
As a 12-year-old queer kid, I was enthralled by Anne Rice's fictional worlds
CNN
Rakesh Satyal remembers finding Anne Rice's "Interview With the Vampire" at his local library as a kid, and later, as a closeted college student, reading her gender-fluid novel "Cry to Heaven." He says Rice's books helped shape the love of story that drove him to become both a book editor and a novelist himself.

Oregon authorities are investigating a shooting by a Border Patrol agent in Portland that wounded two people federal authorities say are tied to a violent international gang – an incident that renewed questions about the Trump administration’s handling of its immigration crackdown in the city and across the US.

Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.

Vice President JD Vance’s claim Thursday that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is “protected by absolute immunity” drew immediate pushback from experts who said the legal landscape around a potential prosecution is far more complicated.










