Guantanamo hunger strike renews debates over indefinite detention, ethics of force-feeding Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a number of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block. The detainees are offered a hot meal or a liquid nutritional supplement and, if they refuse, they are strapped into a chair. More
Wesley Snipes released from prison Actor Wesley Snipes has been released from a federal prison where he was serving a three-year sentence after being convicted on tax charges in February 2010. More
Enron's Jeff Skilling could get early release from prison Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who is serving a 24-year prison term for his role in the energy giant's epic collapse, could get out of prison early under an agreement being discussed by his attorneys and the Justice Department, CNBC has learned. More
Russia Threatens West with Severe Response if Its Assets are Touched Russian officials threatened the West on Sunday with a "severe" response in the event that frozen Russian assets are confiscated, promising "endless" legal challenges and tit-for-tat measures. Russian ... 04/27/2024 - 11:34 pm | View Link
'The movement will persist': Advocates stress Weinstein reversal doesn't derail #MeToo reckoning Harvey Weinstein's accusers and their advocates were shocked and angered by an appellate court’s decision to overturn the ex-movie mogul’s 2020 rape conviction. But #MeToo advocates also sought to ... 04/26/2024 - 7:45 am | View Link
'I was scared': Ontario man's car repossessed after missing two repair loan payments An Ontario man who took out a loan to pay for auto repairs said his car was repossessed after he missed two payments. 04/25/2024 - 11:07 pm | View Link
Lawyer: Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York City jail It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial. Prosecutors said they intend to retry him on charges that he forcibly performed oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006 ... 04/25/2024 - 8:15 pm | View Link
The Latest | Hearing on claims of gag order violations in Trump's hush money trial rescheduled A change in the court schedule means Donald Trump won’t be forced off the campaign trail next week to attend a hearing in his hush money criminal trial. Judge Juan ... 04/25/2024 - 1:37 pm | View Link
Local entrepreneurs have a message for Fort Lauderdale: The city’s homeless crisis is bad for business — and getting worse.
The complaints take on a new urgency in light of a new state law that bans homeless people from sleeping in public. The new law, which goes into effect in October, also paves the way for critics to file lawsuits against local governments starting next year if they fail to enforce the ban.
Bernie Bedor, a business owner in northern Fort Lauderdale, says he has sent email after email to City Hall, begging Fort Lauderdale officials to do something about the city’s ongoing homeless problem.
“We take investors down to the beach and they see homeless people in tents,” Bedor told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
How badly does state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp. want to depopulate?
So badly that in addition to participating with private-market insurers in a “takeout” program, the residual insurer is trying to remove customers out of policies that haven’t even begun.
And it’s doing so with confusing letters and questionable premium estimates that ensure the policyholder must take the private-market offer — at least for now.
State officials make no secret of the fact they don’t want Citizens Property Insurance Corp.
Q: In Saturday’s first quarter, the Heat missed shots, but the Celtics knew exactly what they Heat were trying to do. No one on the Heat was a trigger, with the Heat players making excessive passes and forcing the action to get the ball in the hands of Tyler Herro to set up the offense, even if it wasn’t there.
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From hospitals to doctors’ offices, the frantic questions women are asking about the new abortion law
Trump meets DeSantis in Miami seeking to tap ex-rival’s donor connections
A Florida sheriff says 10 people were wounded by gunfire after a fight broke out at a party venue
California Disney characters are unionizing decades after Florida peers.
By OLEG CETINIC (Associated Press)
PARIS (AP) — French media are reporting that actor Gérard Depardieu is in police custody for questioning about allegations made by two women that he sexually assaulted them on movie sets.
Broadcaster BFMTV and the daily Le Parisien reported that the 75-year-old actor was summoned Monday morning by Paris police and placed in custody.
The Paris police force said it wasn’t authorized to comment and directed questions to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY (Associated Press)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officials appeared increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants against the country’s leaders, as international pressure mounts over the war in Gaza. Airstrikes overnight into Monday killed 25 people in a southern city, according to hospital records.
The deaths in Rafah included nine women and five children, one of whom was just 5 days old, according to the records and an Associated Press reporter.