Suspect in critical condition after CHP in standoff on I-80 in Solano County Parts of Interstate 80 are shut down in Solano County on Friday afternoon as California Highway Patrol deputies are involved in a standoff with a suspect. CHP chased the suspect's vehicle on the ... 05/4/2024 - 1:39 am | View Link
Chicago crime: Man shot multiple times on city's SW Side, in critical condition CHICAGO - A shooting on the city's Southwest Side has left a man in critical condition and a suspect on the run. The incident happened at 10:49 a.m. Friday in the 7000 block of S. Western Avenue. A 21 ... 05/3/2024 - 8:51 am | View Link
Person fatally shot by police after allegedly pointing weapon at others ID’d as 35-year-old man An armed person shot and killed by Indianapolis police after allegedly pointing a weapon at other people has been identified as a 35-year-old man. 05/3/2024 - 3:16 am | View Link
Man and woman shot while leaving northwest-side apartment complex, authorities say SAN ANTONIO — A man and woman were shot while trying to leave a northwest ... The man was hit multiple times and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. The woman was also hit but ... 05/3/2024 - 12:40 am | View Link
Man, 54, fatally shot on Roseland sidewalk The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. 05/2/2024 - 3:58 pm | 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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