Can schools in Ohio legally confiscate or search students’ cell phone? In Ohio, state lawmakers voted this year to prohibit cell phone use during the school day under most circumstances. Each school district, community school, and STEM school must adopt a policy by Jan. 1 prohibiting students’ use of cell phones during the instructional day, with some…
Sia is responding to estranged husband Daniel Bernad‘s “outrageous” filing for full physical and legal custody of their toddler son. The 49-year-old “Titanium” singer said Bernad’s emergency child custody request “should be denied in its entirety” because he “provides zero evidence” that their one-year-old son Somersault “Summi” Bernad’s safety is “at risk,” according to an…
White House officials fired all six members of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, a federal agency which would have been tasked with advising on the design elements of the new $300 million White House ballroom championed by President Donald Trump. The move comes just a week after the entire East Wing was demolished to…
This story has been updated with new information. A 13-year-old has been arrested and charged with vandalism in connection with the newly installed Marty Brennaman statue outside the Great American Ballpark, officials said. Cincinnati police announced the charges in an Oct. 28 statement. They did not specify the gender of the person involved. The statue…
Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Melissa is forecast to slam the southern coast of Jamaica on the morning of Oct. 28 with sustained winds of up to 175 mph, even higher gusts and a life-threatening storm surge, leaving a wake of destruction across the island before focusing its ferocity on southeastern Cuba. Torrential downpours that could produce…
Milwaukee police shut down bars on Brady Street in the early morning of Sunday, Oct. 26, due to large crowds. The Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement that officers “observed unusually large crowds of individuals participating in the Brady Street Halloween Party” around midnight between Oct. 25 and Oct. 26. Police said officers responded…
A 4-year-old boy died after being ejected from a car in a Coleman County crash Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a media release. The crash happened at about 5:35 p.m. Monday at U.S. Highway 84 and County Road 464 in rain and wet road conditions, the DPS said. Michelle Warden Callisto,…
A widely shared social media post showing President Donald Trump criticizing the World Series teams is fake. The fake post claimed the World Series was rigged and that Trump would not host the winning team. While the post is fabricated, Trump has a history of criticizing leaders from California and Canada. A mock-up of a…
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Markets in Argentina rallied, the peso surged and the country’s sovereign bonds jumped on Monday as libertarian President Javier Milei hailed his party’s resounding victory in midterm congressional elections as a mandate to press forward with radical free-market reforms. Investors recovered confidence in the chronically depreciating Argentine peso that they were…
More schools are adopting policies banning cell phones, from all-out bans that forbid students from taking their phones out at any time of day to more flexible policies that allow older students to have their phones out during lunch or other breaks. In some classrooms, students are even instructed to put their phones in what…