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A White, 84-year-old homeowner charged with shooting Ralph Yarl after the Black teen went to the wrong Kansas City address to pick up his siblings told police they didn't exchange words before he fired at him through a locked glass door.

Two suspects have been arrested and charged with murder in the deadly shooting Saturday night in downtown Dadeville that left four people dead and at least 15 teenagers wounded.

Ralph Yarl, 16, rang a doorbell on April 13 and was shot in the head and arm by Andrew Lestner, 84, who opened fire through a locked glass door without any words exchanged. Yarl has been released from the hosptial but faces a long road to recovery.

TN Representative Scotty Campbell resigned from his seat following a report that he violated the General Assembly policy on workplace discrimination and harassment. Campbell had been part of the vote to expel Democratic lawmakers who had led a gun reform protest in the chamber a week earlier.

These education restriction bills often share thematic similarities, seizing on reductive or outright incorrect terminology that has become the epicenter of culture wars over the last several years—namely, critical race theory and "gender ideology."

House Republicans are abandoning a years-long push by their party to pass a federal abortion ban and are exploring other ways to advance their anti-abortion agenda.

Countries could slash plastic pollution by 80% in less than two decades, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme.

Runoff from snow caused the Mississippi River to burst its banks, and folks in a mostly Black, low-income area of Iowa are suffering. An issue reflected not just in the state of Iowa- but the country.

78% of Black people live within 30 miles of a fossil fuel-fired plant. A new EPA proposal regulating emissions could improve the air quality.

Whether it’s student-athletes forced to cut off their hair, or a middle school serving fried chicken to start Black History Month, Black students consistently face racial micro and macro aggressions at school that they don’t deserve.