozen young protesters gathered on the Old College Lawn of the North Campus early Monday, some setting up tents, as the state’s flagship university became the latest U.S...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic Sen. Nicole Mitchell returned to the State Capitol and began casting votes on Monday for the first time since she was arrested and charged with felony first-degree burglary.

Mitchell, a first-term senator from Woodbury, declined to answer reporters' questions when the Senate recessed on Monday morning. Some of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit brought by an activist against Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de León over a scuffle at a holiday toy giveaway in 2022 could be dismissed as early as next month.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lynne Hobbs ruled during a hearing last week that the activist, Jason Reedy, had waited too long to file the lawsuit ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia legal and advocacy organizations held a briefing Monday, criticizing Emory University’s response to what they said were peaceful protesters last week.

Susana Perez, chair of the Atlanta chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, said the university was hostile toward legal observers the group sent to campus Thursday to monitor...Read more

ATLANTA — In a message to the community Monday morning, Emory University President Gregory L. Fenves said the school is reviewing how it works with outside law enforcement agencies.

Emory officials initially said a demonstration at the Atlanta campus last week was organized by “outside protesters.”

“It is clear to us now that this ...Read more

DENVER — Denver homeless advocates this month have demanded that city leaders step in to help 42 people who faced a potential return to the streets, two years after the city worked with service providers to move them into subsidized housing.

The “rapid rehousing” vouchers they received, providing significant monthly rent support, are now ...Read more

The 16-year-old child of Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield was found safe in San Francisco after going missing for a week, while a man she was with was held on abduction and other charges.

Mint Butterfield had left their home about an hour north of San Francisco voluntarily last Sunday and was reported missing the following morning. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore County jury has found a man guilty of manslaughter in a 2020 fatal shooting, after the man, who was a minor at the time, successfully appealed a murder conviction in the case.

Gary Melvin, 30, was killed by a single gunshot during the Aug. 16, 2020, shooting at an Exxon gas station in Reisterstown.

Baltimore County ...Read more

CHICAGO — In one of the most serious cases on the detention hearing call at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on a day earlier this month, a judge ordered a teen jailed pending trial after he was accused of shooting a woman in the neck during an attempted carjacking.

“It’s difficult for the court to come to the finding that an 18-year-...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed a fourth gray wolf depredation in Grand County on Sunday, according to the confirmed gray wolf depredation information.

The incident involved one calf and no claim has been submitted.

CPW defines gray wolf depredation as physical trauma that results in injury or death to a domestic animal. ...Read more

ATHENS — Police broke up a protest of Israel’s war in Gaza on the campus of the University of Georgia on Monday morning, detaining several young demonstrators.

Around two dozen young protesters gathered on the Old College Lawn of the North Campus early Monday, some setting up tents, as the state’s flagship university became the latest U.S...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the Dali slid out of its berth at the Port of Baltimore in the early hours of March 26, it wasn’t alone.

A pair of 5,000-horsepower tugboats guided the massive container ship into the deep channel in the Patapsco River, pointing it toward the Chesapeake Bay as it began its voyage to Sri Lanka. Then, off they went, according ...Read more

If you want to understand why the two largest U.S. oil companies are together spending in excess of $100 billion on acquisitions right now, look no further than the amount of crude they’re extracting from the two hottest oil fields on the planet.

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., which reported earnings Friday, are both predicting their ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri Capitol riot defendant charged with assaulting police and placed on home lockdown pending trial will now be allowed to go to work and attend church, a federal judge has ruled.

Jared Luther Owens, of Farmington in St. Francois County — who prosecutors say “repeatedly assaulted officers” — said he needed to...Read more