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Future Forward has ascended to the top of the Democratic political universe, but it has also drawn suspicion and second-guessing. | |
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Children as young as 10 will soon be able to be jailed once again in Australia's Northern Territory (NT), after the government there lowered the age of criminal responsibility.
Australian states and territories have been under pressure to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14, in line with other developed countries and UN advice.
Last year the NT became the first jurisdiction to lift it to 12, but the new Country Liberal Party government elected in August has said a reversal is necessary to reduce youth crime rates.
It has argued that returning the age to 10 will ultimately protect children - despite doctors, human rights organisations and Indigenous groups disputing that logic. | |
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Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 massacre in Israel, has been killed, according to the Israeli military. | |
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In the nation’s most affordable metro area, getting hurt or sick is expensive | |
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Stadtallendorf fire station was not legally required to have alarms because it was classified as a building holding equipment | |
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A notorious online figure faces an unusual set of allegations. | |
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The strikes targeted facilities in parts of Yemen controlled by the Iran-backed group. | |
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The National Lawyers Guild strongly condemns the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designation of Samidoun as “a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization,” and the listing of long-time Palestinian-Canadian activist Khaled Barakat “as associated with terrorism.”
Done in coordination with the government of Canada, this designation will have a broad chilling effect on Palestine solidarity work in North America. Above all, it is designed todisrupt the unprecedented global tidal wave of support for the liberation of Palestine. The crack down on our constitutionally protected speech is a worrisome development at any moment in time but in particular right now as social movements confront the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Israeli war on Lebanon, and the general global trend toward fascism. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:54 AM by sleeppoor | |
The top U.S. official working on the humanitarian situation in Gaza told aid groups in August that the U.S. would not consider withholding weapons from Israel for blocking food and medicine from entering the enclave — a rare admission by someone in the administration.
At the Aug. 29 meeting in Washington, Lise Grande told the leaders of more than a dozen aid organizations that the U.S. could potentially consider other tactics to convince Israel to allow life-saving aid into Gaza — such as applying pressure through the United Nations, but stressed that the administration would continue to support Israel and would not delay or stop weapons shipments.
In the nearly two-hour long meeting, aid representatives detailed the ways in which Israel was blocking access in Gaza and raised concerns about the U.S. refusing to restrict weapons shipments. They also argued to Grande that Israel was violating international humanitarian law, which broadly prohibits countries from restricting or blocking humanitarian aid or the movement of humanitarian workers in conflict zones.
“She was saying that the rules don’t apply to Israel,” one person who attended the meeting said. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:45 AM by sleeppoor | |
Robert Leslie Roberson will go to the death chamber in Huntsville this week unless there is a last-minute recommendation by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and an 11th-hour decision in his favor by Governor Greg Abbott.
WFAA has learned that a decision may come by Wednesday.
The Thursday execution date remains on the calendar after a procedural hearing in Palestine early Tuesday morning.
Robert Leslie Roberson III was convicted of capital murder after the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki. She had pneumonia, had been prescribed powerful opioids that are no longer considered the proper standard of care, and died of a brain bleed that prosecutors successfully argued was a case of shaken baby syndrome.
Roberson's apparent lack of remorse or emotion during his questioning by police was used against him. His attorneys say the fact that he has autism, the reason they say for his muted emotional reaction, was not admitted in court.
And, despite a 2013 "junk science" writ that allows those convicted in Texas to challenge their sentences due to outdated or debunked theories such as shaken baby syndrome, Roberson's death sentence remains, now nearing his 22nd year on death row.
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Submitted at 10-16-2024, 07:28 PM by sleeppoor | |
New research finds that Gliese 229B, co-discovered by Rebecca Oppenheimer in 1995, is two tightly spiraling brown dwarfs. | |
Submitted at 10-16-2024, 04:54 PM by sleeppoor | |
How Floridians struggled through the successive traumas of Helene and Milton | |
Submitted at 10-16-2024, 03:37 PM by sleeppoor | |
Court documents unsealed in the Western District of Arkansas reveal accusations of child labor at Tyson processing plants, which have since prompted searches by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Applications for inspection warrants were filed in September 2024 for Tyson Foods Rogers and Tyson Foods Green Forest.
For the Rogers application, the Wage and Hour Division cited an anonymous tip from a teacher at a nearby school, who reported that one of her 14-year-old students discussed working at the Tyson facility with his mother for the summer.
For the Green Forest application, the complainant said she was a mother of middle schoolers and overheard children between 11 and 13 years old discussing their employment at the Green Forest plant on the night shift, which runs from 11 p.m. to 7 or 8 a.m. The children were allegedly heard talking about not knowing how to get money from their paycheck out of the ATM, the documents said.
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Submitted at 10-16-2024, 03:32 PM by sleeppoor | |
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal | |
Submitted at 10-16-2024, 02:59 PM by B. Weed | |
"The animal is a little smaller than the size of your palm and has a question-mark shape in the middle of its body that distinguishes between the left and the right side," | |
Submitted at 10-16-2024, 03:59 AM by Nibbles | |
Operation Mayan Jaguar was a mid-2000s ICE mission aimed at drug trafficking that went off the rails, resulting in serious allegations against the agency. | |
Submitted at 10-16-2024, 02:28 AM by sleeppoor | |
Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down. | |
Submitted at 10-16-2024, 02:09 AM by sleeppoor | |
Health secretary announces trials to assess impact of medicines such as Ozempic on worklessness | |
Submitted at 10-16-2024, 02:06 AM by sleeppoor | |
Lillian Schwartz, a computer art pioneer who awed scientists and curators alike, has died at 97. | |
Submitted at 10-16-2024, 01:55 AM by sleeppoor | |
Ryan Lizza has wholly denied allegations of blackmail while claiming that RFK Jr. told his former fiancé he wanted to “possess,” “control,” and “impregnate” her. | |
Submitted at 10-15-2024, 09:28 PM by Mordant | |