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By Christopher Dawson, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 presidential race brought unprecedented vitriol into the public sphere, leaving many transgender people feeling especially marginalized and vulnerable. Campaign rhetoric demonized the transgender community, stoking prejudice and fear. With the election outcome now decided, the prejudice lingers. And in the transgender community, fear has turned into panic

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta unconstitutionally subjects inmates to “inhumane, violent and hazardous conditions” that threaten their safety, a US Justice Department official said Thursday, announcing the results of a 16-month investigation. Housing units flooded by broken toilets; infestations of roaches and rodents; exposed wiring; a lack

WEWS, UCLA, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, CNN By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The Ohio Senate on Wednesday greenlit a measure that would ban transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms associated with their gender identities. Senate Bill 104 passed 24-7 on a party-line vote. If signed into law by the state’s GOP governor,

By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The Ohio Senate on Wednesday greenlit a measure that would ban transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms associated with their gender identities. Senate Bill 104 passed 24-7 on a party-line vote. If signed into law by the state’s GOP governor, the Republican-backed legislation would require primary and

By Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — After serving 16 years behind bars, a Minnesota man was released from prison after a judge vacated his murder conviction for a crime prosecutors say he didn’t commit. Edgar Barrientos-Quintana was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2009 after he was found guilty of killing 18-year-old

WCCO, A&E’S FIRST 48, CNN By Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — After serving 16 years behind bars, a Minnesota man was released from prison after a judge vacated his murder conviction for a crime prosecutors say he didn’t commit. Edgar Barrientos-Quintana was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2009 after he was

By Emma Tucker, Taylor Galgano and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — When Elisa Smithers was deployed to Iraq in 2005, there was a ban on women serving in ground combat operations. Smithers was a “female searcher” with the National Guard and was attached to an infantry unit to help with searching detained Iraqi women, among

By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Several major retailers earned a grade of “F” for failing to protect consumers from toxic chemicals in the products they sell, a new report says. Before you start your holiday shopping, see which stores have removed harmful plastics and replaced them with safer alternatives. Here’s what else you need

By Jillian Sykes and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The FBI is offering up to $25,000 in exchange for information about the suspect they believe set fire to several ballot boxes in the Pacific Northwest during early voting last month. Hundreds of ballots were destroyed or damaged across three fires reported at drop boxes in

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The judge who will decide the fate of an undocumented migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley is a no-nonsense, silvery-white-haired jurist whose father was killed in an armed robbery. Starting Friday, state Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard will preside over the trial of 26-year-old Jose

By Jessie Yeung and Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A massive explosion this week at a food dye factory in Louisville, Kentucky, left two people dead and a dozen others injured as smoke billowed out of torn metal structures and rubble. Both victims were workers at the Givaudan Sense Colour plant, which produces colorings for

By Associated Press Tampa, Florida (AP) — A California teenager pleaded guilty Wednesday in a case involving the swatting of a Florida mosque among other institutions and individuals, federal prosecutors said. Alan W. Filion, 18, of Lancaster, California, entered the plea to four counts of making interstate threats to injure the person of another, the