Новости за 29.03.2016

Thirteen current and former Detroit principals, including the principal of a school featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, have been charged in a bribe and kickback scheme involving close to $1 million. 

Authorities confirmed on Monday that they have charged seven people in connection to the murder of a lottery winner during a home robbery in January, Fox News reports. 

A Mississippi woman who was accused of conspiring to join the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, is expected to appear in federal court Tuesday and change her plea in at least one count against her, the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger reports. 

Washington, D.C., police have arrested a 17-year-old suspect in the weekend shooting death of Davonte Washington, a 15-year-old who was shot in front of his mother and two younger sisters while waiting on the platform at the Deanwood Metro station in Northeast D.C., the Washington Post reports. 

New Year’s Day 2016 came around just a little under three months ago, and with it, yours truly had, yet again, created a set of seemingly attainable goals for the subsequent 365 days in a feeble attempt to become a fully actualized adult.

On Monday a man walked into the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, pulled out a gun and was shot by a U.S. Capitol police officer. Contrary to previous reports, an officer was not wounded in the shooting, but a female bystander was injured in the incident, authorities say. Here is everything we know about the shooting and the alleged shooter.

A Chicago teen who appeared in an award-winning public service video about gun violence was shot and seriously injured over the weekend, the New York Times reports. 

A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot by a Florida security guard after the teen reportedly shot the armed guard in the face with a BB gun.

The Indian census has not included “race” as a category since the early 1950s. Race might be a “biological fiction” according to geneticists, but the world over, it is a social reality. Racism is a topic Indians have been discussing fervently following the reprehensible attack on a Tanzanian woman by a mob that beat and publicly stripped her in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) in India early last month.

The peculiar American sport that is the national election is back in season: Republicans vs. Democrats. Red states vs. blue states. Donald Trump fanatics attacking protesters as if bigotry will yield them better yardage on the field of economic opportunity. Hillary Clinton doing the Nae-Nae as if she scored a touchdown for the young folk she once called “superpredators.” Fox, CNN and MSNBC cashing in on the electoral contest.