The governments of California and Michigan have announced plans to provide $528 stimulus checks in 2024 to eligible citizens due to the financial challenges many Americans are currently facing. These payments, expected to be disbursed on Monday, April 15, are intended to provide much-needed financial support to individuals and families facing health care costs increased … Read more
A 34-year-old woman, an astrological influencer, killed her partner, 8-month-old baby and herself after posting a warning about the “spiritual war” of a total solar eclipse, police said. On April 8, the same day as the solar eclipse, Danielle Johnson pushed her two children from a moving car onto a busy Los Angeles-area freeway at … Read more
An Italian court has opened a new trial against Amanda Knox following the defamation verdict she received for falsely accusing a bar owner of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Knox, who along with her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito spent four years in prison after being convicted of murdering Kercher in 2007, has asked … Read more
The university mourns the passing of renowned physicist Professor Peter Higgs, who passed away after a short illness. Professor Higgs is famous for predicting the existence of a fundamental particle of physics that bears his name: the Higgs boson. He was a researcher at the University in 1964 when he predicted the particle that allowed … Read more
It was a quiet night in Markham, Ontario on November 8, 2010 when 911 dispatchers received a distress call from 24-year-old Jennifer Pan. The screaming and crying woman said her parents were attacked by strangers after they entered the house and tied her to the railing. During the call, Jennifer’s father is heard groaning in … Read more
A man has been arrested for stabbing a 27-year-old mother to death while she was pushing her baby in a stroller. On Tuesday 9 April, West Yorkshire Police in England confirmed in a press release that Habibur Masum, 25, from Oldham in Lancashire, had been arrested on suspicion of murdering Kulsuma Akter on Saturday, April … Read more
A California man who was attacked by a pack of pit bulls died from “multiple injuries,” PEOPLE confirmed. Dominic Anthony Cooper, believed to be a pit bull breeder, died after an “accident” from “multiple dog injuries,” according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner report obtained by PEOPLE. However, the medical examiner’s report said his … Read more
Reuters, Helsinki Following this week’s school shooting, in which a 12-year-old boy shot and killed three of his classmates, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen declared that Finland already has “strict” gun laws and that the time was not right to talk about tightening them. Data from Finland’s Ministry of the Interior shows there are more than … Read more
(Reuters) – In a trial on allegations that the Singapore-based company and its founder, Do Kwon, misled investors about the stability of TerraUSD, a stablecoin intended to maintain a value of $1 la, the Exchange Commission accused Terraform Labs and Kwon of deceiving investors in 2021. The attorneys for the two men are scheduled to … Read more
PARAMARIBO (Reuters) – Families of Suriname activists murdered for protesting against the government in the 1980s say decades of suffering and slow legal proceedings have been dragged on by authorities’ apparent indecisio be the man at the center of all of this: former President Desi Bouterse. Bouterse, 78, dominated politics in the small South American … Read more