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A music video by country star Jason Aldean has drawn attention in part for featuring a Tennessee courthouse known as the site of a heinous lynching that occurred a century ago. Released on YouTube on Friday, the video for the song, “Try that in a small town”, features Aldean and his band performing in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, the same site where a black teenager was lynched in 1927. Henry Choate, 18, was charged with assaulting a 16-year-old white girl. He was jailed, but a mob of hundreds of whites kidnapped him from his cell. They…

Image: Universal 1440 the wild river (labeled as simply wild river in some places), a new direct-to-video reboot of the classic 1994 film starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, arrives on Netflix US along with its digital and DVD debut on August 1, 2023. Please note: The addition to Netflix currently only applies to Netflix in the United States. Article continues below... Directed by Ben Ketai, this new thriller (rated PG-13) will arrive on Netflix in early August 2023, marking the film's debut on SVOD. Here's what to expect from River Wild stars Leighton Meester, Adam Brody, Taran Killam, Olivia…

An 18-year-old northeast Nebraska woman was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail and two years probation for burning and burying a fetus she aborted with the help of its mother in a case watched by advocates as a string of states move to restrict access to abortion.Celeste Burgess, of Norfolk, was sentenced in Madison County after pleading guilty earlier this year to concealing or abandoning a body. Two other misdemeanor charges of false information and concealment of the death of another person were dropped, in an agreement with prosecutors."The Court specifically finds that while probation is appropriate, confinement is…

The Defense Department has no plans to stop covering travel costs for female troops seeking abortions across state lines, despite protests from a Republican senator who blocked hundreds of military promotions over the issue, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said Thursday."I see this, and I think (the secretary of defense) does, too, taking care of our soldiers, and it's the right thing to do, and I don't think we're going to change it," Wormuth told NBC News' Courtney Kube at an event at the Aspen Security Forum.Since the Supreme Court Dobbs vs. Jackson decision eliminated the constitutional right to abortion last…