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Students navigate new college admissions landscape, one year after affirmative action is struck down
Last June, the Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. The court held, in a 6-3 decision, that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s admissions programs, which had accounted for race at various stages in the process, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Now, students applying to post-secondary schools following the court’s decision are navigating a new landscape. David Jiang’s high school graduating class is the first to apply to college since the Supreme Court decision. Jiang, 18, whose parents immigrated from China more than 20 years ago, said Harvard University had been his dream school.
KRMG In Depth: Tulsa City Council candidate Alicia Andrews looks to fill empty seat in District 5
Andrews, currently serving as Chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, is running against former City Councilor Karen Gilbert to fill the seat left vacant by incumbent Councilor Grant Miller's decision to withdraw.
4 dead after minivan crashes into nail salon on Long Island, New York: Authorities
Four people were killed and nine others injured after a vehicle crashed into a storefront in New York on Friday, authorities said. The "mass casualty" incident occurred in Deer Park on Long Island Friday afternoon, Deer Park Fire Department Chief Dominic Albanese said during a press conference. A minivan traveled nearly all the way through to the back of a nail salon, he said. Four people were found dead upon arrival, all located inside a nail salon, Albanese said. It is unclear whether the victims were employees or customers, he said.
Judge denies Alec Baldwin's bid to dismiss 'Rust' charge over firearm evidence
A New Mexico judge denied Alec Baldwin's bid to drop his involuntary manslaughter charge over firearm evidence stemming from the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of "Rust" before his trial starts next month. In their request to dismiss the indictment, Baldwin's attorneys claimed the state "intentionally" destroyed key evidence -- the firearm involved in the shooting -- denying them the chance to review potentially exculpatory evidence. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer denied the request in an order issued on Friday, following arguments during a virtual hearing on Monday. Baldwin's trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection on July 9.
Survivor of Parkland high school mass shooting wins ownership of gunman’s name
A student who was the most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at a South Florida high school now owns the name of the shooter, who will be unable to conduct interviews and be part of documentaries without permission, according to a civil lawsuit.
125 dolphins stranded in 'difficult' location on Massachusetts beach, animal welfare group says
Some 125 dolphins are currently stranded on a beach near Wellfleet, Massachusetts, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). The Atlantic white-sided dolphins are stranded at the Great Island at the Herring River -- also known as the "Gut" -- which is a very difficult location to access and is covered in "dangerous mud," Stacey Hedman, director of communications for the IFAW, said in a statement on Friday. Ten dolphins had died before IFAW staff even arrived on the scene, Hedman said, describing the incident as the single-largest mass stranding event the group has ever responded to. Low tide occurred at 11:23 a.m., Hedman said. Given the large number of distressed dolphins, the plan is to triage and support the animals before attempting to refloat and herd as many as possible.
Dozens of Jan. 6 cases face uncertainty after Supreme Court narrows prosecutors' use of obstruction charge
The Supreme Court's ruling Friday narrowing a key obstruction statute used against more than 300 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol could affect dozens of cases brought by the Justice Department in the three years since prosecutors say a mob of former President Donald Trump's supporters disrupted Congress' certification of his election loss. In a 6-3 opinion, the majority of the court ruled that prosecutors overstepped in using the charge against defendants in cases where defendants were unable to show their actions impaired the integrity of actual physical evidence used in a disrupted proceeding. In a statement Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department would be taking "appropriate steps to comply with the Court's ruling," while noting the "vast majority" of the more than 1,400 defendants charged thus far in its Jan. 6 probe would remain unimpacted. According to the U.S. attorney's office for Washington, D.C., of the 249 cases where defendants have either been charged or convicted of the obstruction statute at issue, there are no cases in which it is the only criminal charge they faced.
Supreme Court narrows obstruction charge used in Jan. 6 riot prosecutions
The Supreme Court on Friday sided with a former police officer charged with obstruction for joining the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, finding that prosecutors interpreted a law used to prosecute him and hundreds of other accused rioters too broadly.
$700M catch: Dodgers batboy catches foul ball, saves Shohei Ohtani from injury
The Los Angeles Dodgers have a superstar in Shohei Ohtani, who signed for a record 10-year, $700 million deal in December 2023. But the team’s real hero Wednesday was its batboy, Javier Herrera.
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