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School board officials say they are investigating conditions at a Mississauga middle school after an anonymous letter alleged it is in a "state of crisis" and unsafe.In a statement on Wednesday, the Peel District School Board said it is aware of the letter describing violence by students at Tomken Road Middle School, located in the Applewood Heights neighbourhood.

A Massachusetts resident doctor, specializing in family medicine, has been accused of possessing more than 80 devices containing child sex abuse materials, including a hidden camera bracelet that recorded at least two videos of medical exams, according to criminal complaint documents.Bradford Ferrick, 32, of Winchester and Amherst, was arrested by the FBI at his Winchester home Tuesday morning and charged with one count of possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins' office said in a statement.

A New York appeals court upheld sanctions against former President Donald Trump totaling $110,000 for failing to respond to a New York state attorney general subpoena for documents.Trump appealed an order from New York state Judge Arthur Engoron, who last year ordered Trump be sanctioned $10,000 per day for failing to comply with a December 2021 subpoena as part of the state's investigation into the Trump Organization's finances.

Three bodies found in the Detroit area this week were identified by authorities Friday as those of three rappers who were missing for almost two weeks, according to Michigan State Police.The missing men Armani Kelly, 28, Dante Wicker, 31, and Montoya Givens, 31 were associates whose January 21 performance at a Detroit club was canceled, police have said.

When former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is arraigned by telephone next week on new federal conspiracy charges involving AT&T, someone will be conspicuously absent from the line.Madigan himself.That's because a federal judge on Wednesday granted an unusual request by Madigan's attorneys to waive his right to be present for the proceedings, where a formal not guilty plea will be entered on his behalf to a superseding racketeering indictment unveiled earlier this month.

Teenagers are some of the most sleep-deprived people in the U.S. On average, teens do not get enough sleep, and more important, they do not get enough quality sleep, researchers say.We could blame cell phones and other light-emitting technologies for keeping kids up at night, but late nights are just part of the equation.

We can unearth the mass graves left in Ukraine by retreating Russian troops.We can talk to the Ukrainian survivors of rape and torture, the mothers of fallen soldiers, and the millions who live in constant fear of Russian bombing and terror.But we can't contact the Ukrainian women and children whom the invaders have abducted and taken far into the interior of Russia.

The judge presiding over Donald Trump's criminal falsifying business records case in Manhattan is expected to inform the former president Tuesday on what he can and cannot say publicly about the case and evidence his legal team will get from prosecutors to prepare for trial.Trump will not physically attend the hearing in the New York County criminal courthouse but will appear remotely via video feed so the judge can communicate with him in open court.

The use of a flip phone, or some non-smartphone, is one of several restrictions that prosecutors and Sam Bankman-Fried's attorneys are jointly asking the judge to approve.The lawyers have been working to satisfy concerns raised by Judge Lewis Kaplan, who said he could conceivably revoke Bankman-Fried's bail after he found there was a threat of witness tampering.

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A Brooklyn man is facing life in prison after he was found guilty in Queens Supreme Court for the cold case killing of a 31-year-old man found naked and bludgeoned in his Ridgewood home in 2011, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on May 19.

While final election results are not yet in, turnout for the midterm election was strong and steady in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Downtown Brooklyn by midday on Tuesday.The polling site at 101 Clark St. in Brooklyn Heights was busy all morning, a poll worker told the Brooklyn Eagle."It's like a presidential election," she said.

The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday, April 21, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously sided with Twitter in a case brought by plaintiffs who said the social media company aided and abetted terrorism.Based on its opinion, it sent a related case involving Google back to the lower courts.

Maybe "If You Were the Last" is trying to say something with its tone about how awkward such a talk can be, but that innocent charm runs thin.The movie also has a habit of cutting away when the two embrace each other, affirming their closeness in the middle of their debate, and then the script moves on as if nothing happened.

When Russia launched its offensive on Ukraine last year, the Kremlin and many Western observersexpected it would not be long before Russia captured Kyiv and ousted President Volodymyr Zelensky.But at the one-year anniversary of the war, it's become clear that Ukraine has not only been able to withstand the assaultit's succeeded in regaining control of key territories.

German Christmas shoppers are getting ready for Black Friday.Many of them cannot wait for those shopping sprees to begin.They know what they want, but the amount of money they intend to spend is lower this year.Berlin, November 15th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - Germany has imported many ideas from the United States of America.

Two separate lawsuits against tech companies Google and Twitter both went in favor of the tech titans Thursday, as the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that neither were responsible for terrorist acts that were linked to content on their platforms.We said that the fate of the internet was at stake in February when the Supreme Court decided they would hear a case challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 law that effectively provides legal immunity to tech platforms for offensive content that individual users post.

Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The court also dismissed a closely watched case about social media content moderation in a case involving Google, skipping a decision that legal experts warned might have upended the broader internet.

On Wednesday, Montana governor Greg Gianforte didn't only ban TikTok state-wide.He also accused Telegram, WeChat, and the shopping app Temu of being "tied to foreign adversaries" and directed that they and similar apps be banned from government devices and all state business.Gianforte also cited TikTok owner ByteDance's CapCut video editor and Lemon8 as examples of offending apps.

AUSTIN, Texas On Tuesday morning, the University of Texas at Austin announced it has banned TikTok on wired and Wi-Fi networks on campus due to security concerns.Shortly after, Texas A&M University followed suit.All around the UT campus, cellphones are glued to students' hands.Several students told KVUE that they spend a good amount of time on TikTok.

San Jose State University students are demanding a more humanitarian approach to Mayor Matt Mahan's homeless policies.Students for Fair Housing and Students Against Sweeps plan to protest in front of San Jose City Hall today to ask the mayor to end the sweeping of homeless camps and protect tenants' rights, including providing legal counsel during evictions.

The FBI claims it has dealt with a cybersecurity "incident" that reportedly involved computer systems being used to investigate child sexual exploitation."The FBI is aware of the incident and is working to gain additional information," a spokesperson said in a statement to The Register.

Jerry Seinfeld is almost certainly the world's most famous Mets fan.He routinely visits the SNY booth, where he cracks jokes at the expense of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and old friend Keith Hernandez.He attended "Seinfeld Night" at Citi Field in 2019 and threw out the first pitch, challenging himself by throwing a sidearm strike from the rubber.

ESPN on Friday announced a new "30 for 30" documentary that'll hit home for fans of both the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks.The documentary, "I'm Just Here for the Riot," will focus on the massive riot that ensued in downtown Vancouver after the Bruins defeated the Canucks in Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final.

Editor's Note: Click here to listen to the new season of the CNN podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.There is no denying or escaping this one simple but far-reaching fact: Americans are surrounded by screens.As a doctor and a journalist, but most important as a dad to teens coming of age in a screen-infused world, I'm concerned.

For 30 years, American parents felt guilty plopping their tots down in front of morning cartoons.To be clear, millions did so anyway, but before the rise of educational programming, it was broadly considered a social ill.Today?Not so much.After all, PBS Kids has real lessons to teach.But sometimes the medium is the message and that message is a biological trigger.

Men may want to keep their laptops on a desk - just in case they plan on having children.Although there's debate as to whether keeping your laptop on your lap appreciably impacts sperm health, experts agree that heat is generally bad for testicles, and laptops can get pretty warm."The main issue with placing a laptop directly on the lap is the heat transfer from the hot battery on the underside of the laptop to the upper thigh and groin area," says Christopher Sipe, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist with Fertility Centers of Illinois.

Parents of a special needs student seen pushed to the ground in a video posted on social media have declined a formal police investigation, Elmhurst police announced Tuesday.The Dec. 8 incident in a York Community High School restroom involved five students, including a boy with special needs.Police determined the students engaged in "willful physical contact," while other students watched.

Texas governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday ordered state agencies to ban TikTok on government-issued devices, citing security concerns of the app's data-sharing practices with the Chinese government.TikTok harvests vast amounts of data from its users' devices  including when, where and how they conduct Internet activity  and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to the Chinese government, according to one of the letters the governor sent to state agency leaders.

One of Berlin's favorite parks is Hasenheide.Located in the city's Neukölln district, it is the place for absolutely everyone, including families, dog owners, homeless people, party crowds - and drug dealers.Berlin, April 27th, 2020.Update: October 28th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - The 'Hare Heath', which is the direct translation for Hasenheide, offers it all.

As FC Barcelona watched Inter Milan take down FC Viktoria Plzeň on television, there had to be a sinking feeling feeling - and it wasn't just about being relegated to the Europa League.Knowing its fate, Barca still had to face a hungry Bayern Munich side, who has had a knack for embarrassing the Catalans in recent years.

This is the information age, meaning we receive information all the time.Truckloads of it.We are literally being drowned in confusing e-mails and headlines.I ran into the most peculiar ones.Berlin, October 27th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - Yesterday, the 122nd e-mail I found in my inbox said the 'U-Bahn' train line U3 would not be in service between the stations 'Kellinghusenstrasse' and 'Schlump' on the next two weekends.