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Nexstar, the nation’s largest operator of local TV stations, said Thursday it is conducting an investigation after a news director at a Michigan station told its journalists to scale back its Pride Month coverage and “get both sides” on LGBTQ issues, saying their “polarizing” nature had upset some of its conservative viewers.

A federal jury is set to continue deliberations Friday morning in the trial of the man accused of killing 11 worshippers in 2018 at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue.

Abortion will remain legal in Iowa for up to 20 weeks after the state Supreme Court on Friday declined to lift a block on a six-week ban.

Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, was convicted by a federal jury on all 63 charges against him. This was the deadliest attack ever on Jewish people in the US.

A staffer for Rep. Brad Finstad was attacked at gunpoint after Wednesday’s congressional baseball game, the congressman said in a statement Friday.

Florida executed death row inmate Duane Owen by lethal injection on Thursday evening, nearly four decades after he murdered a 14-year-old babysitter and a single mother of two in separate attacks.

A Mississippi civil rights attorney alleges she was wrongfully arrested over the weekend and believes it may have been in retaliation for her advocacy work in the city of Lexington highlighting claims of discrimination by police against its Black residents.

A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who held Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway, according to a source with knowledge of the case.

An active-duty Marine and another individual have been charged with using a Molotov cocktail to firebomb a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, California, in March 2022, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

The Department of Justice announced Monday it reached an agreement with Madison County Schools in Kentucky to settle a federal investigation “into complaints of serious and widespread racial harassment of Black and multi-racial students.”