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April 09, 2021 - 6:04 PM Blue wall of silence takes hit in Chauvins murder trial Police accused of wrongdoing can usually count on the blue wall of silence — protection from fellow officers that includes everything from shutting off body cameras to refusing to co-operate with investigators. But thats not the case with Derek Chauvin, with many colleagues quick to condemn his actions in George Floyds death, some even taking the stand against him. Minneapolis Police Chief Meda...

Blue wall of silence takes hit in Chauvins murder trial Police accused of wrongdoing can usually count on the blue wall of silence — protection from fellow officers that includes everything from shutting off body cameras to refusing to cooperate with investigators. But thats not the case with Derek Chauvin, with many colleagues quick to condemn his actions in George Floyds death, some even taking the stand against him. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified that Chauvin’...

CONTEST-SPECIFIC RULES FOR THE NATIONAL CASH CONTEST Each participating station will also need to consider specific governing state laws pertaining to radio contests. In Florida for example, audio of an out-of-state winner cannot be broadcast unless there is full disclosure of the city and state where that winner is located. The following rules shall govern the Spring 2021 Cash Contest Big Country Cash (“the Promotion” or “Contest”). These contest-specific rules should be read in conju...

10 Apr 2021 / 09:00 H. * Hungarys Fidesz quit European main conservative group * Fidesz works on new conservative alliance of nationalists * Potential alliance looks strong on paper, challenges mount By Marton Dunai and Joanna Plucinska BUDAPEST/WARSAW, April 1 (Reuters) - Hungarian right-wing nationalist premier Viktor Orban and Polish ally Mateusz Morawiecki will meet Matteo Salvini, leader of Italys rightist League party, on Thursday to try to lay the groundwork for a new European political...

FILE - In this Wednesday June 24, 2015 file photo, Britains Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip travel by boat on the Spree river in Berlin, Germany. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died, it was announced on Friday, April 9, 2021. He was 99. Philip spent a month in hospital earlier this year before being released on March 16 to return to Windsor Castle. Philip, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, married Elizabeth in 1947 and was the longe...

...but, constituents to remain fair game for abuse from party apparatchiks. It’s a report on Federal Heritage Minister Steven Guibeault’s ongoing vendetta against non-conforming political speech on the internet, in which he’s calling for censorship of “hurtful” comments against politicians and implementation of an  internet killswitch to facilitate it.   Blackrocks is behind a paywall, permit me to quote it here: ‘ Federal internet censors should target hurtful words against pol...

For over six hours Thursday at the Rock Plaza, The University of Miami Hillel honored the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust through remembrance. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., volunteers read the names of victims to a crowd of listeners seated below. “We’re honoring to remember,” said David Weitzman, a springboard innovation fellow at Hillel. “It’s important to remember, if we don’t history can repeat itself.” Hillel holds the event annually on April 8, Israel’s Holocaust R...

NATO helped deter the Soviets, but Moscow also set up the Warsaw Pact in response. Key point: NATO and the Warsaw Pact divided much of the world into two hostile, armed camps. How did the world avoid a catastrophe? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 to oppose Soviet expansionism in Western Europe. The end of the war saw the Soviet Union solidify its gains in Eastern Europe, garrisoning countries such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and East G...

Local Ivy Tech leader to retire Led campuses in city, Warsaw; to exit in September LISA GREEN | The Journal Gazette Jerrilee K. Mosier, chancellor of the Ivy Tech Community College Fort Wayne and Warsaw locations, will retire in September, the school announced Friday. Mosier, 66, joined Ivy Tech Fort Wayne in 2010 as chancellor. She beat out 35 other applicants and two other final candidates. She had served in academic leadership roles at community colleges in Washington, Oklahoma, and Kansas. ...

AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT by The Associated Press Last Updated Apr 10, 2021 at 12:11 am EDT ‘Blue wall of silence’ takes hit in Chauvin’s murder trial Police accused of wrongdoing can usually count on the blue wall of silence — protection from fellow officers that includes everything from shutting off body cameras to refusing to co-operate with investigators. But that’s not the case with Derek Chauvin, with many colleagues quick to condemn his actions in George Floyd’s deat...