Maryland's lieutenant governor is hoping a new vaccination location in Highlandtown will help bridge the racial gap when it comes to access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford met with Brig. Gen. Janeen Birckhead and church leaders, moments before entering Baltimore's newest vaccine site.
The 24-year-old Nova Scotian is looking back at the time she "lost" because she was unhappy with how she looked.
Thousands of workers at a big Mercedes-Benz factory near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote next month on whether they want to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that the vote will take place from May 13 to May 17 at the facilities in Vance and Woodstock, Alabama. The vote will be the second in the union's drive to organize 150,000 workers at more than a dozen nonunion auto manufacturing plants largely in Southern states.
A British man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit received an “unreserved apology” Thursday from a review body that twice rejected his attempts to have his conviction referred to the Court of Appeal. Following an independent review of its involvement, the commission’s chair Helen Pitcher said it was “clear” that the body had failed Malkinson. “Nobody can ever begin to imagine the devastating impact that Mr. Malkinson’s wrongful conviction has had on his life, and I can only apologize for the additional harm caused to him by our handling of his case.”
U.S. electrical systems are not expanding fast enough to meet rapidly growing power needs of technology like Generative AI, prompting data center businesses to sometimes bypass utilities, executives said at an energy conference this week. Layers of regulations, citing and permitting processes, and frequent legal fights brought by environmental and community groups, have slowed new power projects from connecting to the grid, and posed a threat to profits by traditional power companies like regulated electric utilities. "Regulation and permitting within the United States is abysmal," Brad Stansberry, who leads the financial management practice for the power and utility industry at services firm KPMG, said at the AI: Powering the New Energy Era summit in Washington on Wednesday.
A Polish citizen has been arrested in Poland and charged with plans to cooperate with Russian foreign intelligence services in preparation for a possible attempt to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, prosecutors said on Thursday. A hub for Western military supplies to Ukraine, Poland says it has become a major target of Russian spies, accusing Moscow and its ally Belarus of trying to destabilise it. "The findings of the investigation show that the suspect Pawel K. declared his readiness to act for the military intelligence of the Russian Federation," the Polish prosecution said in a statement.
AFP via Getty Images A Russian military court convened on Thursday to rage against the press secretary of Facebook’s parent company over a tweet posted more than two years ago.Andy Stone, the press secretary of Meta, was not present in the Moscow District Military Court. Andy Stone will probably never be present in a Russian court.But that did not stop a high-profile prosecutor from trying to call up a witness to make the Kremlin’s case that Stone is guilty of “justifying terrorism” for announci
Squatters at Chef Gordon Ramsay's London pub have vacated the property after being served legal papers.
A court in the Maldives on Thursday threw out former President Abdulla Yameen's 11-year prison sentence on money laundering and bribery charges and ordered a retrial. The development comes two days ahead of parliamentary elections in this Indian Ocean archipelago nation, known as an exclusive tourist destination. The ruling, which was broadcast on the court's YouTube channel, is seen as a potential boost to President Mohamed Muizzu's party, which is seeking to secure a majority in the 87-member Parliament.
A Dutch tourist documented the experience of taking a stroll in Saint Lucia, South Africa, where he saw a hippopotamus nonchalantly crossing the road in front of him as he “walked the streets” of the town.Footage filmed by Marco Van Hoogdalem shows a hippo moseying across a road and getting near a car in Saint Lucia, a destination known for its proximity to iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with one of the largest hippo populations in Africa.Hoogdalem told Storyful that he saw the hippo as he was trying to find a spot to eat in Saint Lucia.He told Storyful that despite the danger of the situation, the experience was “really super beautiful.”According to the Voice of America, hippos kill an estimated 500 people a year in Africa. Credit: Marco Van Hoogdalem via Storyful
Chefs’ newest nemesis are squatters. From the middle of last week, Gordon Ramsay’s Camden pub, the York & Albany, was occupied by a group of them, who took to Instagram with plans to open a community café “for victims of gentrification”. Ramsay put paid to all that on Tuesday, obtaining a claim for possession from the courts.
The former SNP chief executive was initially arrested and released without charge in April 2023.
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While Deshaun Watson's rehab from right shoulder surgery is on a conservative track, the Cleveland Browns are expecting the quarterback to be ready for their season opener. “We feel really good about it,” general manager Andrew Berry said Thursday at his annual pre-draft news conference. Watson suffered a fracture to the glenoid bone in his throwing shoulder and had his second season with Cleveland end after just six starts.
France should repay billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island's independence, a coalition of civil society groups said on Thursday. The group of around 20 non-governmental organisations currently in Geneva for a U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) are seeking a new independent commission to oversee the restitution of the debt, which they refer to as a ransom. They say the money should go to public works in Haiti where a transition council was installed this month in an effort to restore security after a period of devastating violence by armed groups.
Good evening. It has emerged that Labour destroyed documents that could have revealed where Angela Rayner claimed to be living when she applied to be a parliamentary candidate. Elsewhere, Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell, the former Scottish National Party chief executive, has been re-arrested as part of an investigation into the party’s finances.
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