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(EAST LANSING, Mich.) Researchers from Michigan State University and Rutgers University say they will lead the first nationally funded study on the effects of structural racism on housing, aging and health.The research – funded by an expected $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging – will examine the impact that “racist and discriminatory” policies over the last 100 years have had on a […]

Courtesy Omar Rodriguez (NASSAU, Bahamas) Search efforts are underway for a 66-year-old woman who fell overboard on a Taylor Swift-themed cruise Tuesday night, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.The missing passenger fell off the Royal Caribbean ship Allure of the Season about 17 miles north of Nassau, Bahamas, the Coast Guard said.The Coast Guard is assisting with the search, which is being led by the Royal Bahamas Defense Force.The four-night […]

(DELPHI, Ind.) -- A pair of teenage girls who were on the Delphi, Indiana, hiking trail the same day two younger girls were murdered are speaking out about their recollections of the "bridge guy."Railly Voorhies testified Tuesday at Richard Allen's murder trial that she was on the small-town trail on Feb. 13, 2017, with a friend and two sisters.Voorhies, who was 16 at the time, said she passed a man near Freedom Bridge […]

(DELPHI, Ind.) -- A 30-second video filmed by 14-year-old victim Libby German just before she was murdered in Delphi, Indiana, was played for the jury on Tuesday during Richard Allen's trial.Allen is accused of killing Libby and 13-year-old Abby Williams while the best friends walked on a trail in their small town on the afternoon of Feb. 13, 2017.The video -- played during testimony from Indiana State Police digital forensic examiner […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Federal and local law enforcement and officials in Washington, D.C., are ramping up preparations to ensure a safe and peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2025, and on Inauguration Day.In September, the Department of Homeland Security designated Jan. 6 a National Special Security Event (NSSE) and approved D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's request for additional federal resources.The District is anticipating that there will be no declared winner on […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- After it was announced last week that Erik and Lyle Menendez might have their case reevaluated, based on the emergence of new evidence, the Los Angeles district attorney on Tuesday clarified that the decision would likely come by the end of the week.In an unrelated news conference on Tuesday evening, LA District Attorney George Gascon answered a prompt for an update on the brothers' potential resentencing by […]

(HOUSTON, TX) -- A couple has been arrested and charged for attempting to kidnap and kill a man the wife was having an affair with in Texas.The victim, who told an ABC News' Houston affiliate he would not like to be named due to fears over his safety, was shot twice and is now recovering.Hana Ahmad Alolaimi, 35, and Omar Mahmoud Bishtawi, 48, were charged with aggravated assault and aggravated […]

Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA) -- Police in Canada said Tuesday they are investigating after a 19-year-old Walmart employee was found dead inside a store's walk-in bakery oven.Officers responded to the Walmart -- located in Halifax, Nova Scotia -- on Saturday night after the employee was found dead, police said."The woman, who was an employee of the store, was located in a large walk-in […]

(NEW YORK) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has seven days to turn over luxury items and shares of his New York City co-op apartment to cover much of what he owes to two Georgia poll workers he defamed in 2020, a federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday.Giuliani must transfer all personal property "including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables, a legal claim for unpaid attorneys' fees, and […]