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Former MS sheriff’s deputy gets 20 years for torturing 2 Black men

A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 20 years in prison for torturing two black men last year. Hunter Elward was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee, who found him guilty of numerous acts of racist torture against Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. Five other former law enforcement officers […]

England’s first convicted ‘cyber-flasher’ sentenced to 5 years

Britain’s first cyber-exposure offender was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday. Sex offender Nicholas Hawkes, 39, who sent unsolicited photos of his genitals to girls and women, has become the first person in England and Wales to be found guilty of breaching online safety laws. Hawkes admitted at a previous hearing that in […]

NASA welcomes the latest class of astronauts after 2 years of intense training in Houston

Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, welcomed 12 new astronaut candidates who completed a two-year training program through NASA. The newest class of astronauts reportedly includes 10 Americans and two from the United Arab Emirates. space dot com report These astronauts will be assigned to missions aboard the International Space Station and future commercial space […]

Bank of Japan makes first rate hike in 17 years

JPMorgan chief global strategist David Kelly said markets were in for a “difficult” few days and that inflation was gradually declining in the “Cramman countdown”. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Tuesday ended eight years of negative interest rates and other unconventional policies, marking a historic shift away from focusing on mirroring growth from decades […]