A lurch to the right after the election would be “disastrous” for the Conservatives, Sir Robert Buckland has warned after losing his seat. Britain’s Conservative Party are poised for a record defeat, according to an exit poll predicting a Labour landslide. Sir Robert, a former justice secretary, became the first Tory big beast casualty of […]
An exhaustive investigation into Kansas’s largest school district found it disciplined Black and disabled students more frequently and harshly than their white counterparts, the Justice Department said Tuesday, announcing a settlement agreement with the district. The Justice Department investigated Wichita Public Schools and “uncovered discriminatory treatment of Black students in the administration of discipline at […]
(Bloomberg) — Chinese President Xi Jinping called for “deep reflection” from the country’s armed forces at a specially convened meeting aimed at ensuring loyalty and rooting out corruption in the world’s largest military. Most Read from Bloomberg “The barrel of a gun should always be in the hands of those who are loyal to the […]
An example of redacted legal invoices for services provided to Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita‘s office. (Screenshot of records provided by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office) New, partially-unredacted public records offer a glimpse into public dollars so far spent to defend Attorney General Todd Rokita’s law license. Payments related to the attorney general’s disciplinary case […]
A group that organized pro-Palestinian protests on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus last week is calling on faculty and teaching assistants to withhold grades to “demand amnesty” for students facing disciplinary actions. It was unclear Monday morning how many instructors are joining the call to withhold grades, though university leaders told deans and department chairs that […]
Student success should come from celebrating achievement, not punishing children’s behavior. Restorative practices in schools have emerged as a transformative approach to building strong schools and communities and keeping kids out of the juvenile justice system. In Delaware, the continued shift away from punitive discipline practices towards a more holistic, community-based model shows promising results […]
The chief scientist of China’s COVID vaccine project was kicked from the National People’s Congress. Yang Xiaoming, 62, is accused of “serious discipline and law violations,” a phrase alluding to corruption. Yang led the team that developed the Sinopharm vaccine, and was China’s top researcher in its vaccine project. The chief researcher of China’s first general-use […]
An appeals court in Texas ruled in favor of Sidney Powell last week, upholding a state court judge’s ruling that tossed out an attorney discipline petition against the lawyer for her involvement in former President Donald Trump’s election reversal efforts. Powell stands out as a Trump-aligned attorney who has so far been able to defeat […]
Donald Trump secured a huge victory late last month when a New York court reduced his half-billion dollar bond to $175 million after his lawyers expressed difficulty with producing bond for the full judgement while he appealed. But the former president’s lawyers may have made a crucial misstep in failing to disclose that a billionaire financier had offered to […]
The seven aid workers who were killed by Israel in Gaza on Monday night died because Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers on the ground “do what they want,” sources in the military have told the country’s Haaretz newspaper. While the IDF claimed that the deaths resulted from poor coordination, a Haaretz source in the intelligence […]
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has laid out a plan for the country to increase defence funding in coming years and continuously meet the NATO alliance’s spending targets in an interview with dpa. Lindner said money from a €100 billion ($107 billion) special defence fund created in 2022 in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion […]
Feb. 27—OTTAWA — A detective with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is awaiting departmental disciplinary action after being cited earlier this month for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. According to Putnam County Sheriff Brian Siefker, Detective Aaron Giesige, 52, was stopped by the Ohio State Highway Patrol at 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 17 in Defiance […]