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An eye-opening affirmation of American soft power. View Source Here

Nearly a decade ago, a British court ordered a man named Sam Westrop to pay the equivalent of more than $173,000 in libel damages after he published an article on his website calling the founder of a London-based Islamic TV channel a “convicted terrorist.” Westrop eventually admitted the underlying evidence for the claim was not

The upstate New York city of Syracuse seems at odds with itself when it comes to a notorious miscarriage of justice. Nearly five years ago, the district attorney of Onondaga County, William Fitzpatrick, stood up in court and excoriated his county’s decision decades earlier to prosecute Anthony Broadwater for the rape of author Alice Sebold.

The hotly anticipated mega-spectacle is, in the end, pretty good. But it isn’t Homer. View Source Here

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a sophisticated network of scammers who target people caught in immigration proceedings, bilking them of their savings and causing some to be deported, following a ProPublica report that complaints of such fraud doubled under the second administration of President Donald Trump. Homeland Security Investigations, the subagency known for

Reporting Highlights Private School Abuse: At an Arkansas school, a boy was hit by the school’s founder and attacked by classmates in a group session the founder led, prompting a complaint and her arrest. State Money Still Flows: Despite a jail term for the school’s founder, The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain continues to

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, on CNBC this morning, recalled the moment he realized he’d been "lied to" about Donald Trump and marveled at the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) he sees blocking people from setting up "Trump accounts" to literally get "free money" for their children. View Source Here

There’s one indisputable fact about the events of the night of May 8, 1981: Alice Sebold, who had earlier that day just completed her freshman year at Syracuse University, was brutally raped while walking home through a park. Anthony Broadwater was arrested several months later and subsequently convicted of the assault. He’d spend 16 years

Indigenous and Hispanic students are suspended more often and for longer periods than their white classmates who commit similar infractions at Gallup-McKinley County Schools — a pattern of “substantial racial disparities,” an investigation by the New Mexico attorney general’s office found. Indigenous students lose eight to 10 times more classroom days to suspensions than white

President Donald Trump has pushed out the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the bipartisan agency in limbo as he rushes to remake how elections are run before this year’s midterms. Trump fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the commission, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ProPublica, which

A New York school suspended a 15-year-old boy for an allegation of sexual assault without letting him defend himself or even calling his parents. Hours later, he died by suicide. View Source Here

Two members of Congress have called on federal officials to address what they described as “a growing and preventable public health crisis” of families refusing the long-standard vitamin K shot for their newborns, which has led to some of those babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.  “We write to urge the Centers for Disease

Donald Trump Jr. appeared on FOX News fter attending the preliminary hearing for accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. Trump Jr. spoke about the hearing and his efforts to preserve Kirk’s legacy. View Source Here

Reporting Highlights Suspected of Hiring Gang: The Trump administration is working directly with a powerful Venezuelan leader under investigation for an alleged political killing in Chile. Crucial Figure in Venezuela: Diosdado Cabello remains the interior and justice minister, even though he is the target of U.S. drug trafficking charges and a $25 million bounty. Implicit

Graham Platner won the Maine Democratic Senate primary in a landslide. But it all fell apart quickly after a rape allegation from a former girlfriend. View Source Here