Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs law regulating a police hold that was used on Elijah McClain Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed off on stronger regulations for law enforcement officers’ use of prone restraint, the controversial but common police hold used on Elijah McClain. 06/4/2024 - 4:13 pm | View Link
Qualified immunity amendment can proceed, court rules. But do backers have time to make the November ballot? A panel of three federal judges has ordered Attorney General Dave Yost to certify petition language for a ballot issue campaign seeking to make it easier for Ohioans to sue police for using excessive ... 05/30/2024 - 4:18 am | View Link
New York appeals court upholds gag order in Trump hush money case A New York appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a gag order against former President Trump in his hush money criminal case. The order, imposed on Trump by Judge Juan Merchan, bars Trump from publicly ... 05/14/2024 - 5:45 am | View Link
Federal appeals court upholds Bannon conviction A federal appeals court on Friday denied a bid by one-time Trump adviser Steve Bannon to topple his contempt of Congress conviction, upholding his sentence for failing to comply with a subpoena ... 05/10/2024 - 4:46 am | View Link
An appeals court blocks a debt relief plan for students who say they were misled by colleges The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal ruling ... “The unbridled scope of these prohibitions enables the Department to hold schools liable for conduct that it defines only with future ‘guidance ... 04/5/2024 - 11:05 am | View Link
Ikea is assembling a team of Roblox players to work at its virtual store—and you can even get paid for the job.
The Swedish retailer announced in a press release Monday that it will be launching “The Co-Worker Game,” a virtual recreation of the store that will be available on Roblox on June 24.
Omaha Beach, France — Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day.
Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June 6, 1944.
Damaran Baru, Indonesia — In a lush jungle at the foothills of a volcano in Indonesia’s Aceh province, the song of gibbons in the trees mixes with the laughter of the seven forest rangers trekking below them. An hour into their patrol, the rangers spot another mammal in the forest with them.
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Political pundits and exit polls were quick to predict that Narendra Modi was poised to clinch a third term as India’s prime minister in this year’s elections, which began on April 19 and concluded on June 1. The question was: could his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), win enough votes to claim a supermajority?
Far right British politician Nigel Farage has launched a campaign for his eighth attempt at a seat in the U. K. House of Commons, a move that could lure Conservative voters to a new political home.
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On Tuesday, Farage, 60, met with supporters at a rally in the beach town Clacton-on-Sea, where he is campaigning to become the Member of Parliament in the general election on July 4.
Spring and early summer are difficult times for both Israelis and Palestinians.
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For Israeli Jewish citizens, the times move intensely from Passover, the holiday of freedom; to tragic Holocaust Memorial Day; to Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror; to the triumphant celebrations of Independence Day; to the anniversary of the Six Days War.