Adam Glanzman/Getty Images(MASSACHUSETTS) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday that students with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend the Cambridge institution tuition-free starting next fall.The bulk of American households meet this income threshold, according to the university, which says the new policy will cover 80% of its incoming classes.Additionally, students…… read more »
ABC News(BELLEVUE, Wash.) — Two people have been killed by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm hits the Pacific Northwest.In Bellevue, a tree fell into a home, hitting and killing a woman while she was in the shower Tuesday night, Bellevue fire officials said.In Lynwood, a woman in her 50s was killed…… read more »
Hartford Police Department(HARTFORD, Conn.) — Police are searching for a man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old mother and her 4-month-old son while they were sitting in their car in Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday, in what appears to be a drive-by shooting, according to police.A warrant has been issued for 23-year-old Lance “Macho” Morales, according…… read more »
Blount County Sheriff’s Office(KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) — A convicted Jan. 6 rioter has now been found guilty of plotting to murder FBI agents who were investigating the Capitol insurrection.Edward Kelley, 35, was convicted Wednesday in the federal case against him in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to the Department of Justice.He is scheduled to be sentenced on May…… read more »
ABC News(ATHENS, Ga.) — The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia’s campus was found guilty by a judge on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder.He was sentenced by the judge to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the maximum possible.Prosecutors called the evidence against the…… read more »
Libby March/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) — Four University of Rochester students were arrested and another is under investigation for allegedly being involved with the antisemitic “Wanted” posters found on campus.The posters were discovered last week in classrooms and other buildings and targeted Jewish members of the community, according to university officials.The four unidentified suspects, who were…… read more »
CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of his first orders of business will be to decide about the fate of TikTok in the United States — and some of his cabinet appointees appear to be split on the issue.Sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking told ABC News that…… read more »
ABC News(ATHENS, Ga.) — The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia’s campus was found guilty on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder.Prosecutors called the evidence against the suspect “overwhelming,” while the defense raised the theory that the defendant could be an accomplice but not the killer during closing arguments…… read more »
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres it purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation.In a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, Buckingham said she’s offering the land “to be used to construct deportation facilities.”The Texas General…… read more »
Ismail Sen/Anadolu via Getty Images(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) — Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery.Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the observations, Barber…… read more »
