WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — On Monday, the Supreme Court began a case considering whether cities can punish people experiencing homelessness for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go. Homelessness has risen 12 percent nationally, and it's also on the rise in parts of Luzerne County, according to experts. The City of Wilkes-Barre []
An Australian court has ordered billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform to block every user from seeing violent footage related to a Sydney church stabbing, not just block it for Australian audiences. Amid political unity against X Corp’s defiant stance to keep potentially harmful content online, the nation’s internet cop launched the matter in the […]
MORNING NEWSBREAK | A state circuit judge ruled Tuesday that political parties control their primary ballots in a decision that will keep former Charleston County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Alan Ali off the county’s Democratic ballot in June. In his ruling steeped in the First Amendment, S.C. Circuit Judge George McFaddin said parties have broad discretion […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis expressed his support for peasant farmers in northern Peru threatened to be evicted off what they claim is their ancestral territory by companies associated with a Catholic movement. “I know what is happening to you. Defend the land, don’t let it be stolen,” the pope said in a video […] The post Pope backs peasant farmers in land dispute with Catholic group first appeared on OSV News.
California water regulators took the unprecedented step of cracking down on one of the state’s major farming regions for failing to take steps to curb growers’ excessive pumping of groundwater, which has sent water levels into rapid decline and is causing the land to sink. The State Water Resources Control Board voted unanimously Tuesday to place the Tulare Lake basin on “probationary” status for failing to adopt sufficient measures to address chronic overpumping. Falling groundwater levels have...
An ordinance barred people without a permanent residence from sleeping outside.
JAKARTA (Reuters) -An Indonesian court on Monday rejected challenges from both losing candidates seeking a re-run of February's presidential election and the disqualification of winner Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, bringing an end to all election disputes. The Constitutional Court ruled that there was no evidence of systematic fraud and presidential "meddling", nor that state bodies, regional officials and social assistance had been mobilised to sway polls in the world's third-largest...
Neighbours who have been ‘at war’ for 30 years have finally had their land dispute settled by a court. Angela Coupe, 70, built a wooden post along a concrete boundary which she claimed was hers. But Ian Revell, 66, hit back, claiming they were each entitled to one acre, meaning Angela was encroaching by taking half an acre more than she was entitled to. The video shows the land boundary that has caused three decades of bitter disputes between the angry neighbours - and now the courts have ruled...
Neighbours who have been ‘at war’ for 30 years have finally had their land dispute settled by a court. Angela Coupe, 70, built a wooden post along a concrete boundary which she claimed was hers. But Ian Revell, 66, hit back, claiming they were each entitled to one acre, meaning Angela was encroaching by taking half an acre more than she was entitled to. The video shows the land boundary that has caused three decades of bitter disputes between the angry neighbours - and now the courts have ruled...
By Simone McCarthy and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN (CNN) — High in the Himalayas, the people of a remote northern Indian territory fear their way of life is under threat from the changing climate, looming development – and border tensions with China. At stake, they believe, is the future of Ladakh, one of the world’s
By Simone McCarthy and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN (CNN) — High in the Himalayas, the people of a remote northern Indian territory fear their way of life is under threat from the changing climate, looming development – and border tensions with China. At stake, they believe, is the future of Ladakh, one of the world’s
By Simone McCarthy and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN (CNN) — High in the Himalayas, the people of a remote northern Indian territory fear their way of life is under threat from the changing climate, looming development – and border tensions with China. At stake, they believe, is the future of Ladakh, one of the world’s