Why lawmakers want to remove an even broader spectrum of criminal records from public view Each new opportunity for the expungement of records has marked a victory for the criminal-defense lobby, advocates for minorities and, in past years, the gun lobby, who try year after year to persuade lawmakers to remove more crimes from the state’s public records to open doors that might be closed to people with convictions. 05/3/2024 - 5:43 pm | View Link
Captain sentenced to 4 years for criminal negligence in fiery deaths of 34 aboard scuba boat A federal judge in Los Angeles has sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the 05/2/2024 - 12:20 pm | View Link
CRIMINAL Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com A criminal is a person who commits crime. Criminal is also used to describe something involved in committing crime or related to crime. Criminal has a few other senses as an adjective. A criminal is a person who breaks the law and engages in illegal activity. Real-life examples: Shoplifters, kidnappers, bank robbers, and pirates are all criminals. 05/3/2024 - 1:01 am | View Website
Criminal Definition & Meaning 1. : relating to, involving, or being a crime. criminal neglect. a criminal organization. 2. : relating to crime or to the prosecution of suspects in a crime. criminal statistics. brought criminal action. the criminal justice system. 3. : guilty of crime. also : of or befitting a criminal. a criminal mind. 4. : disgraceful. 05/2/2024 - 9:05 pm | View Website
CRIMINAL | English meaning Meaning of criminal in English. criminal. noun [ C ] uk / ˈkrɪm.ɪ.n ə l / us / ˈkrɪm.ə.n ə l / Add to word list. B1. someone who commits a crime: a dangerous / violent criminal. Synonyms. crook (CRIMINAL) informal. culprit. evildoer. felon specialized. the guilty party. malefactor formal. offender. outlaw. perpetrator. villain UK informal. 05/2/2024 - 7:25 pm | View Website
Crime | Definition, History, Examples, Types ... Crime, the intentional commission of an act usually deemed socially harmful or dangerous and specifically defined, prohibited, and punishable under criminal law. Most countries have enacted a criminal code in which all of the criminal law can be found, though English law—the source of many other. 05/2/2024 - 5:09 pm | View Website
Criminal (2016 film) Box office. $38.8 million. Criminal is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Ariel Vromen and written by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg. The film is about a convict who is implanted with a dead CIA agent's memories to finish an assignment. 05/2/2024 - 9:16 am | View Website
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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