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New Mexico judge denies prosecutor's bid to reopen Alec Baldwin manslaughter case
A New Mexico judge has refused to revive Alec Baldwin's manslaughter case in the "Rust" movie shooting, denying a motion from the prosecutor who had asked the judge to reconsider her decision to clear Baldwin of criminal liability.
First Judicial Circuit Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer on Friday denied special prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey's ...Read more
Chicago rapper Lil Durk planned private flight to Italy before charges in murder-for-hire plot filed, Feds say
CHICAGO — Rapper and Englewood native Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, was scheduled to take a private jet to Italy when he was arrested Thursday in Florida in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed in California on Friday.
Banks, 32, was charged in the complaint with contracting five ...Read more
Exclusive: Emails reveal how health departments struggle to track human cases of bird flu
Bird flu cases have more than doubled in the country within a few weeks, but researchers can’t determine why the spike is happening because surveillance for human infections has been patchy for seven months.
Just this week, California reported its 15th infection in dairy workers and Washington state reported seven probable cases in poultry ...Read more
California mental health agency director to resign following conflict of interest allegations
California’s mental health commission on Thursday announced its executive director would resign amid revelations that he traveled to the U.K. courtesy of a state vendor while he sought to prevent a budget cut that would have defunded the company’s contract.
Toby Ewing, executive director of the Mental Health Services Oversight and ...Read more
Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations blend Indigenous customs and European thinking in surprising ways
Every year, five hours west of Mexico City on Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, residents flock to the island of Janitzio to visit the graves of their departed relatives.
On the evening of Nov. 1, the Noche de animas, or Night of the Souls in Purgatory, families will bring a meal to share with their ancestors. They will also use the time...Read more
Hamas at a crossroads: Sinwar’s death leaves a vacuum; Israeli actions make it harder to fill with a moderate
Hamas will soon begin the process of deciding who will next head the militant Palestinian organization following the Oct. 16, 2024, killing of former leader Yahya Sinwar – but the task won’t be easy, or quick.
What makes his replacement as chairman of Hamas’ political bureau a hard one is that since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack – ...Read more
Deputy Mayor Todd Bettison to be named interim Detroit police chief, source says
DETROIT — Mayor Mike Duggan is expected to name Deputy Mayor and former Detroit Police executive Todd Bettison as the city's interim police chief, according to a source with knowledge of the transition.
Police Chief James White last week was named CEO of Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network. The chief, who is a licensed mental health ...Read more
Decisions on whether Michigan false elector cases advance likely won't come until 2025
LANSING, Mich. — A judge's decisions on the future of criminal charges against 15 Michigan Republicans whose signatures appeared on a certificate falsely claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential race won't come before the 2024 election and appear set to arrive in 2025.
Ingham County District Court Judge Kristen Simmons has held three ...Read more
Evolv, NYC subway weapons scanner partner, says staff 'engaged in misconduct' during sales
NEW YORK — Evolv, the technology company behind the Adams administration’s controversial subway system weapons scanner program, disclosed Friday that some of its employees have “engaged in misconduct” during business deals — an announcement that comes as the firm is facing several federal and local investigations.
In a statement, the ...Read more
CNN facing defamation trial over report on company that charged fees to Afghanistan evacuees
CNN could soon land in a Florida courtroom as it faces a defamation lawsuit from a security contractor who took payments to evacuate people out of Afghanistan following the U.S. military's 2021 withdrawal.
The contractor, Zachary Young, was included in a November 2021 segment on war profiteers charging high prices to assist people in fleeing ...Read more
Chicago rapper Lil Durk charged in murder-for-hire plot: court records
CHICAGO — Chicago rapper and Englewood native Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, was arrested in Florida Thursday in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot, according to records from the Broward County sheriff’s office.
Banks, 32, was held in the Broward County Jail as of early Friday, records show, but the exact nature of the charges ...Read more
LA teachers union supports blocking US sale of about $20 billion in weaponry to Israel
LOS ANGELES — The governing body of the L.A. teachers union has weighed in on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, voting Wednesday to support a congressional effort to block the sale of more than $20 billion in U.S. weaponry to Israel on the grounds that American-supplied arms were being used against civilians.
The United Teachers Los Angeles union...Read more
Doctors are preoccupied with threats of criminal charges in states with abortion bans, putting patients’ lives at risk
Abortion bans are intended to reduce elective abortions, but they are also affecting the way physicians practice medicine.
That is the key finding from our recently published article in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
Medical providers practicing in states that implemented abortion bans in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs...Read more
Why returning the name Kuwohi to the Great Smoky Mountains matters
It’s not every day that the name of a mountain is restored to the one used by Indigenous peoples for centuries.
But after nearly two years of trying, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians finally convinced the U.S. Board on Geographic Names on Sept. 18, 2024, to formally agree to rename the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains ...Read more
Foreign countries are helping autocracies repress exiled dissidents in return for economic gain
Governments, even democratic ones, are willing to aid autocracies in silencing exiled dissidents if the host nation thinks it’s in its economic interest.
That is what we found when looking into cases of transnational repression – the act of governments reaching across their national border to repress diasporas and exiles – from ...Read more
Debates about Columbus’ Spanish Jewish ancestry are not new − the claim was once a bid for social acceptance
In connection to Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day, media from the BBC and Fox to Reuters and Haaretz reported on new DNA evidence about the holiday’s original namesake. According to research revealed in a recent Spanish documentary, Christopher Columbus was not Italian, as widely assumed, but Sephardic: of Spanish Jewish lineage.
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Threatening ‘the enemy within’ with force: Military ethicists explain the danger to important American traditions
On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has declared there are serious threats to the United States. First, he said, there is “the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous,” as he told Fox News in an Oct. 13, 2024, interview.
He went on to say ...Read more
A month after Helene, Georgia towns still digging out of destruction
HAZLEHURST, Ga. — “Good morning, baby. I missed you,” Principal Shelly McBride said, leaning over one of her tiny students. The child murmured something. “Oh, I love you, too,” McBride said.
Her goal was to exude normalcy as she greeted many of the kindergarten through second grade students Monday morning beside the car rider line at ...Read more
Putin says Russia won't make concessions to end war on Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin said Russia is open to a “reasonable compromise” but won’t make any concessions to end its war in Ukraine.
“We aren’t going to make any concessions here, there will be no trades,” Putin said in an interview with Russian state television published on Friday, after he’d hosted a summit of BRICS countries in ...Read more
Early voting is surging across the country. It's unclear who benefits
LOS ANGELES — After Katie Kern and her father, Robert Kern, cast their ballots for former President Trump in this suburb of Las Vegas, they said they wanted to make sure their vote was counted in the critical battleground state of Nevada so that the Republican would retake the White House.
"I'm probably more of a last-minute voter, but I ...Read more
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