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Iranian officials have expanded a ban on dog walking to a swathe of cities across the country, citing public order and health and safety concerns.The ban – which mirrors a 2019 police order that barred dog walking in the capital, Tehran – has been extended to at least 18 other cities in the past week. Transporting dogs in vehicles has also been outlawed.Dog ownership has been frowned upon in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with dogs viewed as “unclean” by authorities and a legacy of Western cultural influence.But despite efforts to discourage it, dog ownership is rising, particularly among…
Palestinian health officials and witnesses say at least five people were killed and others were wounded Sunday by Israeli fire as they headed toward two aid distribution points in the Gaza Strip run by an Israeli and U.S.-backed group. Israel’s military said it fired warning shots at people who approached its forces.Four bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. Palestinian witnesses there said Israeli forces had fired on them at a roundabout that is about a kilometre from a site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the nearby city of Rafah.The Israeli military said…
It was no surprise that the justices decided on Thursday to dismiss Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis. They granted review to decide whether a federal court can certify a class action that includes claimants who have not suffered any real injury. At the oral argument, it became pretty clear that the case in fact does not present that question. The problem is that the district court at different points approved two different class definitions. The case involves a challenge by individuals who are blind to Labcorp’s installation of automated check-in kiosks. At one point, the district court approved a class definition…
For many, the term “false confession” brings up visions of cops scaring people in custody to say they committed crimes when in fact they did not. But today I am writing about entirely different false confessions—where people contact law enforcement and confess, voluntarily, to crimes they did not commit. Max’s Serial Killer, Serial Liar Levi Bellfield: A Faking It Special tells the story of a British man serving two life-without-parole sentences for multiple murders who later confessed to also murdering Lin and Megan Russell, a mother and daughter. Michael Stone had already been convicted for the women’s 1996 murders, along…
‘Twas the UAE summer of 2025…And we had the most fun we’ve ever had…is what we’re trying to say when we look back on this time come October/November/December/a combination of any of those months. This is the only wishlist you need for summer – all of the new, mad fun things you can do during the warmer months. See you when the sun’s out.PAC-MAN Live StudioPAC-MAN Live Studio invites thrill-seekers, gamers, and families alike to step inside the legendary PAC-MAN universe, powered by augmented reality and state-of-the-art digital projections. In PAC-MAN Dubai, players will dash through a full-scale PAC-MAN style maze,…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As the Trump administration prepared to cancel contracts at the Department of Veteran Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or government experience to guide them. The engineer, working for the Department of Government Efficiency, quickly built an artificial intelligence tool to identify which services from private companies were not essential. He labeled those contracts “MUNCHABLE.” The code, using outdated and inexpensive AI models, produced results with glaring mistakes. For instance, it…
US President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen in Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants. His border czar, Tom Homan, told Fox News on Saturday: “We are making Los Angeles safer.”The Californian city saw a second day of unrest on Saturday as residents of a predominantly Latino district clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) federal agents. Tear gas and batons were used to disperse crowds in the Paramount district.As many as 118 arrests were made in LA this week as a result of ICE operations, including 44 on Friday. California Governor Gavin Newsom…
U.S. President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops — despite the governor’s objections — to the Los Angeles area, where protests on Saturday led to clashes between immigration authorities and demonstrators.The White House said in a statement on Saturday that Trump was deploying the National Guard to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester” in California.California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, objected to the move and said in a post on X that the move from the Republican president was “purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”More to comeThis is a breaking update. A previous version…
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday morning asking the justices to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that requires the Department of Education to reinstate nearly 1,400 employees who were fired as part of a reduction in force in March. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the Supreme Court to intervene, arguing that U.S. District Judge Myong Joun “is attempting to prevent” the Department of Education “from restructuring its workforce, despite lacking the” power to do so “several times over.” The Supreme Court directed the challengers in the case – including a group…
Home Daily News ‘Whole lot of oddities’ excuse wrongdoing… Ethics ‘Whole lot of oddities’ excuse wrongdoing of lawyer with likely COVID-19 delirium, ethics referee says By Debra Cassens Weiss May 29, 2025, 1:17 pm CDT Ethics charges should be dropped against a lawyer who told a judge that, “I think I’ve got some COVID brain” after he talked to a sequestered witness during a trial break and then made a false statement about it, according to an ethics referee with the Florida Bar. (Image from Shutterstock) Ethics charges should be dropped against a lawyer who told a judge that, “I…