Hennepin County Judge Jamie Anderson mandated the city council and Mayor Jacob Frey this week to hire 730 sworn officers by June 30, 2022 after it was discovered that the projected number of police officers hired by that time, 669, would not meet the city’s stipulations for the amount of …
Read More »Texas allows residents to possess handguns with no license after Gov. Abbott signs controversial ‘constitutional carry’ bill
After passing through the state Senate late last month, Abbott put his name to HB 1927 on Wednesday, legalizing what proponents call “Constitutional Carry,” which allows residents to possess pistols with no license or mandatory training. While the law exempts those already prohibited to carry firearms under state or federal …
Read More »Florida set to release swarms of GMO mosquitoes as residents decry ‘criminal experiment’ by Bill Gates-backed biotech
Spearheaded by the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) and Oxitec, a British biotech firm that’s received backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the project aims to turn the first swarms of gene-edited bugs loose into the Keys starting sometime this week, the two bodies announced in a joint …
Read More »Funding priorities? If NASA ran Texas, its residents would not freeze, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells RT in half-joke
Tyson was challenged by Afshin Rattansi, the host of RT’s “Going Underground” program, to convince them that billions of US taxpayer dollars should be spent on projects like the James Webb Space Telescope or Mars exploration, considering that just recently people in Texas were literally freezing to death due to …
Read More »Two UK care home workers arrested over multiple coronavirus-related deaths of residents
A 57-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man were taken into custody on suspicion of willful neglect, said the Devon and Cornwall police. The suspects were working at Holmesley Care Home in Sidmouth, Devon, where nine people have died since February 25. The care home confirmed this month that it was …
Read More »Residents in breakaway Ukrainian Donbass regions have more trust in government than those living under Kiev’s rule, new poll finds
Published by the Global Voices international reporting project – which is funded by Western NGOs – on Wednesday, researchers from Moscow’s Levada Center and Kiev’s Institute of Sociology found that those in the rebel-held Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DNR/LNR) said their local authorities were doing a good job. Around 26 …
Read More »‘Only the strong will survive’: Texas city mayor resigns for lashing out at residents asking for help during deadly storm
“No one owes you are your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink of swim it’s your choice!” Boyd said in the now deleted post, which was riddled with grammatical errors. Unusually cold weather conditions in the state of …
Read More »Torn down after terrifying residents of Russian city, much-mocked dead-eyed ‘Zombie Angelina Jolie’ monument sold off for $35,500
The monument to a girl named Alenka, who local legend holds founded the village that later grew into Novovoronezh, was listed for a starting price of 1 million rubles ($13,650) on Monday, but four bidders battled it out to secure the statue, driving its price up to 2.6 million (around …
Read More »14 German care home residents test positive for UK Covid-19 strain after getting 2nd Pfizer jab
The first positive Covid-19 cases in the care home in the town of Belm, near Osnabrueck, were discovered on February 2 following routine daily rapid testing, the local authorities said in a statement. The care home administration then tested all the facility residents and employees to discover that a total …
Read More »7 die at Spanish care home after getting Pfizer Covid-19 jab as ALL residents test positive for virus, second doses still to come
Most of those who succumbed to the virus had existing conditions, according to Spanish news agency EFE, while four residents are currently hospitalized, and 12 staff have also been infected. The huge outbreak is at the Lagartera Residence for the Elderly in the Toledo area, southwest of the capital Madrid. …
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