Shamika Crawford was left homeless for three months by a judge’s order. Now a court ruling establishing what may soon be known as a “Crawford hearing” could stop that from happening to other people. Ms. Crawford, 35, of the Bronx, was arrested in 2019 based on a vaguely-worded misdemeanor assault complaint filed by her on-again, […]
In the end, his body, which had endured so much, was tired and frail. As a teenager, he had hauled away the bodies of prisoners who had killed themselves and had been slapped so hard he’d lost two teeth. He had learned to shoot a Thompson submachine gun and interrogate Nazis. His left forearm had […]
A judge will today sentence the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Mr Floyd‘s death in May last year sparked worldwide protests and re-energised the Black Lives Matter movement over police brutality and racial inequality. Video recorded by a bystander showed Chauvin with his knee pressed on Mr Floyd’s […]
A young college-age couple. A father and a son. A beloved teacher. As rescuers continued to comb through debris and rubble for survivors, the friends and family members of those missing in the Surfside building collapse turned to social media in appeals for help. “Please share we are trying to locate our beloved Lorenzo and […]
A young college-age couple. A father and a son. A beloved teacher. As rescuers continued to comb through debris and rubble for survivors, the friends and family members of those missing in the Surfside building collapse turned to social media in appeals for help. “Please share we are trying to locate our beloved Lorenzo and […]
A desperate search for survivors extended into the evening hours on Thursday after a condominium collapsed in Surfside, Fla., killing at least one person with more fatalities expected. Ninety-nine people were unaccounted for at the end of the day Thursday as family members awaited news at a reunification center nearby. “This process is slow and […]
MIAMI (NYTIMES) – Search teams burrowing beneath the rubble of a collapsed condo building in the oceanfront town of Surfside, Florida, detected sounds of banging Thursday (June 24), but no human voices, as an increasingly desperate search for survivors pressed into the evening. The hunt for anyone who lived through the early-morning collapse shifted late […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced she will create a select committee to further probe the deadly January 6 Capitol riot. Her move comes nearly a month after Senate Republicans blocked the formation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection. ‘January 6 was a day of darkness for our country,’ Pelosi told reporters on […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – BuzzFeed, the digital-media outlet, has struck a deal to go public through a merger with blank-cheque company 890 5th Avenue Partners. The deal values BuzzFeed at US$1.5 billion (S$2 billion), according to a statement on Thursday. The agreement, which comes after months of negotiations, confirms a Bloomberg News report in March that […]
CALGARY, Alberta — The remains of 751 people, mainly Indigenous children, were discovered at the site of a former school in the province of Saskatchewan, a Canadian Indigenous group said on Thursday, jolting a nation grappling with generations of widespread and systematic abuse of Indigenous people. The discovery, the largest one to date, came weeks […]