LA Times: City Council President Also Made Racist Remarks About Jews, Armenians
Nury Martinez, the disgraced former president of the Los Angeles City Council, made racist remarks about Jewish people and Armenians during a meeting with other council members and a labor leader in 2021, according to new audio leaked Tuesday.
Supreme Court and artistic expression: Justices debate celebrities, photographs and ‘transformative’ fair use
Post Content Celebrity figures and contested copyrights combined for a spirited oral argument at the Supreme Court Wednesday, in a case testing the meaning and message behind “transformative art.” The justices debated for nearly two hours in a public session over an image of the late music superstar Prince created by the equally famous late […]
US to pull visas of Haitian officials with criminal connections, send humanitarian aid to Haiti
The U.S. government will pull visas belonging to current and former Haitian government officials involved with criminal organizations as well as provide security and humanitarian assistance to Haiti, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday. The officials spoke to reporters by telephone on condition of anonymity as a U.S. delegation was arriving in the Caribbean country that […]
Taliban claims Afghanistan is secure enough for large-scale projects
The Taliban said Wednesday there is enough security across Afghanistan to restart major economic projects that stopped due to decades of war, despite a slew of attacks rocking the country since the group seized power more than a year ago. The Taliban have struggled in their transition from insurgency and warfare to governing amid an […]
Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank clashes
Israeli troops on Wednesday shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during clashes that erupted in a refugee camp in the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, the latest deadly incident as violence surges in the occupied territory. The ministry identified the Palestinian as 18-year-old Osama Adawi. He was among the more than 100 Palestinians […]
Brittney Griner Fears She Will Serve Entire Sentence in Russia
WNBA star Brittney Griner fears she will have to spend her entire nine-year drug possession prison sentence in Russia, her attorney there told the New York Times.
Reporter’s Notebook: A warning for Congress after the November midterms
Post Content I should warn you now. Remove the goofy skeletons dangling from your porches for Halloween. Return the Halloween costumes to the rental shop – be they Dani from “Hocus Pocus,” Harley Quinn or something from “Stranger Things.” Feed your jack-o’-lantern to the squirrels. And just go ahead and devour all the “fun size” […]
Il femminicidio di Roberta Siragusa, l’ex fidanzato condannato all’ergastolo. La madre: “Ora i complici”
Read More Prima, il fidanzato la colpì con un sasso. Poi le diede fuoco. Infine, gettò il corpo in un dirupo. La corte d’assise presieduta da Vincenzo Terranova ha condannato all’ergastolo Pietro Morreale, il ventenne che assassinò Roberta Siragusa la notte fra il 23 e il 24 gennaio 2021, nel parcheggio del campo sportivo di […]
Taiwan Says It Will Comply With Latest US-Issued Chip Export Rules Aimed at China
Read More On Oct. 7, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced sweeping new export controls that will cut China off from certain semiconductor chips that are made with U.S. technologies, regardless of whether the chips were manufactured in the United States. In response to the new move, Taiwan’s Economy Ministry on Oct. 8 said that […]
Alex Jones ordered to pay Sandy Hook families $965m for hoax claims
Read More The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $965m to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a hoax, a jury in Connecticut decided Wednesday. The verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host over his relentless promotion of the lie that the 2012 […]
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