Special needs instructor Bethany Mendez has been fighting for months to escape the teachers union in Fremont, California, but the school district continues to funnel a portion of her paycheck directly to the labor bank account.
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Hometown Food Company is recalling specific lots of its Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour because it may be contaminated with salmonella.
A St. Cloud man is reported to be among the 157 people who died when a jetliner crashed in Ethiopia.
By Clement Rossignol BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche was sentenced to life in jail on Monday for shooting dead four people in a Jewish museum in 2014, telling the court "life goes on" in his last words to the jury.
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Paramedics thought they were responding to a police pepper spray incident when they arrived to Hilda St. on July 24, 2016 to find Abdirahman Abdi lying face-down and bloodied, hands still cuffed behind his back with vital signs absent. Yannick Roussel was among the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of Abdi’s fatal arrest. […]
Google agreed to pay $135 million to two former executives accused of sexual harassment, it confirmed to The Verge today. We now know from a newly unsealed lawsuit that former senior search vice president Amit Singhal was initially offered $45 million, triple the amount he ended up walking away with.
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By Kylie MacLellan, Alistair Smout and Gilbert Reilhac LONDON/STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May won legally binding Brexit assurances from the European Union on Monday in a last ditch attempt to sway rebellious British lawmakers who have threatened to vote down her divorce deal again. Scrambling to plot an orderly path out of the Brexit maze just days before the United Kingdom is due to leave on March 29, May rushed to Strasbourg to agree additional assurances with European Commission... Читать дальше...
Drummer Hal Blaine, who played on many of the biggest hits in music history, has died.
Clever horror-comedy series about zombies in an affluent suburb returns to Netflix.
“I’m not for impeachment,” Pelosi said. “I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country.”
By Brian Ellsworth and Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) - As Venezuela's five-day power blackout left homes without water, Lilibeth Tejedor found herself looking for it on Monday in the last place she would have imagined - a drain pipe feeding into a river carrying sewage through the capital, Caracas. Tejedor, 28, joined dozens of people who had flocked to the Guaire river, which snakes along the bottom of a sharp ravine alongside Caracas' main highway, to fill up a four-gallon (15 litres) plastic container. Читать дальше...
Amit Singhal was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault investigation
By Gilbert Reilhac STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said on Monday he agreed an updated Brexit deal with British Prime Minister Theresa May to make the agreement more palatable to MPs but warned they would not get a third chance to endorse it. At a joint news conference with May in the seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Juncker said the amended deal provided "meaningful clarifications and legal guarantees" before votes in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Читать дальше...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday sought to reassert the importance of France in its former colony Djibouti with Paris increasingly fearing China's muscular role in Africa as it expands economic and military influence across the continent. Djibouti, strategically located at the southern entrance to the Red Sea on the route to the Suez Canal, hosts France's largest naval base on the continent and is home to some 1,400 personnel used to train African troops as well as to monitor the Horn of Africa and Yemen. Читать дальше...
The Baltimore City Council voted unanimously Monday to confirm Michael Harrison as the city's new police commissioner, formally putting him in command of a deeply troubled police force.
WND reported recently the deaths of dozens of Christians in attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria. Such attacks have been carried out for years, and now the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States has ordered the Nigerian government to investigate the mass killings and destruction of several villages in a series of attacks in […]
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By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - The former CEO of Olympus, who blew the whistle on a $1.7 billion accounting scandal at the Japanese medical equipment maker in 2011, has won a London court battle over alleged wrongdoing linked to his 64-million-pound ($85-million) pension.
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Colin De Young and Judah Bruce of Cornerstone picked up the season's first Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) Men's Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week. De Young won Track Athlete of the Week with an auto mark in the steeplechase with a sub 10-minute tme. Bruce was named Field Athlete of the Week after finishing second in the javelin at the Coastal Carolina Invitational.
Cornerstone picked up both of the Women's Outdoor Track & Field weekly honors for the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC). Kelli Smith took Track Athlete of the Week after breaking an 18-year-old school record in the 10K with a time of 36:32.86. Hannah Drake earned Field Athlete of the Week with a second-place finish in the triple jump at the Coastal Carolina Invitational.
