• Taliban detain 3 Afghan radio journalists for playing music, talking to female callers

    New York, April 25, 2023—Taliban authorities should immediately and unconditionally release radio reporters Ismail Saadat, Wahidullah Masum, and Ehsanullah Tasal and stop harassing the press for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On Monday, the provincial directorate of the Taliban-controlled Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in eastern

  • Water levels high on western Massachusetts rivers

    Communities across western Massachusetts have experienced an early wet season and rain this week will add to an already high water table.

  • Kansas hospital turnover remains at record-high levels

    KANSAS (KSNT) - The Kansas Hospital Association (KHA) released its annual Health Care Workforce Report, the report found employee turnover is still at record-high levels. Over 100 hospitals participated in the survey, the largest number of participants in 10 years. According to the report, vacancy rates were the highest for sonographer/ultrasound technologists, nursing assistants and []

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    UPDATE: Findlay High School is on a level 3 lockdown

    UPDATE: Police have confirmed a threatening call regarding Findlay High School was a swatting, or hoax, call. There is no longer any threat. Previous Story: According to a message from Findlay City Schools, Findlay High School is on a level 3 lockdown due to a potential swatting call. Numerous law enforcement are on site and

  • Biden Admin Silent on Turkey's Sponsorship of Hamas in Counterterrorism Talks

    The State Department’s top counterterrorism official was in Turkey this week for meetings, but missing from her schedule were discussions about Hamas—an omission that isn’t going unnoticed on Capitol Hill.

  • Delegation of US Mayors Visit Israel, Talk to Families of Hostages

    JERUSALEM (JNS) – The mayors of cities in Massachusetts, South Carolina and Oregon returned last week from a four-day visit to Israel, where they met with political officials, business leaders, academics and regional experts. The three U.S. municipal leaders—Jon Mitchell, the mayor of New Bedford, Mass.; Daniel Rickman, mayor of Columbia, S.C.; and Travis Stovall, mayor […]

  • China reaffirms ties with North Korea in high-level meeting

    Top-ranking Chinese official Zhao Leji met Kim Jong-un during three-day visit to PyongyangA top ranking Chinese official reaffirmed ties with North Korea during a meeting in Pyongyang on Saturday with the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, China’s state media reported, in the highest-level talks between the allies in years.The visit by Zhao Leji, who ranks third in the ruling Communist party hierarchy and heads the ceremonial parliament, came as North Korea has test-fired missiles to intimidate...

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    Kraft Heinz Sued Over Lunchables, Parents Claim High Levels Of Metal

    A spokesperson for Kraft Heinz tells TMZ "We’re aware of the complaint and strongly disagree with the allegations. Certain substances like lead occur in the environment and can be found at low levels in agricultural products—whether on…

  • Delays by Home Office risk return of vulnerable Afghan families to Taliban

    Families of those who helped British forces could be deported from Pakistan despite promise to resettle them in UKAfghan families who helped UK forces and then fled to neighbouring Pakistan are in danger of being deported back to the Taliban due to Home Office delays in bringing them to the UK.In the chaotic evacuation period in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in August 2021 some family members eligible for resettlement in the UK became separated from the rest of their families. Some boarded flights...

  • “We’ll talk” – High profile striker speaks on recent joining Chelsea rumours

    Chelsea continue to be strongly linked to potential new strikers, and one

  • Hydrogen recombination found to be most plausible explanation for high levels of energy in stellar superflares

    Although their primary purpose is to look for exoplanets, observatories like the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have supplied a vast amount of data on stellar flares, detected with high-precision photometry by broadband filters in the visible light spectrum.

  • Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

    Now living in comparative freedom in Iran, 26-year-old Mahtab Eftekhar describes facing motherhood at 12 and explains why seeking justice for other women means she no longer fears deathAt the age of 10, while still in the third grade, I received news from my mother and stepfather that we would travel to Helmand province for my brother’s wedding. Little did I know, it was to be my own wedding, as my family had arranged my marriage to my cousin and sold me for 40,000 Afghanis [£500], without my...