Day: June 12, 2022

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered funeral expenses for the deceased. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged by poverty and racism. Altruistic as they might sound, the checks — $100 at most — were no simple act of charity: They were part of an almost unimaginable scheme. To get the money, widows or other loved ones had to consent to letting doctors slice open the bodies of the dead men for autopsies that would detail the ravages of a disease the victims were told was "bad blood." Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and ...

LAS VEGAS — A Nevada woman has lost her bid in a U.S. court to force international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions of dollars more than the $375,000 in hush money she received after claiming he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009. U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey in Las Vegas kicked the case out of court on Friday to punish the woman's attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, for "bad-faith conduct" and the use of leaked and stolen documents detailing attorney-client discussions between Ronaldo and his lawyers. Dorsey said that tainted the case beyond redemption. Dorsey said in her 42-page order that dismissing a case outright with no option to file it again is a severe sanction, but said Ronaldo had been harmed by Stovall's conduct. "I find that the procurement and continued us...

Supporters in cities across the nation filled the streets Saturday to once again push for stronger gun control laws, weeks after mass shootings in New York and Texas where in each instance the gunman purchased AR-style-rifles legally. Thousands of demonstrators gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., while others protested in hundreds of other cities in at least 45 states. The group March for Our Lives, created by survivors of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., organized the rallies, and says some even took place internationally in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. In San Antonio, Texas – less than 90 miles from Robb Elementary in Uvalde, where 19 students and two educators were shot and killed – demonstrators marched to city hall, Te...