City making changes to police recruit testing after 11 Investigates report Big changes are coming after our exclusive reporting from 11 Investigates raised serious concerns about police recruit testing in the City of Pittsburgh.Our report earlier this week called into ... 05/3/2024 - 11:32 am | View Link
Investigation Finds Seattle Police Officer Violated Policy by Using Racial Slur Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz must soon decide how to discipline Seattle Police Officer Burton Hill after the Office of Police Accountability (OPA) found that Hill violated the department’s bias ... 05/2/2024 - 4:12 am | View Link
UMich study finds white men who experience workplace harassment are more likely to recognize biases A University of Michigan study found white men who experience harassment in their workplace are more likely to recognize and report incidents of bias experienced by their colleagues. 04/30/2024 - 2:41 pm | View Link
Selectboard-commissioned independent report on ‘Gender Queer’ police investigation finds department acted ‘lawful and proper’ In its conclusion, the investigation firm noted that, on January 10, the Police Department revised its policies and procedures regarding preliminary investigations. The firm stated that the revised ... 04/30/2024 - 7:36 am | View Link
How AI-powered robots in law enforcement could become a tool for 'supercharging police bias' "You do not want a system prone to bias going around with the capacity to kill people," says Nir Eisikovits of UMass Boston's Center for Applied Ethics. 04/30/2024 - 7:28 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.