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Deborah Watts, a cousin of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and lynched after he allegedly whistled at a white woman, holds a poster on March 11, in Jackson, Miss. After a century-long effort, lynching is now considered a federal hate crime. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act — signed into law by President Biden this week — is meant to hold people con...

Deborah Watts, a cousin of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and lynched after he allegedly whistled at a white woman, holds a poster on March 11, in Jackson, Miss. After a century-long effort, lynching is now considered a federal hate crime. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act — signed into law by President Biden this week — is meant to hold people con...

Getty Images A Texas teacher agreed to pay a $90,000 settlement this week after he was sued by a student on First Amendment grounds for requiring a class to write out the Pledge of Allegiance. The incident occurred in 2017 when teacher Benjie Arnold asked his class to write out the Pledge of Allegiance or receive a failing grade. The student, Mari Oliver, wrote a squiggly line on the paper,...

CHICAGO - A bill going to the desk of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would require locations along Lake Michigan to have essential rescue equipment. The bill was proposed after years of attempts by Chicago community members to get the Chicago Park District to install life rings along Lake Michigan. Last summer, people from the Rogers Park neighborhood started installing their own life rings on a p...

Jerry Martin, an Airbnb guest, and law student, helped with daily farm chores. Big Bud, the black steer, was one of the delinquent bovines that Jerry helped round up when the herd escaped through an open gate. CAROLE SOULE For the Monitor Airbnb guest Jerry Martin offered to feed the livestock that morning, so all we had to do was climb into the truck at 6 a.m. for an eight-hour round...

Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis became the first woman to sign a Golden State bill into law. California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis displays a pair of bills she signed into law in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 31, 2022. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo) CALIFORNIA — For the first time in California's history, a woman signed a bill into law. Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis signed a bill into state law in G...

Laura Ingraham on Fox News. Fox's Laura Ingraham told Disney and Apple to "stay in your lane" regarding LGBTQ+ legislation. Ingraham also said the Justice Department needs to consider which companies "need to be broken up." Her comments come after Florida enacted a law that has been deemed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by activists. Sign up for our weekday newsletter, packed with original anal...

Governor Glenn Youngkin signs one of the 45 bills into law in his conference room in the Patrick Henry Building, Friday, Apr. 1, 2022. (Official Photo: Christian… Read More RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — On Friday, April 1, Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed over 40 bills into law. “We are here to provide solutions to the problems that matter to Virginians and we are working every day to serve our parents an...

File photo BOSTON (WHDH) - BOSTON (AP) — Five people were issued fines for protesting outside of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s home on the first day a new city ordinance that limits when protesters can gather in residential neighborhoods took effect, police said. The protesters were issued fines on Friday, the day after Wu signed the ordinance into law, and two days after it was approved by the ...