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An experimental medication may slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, researchers reported Wednesday. The research was supported in part by donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge, the social media sensation that raised more than $200 million worldwide. Read more
The Miami-Dade County Public School system in Florida dealt with a third day of cyberattacks on its online learning platform, which has impeded thousands of students from access to classes throughout the district’s first week. In a statement released Wednesday Read more
Police in Burlington, Vermont, arrested a man on Monday who was carrying firearms near the city’s Black Lives Matter protests for three consecutive days. Jordan Atwood, 25, is barred from possessing firearms due to restrictions imposed by conditions of a Read more
The parents of Andres Guardado filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Los Angeles County and its sheriff’s department Tuesday afternoon after waiting more than two months to get answers on their teen son’s fatal shooting involving two sheriff’s deputies. Guardado, Read more
A Missouri man was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for throwing a firebomb into a Planned Parenthood clinic, federal prosecutors said. Wesley Brian Kaster, 43, of Columbia, was arrested in March 2019, about a month after he threw Read more
A California police officer who was captured on video fatally shooting a Black man who had a baseball bat inside a Walmart this year was charged Wednesday with voluntary manslaughter, authorities said. The office of Alameda County District Attorney Nancy Read more
Police are attempting to shut down illegal raves in Norfolk and Wales on the first weekend of tightened restrictions on gatherings. Hundreds of people flocked to unlicensed musical events over the bank holiday weekend despite new rules saying organisers will Read more