Ronald Lafferty, a Mormon fundamentalist on death row for what he claimed were the divinely inspired murders of his sister-in-law and baby niece in 1984, died of natural causes in prison on Monday. He was 78.
Speaking at the funeral of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Hillary Clinton offered a forceful defense of democracy and compared the late congressman, a leader in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, to the prophet Elijah.
Speaking at the funeral of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, offered a forceful defense of democracy and compared the late congressman, a leader in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, to the prophet Elijah.
The conviction of Matthew Naquin, 21, of Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, is the latest example of the hard line increasingly taken by prosecutors when fraternity activities turn deadly, whether from alcohol abuse or from physical violence.
Chris Cline, a billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist and political donor once called the “King of Coal,” died Thursday in what news reports said was a helicopter crash in the Bahamas.
Mayor Lyda Krewson of St. Louis said in a statement that officers belonged at the Pride parade because “exclusion of the Police Department, or of anyone, is not in the spirit of our city.”
A city official said the application was a major step toward an official parade permit, which also requires the consent of the Boston Police Department. But the police said there appeared to be no major hurdle for the event.
A Catholic high school in Indianapolis said it fired a teacher in a same-sex marriage on Sunday to protect its “Catholic identity” after it received an order to do so from the archbishop. The move came one week after the archdiocese cut ties with another school in Indianapolis that had refused a similar command.
Sparks, his foundation and other school officials were named in the lawsuit, which was filed in 2014 but burst into public view last week with the publication of the emails. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in August in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Wednesday that Tolton was the first Catholic priest “publicly known to be black” when he was ordained in 1886.
The Catholic Church is fighting fires on many fronts. Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are investigating abuse and cover-up allegations against the church, Mass attendance is declining, and a string of bishop scandals has deepened mistrust of its leadership.
The judge, Justice John P. Colangelo, who also granted the parents’ request in March, said in his ruling on May 16 that the question before the court boiled down to this: “Who, if anyone, should be given the authority to determine the disposition of Peter’s genetic material, now preserved in the sperm bank?”
The Trump administration escalated its conflict with the tech industry on Wednesday, unveiling a website that asks people who think their viewpoints have been censored by social media platforms to share their stories — and their contact information.
One of the founding members of the hip-hop group the Fugees and a fugitive Malaysian financier have been charged with conspiring to violate federal campaign finance law by funneling millions of dollars worth of foreign money into the 2012 presidential election, the Justice Department said Friday.
One of the founding members of the hip-hop group the Fugees and a fugitive Malaysian financier have been charged with conspiring to violate federal campaign finance law by funneling millions of dollars worth of foreign money into the 2012 presidential election, the Justice Department said Friday.
Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who provided secret military documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, was released from jail Thursday after being held for two months for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the online leak-publishing organization.
A Rhode Island school district that has faced an uproar over its policy to serve cold sandwiches to students with unpaid cafeteria bills will vote next week on a proposal to reverse it, the superintendent said Thursday.
A Massachusetts man who served nearly 30 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of rape was arraigned on new rape charges Monday in an unrelated case after the police said he assaulted an unconscious woman on a sidewalk.
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