Winter Storm Halts Travel. Deadly ICE Shooting Sparks Protests. Search for Missing Black Girls.

A 37-year-old ICU nurse, Alex Preddy, was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, marking the second deadly encounter by ICE in the city within a month. While the Department of Homeland Security alleged Preddy approached agents with a handgun and violently resisted, a witness and state officials dispute this, claiming Preddy attempted to help a woman pushed by agents. Multiple videos show agents spraying him and pinning him before the shooting.

Authorities say 37-year-old Alex Preddy worked for the Minneapolis VA health care system as an ICU nurse. Multiple videos of the confrontation show federal agents spraying him with a substance and pinning him to the ground before shooting him. The Department of Homeland Security alleged that he approached agents with a handgun and violently resisted when officers tried to disarm him. However, a witness and state officials are disputing that claim. That witness... say Preddy was killed after he attempted to help a woman who had been pushed to the ground by agents.

French researchers bypassed National Institutes of Health (NIH) safeguards to access sensitive data from thousands of children. They used this data to rank ethnicities by IQ scores and published at least 16 papers promoting discredited claims about racial differences in intelligence, including the assertion that Black people earn less due to lower intelligence. The researchers were not eligible for data access and gained entry through a U.S. professor already under NIH investigation, with some of their papers subsequently cited by AI tools.

A group of French researchers bypassed safeguards at the National Institutes of Health to access data from thousands of children. They ranked ethnicities by IQ scores and used it to publish at least 16 papers promoting discredited claims about racial differences in intelligence including the idea that black people earn less because they're less intelligent. The researchers were not eligible to access the data, but one gained entry through a US professor already under NIH investigation. Some of the papers have been cited by AI tools as well.

Evelyn Magley founded The Basketball League (TBL) in 2018, becoming the first woman to own a professional men's sports league. TBL has grown to over 40 teams across North America and focuses on being a 'community asset' rather than just a sports franchise. Players are actively involved in local non-profits, youth clinics, and often hail from the communities they play in. TBL also provides career development opportunities beyond basketball, including financial literacy programs and pathways for referees, statisticians, and dancers into higher leagues.

Evelyn Magley... is the first woman to own a professional men's sports league. TBL is going into their eighth season... we've grown from eight teams... now we have a little bit over 40 teams all across North America... The basketball league is really all about opportunities... we now have players that are playing in the NBA that actually started with TBL... we have dancers that started with our Kokomo Bobcats... now dancing with the Indiana Colts cheerleaders... statisticians... for the NFL, Oklahoma City Thunder... referees... now that are in the G League that started with TBL. Our teams are community assets... they're working with nonprofit organizations Habitat for Humanity working with the geriatric centers, going out and just reading to young people. We have our financial literacy program through the National Financial Educators Council... We had over 114 young men that participated in that last season.

Journalist Hunter Gilmore's 'Hunting for Answers' podcast addresses the critical issue of missing and murdered Black women and girls, cases that are frequently overlooked and underreported. FBI data from 2022 shows over 36% of all missing women and girls were Black, totaling nearly 98,000 individuals, despite Black women and girls comprising only 14-15% of the U.S. female population. This disparity points to a systemic issue, with families often expressing dissatisfaction with investigations due to misrepresentation of victims, lack of media attention, and delayed responses.

According to the FBI National Crime Information Center data, over 36% of all women and girls reported missing in 2022 were black, totaling 97,924 people. Despite comprising only 14 to 15% of the US female population, black women and girls are disproportionately represented in missing person cases... A lot of families feel that the stages early on weren't really handled in the best ways. So, this could be misrepresentation of victims or facts or just simply not getting the right attention, media not picking up these stories and getting the attention that they need.