Three family members charged in the killing of a 3-year-old girl during an "exorcism" ritual at a San Jose church in 2021 have been ordered to stand trial in the case, authorities said. Santa Clara County Judge Hanley Chew ruled on May 13 that there is enough evidence against the deceased girl's mother, Claudia Hernandez-Santos, 26; her uncle, Rene "Aaron" Hernandez-Santos, 20; and her grandfather, Rene Trigueros Hernandez, 60, to proceed with a trial, according to court records. The trio...
Protestors probe his political psyche and we follow the money Northern California congressperson Jared Huffman, 60, held his annual “Hootenanny” campaign fundraiser at Lagunitas Brewery in Petaluma, California. Press were denied entry to the private party, but the real story was outside, as CounterPunch discovered. The fundraising event did not go karmically well for the More
Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday
The analysis, from the HEA Group, shows where a degree pays off in California. Each of the schools provide a payoff within five months of graduation, it found. Several of the schools are prestigious, while some are just straight-up bargains
An Alabama poultry company is in hot water with the DOL over child labor allegations. ABC News reports: “Investigators allegedly again found minors working on the kill floor of a poultry plant owned by the company that was found responsible for the death of a teenager last year, according to court filings. Department of Labor… Source
Exorcism was held on church alter to get rid of a ‘demon’ from the toddler, according to prosecutors in Bay Area’s Santa Clara County
A UK judge on Friday said two men accused of assisting Hong Kong’s intelligence service would face a five-week trial next year, after the death of a co-defendant. The third defendant — Matthew Trickett, 37, an immigration enforcement officer and private investigator who had previously been a member of the Royal Marines — was found […]
Samsung Electronics is set to mass-produce its 3nm Exynos application processors in the latter half of 2024, challenging Apple’s smartphone dominance, and pressuring TSMC and Qualcomm. more
Police in Komae, Tokyo, have arrested an 88-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 84-year-old wife by stabbing her with a knife at their home. Police said the man, Takeo Sato, appears to be suffering from mild dementia and that his wife, Tsuneko, was his primary caregiver, Kyodo News reported.
We don’t know about you, dear reader, but our understanding of time gets pretty abstract when its comes to the idea of hundreds of millions of hours. (Seems like a lot, but if we were good at math, we wouldn’t spend our days thinking and writing about podcast comedy and X-Men ’97.) So when Netflix released its new installment of its twice-yearly “What We Watched” report today, exhaustively detailing its users’ viewing habits in the second half of 2023, we needed to put some context around the...
Gabi Brito broke two records over Memorial Day weekend, one of which was a 42-year old record held by 12-time Olympic medalist Dara Torres. ()
Highways and airports are likely to be jammed in the coming days as Americans head out on and home from Memorial Day weekend getaways