A South Korean military court sentenced disgraced K-pop star Seungri to three years in prison for crimes involving prostitution to foreign businessmen. The Defense Ministry said the former member of popular boy band Big Bang was also fined 1.15 billion won ($ 989,000). He was taken into custody after being sentenced by an army court in Yongin, near Seoul. Seungri, whose real name is Lee Seung Hyun, was indicted in…

The family of Fred Cox, an 18-year-old black boy killed by a deputy sheriff at a North Carolina funeral last November, filed a wrongful death lawsuit — claiming he tried to protect a mother and her son during incident.

Two basketball coaches from Georgia were charged with the murder of a 16-year-old girl who died after training outdoors in extreme heat. Larosa Maria Walker-Asekere and Dwight Broom Palmer are charged with second-degree murder, second-degree child abuse, manslaughter and criminal negligence. The charges relate to the August 2019 death of Imani Bell: an Elite Scholars Academy student , who died after training members of the women's basketball team outdoors in…

The Mississippi Attorney General, during a briefing on Thursday, called on the Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision at the next session — when the judges will consider Mississippi’s ban on almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Calling the historic decision that first shaped the constitutional right to abortion «blatantly wrong,» Attorney General Lynn Fitch also referred to «Planned Parenthood v. Casey.» «Only the complete…

An ex-FBI informant sued the agency for $100 million, claiming that he was subjected to ill-treatment while working for the authorities. Richard Vershi Jr. is known as the youngest informant of the Bureau in history. His experience working with a federal agency even inspired the Hollywood film «White Boy Rick», which starred Matthew McConaughey. Now a new chapter has appeared in the history in the form of a lawsuit-which refers…

An Ohio man who identifies himself as Incel was charged Wednesday for an alleged plot to shoot women attending colleges and sororities in the state, officials said. One one-count charge of attempted hate crime and one count of illegal possession of a machine gun has been filed against 21-year-old Tres Genco of Hillsborough, according to court documents. The U.S. Department of Justice said he was arrested by federal agents on…

According to the bill, which was passed by the Texas State Senate, public school teachers will no longer have to tell students about the Ku Klux Klan or that the concept of white supremacy is «morally wrong.» In the Republican-controlled state, there are two dozen educational programs that were once mandatory in public schools — such as teaching Martin Luther King’s «I Have a Dream» speech, the achievements of Cesar…

Authorities have announced that a Southern California couple whose baby sex announcement party allegedly triggered a deadly fire in El Dorado in 2020 has been charged with 30 crimes-including the manslaughter of a firefighter extinguishing a blaze. A smoke bomb detonated by a couple in Yucape, California, on September 5 during a party caused a fire that burned more than 20 thousand acres of land in two counties, San Bernardino…

An eight-person jury ruled that Walmart violated the Americans with Disabilities Act after firing a sales representative with Down syndrome due to changes in her work schedule. According to the New York Times, after a four-day trial, a jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin found that the company did not take into account Marlo Shpet’s disability when she asked to change her schedule. Shpet,…

A federal judge in Texas ordered the US government on Friday to close DACA for new applicants-saying that the Obama administration did not have the legal authority to provide deportation assistance and work permits to illegal immigrants who came to the US as children. Satisfying the request of Texas and other Republican-led states, Judge Andrew Hanen demanded that the Biden administration stop approving new applications for DACA, blocking access for…