Author: Carlos Hansen

Parrots showed a liking for live Facebook Messenger conversations over pre-recorded squawking.

A new regulation could help place LGBTQ+ foster children with affirming caregivers.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019. The tragedy was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. Captain Jerry Boylan was sentenced on Thursday. He was found guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer last year. The charge is a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter. It was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters. Boylan’s appeal is ongoing.

In a speech Thursday, Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin should fear a conflict with NATO as it would inevitably end in Russia’s defeat. “It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Sikorski said in a translated speech to the Sejm,…

Two of ex-President Trump’s legal cases clashed on Thursday when the Supreme Court had a hearing on his broad arguments for immunity from criminal prosecution while his trial proceeded in New York over a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The Supreme Court case has the potential to derail Trump’s other three…

Enjoy yourself and support the local library by participating. It’s a win-win. The Newtown Library is hosting a weekend scavenger hunt for all ages on May 4 and 5. Teams will get a list of items and places around Newtown to find and photograph, then all the teams will meet at the Starbucks Sunday […]

A man has been arrested after he disrupted an interview with San Jose, Calif., Mayor Matt Mahan and picked a fight with his security guard. Mahan was participating in an interview with KRON4 Tuesday evening, when a passerby interrupted the shot. The man was apparently talking on the phone, when Mahan said, “We’re doing an…

Justices on the Supreme Court expressed doubt about former President Trump's lawyers' claims that presidential immunity could cover an attempted coup or the assassination of a political rival, but they appeared willing to provide some protection from criminal prosecution. This could lead to a new series of legal conflicts.

President Biden’s reelection campaign trolled former President Trump for golfing on his day off from court on Wednesday. “We found out where Trump was. He was golfing. Not campaigning. Golfing,” Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement, citing a CNN report that he was at his New Jersey golf club Bedminster.  “But, when your entire…

NEW YORK — The former head of the National Enquirer talked about the possibility of being pardoned by ex-President Trump for “electoral fraud” in 2016, according to text messages revealed during Trump’s hush money trial Thursday. In the messages, Editor Dylan Howard and a family member talk about Howard going to California in…