Recycling trucks and work pickups speed down Carson Street, kicking up dust in this small enclave of homes sandwiched between sprawling scrapyards and massive warehouses on the border of Fort Worth and Haltom City. Trina Sanders has watched her whole life as the industrial buildings have gradually encroached on what was once a vast, fertile […]
Tallahassee city commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved three legal settlements that could cost as much as $3.4 million. The Florida Department of Transportation, a resident and a business were seeking relief from the city for damage caused by roadway accidents and sewage spills within the last two years. City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow made a point to […]
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Roman, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements in Essex, southern England, in findings described as “incredibly fascinating.” The settlements, discovered during excavations before a planned water pipeline was laid, provide a “real picture into what ordinary people’s lives were like,” Benjamin Sleep, a senior archaeology and heritage consultant at Stantec […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told US media that Israel has no plans to build settlements in the Gaza Strip once the war there is over. “Resettling Gaza… was never in the cards,” Netanyahu said in an interview with the US broadcaster CNN on Tuesday. “Some of my constituents are not happy about it, […]
Three big real estate brokerage firms received a judge’s approval Thursday to finalize sweeping settlements that promise dramatic changes to real estate commissions across the US. Keller Williams, RE/MAX (RMAX), and Realogy (HOUS) were granted the green light to go forward with the settlements during a fairness hearing in a Missouri federal court over objections […]
By Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) – Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about how to use its products, offering $50 to people who had bought Chicco-brand seats. The company, which did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, knew it sold roughly 875,000 […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new report shows the City of Albuquerque shelled out more than $3 million to settle lawsuits in the last three months of 2023. About a quarter of that went to people who were in crashes caused by city workers including Albuquerque Police Department officers. A trip to the landfill took a turn […]
ORENBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Floods gripped cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing over 100,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg. The deluge of melt water overwhelmed scores of settlements in Russia’s Ural Mountains, Siberia, Volga and areas of Kazakhstan […]
The UN human rights office says in a report that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. The report covers the one-year period from November 1st, 2022, to October 31st, 2023, when it says roughly 24,300 housing units in existing settlements in the […]
By Humeyra Pamuk and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel’s plan to add thousands more homes to settlements in the occupied West Bank announced last week was the final push the Biden administration needed to declare them “inconsistent” with international law, sources and U.S. officials familiar with the move told Reuters. Rather than the carefully […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday restored a U.S. legal finding dating back nearly 50 years that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are “illegitimate” under international law. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. believes settlements are inconsistent with Israel’s obligations, reversing a determination made by his predecessor, Mike Pompeo, […]
By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk (Reuters) – Israel’s expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank were inconsistent with international law, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday, signaling a return to long-standing U.S. policy on the issue, which had been reversed by the previous administration of Donald Trump. The Trump administration […]