• Ohio State trustees OK $100M settlement with hundreds of former students abused by doctor
    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University agreed Wednesday to pay approximately $100 million to settle legal claims from hundreds of former student athletes who said they were sexually abused decades ago by a doctor at the university. The school has fought lawsuits in federal court since 2018 brought by former student athletes against the […]
  • A screwworm fly that bedeviled cattle ranchers decades ago has returned to Texas
    The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday, the first time in decades that the parasite with flesh-eating larvae has threatened the nation’s cattle industry and only the third time it’s appeared in the U.S. in that time. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the case was in […]
  • A lawsuit challenges Hawaii homestead leases limited to those with 50% Hawaiian blood
    HONOLULU (AP) — A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. court in Honolulu challenges a century-old system that provides one of the most valuable benefits for Native Hawaiians: land at almost no cost. The lawsuit says the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, which sets aside land for those who have at least 50% Hawaiian blood quantum, […]
  • US strike on an alleged drug boat kills 2 in the eastern Pacific Ocean
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, killing two men, as the Trump administration wages a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. […]
  • ICE protesters who interrupted Minnesota church service won’t face state charges, prosecutor says
    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Dozens of anti-immigration enforcement protesters who face federal criminal charges after they interrupted a Minnesota church service in January, accompanied by former CNN journalist Don Lemon, will not additionally face state charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday. St. Paul City Attorney Irene Kao said in a statement that “current evidence is […]