House supportive of changing term limits Many Missouri representatives voted in support of changing the makeup of lawmakers' term limits. The problem, they say, is that voters might not be as supportive at the polls. 05/2/2024 - 10:09 pm | View Link
2025 NFL Free Agents by Position: Justin Jefferson, Dak Prescott, Tee Higgins Among Top Options Next Offseason While there are still high-quality free agents available on this year’s NFL market, it’s time to look ahead to next offseason and preview the 2025 NFL free agency. Many of the players listed below may ... 05/2/2024 - 1:13 pm | View Link
NFL News: Justin Jefferson Set for A Record-Breaking Minnesota Vikings Deal The air in Minnesota is thick with anticipation as the Vikings prepare to secure their star wide receiver, Justin Jefferson, for the foreseeable future. As Jefferson approaches the final year of his ... 05/1/2024 - 5:11 am | View Link
2024 Centre’s Chipiku Stores Premier League kicks off LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-The journey in Malawi’s Central Region second tier commences today as the association is ready to launch the MK19.8 million league in Dowa. Blue Eagles football team, who return ... 04/27/2024 - 10:40 pm | View Link
Vikings' GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah Gives Update on Justin Jefferson Extension Talks Now that the NFL draft is in the books, expect the Vikings to turn their focus back towards — among other things — getting a record-breaking contract extension done with superstar wide receiver Justin ... 04/27/2024 - 6:54 pm | View Link
Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, a feature film about the heated race to create the toaster pastry Pop-Tarts, starts streaming today (May 3) on Netflix. In his directorial debut, Seinfeld also stars as Kellogg’s head of development, facing cereal mascots and milkmen up in arms because they’re afraid that a breakfast food that doesn’t require milk is going to run them out of business.
Prison is more than a place. It’s also a mindset. When I entered Corrective Colony No. 2—or IK-2, in Mordovia, a region more than 300 miles east of Moscow—I flipped a switch in my head. I’m an inmate now, I told myself. I’ll be here at least nine years. I even rehearsed my release date: Oct.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago.
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The mistrial came in the jury’s eighth day of deliberations.
In a dramatic example of government yielding to public opinion the Senate has introduced legislation to legalize cannabis on the federal level. Though passage before the November election is unlikely, this long overdue legislative action seeks to update a statute stemming [pun intended] from marijuana’s demonized image as depicted in the 1936 documentary film “Reefer Madness” and better reflect public opinion and liberal social trends.
LONDON — Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as an array of election results pour in Friday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a U. K. general election in which the main opposition Labour Party appears increasingly likely to return to power after 14 years.
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Labour won control of councils in England it hasn’t held for decades and was successful in a special by-election for Parliament that, if repeated in a general election in coming months, would lead to one of the Conservatives′ biggest-ever defeats.
The only negative so far for Labour has been in some areas with large Muslim populations, such as Oldham in northwest England, where the party’s candidates appear to have suffered as a result of leader Keir Starmer ‘s strongly pro-Israel stance in the conflict in Gaza.
Perhaps most important in the context of the looming general election, which has to take place by January but could come as soon as next month, Labour easily won back Blackpool South in the northwest of England that went Conservative in the last general election in 2019, when then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a big victory.
BOSTON — A highly anticipated trial began in Massachusetts this week involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank.
John O’Keefe died in a suburb about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Boston on Jan. 29, 2022.
The case has garnered national attention because the defense alleges state and local law enforcement officials have framed her and allowed the real killer to go free.
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Here are the facts and legal arguments in the case:
The charges: A tumultuous relationship turns deadly
Karen Read, 44, of Mansfield, Massachusetts, faces several charges including second-degree murder in the death of John O’Keefe, 46.