Former Temple University fraternity president Ari Goldstein was convicted Tuesday for his role in an attempted sexual assault of another student — one of two incidents presented to the jury. After a three-day long trial and two days of jury deliberations, the 23-year-old former Alpha Epsilon Pi president was found guilty of attempted involuntary deviate…… MORE
A comprehensive study of more than 72,000 confirmed and suspected cases of the novel coronavirus by Chinese scientists has revealed new information about the deadly infection which has brought much of the country to a halt. Carried out by a group of experts at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and published in…… MORE
Stuntwoman Cheryl D. Sanders and her husband were shot dead after they allegedly threatened her ex-husband and his wife in their driveway, police say. Officers responded to reports of a double shooting on February 13 in Miami Township, Ohio, where they found the two dead outside the home of Sanders’ ex-husband, the Greene County Sheriff’s…… MORE
A Mexican national has been arrested and charged with acting as a Russian agent within the United States, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, who lived in Singapore and worked as an occupational researcher, was recruited by a Russian government official last year and directed to rent an apartment in Miami-Dade County,…… MORE
President Donald Trump on Tuesday picked a handful of corrupt former officials and corrupt wealthy influence peddlers and granted them clemency, just days after his administration’s latest controversy: accusations that he was tipping the scales of justice in favor of his friend Roger Stone (which he keeps saying he has every right to do, but…… MORE
President Donald Trump just appointed himself America’s judge and jury, casting even deeper doubts on whether the nation’s impartial justice system can withstand his expanding political assault. “I’m actually, I guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country,” Trump said Tuesday, after setting off alarm bells with a flurry of pardons and commutations. Though…… MORE
Students at New York’s Syracuse University are occupying a campus building for the second time this school year following several reported racist incidents. #NotAgainSU, a black student-led movement at Syracuse University, launched a sit-in Monday afternoon citing the administration’s handling of previous and recent racist incidents on campus. The organization says Monday’s sit-in at the…… MORE
A Washington woman is facing second degree assault and attempted kidnapping charges after prosecutors say she posed as a newborn photographer and drugged a mother in order to steal her baby. Juliette Leilani Parker pleaded not guilty to both charges Tuesday during a hearing. CNN has reached out to Parker’s attorney Ephraim W. Benjamin, but…… MORE
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday night broke from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who in a recent interview suggested that passing a watered down version of “Medicare for All” in a deeply divided Congress would still represent a major achievement for the Democratic Party’s progressive wing. Asked about her comments by CNN’s Anderson Cooper during a town…… MORE
Pete Buttigieg turned an attack on Tuesday about his marriage into a pointed knock against President Donald Trump and hush money payments he paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. Buttigieg — who came out as gay in 2015 and married his husband, Chasten, in 2018 — was asked during his CNN town hall about conservative…… MORE
