Human rights report highlights crackdown on personal freedoms in most restrictive country in the world

A plan to salvage the cargo ship Thamesborg is underway after the Canadian Coast Guard completed aerial and remote-operated vehicle surveys of the vessel, which sits grounded in the Franklin Strait. The 172-metre Dutch cargo ship, owned by Royal Wagenborg, ran aground Saturday while transiting the Northwest Passage on its way to Baie Comeau, Que., from Asia. It was carrying carbon blocks for industrial use. “Our full attention is still on the ongoing situation of Thamesborg and the preparations for a safe refloating operation,” said Guus van der Linde, manager of corporate communications for Royal Wagenborg. An update issued by the company late Thursday said the ship remains stable and there is a plan for a salvage master and naval architect to join Thamesborg by the end of the week. Salvage equipment and additional staff have been mobilized, the update said. Some of the vessel’s ballast tanks sustained damage in the incident, but the fuel tanks and cargo holds are intact, the company said.

Engineers prove their technique is effective even with the lowest-cost WiFi devices The Pulse-Fi system is highly accurate, achieving clinical-level heart rate monitoring with ultra low-cost WiFi devices, making it useful for low resource settings. The system works with the person in a variety of different positions and from up to 10 feet away.

“The personal is the political” was a reality for me long before it became the mantra of Second Wave feminism in the United States. In 1951, when I was ten years old, my father, Samuel Wallach, a New York City high school teacher, was suspended from his job for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into communism in the public schools. He was fired for insubordination two years later—one of some 350 teachers who were fired or resigned in those years. The history of my family was deeply affected by that event. I learned early about the intrusive operations of state power in the daily routines of domestic life: there were unexpected visits from the FBI, subpoenas served, telephones tapped, subversive books wrapped in brown paper and stuffed in the back of closets, hushed conversations (in Yiddish, the household language of secrecy) between my parents. On the day of my father’s firing, when he called to report the news, I overheard my mother “congratulate” him in an ironic tone, her voice catching, tears in her eyes. I understood, in the way children do, the complexity of her response, without fully grasping the details. For years, we all breathed a general air of anxiety.

Public officials who went silent after Democratic lawmakers were executed in their homes are tripping over themselves to honor the man who franchised internet chan culture as politics.

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created.

Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.

As Bitcoin ATMs spread unchecked, gas station employees are becoming the unlikely the last line of defense against crypto fraud.

Thomas Alter is the second professor in the state to be terminated for allegedly violating university policy after a video was posted on social media.

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

Let's all bow our heads and pretend to be serious.

A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked "reply all" - inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members, some of whom were working in Gaza.

Edmonton police are objecting to a decision by Crown prosecutors to offer a plea deal to a woman charged with murdering an eight-year-old Indigenous girl — an unprecedented move in which the service laid bare its dissatisfaction with the organization that prosecutes most of its cases. Article content On Monday, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) sent a letter to provincial assistant deputy justice minister Kim Goddard expressing “shock and horror” on learning the accused is expected to plead down from first-degree murder to manslaughter Wednesday. The woman — who cannot be named under a publication ban — was charged by police in 2023 after the girl went missing from an Edmonton home. The girl’s body was later moved to Maskwacis in a hockey bag and abandoned in the bed of a pickup. In the letter — obtained by Postmedia and released to other outlets Tuesday — EPS executive director of legal services Megan Hankewich said the Crown has offered the accused eight years in prison as part of a plea agreement with the defence.

A 13-year-old Washington state boy has been arrested after authorities alleged he had "school shooter ideations" and a stockpile of weapons for an attack. The Pierce County Sheriff's Office arrested the teenager, whose name has not been released, on Saturday after it received information late Friday that a teen in the area "was making threats to kill" and had said he had access to guns, the sheriff's office said a statement. A search of the teenager's home upon his arrest yielded "a large quantity of firearms that were both secured and unsecured," the sheriff's office said. Detectives said the teenager posted photos of himself posing with the firearms on his social media accounts, according to court documents. The photos appear to have been taken in the teen's parents' bedroom, which is where authorities later recovered the weapons, authorities said. One photo shows the barrel of a semiautomatic rifle protruding from what appears to be a mandolin case that was being worn as a backpack, according to court documents. The photo's caption read: "U'd never expedct it." As of Tuesday morning, the teenager's parents did not face any charges, Cappetto told NBC News. She said authorities are still conducting interviews and that it will ultimately be up to the prosecutor to decide whether the parents will face charges of improper storage and safekeeping of firearms or any other crimes. The teenager was last enrolled in the Franklin Public School District in 2021, according to the sheriff's office.

A chaotic scene unfolded at the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday morning when dozens of containers fell off a cargo ship. The Coast Guard said the accident occurred about 9 a.m., and early estimates indicate that at least 67 containers went overboard. Video obtained by KTLA 5 News shows the vessel listing to one side after one stack of containers had collapsed, followed by another. A smaller vessel was alongside a larger cargo ship, possibly in an effort to catch the falling containers, while a tugboat attempted to push the containers back toward the pier.

A Minnesota man has been charged with threatening to assault and murder a federal judge after staff at a local library spotted him printing copies of a 236-page manifesto entitled “How to Kill a Federal Judge," U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Police have fired the 40-something examiner and filed criminal charges in 13 cases for falsifying evidence and official reports.

Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites."