The Justice Department on Thursday released a scathing new report which found that prosecutors and sheriffs in Orange County, California had improperly used a jailhouse informant program in ways that routinely violated the constitutional rights of criminal defendants.
Both series resume Friday with the defending World Series champion Braves visiting the Phillies and the Padres hosting the Dodgers.
The Social Security Administration announced an 8.7% increase in its cost-of-living adjustment on Thursday, its largest benefits hike in 40 years.
The prosecution said under Florida law, the victims and their families have a right to testify before the official sentencing. Therefore, the judge ordered an official sentencing hearing for November 1 of this year.
The Inspector General of the Department of Energy (DOE) is evaluating a decision made to give licensure of an “advanced battery technology to China,” when original agreements required “substantial” manufacturing on American soil.
ICE says that the cost to run the technology for this many people is a whopping $361,218.08 per day.
Most of the Kherson region was seized in the first days of Russia’s invasion as it sent in troops from adjoining Crimea. It is one of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions that Russia proclaimed as its own last month in a move overwhelmingly condemned on Wednesday by the U.N. General Assembly.
Democrats went from 39% expressing ‘concern’ over Biden’s mental health in August, a high number in itself, to 52% in the latest poll, I&I reports.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday said that the Biden administration pleaded with the kingdom to postpone for one month OPEC+’s decision to cut oil production, which would have forestalled another gas price hike during the critical period leading up to the midterm elections.
Record-high sugar prices in the European Union, nearly three times levels seen a year ago following extreme weather and a surge in energy costs, are forcing confectioners to consider production cuts.
