A New Hampshire jury awarded $38 million to the man who blew the lid off abuse allegations at the state’s youth detention center Friday, in a landmark case finding the state’s negligence allowed him to be beaten, raped and held in solitary confinement as a teen....
Winnipeg’s Rick Bowness, Nashville’s Andrew Brunette and Vancouver’s Rick Tocchet were named finalists on Friday for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s 2023-24 coach of the year....
At least 42 deaths have been recorded from a measles outbreak in just over a week in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, the state’s health commissioner said on Friday....
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended from U.S. universities after staging anti-Israeli protests....
Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes in two schemes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energy company and an unnamed bank based in Mexico, court papers showed....
Seems French and Australian cops follow their own freedom-of-peaceful-assembly rules far better than America ever has, because neither nation arrested anyone.
“Their frustration is understandable, but this kind of expectation betrays a misunderstanding of what’s actually driving food prices higher in this country.”
And everyone with a brain knows (because facts) that not every story coming out of Israel - more specifically those stories backed by the IDF - are true.
The drive west along the 401 into Mississauga is lined with factories, box stores, furniture outlets and timber suppliers. It’s an industrial area, but also a commuters’ hub, where people from across the Greater Toronto Area come to gather at mosques, temples and weddings in splashed-out convention centres....
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) discharged toxic sewage at the Chalk River site along the Ottawa River during peak fish spawning season earlier this year, CBC Indigenous has learned....
A police officer who was involved in clearing protesters from a Columbia University administration building earlier this week fired his gun inside the hall, a spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed Thursday....
It started with a tweet. What if Harry Potter attended an HBCU? Now it's a book series (apnews.com)
(HBCU - historically black college/university)...
New Hampshire jury finds state liable for abuse at youth detention center and awards victim $38M (apnews.com)
A New Hampshire jury awarded $38 million to the man who blew the lid off abuse allegations at the state’s youth detention center Friday, in a landmark case finding the state’s negligence allowed him to be beaten, raped and held in solitary confinement as a teen....
Bowness, Brunette and Tocchet finalists for coaching honor (www.reuters.com)
Winnipeg’s Rick Bowness, Nashville’s Andrew Brunette and Vancouver’s Rick Tocchet were named finalists on Friday for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s 2023-24 coach of the year....
At least 42 die from measles outbreak in northeast Nigeria (www.reuters.com)
At least 42 deaths have been recorded from a measles outbreak in just over a week in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, the state’s health commissioner said on Friday....
Houthis offer education to students suspended in US protest crackdown (www.reuters.com)
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended from U.S. universities after staging anti-Israeli protests....
US Rep. Cuellar hit with bribery charges tied to Azerbaijan, Mexican bank (www.reuters.com)
Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes in two schemes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energy company and an unnamed bank based in Mexico, court papers showed....
Israel-Hamas war protests close on a handful of US campuses as arrests exceed 2,300 (apnews.com)
I want to see the people coming into these threads defending the cops closing down these camps defend the cops arresting 2300 people.
'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary says pro-Palestinian student protesters are 'screwed' because employers can identify them through AI (www.businessinsider.com)
Galen Weston calls Loblaw boycott 'misguided criticism', says grocer not responsible for higher prices (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
“Their frustration is understandable, but this kind of expectation betrays a misunderstanding of what’s actually driving food prices higher in this country.”
Journalism Professors: NYT Risks Credibility With Inaction on Oct. 7 Article (truthout.org)
Reports have found that the claims in the paper’s “Screams Without Words” article are questionable, if not fabricated....
A Mississauga factory is using a known carcinogen. Residents had no idea | The Narwhal (thenarwhal.ca)
The drive west along the 401 into Mississauga is lined with factories, box stores, furniture outlets and timber suppliers. It’s an industrial area, but also a commuters’ hub, where people from across the Greater Toronto Area come to gather at mosques, temples and weddings in splashed-out convention centres....
Toxic sewage discharged at Chalk River nuclear lab (www.cbc.ca)
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) discharged toxic sewage at the Chalk River site along the Ottawa River during peak fish spawning season earlier this year, CBC Indigenous has learned....
Police officer fired gun while clearing protesters from Columbia building, prosecutors say (apnews.com)
A police officer who was involved in clearing protesters from a Columbia University administration building earlier this week fired his gun inside the hall, a spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed Thursday....