JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Indonesian court handed down a death sentence on Monday to a teacher for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he had initially received a sentence of life in prison.The case of teacher Herry Wirawan has shocked Indonesia and shined a…Continue Reading
ALBANY, N.Y. — A trial court ruling that declared New York’s new congressional and legislative district maps unconstitutional was temporarily stayed Monday as lawyers prepared to argue before an appeals court.The interim order from state Appellate Division Justice Stephen K. Lindley comes four days after a lower court judge threw the state’s primary season in turmoil by…Continue Reading
The 23-year-old cousin of missing 17-year-old Zion Foster has been sentenced in relation to her disappearance. Jaylin Brazier was charged with lying to a peace officer in the investigation into Zion’s disappearance. On Wednesday, March 30, Brazier appeared in court where he admitted that he had thrown his cousin’s body in a dumpster weeks earlier.…Continue Reading
An aging mob hitman who escaped from federal custody when he failed to return to a halfway house near Orlando, Florida, last week was captured Monday near Miami, the U.S. Marshals Service said.Dominic Taddeo, 64, was apprehended without incident by U.S. marshals and members of a regional fugitive task force at about 11 a.m. in…Continue Reading
As part of their 100 year celebration Chevrolet set up a weird bracket style voting system in an attempt to pick the best car the company ever produced. After 124,368 votes were cast the 1969 Camaro came out victorious. Second place went to the 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS. I like ’69 Camaros and ’70 Chevelles…Continue Reading
Learn more about Camp Sunshine, a wonderful camp in Maine that serves children with life-threatening illnesses.Continue Reading
“Every great and difficult thing has required a strong sense of optimism,” says editor and author Kevin Kelly, who believes that we have a moral obligation to be optimistic. Tracing humanity’s progress throughout history, he’s observed that a positive outlook helps us solve problems and empowers us to forge a path forward. In this illuminating…Continue Reading
In a video address posted early Tuesday, Zelensky again called for an investigation into Russian wartime conduct, alleging that the Kremlin’s soldiers did “things that the locals had not seen even during the Nazi occupation 80 years ago.” His foreign minister said at a briefing Monday that the humanitarian situation in the devastated port city…Continue Reading
Olga Gazhurova, a 34-year-old prosecutor from the bombarded city of Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine, typed their account into her laptop, pausing for clarification.“From which street, exactly, did the tanks enter?” she asked.Story continues below advertisementBefore the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, Gazhurova was a criminal prosecutor in Kharkiv, more than 500…Continue Reading
Here’s what to knowRussia is “revising its war aims” to focus its offensive operations in eastern and southern Ukraine, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.The International Committee of the Red Cross said a team helping with evacuation efforts was stopped about 12 miles west of Mariupol.In interviews with The Washington Post in recent days,…Continue Reading
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