OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s top education official outraged civil rights groups and others when he ordered public schools to immediately begin incorporating the Bible into lesson plans for students in grades 5 through 12. Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters said in a memo Thursday to school leaders across the state that the Bible is […]
McDonald’s is removing its Automated Order Taker technology from over 100 restaurants. The food chain collaborated with IBM in 2021 to develop and deploy the AI software. Videos showing flaws with the technology at McDonald’s drive-thrus went viral in 2023. The advent of generative AI was supposed to devastate jobs across industries, including restaurants. Turns […]
May 31—A judge in New London on Friday sentenced a 30-year-old former New London man to 20 years in prison for ordering the murder of his son’s mother and her boyfriend from prison. Shaquan Lee-Seales, who is already serving a 15-year prison sentence for killing a man during a drug dispute in 2015, was sentenced […]
You can wear T-shirts year-round, but sometimes you want something equally chill but with a little more pizzazz for dressier occasions. Fans say the Prettygarden Summer Casual Crewneck fills that pesky wardrobe gap. With ruffled sleeves and drapey fabric, it’s polished enough to pair with linen trousers or dark denim for a day in the […]
You can wear a T-shirt year-round, but sometimes you want something with a little more pizzazz for dressier occasions. Fans say the Prettygarden Summer Casual Crewneck fills that pesky wardrobe gap. With ruffled sleeves and drapey fabric, it’s polished enough to pair with linen trousers or dark denim for a day in the office or […]
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch apologized to Chicago Tribune reporters and the Statehouse press corps Saturday, saying an order his office issued instructing members of his Democratic majority not to speak to a Tribune reporter about “political matters” at the State Capitol or elsewhere was a “mistake.” The order was issued Thursday in a […]
Feb. 14—In phone conversations from prison and in a letter to his brother, who was also in prison at the time, state prosecutors claim Shaquan Lee-Seales tried, but failed, to orchestrate the killing of his son’s mother and her boyfriend. In closing arguments of the week-long trial that ended Wednesday, Assistant State’s Attorney Stephen Carney […]
A Kentucky doctor has admitted taking kickbacks in connection with $14 million in bills to Medicare for equipment and tests that were medically unnecessary. Amr Mohamed, 55, pleaded guilty in federal court in Lexington Monday to one charge of conspiring to violate a federal anti-kickback law. Mohamed worked at the University of Kentucky at the […]
Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, Commander of Russia’s Southern Military District’s 49th Combined Arms Army, has been served a notice of suspicion in absentia, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported on Telegram on Feb. 5. He is accused of personally ordering the seizure of Ukraine’s southern Kherson Oblast Feb, 24, 2022. In particular, Rezantsev is responsible for ordering the seizure of a strategic facility […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In one of its most closely-watched rulings since its creation in 1948, the United Nations’ top court issued a series of orders to Israel to protect Palestinians in Gaza to prevent genocide there. Here is a look at the six so-called provisional measures, issued Friday by a panel of 17 […]
The United Nations’ top court has stopped short of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza in a genocide case but demanded that Israel try to contain death and damage in its military offensive in the tiny coastal enclave. South Africa brought the case, which goes to the core of one of the world’s most intractable conflicts, […]
South African gospel singer Kelly Khumalo ordered the murder of her then boyfriend, football star Senzo Meyiwa, a court has been told. Mr Meyiwa was shot trying to protect Ms Khumalo from armed robbers in 2014. Five suspects were arrested in 2020. Lead investigator Bongani Gininda told a Gauteng High Court, on Wednesday, Ms Khumalo […]