Author: Olive Metuge
Your essential London bucket list, when only the best will doStay here: Corinthia LondonA grand dame in the beating heart of London, few addresses are surrounded by as many iconic landmarks as Corinthia London. With the South Bank, London Eye, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden and even Buckingham Palace within walking distance, you’re perfectly primed to tick off London’s crown jewels. But there’s as much to enjoy on property as there is surrounding Corinthia London.Smartly dressed doormen cheerily greet guests – and keep the crowds at bay when VIP guests are checking in, a regular occurrence at this London legend. A…
Madeline Halpert and Christal HayesGetty ImagesNobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died aged 97. In one of the greatest breakthroughs of the 20th century, he identified the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953 alongside a British scientist, Francis Crick, setting the stage for rapid advances in molecular biology.But his reputation and standing were badly hurt by his comments on race and sex. In a TV programme, he made claims about genes causing a difference in average IQ between blacks and whites.The death of Watson was confirmed to the BBC by…
Listen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.LISTEN | How does Ukraine’s points-for-kills system work?:The Current15:48Ukraine is using video game point systems to track killsUkrainian soldiers are using a video-game-style system that rewards them with points for successful drone strikes, such as 12 points for killing a Russian soldier, 40 for destroying a tank.“Basically, what Ukraine has implemented is a market … called the Brave1 Market, where units can go online, look at what defence technology is available for sale,” said Tim Mak, a war correspondent based…
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Damon Landor. Landor is a Louisiana man who grew long dreadlocks for religious reasons. In 2020, prison officials forcibly shaved his head even after he showed them a copy of a federal appeals court ruling affirming his right to keep the dreadlocks. The justices will now decide whether Landor can try to recover money damages from those officials. The federal law at the center of the case is known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. Enacted 25 years ago, it applies to state prisons…
Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Olivia Mockel, the chief brand and market strategy officer at SurePoint Technologies; Debbie Foster, the CEO of the Affinity Consulting Group; and Laura Wenzel, the global marketing and insights director at iManage. The three companies are part of a consortium that supported a new market research report featuring the perspectives of midsize law firm leaders called Midsize Law Firms Are Balancing Potential and Pitfalls in Charting an Unpredictable Path Forward. They discussed how chief financial officers, chief operating officers, chief information officers and executive directors are approaching generative artificial intelligence, data and financial intelligence, technology…
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On a Sunday morning last month, James Taq’ac Amik was huddled on a small bridge with his girlfriend. At 4 a.m., they had scrambled into an 18-foot aluminum motor boat, fleeing floodwaters from a massive storm surge that inundated Kipnuk, a village of 700 in the heart of western Alaska’s sprawling Kuskokwim river delta. “I couldn’t make it up. I tried, but the wind was too strong to try and go by boat, so we ended up staying on the bridge for five hours,” Amik said. Things only grew more dramatic. “The houses started drifting away around 5:30 a.m.,” Amik…
A Tanzanian court has charged at least 240 people with treason following last week’s deadly election protests.President Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared the winner of the election with 98% of the vote, but the opposition – which was barred from contesting – denounced the poll as a sham.Security forces clashed with those protesting against the vote and, according to various sources, hundreds were killed. The authorities have downplayed the scale of the violence and maintained the election was free and fair.Many people were arrested and have now been charged with treason at a court in the economic capital of Dar…
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver.The men had little in common beyond their Venezuelan seaside hometowns and the fact all four were among the more than 60 people killed since early September when the U.S. military began attacking boats that the Trump administration alleges were smuggling drugs. President Donald Trump and top U.S. officials have alleged the craft were being operated by narco-terrorists and cartel members bound with deadly drugs for American communities.WATCH |…
If you want more cases about government contractors even after reading the argument earlier this week in Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, then The GEO Group v. Menocal, to be argued on Monday, Nov. 10, will be just the thing for you. The issue in GEO is whether a contractor facing a district court order that refuses to give the contractor immunity can appeal immediately instead of waiting for the end of proceedings in the trial court. To give some context, as you may recall from the discussion of Hencely, government contractors often have a defense to suits challenging their activities if they can establish that their contract…