The seemingly heartwarming story has taken an unpleasant turn, with the once homeless man suing his would-be benefactors, saying they stole most of the money raised in a GoFundMe campaign.
The Rochester school district has reached an agreement with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights over the district's elevated rate of disciplining students of color and students with disabilities.
The Trump administration said Thursday it plans to circumvent a longstanding court agreement that governs how children are treated in immigration custody, in part to detain families longer as a way to deter migrants from crossing the Southwestern border illegally.
The landmark decision overturns a long-standing provision in the country's penal code that dates back to British colonial rule and outlawed all anal and oral sex.
For generations, Native American women have been victimized at astonishing rates, with federal figures showing that more than half have encountered sexual and domestic violence at some point during their lives -- even amid a wave of efforts aimed at reducing such crimes.
In the era of #MeToo, the issue is gaining political traction as an expanding activist movement focuses on Native women -- a population known to experience some of the nation's highest rates of murder, sexual violence and domestic abuse.
Johnny Bobbitt claims he has only received $75,000 of the GoFundMe money raised to get him off the streets. The rest, he argues, has been mismanaged and spent by the couple who pledged to help him.
An incident in a Turkish marketplace led Lindsey Smith to leave her comfortable life as a geriatric nurse practitioner from Minneapolis to help people in crisis around the world.