Day: August 14, 2023

Biden’s DOJ targets defendants’ rights. You could be next

12:00 pm August 14, 2023

Day by day, your right to speak freely is being robbed by the Biden administration. This time, Team Biden wants to gag defendants from criticizing government prosecutors. That’s how courts are run in countries like Pakistan, Russia and North Korea. Anyone can fall into the government’s crosshairs. Imagine being prosecuted and being unable to speak […]

New Zealand scraps last remaining coronavirus restrictions

11:49 am August 14, 2023

New Zealand on Monday removed the last of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions, marking the end of a government response to the pandemic that was watched closely around the world. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the requirement to wear masks in hospitals and other healthcare facilities would end at midnight, as would a requirement for people […]

Indiana jury acquits 1 of 2 brothers in 2013 shooting of 21-year-old woman

11:49 am August 14, 2023

A jury has acquitted one of two brothers charged in a decade-old slaying in north central Indiana. The jury deliberated less than 90 minutes Friday night before acquitting 36-year-old Jesse McCartney of Kokomo of all charges in the death of 21-year-old Destiny Pittman. She was found shot to death Feb. 7, 2013, at her Kokomo […]

Thousands of unexploded ordnance pieces found beneath Cambodian school grounds

11:48 am August 14, 2023

Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed a high school where thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance from the country’s nearly three decades of civil war have been unearthed. The ordnance was found at the school in the northeastern province of Kratie after deminers were invited to search for buried landmines on the campus before a new […]

Greece rescues dozens of African migrants from inflatable boat off Lesbos island

11:15 am August 14, 2023

Greek authorities said Sunday they had safely rescued 48 migrants from a rudderless inflatable boat off the island of Lesbos, close to the Turkish coast. A coast guard vessel on patrol off the island sighted the boat Sunday morning, the Greek coast guard said in a communique. The crew “carried out the safe evacuation and […]