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By ILLIA NOVIKOV (Associated Press) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia’s Federal Security Service, a statement said.

Broward prosecutors dropped charges on Monday against a Fort Lauderdale man who was accused of fleeing the scene of a fatal accident on Sunrise Boulevard two years ago. Bryan Robert, 33, was not in court to hear the formal announcement, but his lawyer, Robert Buschel, broke the news during a phone call last Friday. “I just screamed, like a joyous scream,” Robert said.

Cities should stop passing the buck on homelessness and should do more to end the crisis. The Sun Sentinel news article of April 29 headlined “‘Bad for business’: Homeless hot spots in Fort Lauderdale not a good look, critics say” reports that cities, including Fort Lauderdale, claim their “hands are tied” when it comes to assisting people who are experiencing homelessness. If Fort Lauderdale, or any city, doesn’t want unhoused people sleeping in the streets, the best way to address that is to provide shelter space in the short term and affordable housing in the long term. The federal courts have correctly held that jailing people who have no choice but to sleep outside is cruel.

Q: Ira, I guess Pat Riley still is carrying around that harpoon of his. It looks like he shot it right through the idea of a Jimmy Butler extension. – Alex. A: And in no way do I believe the theater is over. Does Jimmy Butler get his extension as desired at 12:01 a.m.

Boeing and UPS, among other organizations, recently demanded that their staff return to the office for the full Monday-Friday, 9-to-5 schedule. Yet such top-down, full-time in the office mandates come in the face of definitive proof that the traditional office presence is the worst of all worlds. It’s based on a meta-analysis paper by researchers from Stanford University, the University of Chicago and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México on productivity in hybrid, remote and in-office settings. Research has consistently found that hybrid workers exhibit an increase in productivity of 5% to 13% and report greater job satisfaction.

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