SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Autopsy findings released Friday on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fired sheriff’s deputy charged in her death, confirm that she died from a gunshot wound to the head. The report was released shortly before civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Massey’s family, denounced the killing by ex-sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson as senseless, unnecessary and excessive. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon had previously disclosed initial findings on Massey’s July 6 death in Springfield and the full autopsy report released Friday confirmed those conclusions, including that her death was a homicide.

By Shayan Sardarizadeh & Kayleen DevlinBBC Monitoring ReutersMinutes after Tuesday's tragic shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, false rumours began spreading about the identity of the gunman. Images of three separate trans women were shared online purporting to be of the gunman, and leading to a barrage of abuse. The inaccurate claims were also amplified by US politicians and political influencers, some of whom also more broadly linked transgenderism to violence.

Explore More Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported over 142,000 people in 2023 – less than 5% of all 3.2 million migrants encountered at US borders. In its 2023annual report released last week, ICE readily noted its number of expulsions was double those of the previous year, but under Joe Biden’s presidency the agency is deporting far fewer people than it did under Donald Trump. For example, in the immigration agency’s 2018 financial year, ICE removed 265,000 individuals from the US, representing over 30% of the 680,000 migrants encountered at the border that year, according to Customs and Border Protection’s figures.

Singleton’s other films included Higher Learning (1995), a drama investigating a variety of social issues as it follows the lives of three college freshmen (1993); Rosewood (1997), based on a true story of racial violence in Florida in the 1920s; a remake of the landmark blaxploitation film Shaft (2000);…Click to see full answer. Similarly, you may ask, what was higher learning about? In John Singleton’s powerful portrait of college life in the 1990s, a group of incoming freshmen at Columbus University — including varsity athlete Malik Williams (Omar Epps), awkward outcast Remy (Michael Rapaport) and wide-eyed Kristen Connor (Kristy Swanson) — struggle to find themselves and adjust to newfound independence.

By Melanie SwanFeatures correspondent agefotostock/AlamyIsrael's transformative desert retreat (Credit: agefotostock/Alamy)Set deep in the heart of the Negev desert in southern Israel, a small community is inviting travellers to connect with nature and learn to live a little more consciously. My very first taste of Israel was as a teenage volunteer at a kibbutz, and after 25 years, I was returning to stay at the country's newest one: Kibbutz Lotan. These small, agrarian collectives (whose name means "