WikiLeaks founder facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces what could be his final court hearing in England over whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges ... 05/18/2024 - 9:40 pm | View Link
Michigan's cash bail system lacks data tracking as judges, prosecutors try to understand reform A few Michigan counties have made big changes to the use of cash bail. But there's currently no statewide data on bail decisions. 05/7/2024 - 4:11 pm | View Link
How Profit Shapes the Bail Bond System The for-profit bail bond industry is an overlooked but significant factor in pushback against attempts to reform or end the cash bail system. 05/3/2024 - 5:24 am | View Link
Megaupload evidence must be released, rules court Much of the evidence against co-founder Kim Dotcom and his associates was taken from the hard drives of computer equipment seized from his home when the operation was shut down in January this year. 05/29/2012 - 12:59 pm | View Link
History Channel reminds us of the devastation caused by this volcanic eruption.
At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, suffers a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness.
After the city of Pompeii was buried under the might of Mt Vesuvius in 79 ce , an incredible city was discovered under the ash over a thousand years later.
For many centuries Pompeii slept beneath its pall of ash, which perfectly preserved the remains.
California banker and carpetbagger Eric "Pornstache" Hovde, who wants to be the US Senator from Wisconsin, has a knack for doublespeak. We first saw this when he was explaining why people in nursing homes shouldn't be allowed to vote, when he denied in believing The Big Lie and then repeating all the accusations anyway.
He then did an interview with Matt Smith of WISN-TV when this subject came up.
An animated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) raised his voice and refused to say he would accept the outcome of the 2024 election on Sunday.
During an interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked the senator if he would accept a loss by former President Donald Trump in this year's presidential election.
"Will you accept the election results of 2024, no matter what happens, Senator?" Welker asked.
"No matter what happens?
He's already tried overthrow the results of an election once, and as many have warned, he'll try to do it again. Here's Trump saying the quiet part out loud again during his speech this weekend:
The highlight of the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting on Saturday was a speech by former president Donald Trump, which came late but was ripe with sound bites.
8212; Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday.
Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class.
Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight.