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Fifteen red states asked a federal judge Monday night to uphold a Covid-era policy that allowed authorities to severely restrict asylum seekers from crossing the border into the country after the judge issued a ruling last week. last week that blocked the rule.The GOP claims that lifting the rule, which the Biden administrator has directly sought to end, will increase the flow of migrants and "directly harm them."“Because the invalidation of Title 42 Orders will directly harm States, they now seek to intervene to offer a defense of Title 42 policy so that its validity can be resolved on the…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As a queer woman who has lived for 12 years in this city known for its conservative and evangelical Christian roots, April Slawson has been the subject of unflattering looks and comments at work and is always wary of strangers. Last week, she finally told her friends that she felt "comfortable" here. Then, just days later, a gunman entered the city's only LGBTQ dance club, killing five people and injuring 19 others. On Monday, the suspect was charged with five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of hate or bias crimes.As the people of Colorado…

S T. LOUIS — A 19-year-old woman is asking a federal court to let her watch her father's death by injection, even though a Missouri law prohibits anyone under 21 from witnessing an execution. .Kevin Johnson faces execution on November 29 for killing police officer William McEntee in Kirkwood, Missouri, in 2005. Johnson's lawyers have pending appeals seeking to save his life.Meanwhile, Johnson has requested that his daughter, Khorry Ramey, attend the execution and she wants to be there. On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed an emergency motion in federal court in Kansas City. The ACLU court filing…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — While LGBTQ candidates and their supporters held several historic victories nationwide in this year's midterm elections, California quietly hit its mark: at least 10% of its state legislators publicly identify as LGBTQ, which is believed to be a first for any US legislature. USACalifornia lawmakers, all Democrats, are proud of his success but say it underscores the hard work left in their own state and elsewhere, such as dealing with the consequences of measures such as Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law, which prohibits some lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, or laws in other states that…

November 22, 2022, 4:16 pm UTCBy Alexandra MarquezThe runoff race between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker remains close in Georgia, an AARP survey findWarnock leads Walker by four points, 51%-47%, among likely runoff voters of all ages, a margin within the poll's 4.4% margin of error. Among all independent voters, Warnock leads Walker by 15 percentage points, 54% - 39%. One of the only major demographics where Walker has an advantage over Warnock is among voters 50 and older, where Walker has a nine-point advantage, 53% - 44%.Walker also has a narrow lead among voters without…

Natalia Bryant, the daughter of the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, filed a restraining order request against an alleged stalker in Los Angeles, court records show. The 19-year-old University of Southern California student filed for a civil harassment restraining order Monday against Dwayne Cortez Toliver Kemp, 32, of Sun Valley, California. The filing states that Kemp allegedly began harassing her on social media in 2020 when she was just 17 and he was 30. Beginning in 2020, Kemp, described in the filing as an online gun enthusiast, began sending her messages on social media as if they were in a…

More than 100 people were rescued from an overloaded sailboat before it hit a shoal in the Florida Keys on Monday, the US Coast Guard said. A good Samaritan reported the vessel to Key West watchmen around 5 am local time, Coast Guard District 7. tweeted.Crews responded to the incident off Rodriguez Key after receiving "reports of people in the water," the tweet said.They encountered “6 to 10 foot seas, 25 mph winds to get people off the boat safely,” the Coast Guard said.The rescue effort appeared to be an hour-long effort, with officials saying the weather and rough seas…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey called for a pause on executions and ordered a “top-down” review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third botched lethal injection.Ivey's office issued a statement saying she had asked Attorney General Steve Marshall to drop motions seeking execution dates for two inmates and requested that the Department of Corrections conduct a full review of the state's execution process.Ivey also requested that Marshall not seek additional execution dates for any other death row inmates until the review is complete.The move followed Thursday's incomplete execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, it was…

Millions of Ukrainians are facing a deadly winter, and it's not just the risk of being hit by Russian bombs. Power outages caused by Russia's heavy shelling of the country's infrastructure are combining with freezing winter weather to create a deadly cocktail, the World Health Organization has warned.“This winter will endanger the lives of millions of people in Ukraine,” according to Dr. Hans Henri Kluge, regional director for Europe at the United Nations health agency.Average winter temperatures in Ukraine hover around 27 degrees Fahrenheit and are expected to reach minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the country in the…