The father of a Michigan school shooter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday‚ a second conviction against the teen’s parents who were accused of failing to secure a gun at home and doing nothing to address acute signs of his mental turmoil. The jury verdict means James Crumbley has joined Jennifer Crumbley as a cause of the killing of four students at Oxford High School in 2021‚ even without pulling the trigger. They had separate trials as the first U.S. parents to be...

A group of female athletes on Thursday sued the National Collegiate Athletics Association for permitting male intrusion into their sex-specific sports and private spaces. Spearheaded by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports‚ the lawsuit accuses the NCAA and Georgia Tech — the site of the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships‚ where male University Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500 meter freestyle — of knowingly violating Title IX. That federal statute prohibits discrimination on the...

Sen. Bernie Sanders‚ I-Vt.‚ held a hearing Thursday on a bill he introduced to reduce the standard U.S. workweek to four days without loss of pay. The bill‚ titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act‚” would reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours over the span of four years‚ including lowering the maximum hours required for overtime compensation for nonexempt employees. It would also require overtime pay at time and a half for workdays that last more than eight hours and overtime...

Senegalese opposition firebrand Ousmane Sonko and the presidential candidate he is backing in the March 24 election‚ Bassirou Diomaye Faye‚ were released from prison on Thursday‚ state broadcaster RTS said on its website. Their release had been expected after parliament passed an amnesty law on March 6 as the authorities sought to ease tensions following their thwarted bid to postpone the vote by 10 months. RTS did not give further details‚ and it was not immediately clear where the pair...

Massachusetts police arrested six middle school students on hate charges over an online chat where they participated in a "mock slave auction" of other students. Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni told reporters at a media briefing that the students were charged with online bullying over the chat room that targeted two of their fellow students at Southwick Regional School. Gulluni said the interactions were posted to the Snapchat social media app in February and involved many...

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by Eric Zuesse‚ The Duran: Rafah is the south western most city in Gaza‚ and until now it had a population of around 28‚000‚ but 1.4 million Gazans are now sheltering there after having evacuated from Israel’s bombing of them in the rest of Gaza; and‚ so‚ if Israel now extends its air force’s fully U.S.-armed bombing campaign […]

by Susan Duclos‚ All News Pipeline: On February 22‚ 2024‚ ANP published a piece regarding the attempts by media to normalize cannibalism. In that piece we cited a NewScientist article which asked “Ethically‚ cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science‚ why can’t it be […]