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A 'secret' Royal Canadian Mounted Police report paints a dark picture of Canada's future due to climate change, misinformation, a global recession and other troubling trends. | |
Submitted at 03-26-2024, 05:59 AM by sleeppoor | |
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All criminal charges have been dropped against three Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers who were accused in a deadly 2020 police shooting that killed a father and toddler in Kawartha Lakes, Ont. | |
Submitted at 03-26-2024, 04:04 AM by sleeppoor | |
Federal officials say milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu. The virus has also been detected in New Mexico. | |
Submitted at 03-26-2024, 03:15 AM by sleeppoor | |
Elon Musk and X postured as defenders against government surveillance but sold user data to Dataminr, which facilitates such surveillance. | |
Submitted at 03-25-2024, 05:18 PM by sleeppoor | |
The former Tarheel Army Missile Plant in east Burlington, which contaminated the groundwater, scored too low to be eligible for Superfund | |
Submitted at 03-25-2024, 05:20 PM by sleeppoor | |
A pair of AirPods and what lawyers say was some shoddy police work resulted in an innocent middle-class Ferguson family having their front door smashed in by the St. Louis County SWAT team last May.
Around 6:30 p.m. on May 26, Brittany Shamily was at home with her children, including an infant, when police used a battering ram to bust in her front door. “What the hell is going on?” she screamed, terrified for herself and her family. “I got a three-month-old baby!”
Body camera footage from the scene shows Shamily come to the front door, her hands up, her face a mix of fright and utter confusion at the heavily armed folly making its way from her front porch into her foyer. “Oh my god,” she says.
The SWAT team was looking for guns and other material related to a carjacking that had occurred that morning. Their search didn’t turn up any of that — though it has led to a lawsuit, filed Friday, that may lead to a better public understanding of how county police decide whether to deploy a SWAT team or serve a search warrant in a less menacing manner. | |
Submitted at 03-25-2024, 03:38 PM by sleeppoor | |
San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment | |
Submitted at 03-25-2024, 03:18 PM by B. Weed | |
Despite splashy climate pledges, firms including BP and Saudi Aramco have plans to expand fossil fuel production, says analysis | |
Submitted at 03-25-2024, 12:48 PM by B. Weed | |
Here's the anti-discrimination policies in Concacaf and a history of the incidents regionally | |
Submitted at 03-25-2024, 03:31 AM by sleeppoor | |
Now, a small group of scientists and thinkers believes there could be an alternative, a way to save the president—and the rest of us—from him- or herself. As soon as technology advances far enough, they think we should put a computer in charge of the country. Yes, it sounds nuts. But the idea is that artificial intelligence could make America’s big, complicated decisions better than any person could, without the drama or shortsightedness that we grudgingly accept from our human presidents. | |
Submitted at 03-24-2024, 11:53 PM by Grief Bacon | |
The Rio de Janeiro councillor and her driver were assassinated in 2018, causing an international outcry | |
Submitted at 03-24-2024, 11:18 PM by sleeppoor | |
Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter.
In parka strongholds Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine, the thermometer never plunged below zero. The state of Minnesota called the last three months “the lost winter,” warmer than its infamous “year without a winter” in 1877-1878. Michigan, where mosquitos were biting in February, offered disaster loans to businesses hit by a lack of snow. The Great Lakes set records for low winter ice, with Erie and Ontario “essentially ice-free.”
For a wide swath of the country from Colorado to New Jersey, and Texas to the Carolinas, spring leaves are arriving three to four weeks earlier than the 1991-2020 average, according to the National Phenology Network, which tracks the timing of plants, insects and other natural signs of the seasons. | |
Submitted at 03-24-2024, 07:08 PM by sleeppoor | |
Several recent proposals for using AI to generate research data could save time and effort but at a cost | |
Submitted at 03-24-2024, 06:31 PM by sleeppoor | |
An Idaho legislator wants to expand Idaho’s prohibition on cannibalism. It's partially becuase she watched some prank videos on the internet. | |
Submitted at 03-24-2024, 09:58 AM by B. Weed | |
A New York City landlord named the worst in the city by the Public Advocate’s office is at Rikers after allegedly failing to perform hundreds of court-ordered repairs on some Manhattan properties he owns. | |
Submitted at 03-24-2024, 07:27 AM by Dreaded Candiru | |
Water lot of fun for these black bears as heavy rain creates a "mini lake" in their enclosure. | |
Submitted at 03-23-2024, 11:29 PM by sleeppoor | |
A horrifying video circulating on social media Friday appeared to show a man carrying a severed body part of someone killed by a train in Wasco. DETAILS: https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/video-appears-to-show-person-carrying-severed-body-part-of-train-collision-victim/ | |
Submitted at 03-23-2024, 07:46 PM by railgun | |
Allies of Leonard Leo have mounted a monthslong offensive against the man investigating the judicial activist’s network: Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb.
Since news of the probe broke last August, the GOP chairs of powerful congressional committees launched their own investigation of Schwalb’s investigation; conservative media wrote articles criticizing Schwalb on unrelated crime issues — based on a social media post from a top Leo lieutenant; and a group of his Republican law enforcement peers sent letters warning Schwalb to stand down. | |
Submitted at 03-23-2024, 03:12 PM by lurk on my face | |
Felony charges would be erased in exchange for community service and six-figure restitution. | |
Submitted at 03-23-2024, 05:46 AM by sleeppoor | |
The family of a former Cape Cod woman killed in an apparent murder-suicide in Miami is remembering her as a "larger than life character." | |
Submitted at 03-23-2024, 03:26 AM by sleeppoor | |