With primary voting over and ballots being tallied, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said at a news conference Tuesday night, “Pennsylvania’s voters overwhelmingly encountered an improved voting experience this year.” So far, Schmidt’s office said, the issues election officials have been made aware of were “minimal” and “isolated,” such as a couple of polling
A man who oversaw staff training and investigations at New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Monday that top-level administrators sided with staff against residents, while lower-level workers wanted to punish kids for speaking up. Virgil Bossom returned to the witness stand Monday, the fourth day of a trial seeking to hold the state accountable for child abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called the Youth Development Center, in Manchester. David Meehan, the plaintiff,...
VLADIMIR Putin’s cronies have dramatically arrested a top Russian military official on suspicion of accepting a bribe. Timur Ivanov, 48, one of Russia’s 12 deputy defence ministers, cou
By Kara Scannell and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer’s parent company, is expected to be the first witness called by the Manhattan district attorney’s office in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, according to a person familiar with the plans. Pecker was a central
By Kara Scannell and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer’s parent company, is expected to be the first witness called by the Manhattan district attorney’s office in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, according to a person familiar with the plans. Pecker was a central
By Kara Scannell and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer’s parent company, is expected to be the first witness called by the Manhattan district attorney’s office in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, according to a person familiar with the plans. Pecker was a central
Mexico's once all powerful drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is claiming he cannot get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where he is serving a life sentence. El Chapo penned his complaint to District Court Judge Brian M. Cogan in the Eastern District of New York in late March, complaining that he hadn’t been able to speak with his twin daughters. "The facility stopped giving me calls with my daughters and I haven’t had calls with them for seven months," he wrote. "I...
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. The lawyer for Lucy Li – a young woman accused in a Stoney Creek double shooting – presented a new account of events in court on Tuesday. The details come on the fourth day of testimony from a key witness, who survived being shot in the heart. Li and Oliver Karafa are accused of killing […]
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán now claims he can’t get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where the once most powerful Mexican drug lord is serving a life sentence
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s once most powerful drug lord, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is claiming he cannot get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where he is serving a life sentence. Guzmán, who in the past was able to break out of Mexican prisons seemingly at will, wrote a letter […]
Hong Kong has a “bright future” after the enactment of a new national security law, Beijing’s top man on the city’s affairs has said, as he hit back at criticism of the law. Xia Baolong, the director of Beijing’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (HKMAO), on Monday hailed the recent legislation of the new […]
A group of servicemen and a convoy of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno Karabakh headed for temporary deployment sites in Goris and Sisian to organize their closure, Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, said in comments to Armenpress. The remarks come after a video circulating on social media showed the convoy of Russian peacekeepers entering …