A jury on Wednesday found three men guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, who’d been shot at close range while running through a residential neighborhood in Georgia. Father and son Greg McMichael and Travis McMichael, along with their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan had each been charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment, malice murder, felony
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The three men involved in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty of nearly every charge leveled against them Wednesday, Nov. 24, but Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and William Bryan all have much more court time ahead of them beyond their respective sentencing hearings. All three men are also facing federal hate
A jury on Tuesday awarded nine victims more than $25 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed against white nationalists who participated in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. Defendants — including Richard Spencer, Jason Kessler, and Christopher Cantwell (also known as the “Crying Nazi” ) — were found liable for civil
UPDATE (11/23): A sixth person, a child, has died, according to prosecutors, Associated Press reports. *** At least five are dead after an SUV drove through a crowd gathered for the 58th annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb outside of Milwaukee, Sunday, Nov. 21. On Twitter late Sunday, city officials issued a statement with the
Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of the late civil rights leader Malcolm X, was found dead in her Brooklyn home on Monday, NBC 4 New York reports. She was 56. Police officials said she was found unconscious and unresponsive by her daughter. Per the station, a medical examiner responded to the scene and said the incident
The jury began to hear closing arguments Monday in the trial of three white men charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, on a residential street in Brunswick, Georgia. The February 2020 killing occurred while Arbery was running through the neighborhood of Satilla Shores; a father and son believed he looked
On Thursday, federal authorities announced the conviction of a Texas man and a Missouri man in a federal RICO case against members of Neo-Nazi prison gang the Aryan Circle. The indictment describes crimes attributed to the gang that include murder, stabbings, kidnappings, and burning off one another’s gang tattoos with flaming logs and hot metal
Kyle Rittenhouse — the teen who was acquitted Friday after he shot three people, killing two, at a racial justice protest in Kenosha last summer — told Tucker Carlson that he is “not a racist person.” “I support the BLM movement, I support peacefully demonstrating,” he said in a clip released by Fox News, teasing
The country music community has always had an intrinsic connection to America’s agricultural roots. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that the genre’s artists have acted as music’s first responders in the face of a mounting problem: the steady erosion of local farming communities across the nation. It’s in this spirit that Chipotle tapped
Oscar season is here — and so is all of its hyper-competitiveness, messiness, and downright pettiness. The bizarre stories of Hollywood heavyweights campaigning for the industry’s highest honor is nothing new. Remember when disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein was rumored to have run smear campaigns against Best Picture winners A Beautiful Mind and The Hurt Locker?
The Onion called it with their headline: “Kyle Rittenhouse Sentenced to 45 Years of CPAC Appearances,” published just after Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges, including homicide, stemming from when he shot and killed two people and injured a third during a racial justice protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Mere hours after the jury announced the
On Friday, after more than three days of deliberation, a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty in the homicides of two people and wounding of a third who he shot with an AR-15 during a night of protests against police brutality last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Earlier in the trial, Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge
When she walked into court on Monday morning for the penultimate pre-trial conference before she faces what will amount to the fight of her life, Ghislaine Maxwell looked just like she did 10 years ago. In fact, she looked better. Thick black glossy hair. A black turtleneck sweater. Grey slacks. A bottle of Poland Spring
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones hours before he was set to be executed for a murder conviction on Thursday. Jones will now serve life in prison, The New York Times reports. “After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute
The Milwaukee Bucks clambered aboard the team plane, a Delta charter departing from Wisconsin, where coronavirus cases were about to triple over the course of the NBA Finals. Players and essential support staff squirmed down the aisle of the Boeing 727, bound for Arizona, where 900 new cases would be confirmed on game day. It
The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial explained his widely criticized move to allow the defendant — on trial for homicide in connection to the killing of two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin — to randomly select dismissed jurors out of a tumbler. In Wisconsin, 18 to 20 jurors are initially picked to sit on a
Late last month, proponents of alternative-health treatments descended upon the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville for a three-day event billed as “The Truth About Cancer.” At least it looked that way. While the symposium’s title suggested a gathering of health nuts, it was more so a convention for anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and
Miles Teller is calling for a rumor ceasefire after his appearance in Taylor Swift’s music video for “I Bet You Think About Me” resurfaced claims by the Daily Mail that his refusal to be vaccinated shut down production on his Paramount + series, The Offer. “Hey guys, I don’t usually feel the need to address
Alex Jones was found guilty by default in a defamation case filed by the families of eight people killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, The New York Times reports. The ruling came down Monday, Nov. 15, that Jones was guilty because he refused to turn over court-ordered
Prosecutors and defense attorneys argued over whether Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed two people, and wounded a third on an August night in Kenosha, Wisconsin last summer, during closing arguments in the 18-year-old’s homicide trial Monday, Nov. 15. Both lawyers were given two-and-a-half hours to make their final case