The Wisconsin State Bar suspended their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs after a lawsuit calling them unconstitutional. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) sued the state bar association in December 2023 for administering the “Diversity Clerkship Program” alleging that it is illegally and racially discriminatory. “Defeating unconstitutional DEI programs has become WILL’s area of expertise, and we …
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The man convicted in Polly Klaas’ 1993 kidnapping from a sleepover and subsequent murder is asking the California Superior Court to overturn his death sentence. Richard Allen Davis, who is locked up at San Quentin State Prison, was sentenced to death for abducting 12-year-old Polly — now known as the first missing girl on the internet — from a sleepover …
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A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport. The incident, after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland, occurred last December and a Sydney court fined the 53-year-old man $395 for offensive behavior in February, officials said Friday. The incident only came to public attention on Friday, …
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German investigators said Friday they have seized counterfeit U.S. dollar bills with a face value of over $103 million, which apparently came from Turkey and were being stored ahead of transport to the United States. The criminal police office in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state, said officers found 75 cartons of fake dollars in searches of an apartment and two company …
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The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence. The digging goes on, a scene that’s become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery in October of human remains …
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A New York state judge late on Thursday dramatically scaled back his order from the previous day that had invalidated most of the state’s cannabis regulations in a case challenging rules for advertising marijuana. New York Supreme Court Justice Kevin Bryant issued an amended order on Thursday that voided only regulations pertaining to cannabis marketing. The judge in Albany, New …
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Turkish authorities have arrested two people suspected of providing information to the Israeli spy agency, a top official said Friday, in the latest in a series of such arrests in Turkey. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the suspects allegedly gathered information about people and companies of interest to Israel and passed on the data and documents to Israeli intelligence officials. …
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A little-known and rarely enforced law from 1907 that makes adultery a crime in the state of New York could soon be a thing of the past, after lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday to repeal it. The state Senate approved the bill almost unanimously. It’s now up to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is in the midst of budget …
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The manager of a Montana vacation lodge is on trial this week after an Alabama woman sued the three-star property in Big Sky following her husband’s carbon monoxide poisoning death when they were honeymooning at the lodge in January 2021. Catharine Hudgens is suing Rainbow Ranch, its general manager, several plumbers and other unnamed defendants, alleging that their negligence led …
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Austria’s justice minister said Thursday that she plans to tighten the country’s rules on espionage, which currently is explicitly banned if directed against Austria itself but not if it targets other countries or international organizations. Justice Minister Alma Zadic’s push to tighten Austria’s laws comes as the arrest of a former Austrian intelligence officer on allegations of spying for Russia …
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