This article was originally published in EducationNC. Insufficient child care is costing North Carolina about $5.65 billion each year, a new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation estimates. The report, released in partnership with the N.C. Chamber Foundation and NC Child, looked at the ways a lack of child care access hurts the […]
Hawaii state authorities failed to find evidence that a Celebrity Cruises ship sailed illegally close to Kauai’s protected Na Pali Coastline. The state Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) investigated last month after social media posts appeared to show the cruise line’s Celebrity Edge ship sailing less than […]
A man who spent nearly a year in the custody of the state Department of Corrections is free after his burglary conviction in Pierce County was reversed by an appeals court. Prosecutors conceded they didn’t have sufficient evidence. In an unpublished opinion authored by Judge Rebecca Glasgow, a three-judge panel of Division II of the […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO’s top commander said on Thursday he did not believe Russia’s military has deployed enough troops to make a strategic breakthrough in the region around Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine. General Christopher Cavoli, NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe, said he was confident Ukrainian forces would hold their lines in the region. Russia last […]
Harsher penalties will not be enough to curb the increasing aggression against politicians, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has said. “The attempt to solve the social problem of a general brutalization of political debate with criminal law alone will fail,” the politician from the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) told dpa. Nevertheless, he was prepared to […]
According to Bloomberg, the dispute over the EU’s failure to deliver one million artillery shells to Ukraine on time has become evidence of a deeper split between Western and Eastern Europe. Source: European Pravda, citing Bloomberg’s article based on interviews with European officials on condition of anonymity Details: European diplomats interviewed by the agency believe […]
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Europe’s attempt to give workers at Uber, Deliveroo and other online companies more social and labour rights failed a second time after France and three other countries abstained from voting on the watered-down political deal. EU lawmakers and Belgium, the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, had clinched […]
Feb. 7—In an update to court proceedings for Michael Angus Bigheart, 42, who is accused of killing Justin Springer in April 2023 during a domestic dispute, attorneys for the defendant filed a motion this week to “quash and dismiss [the case] for insufficient evidence.” This request was presented to Payne County Judge Michael Kulling on […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday the majority of countries in the European Union were not delivering sufficient weapons to Ukraine to help it battle a Russian invasion, calling upon allies to increase their efforts. With American military assistance to Ukraine stalled in the U.S. Congress, Scholz insisted on the need […]