How an FBI corruption probe in Tallahassee is similar to the Jackson, MS bribery scandal Below is a look at some of the similarities between the Tallahassee and Jackson corruption scandals. Phony 'developers' meet with city leaders and officials. Tallahassee's corrupt ... 10/31/2024 - 10:09 am | View Link
Almost 1 month after deadline, USPS hasn't met with DC community targeted by mail theft More than a month after Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton requested a USPS meeting about ongoing mail theft, nothing has happened. 10/29/2024 - 3:20 pm | View Link
Fewer young Canadians own homes but majority planning to buy within five years: poll A new report says that while fewer young Canadians own a home compared with three years ago, a majority of millennials and Gen Z adults still plan to purchase one in the next five years. 10/29/2024 - 12:33 am | View Link
Antitrust in Focus This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Roxane Hicheri (counsel based in Paris) ... 10/25/2024 - 8:25 am | View Link
Missouri won’t meet deadline to clear months-long backlog of child care subsidy payments Missouri child care providers began complaining that they were missing months of payments from the state and were close to shuttering. But the state won't meet its goal to clear the backlog by the end ... 10/23/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
The end may not be near, but the end is clear—according to those who have kept a close eye on Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, since a military coup toppled its civilian government in 2021. While the fighting between the junta and armed resistance groups was locked in a stalemate for the first two years of the conflict, observers note that the third year has seen the military on the back foot.
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The protracted conflict has been estimated to have killed over 50,000 people and displaced around three million.
A man wearing a "Let's Go Brandon" hat grew incensed when told he could not vote while wearing political paraphernalia of any kind. So he did what any other self-respecting MAGA idiot would do: he started a fight with poll workers.
"You f--king b---h," the man replied, before adding, "It's my mother f--kin' right to" wear the hat.
For the first two days after Hurricane Helene, Ken Floyd, a 41-year-old general manager of the Monte Vista Hotel in Black Mountain, North Carolina, was in a state of stress. The father of three was trapped at home with his family as a landslide rampaged the surrounding area, taking down trees and impacting roads, barring his ability to check in on others.
I was losing faith in superheroes. We all were. Just look at the box office where stories with new characters like Madame Web and The Crow are bombing. And even superheroes who shot to stardom in the last few years are floundering. Joker: Folie à Deux flopped despite the fact that its predecessor made $1 billion worldwide.
One would think a congressional representative would, you know, live in the district he supposedly represents but that's not the case for Republican Nick LaLota, who lives in Amityville on the western end of Long Island, closer to New York City. His opponent, Democrat John Avlon, formerly of CNN, has lived in Sag Harbor for over ten years.
Source: Daily Beast
A GOP representative is running for re-election in a New York district where he doesn’t actually live.
So here's a classic October surprise in Pennsylvania! Although the book with this information has been out there for months, no one really mentioned it until the race between Sen. Bob Casey and Dave McCormick tightened up. Via WHYY:
Katina Stefanova left the Connecticut-based hedge fund Bridgewater Associates under strained circumstances.