Independent (UK),
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Meredith Clark
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Hermès has been accused of “tying” the purchase of its famed Birkin bags to other Hermès products in a class action lawsuit filed in California. Two shoppers have claimed in the lawsuit filed on 19 March that they were required to purchase “ancillary products” from an Hermès retail store - such as shoes, scarves, belts, or jewellery - before they were given the opportunity to purchase a Birkin handbag. The lawsuit claimed that Hermès sales associates only offer Birkin handbags to customers who have established a sufficient “purchase history” with the French brand. According to the filing, once shoppers “are deemed worthy” of purchasing a Birkin handbag,
New American,
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R. Cort Kirkwood
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3/21/2024 10:13:09 PM
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Plagiarism gumshoe Christopher Rufo has uncovered another case of literary theft at Harvard University. This time, Rufo reported in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, the culprit is one Christina Cross, an assistant sociology professor, who plagiarized her doctoral thesis for the University of Michigan.
Rufo’s story cites a complaint that documents a dozen problematic passages, some of them unattributed verbatim quotes. Cross is the fourth Harvard official outed for plagiarism. Noting that Cross is a “rising star in the field of critical race,” a fraudulent “field” of study, and the author of The Myth of The Two-Parent Home, Rufo reported that “Cross’s 2019 dissertation, The Color, Class, and Context
HotAir,
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Karen Townsend
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3/21/2024 9:54:13 PM
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An academic group, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), obtained some alarming data. In over 200,000 cases, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to file the proper paperwork with immigration courts in Houston, Texas and Miami, Florida. The illegal aliens were issued a Notice to Appear (NTA) at the border, which creates a court date. However, DHS never filed the paperwork with the court. The asylum process can't move forward without filing the proper paperwork with the court. The court date rolls around and the asylum-seeker shows up. The judge doesn't have the paperwork so the case is dismissed.
KARK (Arkansas),
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Alex Kienlen
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Ryan Turbeville
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The affidavit detailing the ATF case against the Little Rock airport executive who was shot and killed by federal agents serving a search warrant at his home was released Thursday. In the heavily redacted warrant affidavit, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claims that According to the warrant, Malinowski purchased more than 150 guns between May 2021 and Feb. 27, 2024, which he then resold. The ATF claims in the affidavit that around six of the guns Malinowski sold were found after being connected to a crime. Undercover federal agents purchased another three from Malinowski at central Arkansas gun shows, the affidavit stated.
USA Today,
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Saman Shafiq
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3/20/2024 7:45:29 PM
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Three Americans are suing the National Park Service over the agency's refusal to accept cash payments to enter parks across the U.S.
The Americans − from California, New York and Georgia − filed the lawsuit earlier this month in federal court in Washington, D.C., saying that the park service is violating federal law by not allowing guests to pay cash to enter various parks, monuments and historic sites.
The lawsuit says the park service's policy violates a U.S. law that says that "coins and currency ... are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes and dues." "Thus, NPS’ refusal to accept U.S. Currency tendered for entrance fees constitutes a
Fox News,
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Chad Pergram
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Stepheny Price
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3/20/2024 2:33:26 AM
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Brian Schwalb, the Democratic attorney general in Washington, D.C., has dropped charges against Gold Star father Steve Nikoui for disrupting Congress during President Biden's State of the Union speech earlier this month. Nikoui is the father of Kareem Nikoui who was killed during the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The decision to drop the charges was confirmed by the Speaker’s Office. The DC AG’s office told Fox News that it decided not to prosecute in this case just as they have in the cases of protesters in the past. Fox News was told that Nikoui was "thrilled and humbled,"
Associated Press,
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Lindsay Whitehuurst
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3/18/2024 11:47:25 PM
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Supreme Court justices appeared receptive Monday to National Rifle Association claims that a former New York state official violated its free-speech rights by pressuring banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The NRA is suing former New York State Department of Financial Services superintendent Maria Vullo, who the group says used her regulatory power to economically punish the group for its gun-rights stance in violation of the First Amendment. The Biden administration has backed some of the NRA’s claims and encouraged the high court to reverse a lower court decision to toss out the suit.
London World,
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Andre Langloi
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A 'son of Concorde' set to fly from New York to London in 1.5 hours is a step closer to take-off.
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft has been moved to the paint barn at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works’ facility in Palmdale, California, says the space agency.
Once painted, the team will take final measurements of its weight and exact shape to improve computer modeling. The supersonic passenger plane aims to fly faster than the speed of sound, at almost twice as fast as Concorde.
Engineers are aiming to reduce the sound of the typical sonic boom to a sonic thump to minimise disruption to people on the ground.
Black Chronicle,
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3/15/2024 12:36:46 PM
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a measure allowing the new Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission to start its work.
Senate Bill 332 allows the commission, created last year with Senate Bill 92, to adopt internal guidelines and rules. It also circumvents a November state Supreme Court administrative order that found approving the commission’s standards of conduct was outside its authority. “This legislation will help us ensure rogue or incompetent prosecutors are held accountable if they refuse to uphold the law,” Kemp, a Republican, said during a brief Wednesday press conference. “As we know all too well, crime has been on the rise across the country,
Associated Press,
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Jeff Amy
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law Wednesday that lets a state commission begin operating with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors, potentially disrupting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
“This legislation will help us ensure rogue and incompetent prosecutors are held accountable if they refuse to uphold the law,” Kemp said before signing the bill, flanked by Republican legislative leaders. “As we know all too well, crime has been on the rise across the country, and is especially prevalent in cities where prosecutors are giving criminals a free pass or failing to put them behind bars due to lack of professional conduct.”
Atlanta News First,
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Staff
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3/14/2024 7:53:08 PM
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Friday is the close of a self-imposed two-week deadline set by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee for his consequential decision that could alter the course of Georgia’s historic election indictment. After weeks of testimony following the revelation of allegations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was dating Nathan Wade, one of the case’s top prosecutors, McAfee will have to decide by close of business on Friday whether to remove Willis and Wade from the case. Attorneys for several defendants filed a motion in January alleging that Willis had been paying Wade while the two were dating and embarking on cruises and vacations together while prosecuting the case.
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A Santa Rosa family of three -- including a 2-year-old child -- suffered only minor injuries after their small plane lost engine power and deployed an onboard parachute that floated the aircraft down into a remote part of Mendocino County last Friday. The Cirrus SR22 took off from Shelter Cove Airport in Humboldt County about 1 p.m. March 8, headed to Santa Rosa with two 38-year-old adults and the child on board, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, which responded along with authorities from Humboldt County.
"At this point, the pilot deployed the airplane's Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) which slowed the airplane's descent,"