Police investigation into Utah women’s basketball allegations finds audio containing racial slur
The police investigation is Utah women’s basketball team Law enforcement officials announced Thursday that they have found evidence that “corroborates” the story of a player who was the victim of a “racial hate crime” while in Idaho for the NCAA women’s tournament last month. The Coeur d’Alene Police Department released an update confirming that detectives […]
NJ environmental group plucks ‘bizarre’ finds from state beach shores
Clean Ocean Action volunteers are preparing for another year of strange discoveries across the state’s coasts. In 2023, volunteers collected 176,206 items along New Jersey’s 197 miles of coastline, ranging from mundane debris to bizarre objects. Notable finds include a voodoo doll, a whoopee cushion, zip ties, and denture powder. Jersey Shore beach season is […]
Americans’ support for checks and balances depends on who is in office, poll finds
Like many Americans, Richard Bidon says he wants the U.S. government to “return to its original design.” It is a system of checks and balances developed about 240 years ago to prevent any branch, especially the presidency, from becoming too powerful. But that’s mostly when Republicans are in power. Bidon, an 84-year-old Democrat who lives […]
DC Bar review finds Jeffrey Clark broke ethics rules in helping Trump
The Washington, D.C. Bar Association’s three-member Accountability Committee on Thursday said that former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark has failed to comply with at least one ethics policy in his efforts to help former President Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential election, remain in office. It was determined that there may have been a violation. […]
Audit of new Virginia USPS processing facility finds big problems, including water-damaged mail
An audit conducted by the Postal Service’s inspector general found serious incidents at a new regional processing facility in Virginia, including water-damaged mail left unprocessed for months and workers falling asleep on forklifts. A problem was found. The audit, dated March 28, casts doubt on the Postal Service’s plans to modernize its processing network. The […]
Largest U.S. Egg Producer Finds Bird Flu in Chickens at Texas Plant
The nation’s largest raw egg producer has suspended production at its Texas factory after avian influenza was detected in chickens, the company announced Tuesday, adding that the virus had also been detected at its Michigan facility. It pointed out. Calmaine Foods, based in Ridgeland, Mississippi, said in a statement that an estimated 1.6 million layer […]
One in three teachers have no behaviour support for pupils with additional needs, poll finds | Education
According to union research, one in three teachers say they don’t have a behavior support team for students with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND), and one in four say they don’t have one. There are no educational psychologists or speech therapists who can help. The online poll, which took responses from 8,000 members of […]
SIDS cases linked to babies’ unsafe sleep habits, study finds
Placing your baby to sleep outside of a crib or dedicated solo sleeping space can pose life-threatening risks. This is according to a recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the medical journal Pediatrics. Among infants who died suddenly, 59.5% were sleeping with someone at the time. About 76% […]
New survey finds agreement on most core American values
new vote found Most Americans agree with most of our country’s core values, such as the right to vote and religious freedom. According to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 91 percent of U.S. adults say the right to vote is very or extremely important to the country’s identity. 84% of American adults […]
Americans agree on most core values, think our democracy functions poorly, poll finds
Despite the country’s deep political polarization, most Americans share many core beliefs about what it means to be American, according to a new poll. About 9 in 10 American adults say the right to vote, the right to equal protection under the law, and the right to privacy are very important to the United States, […]