Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing five businesses, including one in Tarrant County and three others in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, for refusing to allow off-duty police officers to carry their service weapon on the premises, court records state. According to Texas law, establishments which serve the public are prohibited from restricting peace officers, […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Nabela thought the United Nations school in Gaza City was a safe haven. Then, the Israeli army arrived. Soldiers stormed the place, ordering men to undress and hauling women to a mosque for strip searches, she said. So began six weeks in Israeli custody that she says included repeated beatings and interrogations. […]
Palestinians in Gaza returning from wartime detention in Israeli custody are reporting physical abuse and medical neglect inside Israel’s network of prisons. They say beatings and aggressive strip searches are common, prison conditions are grim, and access to lawyers is limited. Hundreds of Palestinians have been detained, including women. A new report from Physicians for […]
Palestinians in Gaza returning from wartime detention in Israeli custody are reporting physical abuse and medical neglect inside Israel’s network of prisons. They say beatings and aggressive strip searches are common, prison conditions are grim, and access to lawyers is limited. Hundreds of Palestinians have been detained, including women. A new report from Physicians for […]
Three former residents of a state-run juvenile home for boys in Wyoming allege in a federal lawsuit that they were placed in solitary confinement for extended periods of time, in one case for 45 days, held in restraint chairs for hours and deprived of food. They allege in the lawsuit filed Monday in Wyoming District […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Attorneys representing some of the protesters who blocked the Bay Bridge to call for an end to the Israel – Hamas war are urging San Francisco’s district attorney to drop all charges, saying the district attorney’s office is biased. The attorneys for the so-called Bay Bridge 78 say District Attorney Brooke Jenkins‘ […]
The Texas parents of an OnlyFans model arrested in Miami for her boyfriend’s stabbing death have been likened to a “crime family” after warrants in the case revealed they allegedly discussed how to break into the victim’s computer after taking it from the couple’s apartment. Kim Clenney, 60, and Deborah Clenney, 57, respectively, are the […]
Chrystal Rivas said that when she and her husband, Robert, walked into a Petland store owned by the company in its headquarters city of Chillicothe in April 2022, they “immediately fell in love” with Louie, a brown and white English bulldog puppy. Because Louie was a pure bred and Petland had expenses related to the […]
Prosecutors in Hong Kong alleged on Wednesday that activist and publisher Jimmy Lai had encouraged the city’s residents to protest and urged the US to take action against the “oppressive” Chinese authorities in Beijing. The 76-year-old media tycoon, who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, was arrested in 2020 during a crackdown on massive pro-democracy […]