6 citizens sue Trump, saying media ban deprives them of news as audience stakeholders
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Convicted murderer escapes prison through fence, steals truck
Authorities say a man serving a life sentence for murder escaped from a prison in northwest Tennessee, stole a truck and remained at large early Tuesday.
Silicon Valley parents want the tech they help build out of their childrens’ schools
Both private and public schools in tech regions are limiting the use of tech in classrooms. But will low-income districts be able to follow suit? German Gil spends most of his waking hours looking at screens. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015, the software engineer has bounced between start-ups and giants including Netflix, Facebook and GitHub. But when it came to the education of his daughter, Victoria, he wanted her to have a different experience, one in which his “kid could be a kid”.
North Carolina legislators closed their on-campus voting sites. HBCU students marched miles to vote anyway
Last year, the state’s board of elections removed several polling sites from local colleges – and students have taken it upon themselves to organize voting On 15 October, the first day of early voting in North Carolina, mostly Black students from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NC A&T), Bennett College and University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) marched from their college campuses to their nearest polling sites for the first day of early voting. Previously, students were able to vote on their respective campuses;…
DOJ seeking to charge Comey with conspiring to disclose national defense information
The case relates to disclosures published in the New York Times in 2016.