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Larry Nassar victims seek $130M in claims, accuse FBI of turning ‘blind eye’ to abuse allegations

By Lauren del Valle and Evan Perez, CNN Thirteen sexual assault victims of disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar on Thursday filed claims against the FBI totaling $130 million. All the agents involved in the Nassar investigation elected to “turn a blind eye” to the sexual abuse perpetrated on children by Nassar, accusing

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Michelle Obama’s brother says his kids were disenrolled from their school as ‘retaliation’ for parents bringing up concerns of bias

CNN, WTMJ By Omar Jimenez, CNN Craig and Kelly Robinson said they were shocked to receive a letter informing them their children would not be allowed back as students at the prestigious University School of Milwaukee (USM). “We cannot continue a relationship with your family,” is what part of the enrollment termination letter read, sent

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Michelle Obama’s brother says his kids were disenrolled from their school as ‘retaliation’ for parents bringing up concerns of bias

By Omar Jimenez, CNN Craig and Kelly Robinson said they were shocked to receive a letter informing them their children would not be allowed back as students at the prestigious University School of Milwaukee (USM). “We cannot continue a relationship with your family,” is what part of the enrollment termination letter read, sent at the

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State agency asks for federal investigation into Grand Rapids Police Department after fatal shooting of Patrick Lyoya

By Peter Nickeas, CNN Michigan state officials have asked the US Department of Justice to launch a “pattern-or-practice” investigation into the Grand Rapids Police Department after an officer there fatally shot a man during a physical struggle following a traffic stop. An officer from the Grand Rapids department shot 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya on April 4

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New Jersey man faces federal hate crimes charges for allegedly assaulting, stabbing, driving into Orthodox Jews

By Kristina Sgueglia and Evan Perez, CNN A New Jersey man is facing federal hate crime charges for “a spree of violent assaults” on members of an Orthodox Jewish community on a single day in April, officials said Wednesday. Prosecutors allege that Dion Marsh attacked four people because they were Jewish. He is charged in part with four counts

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Judge orders US Bureau of Prisons to find surgeon for transgender inmate’s gender-affirming surgery

By Rebekah Riess, CNN A federal judge in Illinois on Monday ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has to immediately find a qualified surgeon so that a transgender prisoner, Cristina Nichole Iglesias, can receive gender-affirming surgery, court documents show. Earlier in the case, the district court had ordered the BOP to evaluate Iglesias

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