(Heavy) — Ryan Keith Cox was a hero of the Virginia Beach mass shooting, said survivors who credit their lives to him. Cox, an account clerk at Virginia Beach Public Utilities, saved the lives of seven women who were also in building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center Friday when a suspect began “firing indiscriminately” […]

ST. LOUIS (New York Times) — A judge in Missouri gave the state’s last abortion clinic more time to resolve a dispute with the state health department, defusing a standoff that had threatened to shut down all abortion services in the state at midnight on Friday. Gov. Mike Parson has said that the clinic, Reproductive […]

WASHINGTON (Pennsylvania Capital Star) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal in a case surrounding a Pennsylvania school district’s policy on bathroom access for transgender students. The high court’s move to sidestep the case … keeps in place a lower court’s decision upholding the school district’s policy, which allows some transgender students […]

(BBC) — Fifty children have been rescued and nine people arrested after an Interpol investigation into an international paedophile ring. The arrests were made in Thailand, Australia and the US and more are expected, Interpol said. The investigation began in 2017 and focused on a hidden “dark web” site with 63,000 users worldwide. Police believe […]

NAIROBI (Reuters) — Kenya’s high court on Friday upheld a law banning gay sex, keeping same sex relations punishable by 14 years in jail in the East African nation and drawing strong criticism from the United Nations and rights activists. Same-sex relationships are a crime in more than 70 countries around the world, almost half […]

DAYTON, Ohio (The Hill) – A Klu Klux Klan rally held in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday drew only nine members to the event and hundreds of counter-protesters. The rally was held in the center of downtown Dayton at the Courthouse Square and was hosted by the Honorable Sacred Knights of Indiana, which has been identified […]

(Al Jazeera) — A majority in Brazil’s Supreme Court has voted to make homosexual and transgender discrimination a crime, like racism, a decision coming amid fears the country’s far-right president will roll back LGBT social gains. Six of the Supreme Federal Tribunal’s 11 judges have voted in favor of the measure. The five other judges […]

(NBC Los Angeles) — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to prohibit official travel to Alabama for one year in response to that state’s recently approved abortion ban. The motion, recommended by Supervisor Hilda Solis, makes exceptions for travel related to emergencies and other matters where the ban would seriously harm county […]

(The Washington Times) — A spokeswoman for Vermont Gov. Phil Scott says he will allow a sweeping no-limits abortion bill to become law, although it may do so without his signature. The pro-choice Republican governor has ruled out a veto of H. 57, meaning that he will either sign it or allow it to become […]

 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The trial for a man accused of killing one and injuring others in a shooting at an Antioch church has officially begun. Opening statements began Monday morning in the trial of Emanuel Samson, who allegedly opened fire at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch on September 24, 2017. […]