U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder said he was “deeply disappointed” by the Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday in Shelby County v. Holder that essentially guts the Voting Rights Act, saying that it has the potential to negatively affect millions of Americans across the country. Speaking at a news conference after the decision, he vowed to…

Updated Tuesday, June 25, 12 p.m. EDT: Various civil rights groups and organizations vociferously condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to limit use of a key provision in the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which defended the Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court, called it “an act…

The Associated Press is reporting that the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature on Monday pushed to enact wide-ranging restrictions that would effectively shutter all abortion clinics in the nation’s second most-populous state. Democrats are planning to launch a filibuster to halt the final vote. After the House easily approved it Monday morning, the wide-ranging package of anti-abortion…

A 33-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in New Jersey after he reportedly left a Toby Keith concert, climbed over a fence into a nearby housing complex and began waving a Confederate flag and shouting racial slurs at residents, according to the Associated Press. [Thirty-three]-year-old Darren Walp of Ridley Park, Pa., was arrested in Camden…

A peaceful Mississippi church sanctuary turned chaotic on Sunday morning after police fatally shot the son of the deacon, the Associated Press reports. The police were called to break up a fight that began when members argued over the firing of the pastor. Cacedrick White, 26, arrived with a shotgun and fired it once in…

The Daily News is reporting that a Connecticut man enraged that his pregnant girlfriend wouldn’t get an abortion allegedly hired a hitman to kill her, according to court documents. Carlton Bryan, 21, was riding with Shamari Jenkins, who was four months pregnant, when she was fatally shot April 29 while driving in Hartford’s North End,…

Updated Sunday, June 9, 1:30 p.m. EDT: Family visits Nelson Mandela while South Africans pray for his health, according to the Associated Press. There was no official update on the 94-year-old former president and anti-apartheid leader after his second night in the hospital. His condition was described as “serious but stable” on Saturday. Earlier: Former…

The Philadelphia crane operator, who was wanted in connection with a building collapse that killed six people last week, has turned himself in to police, according to The Inquirer. Sean Benschop, 43, who surrendered on Saturday, refused to give a statement on his role in Wednesday’s collapse, according to The Inquirer. He is scheduled to…

Updated Sunday, June, 9, 11:15 a.m. EDT: The Santa Monica gunman’s first victims were family, according to USA Today. The man accused of killing four people during a rampage before being killed by police was identified by multiple media outlets on Sunday as John Zawahri, whose victims included his father and brother. Additional reports show…

Police authorities say that the car of second-grade teacher Terrilynn Monette, who disappeared March 2 after a night out celebrating her Teacher of the Year nomination, was pulled from a New Orleans bayou on Saturday and that a decomposed body was inside, the Associated Press reports. Police couldn’t immediately say whether the body was that…