Florida police blame staff’s neglect for post-hurricane nursing home deaths
The deaths of a dozen fragile patients in the stifling heat of a post-hurricane power outage two years ago would have been avoided if not for the neglect of four Miami-area nursing home employees who face criminal charges, police said on Tuesday.
‘I will not let him win’: Epstein victims testify weeks after his death
Women who say Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused them voiced anger and defiance in a packed New York courtroom on Tuesday during a dramatic hearing less than three weeks after the financier killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Rapper Meek Mill pleads guilty to gun charge, ending decade-long court fight: media
Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill’s decade-long court fight that turned him into an advocate for criminal justice reform ended on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to a gun charge and prosecutors dropped all other charges against him, local media reported.
U.S. to states: School lunch changes none of your business
As schools begin reopening their doors to children nationwide, the U.S. government has told a federal judge that states have no power to sue over new rules they say make school meals less healthy.
Epstein’s accusers appear in court at hearing weeks after his suicide
Federal prosecutors appeared in court on Tuesday to ask a U.S. judge to dismiss their case against Jeffrey Epstein, less than three weeks after the financier killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, and women who say Epstein sexu…
Bond set for Florida nursing home workers charged with post-hurricane deaths
Three former employees of a Miami-area nursing home where a dozen patients died of heat exposure after 2017’s Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility’s air conditioning were ordered held on bond on Tuesday.
Federal judge expected to rule on restrictive Missouri abortion law
A federal judge was expected to decide on Tuesday whether to block a Missouri law banning abortion after eight weeks except in cases of medical emergency, according to court documents.
Florida nursing home workers face first court hearing in post-hurricane deaths
Four Miami-area nursing home workers were due to make their first court appearance on Tuesday to face charges stemming from the 2017 heat-exposure deaths of a dozen patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility’s central air conditioning.
Actress Lori Loughlin faces hearing in U.S. college cheating scandal
Actress Lori Loughlin is due in court on Tuesday for a hearing on whether the lawyers defending her against charges that she participated in a large college admissions scam have a conflict and must be disqualified.
As Trump policies deepen farmers’ pain, Democrats see an opening in rural America
Seizing on mounting Farm Belt frustration with President Donald Trump’s economic agenda, Democratic rivals are stepping up their push to take back part of rural America, whose overwhelming support for Trump helped propel his upset 2016 election victory…
