A former Michigan priest pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 5-year-old boy after officiating a memorial service for the boy’s family more than 35 years ago, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced in a news release this week. Vincent DeLorenzo, 84, a former priest with the Lansing Diocese, assaulted the boy …

The Senate on Thursday failed to advance a resolution that would have removed a 1982 deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment has been ratified by 38 states — the three-fourths necessary to amend the Constitution — but a few of the states had voted to ratify it after …

Longtime CNN anchor Don Lemon has been fired from the cable network, he tweeted on Monday.  “I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN,” the “CNN This Morning” co-anchor tweeted. “I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that …

Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform. After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay …

After House Speaker Kevin McCarthy briefed House Republicans on the outlines of a bill to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts and policy changes, lawmakers emerged seeking more details, but they were optimistic about the prospect of writing a bill that could win the support of at …

Two years after a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indiana, survivors and victims’ family members are suing the company that distributed the magazine used in the killings.  New York-based American Tactical sells high-capacity ammunition magazines (HCMs) that allow shooters to fire off 60 rounds of ammunition without reloading. That …

One of two Americans who survived a deadly abduction last month in Mexico says she watched the video of the drug cartel shootout that killed two of her close friends on one of the kidnappers’ phones. A road trip for cosmetic surgery took a fatal turn on March 3 when …

Even as U.S. inflation moderates, for millions of Americans every trip to the grocery store is a pain in the pocketbook. Supermarket prices have shot up at the fastest rate in decades, putting staples like eggs and bread out of reach for some.  Over the past two years, egg prices …

A novel treatment using supercharged immune cells appears to work against tumors in children with a rare kind of cancer, researchers reported Wednesday. Nine of 27 children in the Italian study had no sign of cancer six weeks after the treatment, although two later relapsed and died. The treatment – …

A Southern California dermatologist has been charged with poisoning her husband by pouring liquid drain cleaner into his tea, authorities said Wednesday. Yue “Emily” Yu, a 45-year-old doctor from Irvine, was indicted by a grand jury on three felony counts of poisoning and one count of domestic battery with injury, …