Mourners packed a Brooklyn funeral home on Saturday afternoon to say final goodbyes to 19-year-old Samyia Spain who was fatally stabbed, with her twin sister wounded, outside a deli after she rejected a man’s advances. More than four hundred people filled the Frank R. Bell Funeral Home on Sterling Place near Classon Ave. in Crown […]
‘I’d rather be caffeinated than depressed with $6’: Young Americans are rejecting Dave Ramsey’s financial advice — here’s why they say they’re ‘not willing to do anything to get out of debt’ Dave Ramsey has fervently preached financial advice to Americans for decades — but younger generations are now slamming the white-bearded radio host for […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito renewed his criticism Tuesday of the high court’s landmark same-sex marriage ruling, addressing it in a five-page statement as part of an order explaining why the court declined to hear a case involving a Missouri lawsuit. The case in question, the Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney, involved a […]
Indian farmers who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices have rejected a proposal from the government, and say they will continue their march to the capital New Delhi. The protesting farmers began their march last week, but their efforts to reach the city have been blocked by authorities, who have […]
Feb. 17—ROCHESTER — The tribal nations that rejected Rochester Public Schools’ exemption request that would have allowed Dakota Middle School to keep its bison mascot provided little context for doing so. The school recently announced it would have to change its mascot under new state legislation that prohibits schools from using American Indian imagery for […]
Toyota was skeptical of electric vehicles back when that wasn’t fashionable. In October 2022, for instance, then-CEO Akio Toyoda said that EVs “are just going to take longer than the media would like us to believe.” As other big carmakers made bold proclamations about when they go all electric, Toyota refused to play along, vowing […]
The European Commission plans to offer EU countries an extension of the duty-free trade regime with Ukraine until June 2025, dismissing Poland’s proposal to reinstate tariffs on some “sensitive products,” Polish Agriculture Minister Czesław Siekierski said in an interview with Business Insider Polska on Jan. 17. Other measures to restrict Ukrainian agricultural exports, such as […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that he will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the NAACP. Attorneys for the civil rights organization had sued on behalf of several Jackson residents, saying the new court […]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to deny special counsel Jack Smith’s request to expedite a ruling on whether Donald Trump can claim presidential immunity over his alleged crimes following the 2020 election could come back to bite the former president, one legal expert says. In a column for MSNBC, Loyola Marymount University Law Professor Jessica […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – California filed a lawsuit against Kroger Co subsidiary Ralph’s Grocery Co on Thursday, accusing it of violating state law by screening out hundreds of job applicants based on their criminal history. The lawsuit, filed in state court by the California Civil Rights Department (CRD), accuses Ralph’s of flouting a 2018 […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – California filed a lawsuit against Kroger Co subsidiary Ralph’s Grocery Co on Thursday, accusing it of violating state law by screening out hundreds of job applicants based on their criminal history. The lawsuit, filed in state court by the California Civil Rights Department (CRD), accuses Ralph’s of flouting a 2018 […]