Armed man who charged at deputies shot and killed, Stanislaus County sheriff's deputies say A man who was armed with a weapon was shot and killed by deputies Sunday evening, just outside of Turlock, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office confirmed. The sheriff's office said a deputy fired ... 05/5/2024 - 6:41 pm | View Link
Armed suspect shot, killed after charging at deputies near Turlock, sheriff's office says A deputy shot and killed an armed man deputies say charged at them in Stanislaus County Sunday evening. Deputies said they responded to the 3100 block of N Quincy Road in unincorporated Turlock ... 05/5/2024 - 3:12 pm | View Link
Placer County deputy shot and critically injured while on duty to be released from hospital The Placer County deputy who was critically injured after a shootout in Colfax is expected to be released from the hospital on Monday. At around 11 p.m. on Friday, PCSO said it ... 05/5/2024 - 10:41 am | View Link
Deputy shot in Colfax identified, could be released from hospital Monday A deputy who was shot in the line of duty in Placer County has been identified and could be released from the hospital as early as Monday. 05/5/2024 - 8:29 am | View Link
Deputy wounded, suspect in van killed after gunfight in McDonald’s parking lot in Colfax A burglary suspect was killed after firing upon at deputies Thursday night in a McDonald’s parking lot in Colfax, injuring a Placer County sheriff’s deputy, before authorities fired back. 05/4/2024 - 3:50 am | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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