Garcia Glenn White, 61, was the sixth inmate put to death in the U.S. in the last 11 days. His execution comes shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected three last-ditch appeals.
Ashley Tribble
Ashley (aka Tribble) joined the TPR team as a substitute afternoon host in 2023. Hailing from the Midwest, Tribble is a comedian, producer and host who has been working in digital media since 2015. She started her career in audio as the creator, producer and host of P Power Radio, a podcast that shares the stories of revolutionary millennial women and the history of the world they are working to change. The podcast featured a range of women artists, activists, entrepreneurs and bosses from Chicago and beyond, and was listed among Ebony’s “5 Black Podcasts to Have in Your Arsenal” in 2016. In 2019, she helped launch More Sauce, a network focused on stories from creators of color at Stitcher. There she started her journey as the producer for Dead Ass with Khadeen & Devale Ellis, where she currently leads creative audio and live show production. In 2020, Tribble helped launch The Black Effect at iHeart, a network focused on Black stories and experiences.
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Video shows the moment a Kentucky judge was shot to death
People in the courtroom wept as the footage was shown during a preliminary hearing for former Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines, who is charged with first-degree murder.
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Trump backs out of a ’60 Minutes’ prime-time interview, CBS says
60 Minutes announced on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump has backed out of an interview he had agreed to do as part of its prime-time election special next week.
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Hurricane Helene upends election planning in some parts of North Carolina
North Carolina election officials have said early voting would start as planned on Oct. 17. But they don’t know how many voting sites might be unusable in the swing state because of Hurricane Helene.
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More than 165 ‘Artists for Kamala’ auction their work in support of Harris
Amy Sherald, Jeff Koons, Shepard Fairey and Rashid Johnson are among the visual artists who have donated works for an auction that will raise money for the Harris Victory Fund.
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John Amos, star of TV’s ‘Good Times’ and ‘Roots,’ dies at 84
Amos starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’
In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, South Carolina and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Jeep recalls 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs over fire risk
Jeep is recalling more than 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs because they can catch fire with the ignition turned off. The automaker says the risk of fire is reduced when the battery charge is depleted.
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JD Vance’s performance has audience of one: Trump, says former debate opponent
Vance’s former Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan, says the Ohio senator is likely to aggressively attack Harris-Walz during the debate Tuesday night to appeal to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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Fat Bear Week delayed after a large bear kills a rival bear
The scene was relayed by a live webcam of bears on Alaska’s Brooks River. “This is very difficult to watch and comprehend,” said Naomi Boak of the nonprofit Katmai Conservancy.
