MIAMI — The Broward Sheriff’s Office must explain why YNW Melly — who has been behind bars in South Florida since 2019 — shouldn’t be released from jail, a federal judge ruled Monday, weeks after the rapper sued alleging “egregious violations” of his constitutional rights.

U.S. District Judge Melissa Damian ordered BSO to file a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A private Christian high school in Merced withdrew its girls volleyball team from a state playoff game against a team with a transgender athlete in a decision a school official said was based on "God's Word" and the belief that gender is not changeable.

Stone Ridge Christian High School forfeited Saturday night's California ...Read more

ATLANTA — A new lawsuit filed against Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens claims he silenced his critics on social media in the weeks before his reelection, when it was revealed he had called deputies to a Burger King restaurant because staff botched his order of a Whopper with no mayonnaise.

David Cavender, the Republican who unsuccessfully ...Read more

The outgoing Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.- supplied longer-range missiles to strike deeper into Russia territory, according to reports citing White House officials.

The move comes amid concern in the West that Moscow – aided by the influx of thousands of North Korean fighters – might be preparing a major...Read more

Everyone knows that climate change has consequences, such as a higher likelihood of severe floods, hurricanes and droughts. But here’s a lesser-known problem: Climate change makes toilets more likely to break, which leaves people more likely to “go” outside.

That’s what colleagues and I found when we studied households across ...Read more

Horror films draw us into a world where our deepest anxieties are laid bare. They illuminate the darker recesses of the human psyche – ones that we often prefer to ignore.

And some of the most unsettling things we can imagine, it seems, are not zombies or aliens or demons, but ones that are closer to home: mothers. Bad ones.

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Under pressure from customers and investors, many U.S. companies have pledged to voluntarily reduce their impact on the climate. But that doesn’t always mean they’re cutting their own greenhouse gas emissions.

A large number of companies are instead paying others to reduce carbon emissions on their behalf through projects that ...Read more

Despite recent efforts to restrict them, diversity training programs have become as ubiquitous in American offices as the water cooler. They’re everywhere.

But our recent update on the state of diversity training research confirms that these programs have different levels of effectiveness and widely varying results.

In our ...Read more

It’s never easy to create a successful business, but it’s a lot harder if you’re Black.

Research shows that Black startup founders face significant, racially specific hurdles, including limited access to entrepreneurship training programs and challenges accessing predominantly white networking and mentorship opportunities.

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Since Election Day, President-elect Donald Trump has moved quickly to name his picks for key cabinet posts such as attorney general and the secretaries of defense, health and human services, and state.

Reaction to these nominees ranges from excitement to shock, but one thing is clear: Trump seeks a cabinet filled with staunch allies, ...Read more

Ukrainian forces carried out their first strike on a border region in Russia using Western-supplied missiles as President Vladimir Putin approved an updated nuclear doctrine expanding the conditions for using atomic weapons.

Ukraine deployed ATACMS missiles to strike a military facility in the western Bryansk region, Russia’s Defense ...Read more

ATLANTA — Last year, David Lee was living on Atlanta’s streets, sleeping on a cardboard box and begging for change outside of a QuikTrip. That was until one day when a police officer approached him as Lee laid on the ground in the rain.

The officer asked what he was doing to which the Atlantan — who was struggling with substance abuse ...Read more

MIAMI — Citing a growing Muslim population in South Florida, an Islamic Center wants to open a cemetery that adheres to the religion’s specific burial rites on a seven-acre plot in the Redland.

“As this community expands, so does the need for a burial space. This is the fact of life,” said Dr. Tariq Chebbi, a well-known South Florida ...Read more