Maine Superior Court judge Julia Lipez suspended sentence of man convicted at trial of sexually abusing two girls Judge Julia Lipez and convict Michael T. Smith (@libsoftiktok/X) One of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees suspended a child sex predator’s sentence and said the convict had “a lot of good in him” during a court hearing
Russia on Thursday indicted American reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage after more than a year of imprisonment in Moscow. Gershkovich was detained in March last year while on assignment in Yekaterinburg for the Wall Street Journal. Russian prosecutors on Thursday alleged without evidence that Gershkovich was gathering intelligence for the CIA about a
A Pentagon-funded company is seeking proposals to feed America’s soldiers lab-grown meat in a bid to “reduce the CO2 footprint” at Defense Department outposts. BioMADE, a public-private company that has received more than $500 million in funding from the Defense Department, announced earlier this month that it is seeking proposals to develop “innovations in food production that
Dave Min, a California Democratic state senator vying to succeed Rep. Katie Porter (D.) this fall, has joined his party’s effort to kill a popular statewide voter initiative that would crack down on retail theft and open-air drug markets—an effort that has local law enforcement officials crying foul. Min authored one of 14 criminal justice
Two-thirds of Palestinians support Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, according to a poll released Wednesday by a survey organization based in the West Bank. The poll, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, found that 67 percent of Palestinian respondents supported Hamas’s decision to attack Israel on Oct. 7. Support
A media consultant to Nathan Wade pulled the former Donald Trump prosecutor aside during an interview with CNN, following a question from Kaitlan Collins about when his romantic relationship with Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis began. “Just to clarify, when did the romantic relationship between the two of you start?” Collins asked. Wade began
Hezbollah on Thursday it had launched rockets and weaponized drones at nine Israeli military sites in a coordinated attack, ramping up hostilities on Lebanon’s southern border for the second consecutive day. The attacks were made in retaliation for an Israeli strike on Tuesday that killed a senior Hezbollah field commander. The group said in a statement it