Day: May 18, 2023

NYC backs off plan to place migrants in school gyms after protests: ‘The parents won’

7:06 pm May 18, 2023

New York City schools will not be used as a temporary shelter for migrants after drawing fierce backlash from the community and parents. Brooklyn P.S. 172 parent Miguel Chico, who participated in protests this week, joined “Faulkner Focus” Thursday to discuss why he opposed the move. Host Harris Faulkner said “the parents won,” forcing officials to […]

New Mexico police release cryptic note from teen shooter accused of murdering 3 elderly woman, injuring 2 cops

7:05 pm May 18, 2023

New Mexico police released a photo of the note found on the body of 18-year-old Beau Wilson, who authorities say shot and killed three elderly women at random before deliberately taking off his bulletproof vest and ultimately getting killed by responding officers’ gunfire. The Farmington Police Department also revealed that Wilson had amassed a cache […]

India’s top court allows bull-taming sport to continue despite criticism from animal rights groups

7:03 pm May 18, 2023

India’s top court on Thursday ruled to allow the continuation of the bull-taming sport of jallikattu, which is celebrated as cultural heritage in the southern state of Tamil Nadu but criticized by animals rights groups. Five justices held that the state government was taking sufficient steps to reduce the pain and suffering of the animals, […]

Top Senate official warns Congress to ‘move quickly’ on artificial intelligence legislation

7:00 pm May 18, 2023

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Congress “must move quickly” to regulate artificial intelligence and has convened a bipartisan group of senators to work on legislation. Schumer says the group met on Wednesday and that his staff has already met with close to 100 CEOs, scientists and academics who deal with the technology. “We can’t […]

Alaska’s breaking ice jams, rapid snowmelt flood homes, businesses, roads statewide

6:58 pm May 18, 2023

Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large ice chunks, and shut one of the state’s few east-west highways down to one lane. Ice jams on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers caused most of the damage through a large swath of Alaska, while a quick […]