“Sesame Street” has introduced its first-ever Filipino American muppet, TJ — the first Asian American character to join the show since Ji-Young, an Asian American muppet who was introduced in a 2021 Thanksgiving episode. TJ debuted in a video on Sunday in which he learned the meaning of the word …

A former Delaware middle school teacher has been charged with multiple counts of rape of a student nearly a decade after she stopped teaching at the school. Reed Messer, 42, was extradited to Delaware on Monday after being arrested at her home in Greenville, South Carolina, according to Delaware State …

A team of Food and Drug Administration staff revealed Friday that they have a number of reservations over a drugmaker’s request to become the first in the U.S. to sell birth control pills without a doctor’s prescription. The company, HRA Pharma, is seeking permission for over-the-counter sales of norgestrel tablets, …

Adam Nordell and his wife Johanna bought Songbird Farm in Maine back in 2014 with the hopes of raising organic produce and a family. Seven years later, they learned their land was riddled with chemicals called PFAS, a family of thousands of toxic compounds known as “forever chemicals” because of …

One of the former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd has been found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter for his role in the killing nearly three years ago. A judge in Hennepin County, Minnesota, issued the ruling for Tou Thao, one of four ex-officers who …

An already volatile and dangerous political standoff over raising the nation’s debt ceiling has escalated, with the well-being of military veterans now thrust into the debate.    House Republicans scheduled a late Sunday news conference and used the House GOP social media platform on Monday to rebut accusations that their …

Washington – Active shooters in America killed or injured 313 individuals across the country in 2022, the most casualties recorded in the last five years, according to a report released by the FBI on Wednesday. Federal investigators define “active shooters” as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or …

Maybelline is facing calls for a boycott after a sponsorship with the transgender social-media influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who posted a short video last month of herself applying the brand’s cosmetics and “getting glam.” The pushback comes as another major brand, Anheuser-Busch’s Bud Light, is grappling with a boycott of its …

Heather Maxine Barron and her boyfriend, Kareem Ernesto Leiva, were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole for torturing and murdering Barron’s 10-year-old son Anthony Avalos in 2018. Barron, now 33, and Leiva, now 37, were found guilty on March 7 of one count each of torture and murder in a non-jury …

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump who has peddled election conspiracies, offered a challenge in 2021: If anyone could poke holes in data he claimed reflected the November 2020 election, he’d give them $5 million — a challenge he called the “Prove Mike Wrong” …