State files motion to dismiss Seaside State Park lawsuit Waterford ― The state, in response to a lawsuit filed against it in Hartford Superior Court for its planned demolition of several historic buildings at Seaside State Park, is asking the court to ... 05/2/2024 - 11:22 am | View Link
Israel-Hamas war protesters and police clash on Texas campus, Columbia University begins suspensions Colleges around the U.S. are imploring student protesters of the war on Gaza to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency. Police used pepper spray as they made ... 04/29/2024 - 2:16 pm | View Link
Clear encampment or face suspension, Columbia University tells Israel-Hamas war protesters Columbia University has issued an ultimatum for students to sign a form and leave a pro-Palestinian protest encampment by the afternoon or face suspension. The move Monday comes as colleges ... 04/29/2024 - 5:58 am | View Link
Google asks court to reject the DOJ’s lawsuit that accuses it of monopolizing ad tech Google filed a motion on Friday in a Virginia federal court asking for the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against it to be thrown away. The DOJ sued Google in January 2023, accusing the ... 04/27/2024 - 7:38 am | View Link
Business files class-action suit against Dali managers in bridge collapse A small business in Baltimore became the first private entity to file a lawsuit against the owner and the manager of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge. 04/25/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
To say the Aston Martin Vulcan is a luxury vehicle would be like saying Jeff Bezos is well-off. In other words, a vast understatement. The two-door, two-seater with a cherry-red carbon-fiber body can reach a max speed of 208 miles per hour and go from 0-60 miles per hour in 2.9 seconds.
America’s police forces are at war with college students. Inspired by students who set up encampments on Columbia University’s lawn, more than 90 college campuses across 40 states have set up similar actions to protest their schools’ investments in Israel. Some have set up camps, while others have staged sit-ins or occupied buildings, but nearly all have been confronted by highly militarized police departments brought in by administrators.
Last January, not long after agreeing with an actual Nazi that western Jews have brought antisemitism upon themselves by welcoming “hordes of minorities” to their countries, Elon Musk took a quick trip to Poland. The billionaire chief of SpaceX, Tesla, and X laid a wreath at Auschwitz and then preceded on to a symposium in Krakow, where he told the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that social media could have averted the Holocaust and bragged that he considered himself “aspirationally Jewish.” The tweet, he explained in a different interview, at a different symposium “might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done.” But he did not take it down, nor has he moderated his views.