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Just days after a fatal hit-and-run boat crash, a South Florida community is mourning the tragic loss of a 15-year-old girl. Ella Riley Adler was identified as the teen who was struck and killed by a boat while she was waterskiing in Biscayne Bay on Saturday afternoon. Since the tragic incident, there has been an overwhelming…

Dozens of students walked out of Duke University's commencement ceremony on Sunday as actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld was about to give his address, according to videos posted on social media.In a video posted on X, people were seen waving Palestinian flags and filing out of the crowd of graduates at the North Carolina university's football…

WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — After a long week in court, Donald Trump is heading to the Jersey Shore. And he’s being greeted by thousands of his friends. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, drew what his team called a “mega crowd” of “tens of thousands” to a Saturday evening rally in the…

Steve Bannon, a free man, on February 24, 2024, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.Ron Sachs/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Steve Bannon’s odds of going to prison ticked up on Friday when DC’s Circuit Court of Appeals…

Whitmire on May 8 said he wasn't ruling out an "internal or external chief," and that he plans to use his own personal network to find candidates and lead the search himself.Here are some of the names that have been floated as potential people to be the next Houston chief.Garcia, the chief of the Dallas Police Department, emerged as a rumored…

INDIANAPOLIS — After years of campaigning, the state of Indiana has picked the two candidates that will represent the Republican and Democratic parties in the state’s gubernatorial race. After Tuesday’s primary election, U.S. Senator Mike Braun, R-Ind. was voted as the Republican candidate for governor while Jennifer McCormick, the…

Within the next week, crews plan to use precision explosive charges to remove the large section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge draped across the bow of the Dali freighter.Charges will be placed on the truss, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Ronald Hodges of the Key Bridge Unified Command, and the crew still aboard the Dali will shelter in place…

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University canceled its large university-wide commencement ceremony Monday following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled its campus and others across the U.S., but said students will still be able to celebrate at a series of smaller, school-based ceremonies this…

The University of Mississippi opened a conduct investigation Saturday into at least one student after a video went viral showing a group of students harassing a pro-Palestine protester on the campus last week. Chancellor Glenn Boyce said the counterprotesters’ chants and actions Thursday contained “hostility and racist overtones.” Video…

An American college student looked out at a sea of protesters and spoke of a machine that had grown so “odious” that it had left people of good will little choice. There must be protest.“You’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop,” he said. Soon the…