A national consultant is recommending monthly audits of police traffic stops in Connecticut to restore public confidence following the highly-publicized scandal involving state troopers falsifying ticket data.
Diplomats from Europe and Asia in the region suspect that China's interests in Antigua are more than just economic. Its new embassy in St. John's -- dubbed The Fortress by Antiguans for its large size and tight security -- may be a regional intelligence center alongside decades-old facilities that the U.S. says Beijing uses to spy from Cuba. While the diplomats declined to provide details, they said that because of close U.S. attention on Cuba, Antigua was both an expansion and a "fall back" position.
Less than six months after she started a new school, Allyson Lopez's daughter was listed for sale in an online mock slave auction allegedly run by at least six eighth graders at a Massachusetts middle school.
Volkswagen workers in the US have voted to join the United Autoworkers Union (UAW) in a massive victory for organised labour in the US. Workers in Tennessee voted 73% in favour, according to the union's unofficial vote count on Friday night.
The latest round in the region's most dangerous rivalry appears to be over, for now. Israel still has not officially acknowledged that the attack in Iran in the early hours of Friday morning was its doing. Meanwhile, Iran's military and political leaders have downplayed, dismissed and even mocked that anything of consequence happened at all.
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday filed a memorandum of opposition to the surety company that holds the $175 million bond for former President Donald Trump as he appeals the $460 million decision against him in the civil fraud trial earlier this year.
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration. ... Notably absent from Biden's policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes.
An 81-year-old Ohio man has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting an Uber driver who thought she was picking up a package from the man's house. Both appeared to have been victims of scam phone calls, the Clark County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Investigators discovered that Brock had earlier received a scam call about an incarcerated relative, which had involved threats and demands for money. The same caller, or an accomplice, later hired Hall using the Uber app to pick up a package from Brock's residence, according to investigators. Hall was not aware that Brock had been threatened, the sheriff's office. said. Read more
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Bees play by rolling wooden balls " apparently for fun. The cleaner wrasse fish appears to recognize its own visage in an underwater mirror. Octopuses seem to react to anesthetic drugs and will avoid settings where they likely experienced past pain. All three of these discoveries came in the last five years " indications that the more scientists test animals, the more they find that many species may have inner lives and be sentient. A surprising range of creatures have shown evidence of conscious thought or experience, including insects, fish and some crustaceans.
Health insurance companies have swelled in both size and scope over the last decade, with the revenues of six for-profit parent companies making up nearly 30% of total U.S. health spending last year -- compared with less than 10% in 2011.
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Former President Donald Trump may be paying a "secret third party" through a non-existent $50 million loan, an ethics group claimed. The issue arose after Barbara Jones, the court-appointed monitor overseeing Trump's companies, spotted that Trump had taken out a $50 million loan tha ...t might not have existed. She then reported it to Judge Arthur Engoron
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Republican operative who had been pardoned by Donald Trump in the waning days of his presidency. The District of Columbia Circuit Court rejected an appeal by Jesse Benton, a former senior aide to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul, of his November 2022 conviction for orchestrating a scheme to conceal a $100,000 donation from a Russian national to his GOP consulting firm " and pocketing most of it. Russian businessman Roman Vasilenko wired the money under his own name to the consulting firm, but Benton kept $75,000 for himself and gave $25,000 under his name to the presidential campaign for Trump, who posed for a photo with Vasilenko.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) announced Friday that he will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) resolution to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from the House's top job, becoming the third House Republican to back his ouster. Gosar, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, revealed his support for dismissing Johnson minutes after the House " with help from Democrats " advanced a foreign aid package that omitted border security provisions. Read more
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill allowing religious leaders and "patriotic organizations" to interact with students in school, a move that the Satanic Temple plans to contest. HB 1317 authorizes school districts to bring in "patriotic organizations," such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, The Boy Scouts of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and more. Read more
