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  Niviane Petit Phelps, 39, sent videos to her incarcerated husband in which she said she would kill the vice president. Vice President Harris speaks during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate at the White House on April 22, 2021. A Miami-area nurse pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris in videos sent to her imprisoned husband earlier this year, officials said. Niviane Petit Phelps, 39, who pleaded guilty Friday to six counts, faces up to five years in prison, prosecutors said. Sentencing is set for Nov. 19. In February, Phelps sent her incarcerated husband six 30-second videos in which she threatened to kill Harris and claimed that she had been paid $53,000 and was "the hit man," officials said. She also sent a photo of her with a handgun at a gun range and applied for a concealed firearm permit. Her attorney, Scott Saul, said Tuesday that Phelps was going through a tumultuous time in her life and just venting and that she never had any intent to

  A panel of three federal judges determined Rachel Tudor deserves her old job as a tenured-track professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. A transgender professor who was denied a promotion more than a decade ago must be reinstated with tenure at Southeastern Oklahoma State University because the school discriminated against her, a federal court ruled this week. Rachel Tudor, who was fired from the university in 2011, won a landmark civil rights discrimination case in 2017 in which a jury awarded her more than $1 million in damages. Although she was granted tenure during the 2009-10 academic year by a faculty committee of five in a 4-1 vote, the university’s administration denied her promotion to associate professor, according to a federal ruling from three judges filed in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. “Given the jury verdict in favor of Dr. Tudor, it is established — and we cannot now question — that Dr. Tudor would have been granted tenure in 2009-10 absent the disc

  The married father of two was reportedly leaning down to pick up a dropped item when his car rolled forward and pinned him between the door and frame in Vancouver. A man in Canada was crushed to death by his own car in a McDonald's drive-through last week in what local police called a "tragic death." Tony Eyles. The Vancouver Police Department confirmed that Anthony "Tony" Eyles, a married 42-year-old father of two from Maple Ridge, British Columbia, died Sept. 8. Eyles leaned out of the vehicle to pick up an item that fell as he was trying to pay for his order at a McDonald's drive-thru window in downtown Vancouver and was crushed by his car, police said. VPD said surveillance video showed that when Eyles opened his car door to pick up the dropped item, "the vehicle rolled forward, colliding into a structural piece of the restaurant. The driver was unable to free himself from the vehicle as he was pinned between the vehicle door and frame." “Eff