Cooler New Mexico weather aids big wildfire fight -- for now

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:40:57 -0400

Cooler weather is helping nearly 3,000 firefighters in New Mexico prevent the nation’s largest active wildfire from growing

Today in History: May 24, first major league night game

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:01:56 -0400

Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 24, the 144th day of 2022. There are 221 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America’s first telegraph line. On this date: In 1935, the first major league baseball game to be played at night took place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1. In 1937, in a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935. In 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 men on board. In 1961, a group of Freedom Riders was arrested after arriving at a bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi, charged with breaching the peace for entering white-designated areas. (They ended up serving 60 days in jail.) In 1962, astronaut...

Lee University considers limiting student speech on gender

Mon, 23 May 2022 23:34:41 -0400

A private Christian university has drafted a policy that would strictly limit what students can say about gender and sexuality on campus

Adult sex abuse survivors win 2nd chance to sue in New York

Mon, 23 May 2022 22:39:11 -0400

Adult sexual assault survivors who missed legal deadlines to sue their abusers would get a second chance to file lawsuits

1 found dead, 3 injured on beach below California cliff

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:26:16 -0400

Authorities say four people fell off a Southern California ocean cliff in the early morning darkness

UN envoy urges Somalia's new leaders to tackle urgent issues

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:14:41 -0400

The U.N. envoy for Somalia is urging the country to build on last week's election of a new president and make progress on urgent issues

Charges tossed for officers who pulled students from car

Mon, 23 May 2022 22:17:20 -0400

A prosecutor says he will not prosecute Atlanta police officers involved in a May 2020 confrontation with two college students

Indiana pastor admits 'adultery'; woman says she was a teen

Mon, 23 May 2022 22:17:05 -0400

A church pastor told his Indiana congregation that he had committed “adultery” about 20 years ago

Southern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers

Mon, 23 May 2022 20:23:47 -0400

A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly accessible database of pastors known to be abusers

Global Citizen NOW summit seeks solutions for global issues

Mon, 23 May 2022 18:35:43 -0400

The statistics discussed at the inaugural Global Citizen NOW conference were bleak