China’s embassy in Japan has lashed out over Wednesday’s leak of radioactive waste water from the tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear power plant, rebuking its operator the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the Japanese government. “Japan’s repeated accidents in the process of treating Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water have fully exposed the chaos and disorder of Tepco’s internal […]
Durham Public Schools Superintendent Pascal Mubenga has resigned, less than one month after accounting errors and withdrawn raises threw the district into chaos. The Board of Education announced the resignation late Wednesday night after a three-hour meeting behind closed doors. The issues stem from what the district has described as accounting errors made in October […]
Farmers in convoys of tractors created chaos outside the European Union’s headquarters on Thursday, pelting police with fireworks, eggs and beer bottles as they demanded leaders at an EU summit provide relief from rising prices and bureaucracy. With thick smoke from burning bales of hay hanging over parts of Brussels, security forces used water cannons […]
As another week starts in Durham Public Schools, the Board of Education met in private in a downtown board room to discuss paycheck problems that derailed school activities last week. Many classified staff — including bus mechanics, physical therapists, cafeteria workers and groundskeepers — skipped work last week, plunged into a financial panic over whether […]
A man brandishing what appeared to be a firearm inside a church in Long Beach Sunday caused a frightening scene before parishioners, who called police, were able to subdue him. Officers with the Long Beach Police Department responded to calls of a man with a gun at the church in the 500 block Olive Avenue. […]
A convicted killer was allegedly lunged at and punched in a California courtroom during his sentencing for stabbing his girlfriend to death nearly four years ago. Euren Balbuena, 33, was sentenced to 33 years to life in prison for killing his girlfriend, 31-year-old Zaira Patino-Trejo, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced in a Thursday […]
Ukrainian hacking group “Blackjack” successfully targeted Russian military sites. The mined data includes intel on Russian Army HQs, air defense installations, and weapons arsenals. Over 500 Russian military sites had their data breached, said Ukraine intelligence. “Blackjack,” a Ukrainian group of hackers with alleged ties to the country’s main spy agency, stole construction plans for over […]
WASHINGTON – Warning of ”chaos and bedlam,” forrmer President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to put a “swift and decisive end” to efforts to disqualify him from the presidential ballot. These moves ”threaten to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans, which promises to unleash chaos and bedlam,” he said. Trump made that argument in […]
Michigan’s Republican party has devolved into feuding factions – and at this point, it’s not even clear who, if anyone, is in charge. Kristina Karamo, the Michigan GOP’s election-denying chair, was ousted in a 6 January vote held during a special meeting called by state committee members critical of Karamo. But she and the faction […]
As with all things in Trump world, just when you think there is no lower behavioral place to go, new depth-defying plunges occur. Thursday’s defense summations in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case against Donald Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization is just the most recent example. While this latest plunge only […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a columnist who last year won a $5 million jury award against Donald Trump for sex abuse and defamation urged a judge Friday to take strong measures to ensure the former president doesn’t “sow chaos” when a new jury considers next week if he owes even more in […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – It’s against the law for Nevada teachers to strike, and they could face thousands of dollars in fines if they do, but the Clark County Education Association is launching another effort to overturn a 55-year-old state law. Representatives with the Clark County Education Association (CCEA) also known as the teacher’s union […]