CULTURE

(Headline USA)  Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as “Believe,” “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay,” gathered Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children. Several of the 300 women, and a few men,...

(Headline USA) A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its platforms. During his second day of testimony, Arturo Béjar...

(Headline USA) A Massachusetts man who told police that he brought homemade firebombs to the U.S. Capitol to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was sentenced on Tuesday to just over six years in prison. Riley English, a 26-year-old man who identifies as a woman, said he was in the grips...

(Tate Rosentreter, The Center Square) A new report from Defending Education details Chinese influence on American education from kindergarten to college, with programs such as the Young Envoys Scholarship where China invited 50,000 U.S. students to study in the nation in partnership with many U.S. schools. Director of Higher Education...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Cami Clark, the wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, spent years cultivating a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while running a startup she described as a "revolutionary porn company," according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.  The outlet reports that literary agent John Brockman connected Clark and...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Jewish advocacy group and antisemitism tracker the Anti-Defamation League launched a new initiative Wednesday aimed at helping university students, faculty and staff combat antisemitism on their campuses. The initiative includes two reports tracking “less visible” forms of antisemitism at universities, a confidential reporting mechanism for...

(Headline USA) Weeks before voting ended in California's primary for governor, Los Angeles-based influencer Shaka Smith took to Instagram to tell his more than 700,000 followers whom he was voting for and why. “Healthcare shouldn't bankrupt you, housing should not feel impossible, polluters shouldn't pass their bill to us and...

(Johnny Edwards, The Center Square) A southern state that banned medical gender transition for children is funding a network of doctors and therapists who promote some of those same controversial treatments, an investigation by The Center Square found. A nonprofit called Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group openly touts puberty blockers and...

(Headline USA) Ben Jones, who played the good ol' boy mechanic in “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV series and parlayed his fame into a political career and two terms in the U.S. House, has died. He was 84. Jones had a heart attack in his home Sunday in Washington, Virginia,...

(Headline USA) A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a ruling late Thursday that the bulk of the money...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Nearly 80,000 people have signed an online petition calling for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be barred from attending events next month marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Relatives of Sept. 11 victims recently launched a petition urging the...

Content Warning: Graphic Images and Descriptions (Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Perez Hilton's family confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the celebrity blogger and entertainer was hospitalized after he appeared to self-harm during a livestream on a popular social media platform. Hilton, whose legal name is Mario Armando Lavandeira, sparked concern on social media after...