Iryna Zarutska (bottom R) before she was fatally stabbed on a commuter train on Aug. 22, 2025, in a still from video. Charlotte Area Transit System via AP The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged the man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a light-rail last month in Charlotte, amid a growing national outcry
3:40 PM Kennedy says he plans to change how vaccine injuries are reported In response to a question on vaccine injury reporting, Kennedy didn’t specify exactly how he plans to change how they’re currently investigated, but said “we’re changing the system.” While he called injuries caused by medications “rare,” he said those who suffer
The Texas State Capitol in Austin, on Aug. 8, 2025. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Two officials at Texas A&M University have been removed from their posts, and a Justice Department investigation has been launched after a viral video showed a professor telling a student she was free to leave a “children’s literature” class when she objected
6m ago Kennedy says administration will study potential “connection between overmedicating our kids” and gun violence The report didn’t cover violence and specifically gun violence, in children’s health and safety, as one reporter noted. Kennedy said the firearms question is a “complex question,” and the Trump administration is concerned with the “violence,” not the
Washington — The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a federal criminal charge against the man accused of the deadly stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month. The Justice Department announced that the suspect in the attack, Decarlos Brown Jr., is charged with one count of committing an act causing death
Missouri Republicans on Tuesday advanced a proposed congressional map, part of a mid-decade redistricting push started by President Trump to hold onto – and possibly expand — the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the U.S. House. The proposed maps aim to make Missouri’s congressional delegation seven Republicans and one Democrat, a change from its current delegation
Iryna Zarutska in an undated photo. Iryna Zarutska via Instagram via Reuters The Ukrainian Embassy in the United States offered a response to the death of a Ukrainian war refugee who was fatally stabbed on a light rail train in Charlotte last month. In a statement to The Epoch Times on Tuesday, the embassy’s spokesperson,