Mugshots of four students arrested during a protest at the University of Florida shared on social media have been altered to change their facial features and make them appear older. The manipulated images were first posted online by a parody account on platform X. Social media posts shared the edited images with the caption: “Mugshots have been released tonight of some of the students who have been arrested at the University of Florida. These students were simply exercising their 1st Amendment...

Many market participants believed the dollar would fall on the back of interest rate cuts that both investors and the Federal Reserve had penciled in for 2024. Those cuts are yet to come, and the U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of currencies, is up 4% in 2024 and has climbed about 16% in the last three years. While those gains reflect the relative strength of the U.S. economy, a rising dollar can be a problem for some companies. A strong U.S. currency...

Authorities in Florida released shocking police bodycam footage Thursday that showed an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy shooting and killing an armed special operations US airman in his own apartment — before the cop even told him to drop his gun. The unidentified deputy was responding to the Chez Elan Apartments in Fort Walton Beach May 3 on a domestic violence call — a woman said she heard arguing from a frequently-troubled couple in a nearby apartment. Roger Fortson’s family...

The attorney of a Florida airman who was shot and killed by an Okaloosa County deputy in his home last week says authorities entered the wrong apartment. The airman was identified as Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, according to Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Fortson's family. Crump's office said Fortson was shot six times before later being pronounced dead. Crump is expected to hold a news conference Thursday morning, requesting transparency and the...

A Black U.S. Air Force airman was fatally shot in his home by Florida deputies, who mistakenly burst into the wrong apartment while responding to a disturbance call, according to his family’s attorney. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when he was gunned down by law enforcement officers on Friday. He was on a Facetime call at the time with an unnamed woman, civil...

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., on Thursday submitted to House counsel impeachment articles against President Joe Biden alleging he is compromising the national security of the United States with his withholding of military aid to Israel. Mills wrote up the impeachment against the president, referring to him as "Quid Pro Joe," and using as a template impeachment articles written by Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., accusing then-President Donald Trump of abuse of power in 2019 for withholding aid to...

Republican Sen. Tim Scott has claimed that African Americans, Hispanics and Asians all had their lowest unemployment rate under former President Donald Trump. But the lowest unemployment rate on record for African Americans was under President Joe Biden, and the lowest unemployment rate for Hispanics was the same under both presidents. Women also had their lowest unemployment rate since the 1950s under Biden, despite what Scott suggested on May 5, when he was ...

The Biden administration is under growing pressure to finalize a policy hailed by progressive Democrats as essential to ensuring people of color have access to affordable housing. A group of 28 House Democrats is demanding the Biden administration quickly issue the long-pending policy amid growing anxiety that it won’t be released or would be released late enough in the president’s term that it could be subject to rollback by a potential Donald Trump administration. The Affirmatively...

The Congressional Review Act is a little-known legislative mechanism that could come into extensive use for undoing Biden administration rules if Republicans win the November elections. The law creates a special process for allowing quick votes to strike down regulations with simple majority votes in both chambers of Congress. Republicans are hoping to gain control of the presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives and use Congressional Review Act resolutions to...