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Three race-based scholarships were removed from the American Medical Association Foundation’s website after critics called for an Internal Revenue Service probe into whether the awards violate the organization’s tax-exempt status. The three scholarships were deleted from the AMA Foundation website within weeks after Do No Harm, a watchdog group fighting identity politics in the medical field, filed its April 7 complaint with the IRS. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, said the foundation “appears to have removed the discriminatory scholarships at the heart of our IRS complaint – a tacit admission that our concerns were warranted.” Even so, he said that the group’s complaint remains active.…

NAHUNTA, Ga. — Two wildfires in southeastern Georgia continued to threaten homes and lives on Saturday as officials warned that strong winds could spread the flames. Brantley County Manager Joey Cason, called it a “dynamic situation” in a Saturday morning video posted to social media and begged residents to “please evacuate” if they are ordered to do so. “This fire is going to move rapidly, once these winds get here later today,” he said. The Highway 82 Fire has been burning since Monday and has destroyed at least 87 homes. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday that is the most…

The nation’s largest public school district is under investigation by the Trump administration over allegations of antisemitism. The Education Department said its Office for Civil Rights has opened a probe into whether the New York City Department of Education violated Title VI by discriminating against Jewish students with its anti-Israel advocacy. The department cited reports indicating that department employees organized teaching seminars on “Palestine, Zionism, and Resistance,” while a group called NYC Educators for Palestine teaches children as young as age 5 to support Hamas “martyrs” and oppose Zionists as “genocidal white supremacists.” “Complaints received by OCR allege that these…

The House Judiciary Committee expanded its investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s relationship with the Biden administration after the left-wing civil rights group was indicted on fraud charges related to its use of paid informants within white supremacist groups. The committee demanded documents and communications regarding the SPLC “paying sources and any coordination with the Biden-Harris administration” after a federal grand jury indicted the center on 11 counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment released Tuesday alleges that the SPLC paid $3 million from 2014-23 to informants who were members of extremist groups,…

The body of a Bangladeshi doctoral student who went missing with his girlfriend from the University of South Florida was found on a bridge over Tampa Bay, and his roommate has been taken into custody, law enforcement authorities said Friday. Zamil Limon’s remains were found on the Howard Frankland bridge Friday morning, but Nahida Bristy is still missing, Hillsborough County Chief Deputy Joseph Maurer said. Limon’s roommate Hisham Saleh Abugharbeih, 26, was taken into custody at his family’s home nearby on preliminary charges that include unlawfully moving a dead body, failure to report a death, tampering with evidence, false imprisonment…

New York filed a lawsuit Friday to challenge the federal Transportation Department’s decision to withhold nearly $74 million in highway money because the state refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year. New York joins California in suing over Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s efforts to tighten up the rules for which immigrants can qualify to get a commercial driver’s license and make sure the states are properly enforcing the existing rules. The federal government declined to comment on the new lawsuit Friday, but officials have been clear about the problems…

Three sets of human remains believed to be children ages 3 to 7 have been found, the Memphis Police Department said. The police said Wednesday that investigators were trying to learn the identities of the children and the circumstances surrounding their deaths. Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis said at a press conference the bones could have been in the area for a while. “Just based on the information that we’re getting from the medical examiner’s office and the anthropologist and the scientists that are working with us, we’re thinking a few years,” Chief Davis said. The investigation started March 8…

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana authorities have charged a 17-year-old with murder, and they are searching for another suspect after bystanders were caught in the crossfire of a shooting at a mall in Baton Rouge on Thursday that killed one teenage girl. During a news conference Friday, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry vowed to crack down on gang violence that has plagued the capital city. The tough-on-crime governor, who said he spoke with FBI Director Kash Patel, promised to utilize state, local and federal resources to address the issue and that consequences “are going to start being felt immediately.” Landry said…

NAHUNTA, Ga. — A volunteer firefighter died battling a wildfire in northern Florida while more than 120 homes have been destroyed in southeast Georgia and thousands more remain threatened by two large blazes, one of which investigators suspect was sparked by a foil balloon touching power lines, officials said Friday. An unusually large number of wildfires are burning this spring across the Southeast, where scientists say the threat of fire has been amplified by a combination of extreme drought, gusty winds, climate change and dead trees still littering some forests after being toppled by Hurricane Helene in 2024. In northern…

LOS ANGELES — Jake Reiner, the older son of Rob and Michele Reiner, says learning his parents were killed and living in the aftermath has been “too devastating to comprehend.” In a post on Substack on Friday, Jake Reiner shares his sweetest memories of the beloved Hollywood director and the photographer and philanthropist who was his wife for 36 years. And he describes the horror of losing them when they were stabbed to death on Dec. 14 in the Los Angeles home he grew up in. It is his first detailed public account of his experience. He had previously only…