Antonina, an 80-year-old woman who could not evacuate from a temporarily occupied village in Donetsk Oblast due to health problems, has been brought back to Ukraine-controlled territories. The woman’s journey home took her through five countries, said Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsman). Antonina’s daughter turned to the Ombudsman’s Office with a request to […]
A company called a job applicant after her resume caught the employer’s attention. Then the company refused to interview and hire her after learning she was deaf — even though she was qualified for the job, according to a federal lawsuit filed in New York. Now, a seven-person jury has awarded the woman $1.675 million […]
Lawyers for one of Gary Glitter’s victims said they are “glad” a Parole Board in the UK has “done the right thing” in rejecting his bid to be freed from jail. The decision was published on Wednesday after the disgraced paedophile pop star, now 79, made a plea to be released at a behind closed […]
Disgraced paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has lost a Parole Board bid to be freed from jail. The decision comes after a parole hearing took place behind closed doors last month to consider the 79-year-old’s case. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls […]
A man wanted in Arkansas for allegedly violating his probation in a 2017 murder case has twice been arrested and jailed in Denver since 2021, and both times, Denver authorities have had to release him from custody. In the most recent case in 2023, an Arkansas sheriff refused to have Raffiel Walker, 35, extradited to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Montana fire chief who lost a previous job over a coronavirus vaccine mandate has been charged with spraying a chemical irritant on police officers during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors say that Frank Dahlquist sprayed “an orange-colored chemical agent” directly into the face of one […]
Anthraper Restaurants said it had thoroughly investigated the IHOP incident and taken the necessary action, including firing the manager, the waitress and another server working at the time. A Texas-based IHOP is probably hiring after a waitress there was accused of refusing to serve a Black couple because of their race, leading to her firing […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Former county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling. That’s in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan […]
A former Marine lance corporal who refused the COVID-19 vaccine and was kicked out of the service returned to her former Japan-based duty station in an apparent act of civil disobedience and was arrested by police earlier this month for alleged trespassing. Catherine Arnett, 25, was separated from the Marine Corps after spending 113 days […]
President Patrick Hillery’s decision to decline an invitation to the wedding of Charles and Diana prompted concerns from Irish government officials. The invitation was sent to Mr Hillery and his wife for the wedding on July 29th, 1981, in St Paul’s Cathedral in London, and requested a reply by June 26th. A briefing note on […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals Thursday that the pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription discriminated against her on the basis of her sex. But an attorney for George Badeaux, the pharmacist at Thrifty White in central Minnesota, said his […]