What’s Current: R. Kelly dropped by Sony Music

  • Sony Music has decided to dissolve its working relationship with R. Kelly. The singer was removed from the RCA Records website shortly after 10AM on Friday.
  • The FBI has shut down a complex web-based Asian sex trafficking ring with outposts in Canada, the U.S., and Australia. A Toronto man allegedly behind the operation was arrested along with six others.
  • A Dublin hospital denied an abortion to a woman with a fatal fetal abnormality, despite Ireland’s recent introduction of legal abortion services.
  • Evie Amati has been sentenced to nine years prison for attempted murder after attacking three people with an axe inside a Sydney 7-eleven following rejection from a Tinder date.
  • A health care provider is being sued by the family of a 23-year-old developmentally disabled woman, who was allegedly raped, impregnated, and injured while in the care of the Florida facility.
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.