As Cheddar News observes Pride Month, we're highlighting Seamus Kirst, author of Dad and Daddy's Big Family. The book celebrates diversity within a families and according to Kirst, he was driven to write this book because of varying family dynamics and the need to allow others to see themselves. "I think it just so nice to be able to put books out that really just, matter of fact, have two dads because I don't remember reading a single book that had same-sex parents when I was a kid even though Heather Has Two Mommies and books like that did exist. I don't remember reading them in school or at a story time," he said.
Longtime CNN host Don Lemon is out at the cable news network a little over two months after apologizing to viewers for on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, CNN announced Monday.
A bird strike sparked an engine fire on a plane shortly after it took off Sunday from an Ohio airport, and the airliner returned safely with no injuries reported, authorities said.
A sheriff's office in Texas says nine teenagers were shot in a home at a prom after-party attended by hundreds.
Former President Donald Trump appears in court for his arraignment in a criminal case over fraudulent business records, April 4, 2023, in New York.
The suit argues that the state's planned takeover of policing and some courts in Mississippi's capital takes democratic power from its residents, of whom 83% are Black.
Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others trapped in Sudan as rival generals battled for a ninth day. While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese desperately sought to flee the chaos.
The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.
It's Cherry Blossom season here on the East Coast, and one of the most beautiful places to see the trees in flower is also a cemetery. Cheddar News correspondent Shannon LaNier visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn to see them firsthand and learn about the historic graveyard.
It's Cherry Blossom season here on the East Coast, and one of the most beautiful places to see the trees in flower is also a cemetery. Cheddar News correspondent Shannon LaNier visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn to see them firsthand and learn about the historic graveyard.
The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, government researchers said Thursday.
