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    Investigative journalist sues Louisiana Department of Public Safety, alleges failure to provide public records

    BATON ROUGE — An investigative reporter out of New Orleans sued the Louisiana Department of Public Safety on Monday, alleging it had failed to respond to public records requests.Nick Chrastil, a journalist with nonprofit news outlet The Lens, sued after the agency would not disclose records associated with its hiring of a private law firm, WilmerHale, to provide legal services to the state in connection with consent decrees and the federal government, a statement from the Tulane...

  • Spain's Sanchez suspends public duties to 'reflect' on future

    Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he would step back from public duties for a week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife's private dealings. Sanchez, who last year secured another term for his

  • Joe Buck chides social media troll for accusing him of bias

    If every accusation of bias against Joe Buck were true, he would somehow have to be simultaneously rooting for and against every NFL and MLB team. An impressive, yet exhausting feat. While Buck is enjoying the NFL offseason and his third spring/summer without Major League Baseball responsibilities, he’s still fielding criticism from fans who are

  • Location of murder suspects accused of carrying out 'public execution' unknown

    Aurman Singh, 23, was working in Shrewsbury when he was ambushed by masked men and murdered

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    Spy Pet, accused of scraping billions of public messages, taken down by Discord

    Discord has shut down Spy Pet website, accused of scraping and selling billions of messages of almost Discord users for crypto. Associated accounts connected to the site have also been banned.

  • Trump attacks Fox News for platforming 'liberal activist' on 'fairly conservative' network

    Donald Trump on Wednesday night lobbed a new attack at Fox News.Trump, who has had an on-and-off grudge against the network for several years, now says the outlet is risking its "conservative" chops by platforming independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy was running as a Democrat before changing to independent."So bad that Fox News puts RFK Jr., considered the dumbest member of the Kennedy Clan, on their fairly conservative platform so much," Trump posted on his social media platform,...

  • Public health group receives federal money to expand healthy air network

    The Public Health Institute of western Massachusetts has received a federal earmark to help curb air pollution.

  • NJ court to journalist on publication of official’s address: Do you feel lucky, punk?

    Laws that prohibit journalists from reporting truthful information about public officials are unconstitutional censorship. Redacted by opensource.com is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. If the head of the police department in your town lived so far away that he couldn’t be bothered to attend city council meetings and other community events, you’d want to know about it, right?That’s exactly what New Jersey journalist Charlie Kratovil thought when he used a public record to...

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    Two Russian journalists arrested on ‘extremism’ charges, accused of working for Navalny group

    A pair of Russian journalists have been detained on “extremism” charges and face accusations of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin are accused of producing content for Navalny’s prominent YouTube channel, “NavalnyLIVE,” which publishes videos investigating corruption in the Kremlin that have amassed millions of views. Russian authorities have designated Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison in February, and...

  • NPR CEO Disses 'Distraction' of Bias Complaints, 'Bad Faith' Criticism of Her Tweets

    Wall Street Journal media reporter Alexandra Bruell secured an interview with new NPR CEO Katherine Maher, and naturally, she discovered NPR doesn't want anyone focusing on the "distraction" of leftist tilt. They don't want anyone disturbing their "mandate" of taking taxpayer money from Republicans and whacking them with it. The headline defined it: NPR Chief Defends Coverage, Accuses Critics of ‘Bad Faith Distortion’ of Her Views Katherine Maher said controversy stemming from an editor’s...

  • NPR CEO Disses 'Distraction' of Bias Complaints, 'Bad Faith' Criticism of Her Tweets

    Wall Street Journal media reporter Alexandra Bruell secured an interview with new NPR CEO Katherine Maher, and naturally, she discovered NPR doesn't want anyone focusing on the "distraction" of leftist tilt. They don't want anyone disturbing their "mandate" of taking taxpayer money from Republicans and whacking them with it. The headline defined it: NPR Chief Defends Coverage, Accuses Critics of ‘Bad Faith Distortion’ of Her Views Katherine Maher said controversy stemming from an editor’s...

  • Johor police want Bukit Aman to suspend cops accused of extortion at BSI

    ISKANDAR PUTERI: Johor police will recommend that Bukit Aman suspend the two policemen who allegedly extorted money from travellers at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar (BSI) Customs, Immigration and Quarantine complex near the Causeway.