China and the Philippines held a crucial meeting on Tuesday to try and ease escalating tensions following their worst confrontation in the disputed South China Sea that sparked fears of a wider conflict that could involve Manila’s ally the US. There was no mention of any major agreement to try to prevent a repeat of […]
Insights from The Washington Post and Firstpost The News Russia warned on Friday that an increase in US drones being flown over the Black Sea could prompt it into a “direct confrontation” with NATO. The Kremlin accuses Washington of conducting reconnaissance on behalf of Ukraine in the waters, while the US has said it is […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The Clark County School District announced nearly 2,000 pages of emails and documents Friday related to a confrontation that was recorded between an officer and a student from Durango High School last year. The officer involved was later cleared of any wrongdoing. The incident, which was caught on camera in February […]
Andree Goldberg, the woman at the center of a viral confrontation with Kylie Kelce, the wife of retired Philadelphia Eagles’ great Jason Kelce, has issued a public apology for the tirade at the Jersey shore captured on video Memorial Day weekend when the couple declined a photo with her. Goldberg, who owns a Main Line […]
Kelly Rowland stole many red carpet headlines from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with a visible confrontation with a female security officer as she made her way up the famous steps and into the Palais. Deadline previously reported Rowland giving her side of the bust-up. Saying she felt the French security rushed her time on […]
Austin Police Department are investigating a violent incident in a Southeast Austin neighborhood near East Stassney Lane that resulted in a SWAT response Saturday evening, law enforcement said at a press conference. Just before 8:30 p.m., emergency responders received a call in the 5200 block of Woodland Oaks Court. Officers found two victims who had […]
A University of Texas at Austin lecturer was arrested and fired this week in connection with his participation in a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus, raising fresh concerns among faculty members and free speech advocates about academic protections in the state. Richard Heyman, who has taught at UT for 18 years in the College of Liberal […]
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – A Chinese fighter jet endangered those aboard an Australian military helicopter during an “unsafe” and “unacceptable” confrontation over the Yellow Sea last week, Australia said on Monday. The incident occurred on Saturday, when a Chinese air force J-10 jet dropped flares above and several hundred meters ahead of an […]
A man recalls the terrifying moment he was beaten and robbed while working at his family’s taco truck in Long Beach — the second time they’ve now been targeted. The victim, Erick Flores, was working at the Los Bros Tacos truck located on Junipero Avenue and 7th Street when two suspects suddenly approached him on […]
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Mississippi became surrounded by a larger and rowdy group of counterprotesters Thursday, and had to be escorted into a building by police. Videos of the protest posted on social media show the larger crowd, of about 200 seemingly mostly white young people, surrounding and shouting down […]
The University of California, Berkeley, has opened a Title IX civil rights investigation into whether a law professor harassed a Muslim student during a dinner last month in the professor’s backyard. The investigation by the university’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination stems from an April 9 incident at the home of professor […]
Only days before Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley’s confrontation with a young Webster police officer went viral, she sent an email to staff that bounced between complimentary and disparaging. The email began tame enough, with Doorley applauding the work of some — highlight “some” — of her staff of prosecutors. The email then shifted […]