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It took more than a decade of litigation, but 21 Anishinaabe communities along the north shore of Lake Huron in Ontario will finally access a fair share of the wealth generated on their lands over the past 173 years.The Robinson-Huron Treaty signed in 1850 promised its Indigenous beneficiaries annual payments in exchange for the right to use their lands.

Ontario's police watchdog has cleared Toronto police officers of any wrongdoing after two men fleeing from the police were seriously injured in a fall from an apartment balcony.In a report released on Friday, Joseph Martino, director of the Special Investigations Unit, said there is no reason to proceed with criminal charges against the officers involved in the operation in Liberty Village on Feb. 17.

The head of a criticised review into the Government's anti-terror programme has said he is happy and very grateful to receive a knighthood.The commissioner for public appointments Sir William Shawcross has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List for his public service.Sir William's long-awaited report on the Prevent programme which aims to stop people turning to terrorism was published earlier this year, shortly after he announced an investigation into the selection of BBC chairman Richard Sharp amid concerns over his role in helping Boris Johnson secure a loan.

Three years after George Floyd was murdered by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the Justice Department issued a blistering report Friday of the city's police department, detailing racial discrimination, excessive and unlawful use of force, First Amendment violations and a lack of accountability for officers.

Berlin's state prosecutor said Wednesday that it had launched an investigation into accusations that Till Lindemann, the frontman of the German rock band Rammstein, had drugged and sexually assaulted women.Accusations against Mr. Lindemann including that he oversaw a system to recruit female fans for sex before, during and after Rammstein shows had been swirling on social media and in reports by German news outlets, citing anonymous sources, for nearly two weeks.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott didn't exactly give California a heads-up before moving 42 migrants, including eight children, from his state to Los Angeles this week.Nevertheless, when the migrants arrived at Union Station, they found organizations ready to help them, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights.

There have been increasingly loud public warnings that social media is harming teenagers' mental health most recently from the United States surgeon general adding to many parents' fears about what all the time spent on phones is doing to their children's brains.While many scientists share the concern, there is little research to prove that social media is harmful or to indicate which sites, apps or features are problematic.

A sobering new study shows that American men are facing a crisis, and many are finding solace in harmful online communities that preach misogyny and anti-feminist ideology.Equimundo, a non-profit working to prevent gender violence, break down harmful stereotypes, and encourage men to become allies in the gender and racial equality movements, surveyed 2,022 men aged 18-45 in the U.S. to determine how men are doing as a whole during a period of paradigm shifts.

Leading Jamaica players have expressed their "utmost disappointment" at the lack of support from the Jamaican Football Federation (JFF) ahead of the 2023 Women's World Cup.The players said their focus had been hindered by a number issues such as inadequate planning and access to proper resources ahead of the showpiece event, which kicks off on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.

Businesses can contact their target audience using social media in the digital age.Social media can boost your real estate marketing efforts by targeting homebuyers.This article discusses how to target potential homebuyers on social media.Identify Your Target Audience
Before diving into social media marketing, defining your target audience is crucial.

"Far from justifying an exemption from the retrial rule, the historical background of the Venue and Vicinage Clauses supports the opposite inference."- SCOTUS
The U.S. Supreme Court today delivered a ruling that flows from a trade secrets theft case, holding that "the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district."

If I could answer that, I'd be a rich man.I would hope they want to educate themselves and understand how we got here as a state and how we got here as a nation and the impact that slavery has had and continues to have on this county.What's the legislative timeline here?How long might this all take and what's the earliest we might see legislation from the report put into practice?

Liberated Syndication Inc. ("Libsyn") the leading all-in-one podcasting platform for creators and advertisers, announced its May 2023 Podcast Advertising Rates, including the highest and most accessible CPM categories.Additionally, the Company launched a new AdvertiseCast 5×5 Podcast Referral Program designed to reward referrals for the industry's premier podcast advertising marketplace.

LGBT+ badminton clubs across the UK are helping members of the community feel confident and comfortable with who they are.Long Yang Club Badminton London (LYC) has been in existence since the mid-1980s and serves to unite queer Asians and Westerners with an interest in the sport.For James Yeung, who has been playing at the club for around a year and a half, if it was not for LYC he would not have been able to grow in a way where I'm confident and comfortable with who I am.

Footballer Ian Wright, fashion editor Dame Anna Wintour and author Ian McEwan are among the famous faces recognised in the King's first Birthday Honours list.The highest awards went to Vogue editor-in-chief Dame Anna and Booker Prize-winning novelist McEwan, who were made Companions of Honour alongside Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford.

Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie has been given a damehood in the King's first Birthday Honours.The veteran politician receives the honour for political and public service and is understood to be the first sitting MSP at Holyrood to either be knighted or given a damehood the female equivalent of the honour.

A senior firefighter who helped with plans for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral said he is immensely proud to be recognised in the King's Birthday Honours list.Area Commander Matt Acton of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has been awarded the King's Fire Service Medal.SFRS said Mr Acton was integral in delivering the service's role in Operation Unicorn, the formal plans put into effect following the Queen's death in Scotland.

Neuroscientists usually investigate one brain at a time.They observe how neurons fire as a person reads certain words, for example, or plays a video game.As social animals, however, those same scientists do much of their work togetherbrainstorming hypotheses, puzzling over problems and fine-tuning experimental designs.

Bluestreak cleaner wrasses are entrepreneurial fish.This tiny, shiny species sets up shop in coral reefs, where it eats parasites off of client fish, some of them big and hungry.It's a dangerous business that requires impeccable social skills.No wonder, then, that these fish can identify other individuals by their facesand even recognize their own, according to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

When Ella time traveled in my office for the first time, I did not realize what was happening right away.She was sitting comfortably in a chair, her hands folded, her back straight and her feet flat on the floor.There was no dramatic change, no shuddering or twitching.But then I saw it: a slight shift in how she held her body.

On Reddit forums, many users discussing mental health have enthused about their interactions with ChatGPTOpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot, which conducts humanlike conversations by predicting the likely next word in a sentence.ChatGPT is better than my therapist, one user wrote, adding that the program listened and responded as the person talked about their struggles with managing their thoughts.

From dethroning chess masters and game show champions to outperforming radiologists, the dazzlingand at times overwhelmingworld of artificial intelligence raises deep questions about the future of human jobs.In the last century, our capacity to store and process data has soared, with electronics marching from the vacuum tube to the transistor to today's semiconductor chips.

The UK was unprepared for the Covid pandemic because the government was distracted by plans in anticipation of a no-deal Brexit, a senior Cabinet Office official has said.Katharine Hammond, the former director of the civil contingencies secretariat in the Cabinet Office, agreed that lockdowns, serious social restrictions, shielding, the collapse of the economy and the need for financial support for individuals had not been considered in any meaningful sense.

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill Wednesday that bans diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices at public colleges and universities across the state, his spokesperson confirmed to CNN.The state legislature passed the bill last month largely along party lines with supporters arguing that DEI efforts promote racial profiling and slashing funds for such programs will save taxpayers millions of dollars.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

In April, Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price rallied with workers on the steps of City Hall to demand higher pay for hotel workers and janitors who clean Los Angeles International Airport."The living wage movement is a social justice movement," Price declared alongside union members in purple shirts, before introducing a proposal to dramatically boost wages for workers who cater to tourists.

Health officials are extending vaccinations for mpox in London after recording a fresh spike in cases in the capital in recent weeks, mostly among unvaccinated people.The national mpox outbreak vaccination programme run by the UK Health Security Agency is due to close at the end of July, but shots will be made available in the capital beyond this date after the detection of 11 new cases, officials said.

Bankrupt Thurrock council recklessly gambled hundreds of millions of pounds on risky commercial investments while covering up evidence of its losses and attempting to silence critics, a devastating official review has concluded.The government-commissioned report published on Thursday said the Tory-run council's financial collapse in 2022 was the culmination of years of dysfunctional leadership characterised by complacency, denial, and what the review called unconscious incompetence.

"If the administration and Congress are concerned about U.S. competitiveness, they need to push back." - ITIF
Earlier this week, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) released a report that offers a rebuttal to nine claims it identifies with the "anti-IP progressive orthodoxy."

Dubbed "Design's Secret Weapon" by Fast Company, Whipsaw's designs are so ubiquitous they simply can't be ignored.With over 300 design awards, and nearly a hundred clients comprising the likes of Meta, Google, Samsung, Dell, Ford, Sony, and Peloton, Whipsaw's work exists across multiple industries, covering the kind of breadth that most design studios only dream of.

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AFP via Getty Images Joe Biden is a "gaffe-machine" who has made many regrettable statements.His critics are quick to pounce on even his smallest gaffes.The reaction to Biden's off-script comments at Wednesday's League of Conservation Voters Annual Capital Dinner was not unexpected.

"Far from justifying an exemption from the retrial rule, the historical background of the Venue and Vicinage Clauses supports the opposite inference."- SCOTUS
The U.S. Supreme Court today delivered a ruling that flows from a trade secrets theft case, holding that "the Constitution permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an improper venue conducted before a jury drawn from the wrong district."

Guest post by W. Keith Robinson, Professor of Law, Faculty Director for Intellectual Property, Technology, Business, and Innovation, Wake Forest University School of Law.Watch his video proposing a Law and Technology Pipeline Consortium.This post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative, which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research.

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The ability to build muscle in response to training is a part of our physiology.It's deeply encoded in our DNA and persists throughout our lifespan.Meaning, lifters of any age and experience level should be able to add noticeable muscle to their frames.If you're deliberately and dedicatedly hitting the gym in the hopes of adding muscle mass, but still not seeing results, it's time to step back and think.

The US State Department identified a rapidly growing and troubling trend of forced labor as a result of cyber scam operations, as it launched its annual human trafficking report, US Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Cindy Dyer said Thursday.Traffickers have leveraged pandemic-related economic hardships, increased global youth unemployment, and international travel restrictions to exploit thousands of adults and children in a multi-billion dollar industry over the last two years in these schemes, she said at a State Department briefing.

Former Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine was named the 2023 recipient of the John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Board of Directors.The award is presented to an individual for extraordinary efforts to enhance baseball's positive impact on society.

The manager of a morgue at Harvard Medical School has been charged with selling body parts from donated cadavers and allowing buyers to come to the morgue to choose which parts they wanted, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.Prosecutors said that the manager, Cedric Lodge, 55, and his wife, Denise Lodge, 63, both of Goffstown, N.H., and three others had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania on charges of conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods.

For years, business and HR leaders pinned their hopes for better workplace learning on MOOCs, or massive open online courses.Unfortunately, the evidence continues to show that these are not enough on their own, particularly for those who most need them.Companies now have more options, thanks to better technology, innovative funding mechanisms, and old approaches reimagined to meet today's needs.

A growing number of companies are seeking out employees whose passion for their work is the driving force behind their performance, and they're investing in strategies to encourage and nurture this motivation.The research on this topic is clear - more passionate employees are more productive, innovative, and collaborative, and they demonstrate higher levels of commitment to their organizations.

I've been a workplace designer for the last 24 years, said the architect Arjun Kaicker.I've seen more change in the last 24 months than in the whole of my career.Mr. Kaicker co-runs Zaha Hadid Analytics + Insights, or ZHAI, a five-person team that uses data and artificial intelligence to design workplaces.

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Moscow June 15, 1:43 p.m. Washington June 15, 6:43 a.m.Members of the Ukrainian 35th Marine Brigade at a mortar position in the area of Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, firing on Russian positions in May.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times BRUSSELS Defense ministers of NATO countries are discussing long-term support for Ukraine and new preparations for the alliance's collective defense at a two-day meeting in Brussels starting on Thursday, as Kyiv's allies closely monitor the opening phase of Ukraine's long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces.

In 21st-century Britain, we should be able to hope for more than mere subsistence.But life for me and many others in my community has become geared solely around survival.Morale is low.One of the projects I attend provides hot meals and surplus food for a small donation if you have it.After dinner, they bring a table full of donated food.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

First Lady Jill Biden touted her husband's accomplishments on job creation, gun-control legislation and infrastructure investment as she courted donors on Wednesday in her first California fundraising trip since President Biden announced he would seek reelection.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

The receivership overseeing the welfare of 1,500 tenants in Skid Row is verging on insolvency, unable to borrow money and piling up $1.7 million in unpaid bills.The financial circumstances have become so dire that Mark Adams, the receiver in charge of 29 properties owned by Skid Row Housing Trust, is asking for emergency action from a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, or else he said he'll have to cancel security contracts, lay off his staff and surrender the effort.

Less than a week ago, Washington's network of attractions added a new destination when the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum opened its doors to the public.Located at F and 3rd Streets NW, the museum is comprised of a historic 19th Century synagogue-which was picked up and moved one block to its current location-as well as a new building featuring three floors of exhibition galleries.

The King has hailed new portraits of the Windrush generation as pictorial records of a very special group of people.Charles hosted a Buckingham Palace reception where he met the 10 individuals whose faces have been immortalised in paint, and was given a special preview of the artworks marking the 75th anniversary of the Windrush crossing.

Social media is a large source of data that has been subject to a wide variety of research, analytics-driven products, and machine learning solutions.The usage of social media platforms is on an ever rise and consequently the data generated on the platforms.It is important for data practitioners, consumers, and companies that make use of this data to understand where it comes from and how it is consumed by content creators, content consumers, and businesses.

A man accused of killing a 26-year-old woman in a shooting outside a pub on Christmas Eve was served with an injunction to prevent gang violence two months before, a court has heard.Connor Chapman, 23, is accused of murdering beautician Elle Edwards when he fired 12 shots from a Skorpion sub-machine gun outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral, Merseyside.

ITV bosses have refuted claims during a parliamentary hearing that the broadcaster treated late Love Island presenter Caroline Flack as a commodity.Chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall and managing director Kevin Lygo faced questions from MPs on Wednesday about former This Morning host Phillip Schofield's exit from the programme during a Culture, Media and Sport Committee session, during which they were also questioned about ITV's duty of care for its talent.

Author Douglas Stuart has said it is a lovely thing to be recognised by your home town, after he was presented with an honorary degree by the University of Glasgow.Olympic athlete Laura Muir, a graduate of the university, and Professor Sir Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, were also among those recognised at the commemoration day event on Wednesday.

I t's Clean Air Day tomorrow (June 15), a campaign delivered across the UK to build awareness of the impact of air pollution on our health, and easy ways to tackle it in order to protect our health and environment.According to the Global Action Plan, air pollution is the cause of 36,000 deaths in the UK.

People need to take greater personal responsibility to protect themselves against fraudsters, Suella Braverman said.The Home Secretary highlighted a Government target to reduce fraud by 10% from 2019 levels by the end of 2024, but said that a culture change in the public was also needed.She said the authorities needed greater powers and better technological capability to pursue online fraudsters.

John Culbertson is in Fort Moore, near Columbus, Georgia, enduring basic training for the U.S. Army.According to a lawsuit filed last week in federal court, his vehicle - a 2008 silver Honda Fit - is impounded in All-Ways Towing & Storage's lot in Hallandale Beach, along with all of the 23-year-old's possessions.

Around the world, most of the 1.4 billion tons of food thrown away each year goes to landfills.As it rots, it pollutes water and soil and releases huge amounts of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases.But not in South Korea, which banned food scraps from its landfills almost 20 years ago.