Hong Kong A 31-year-old man has been jailed for 21 months for throwing eggs at a police station, the latest tough sentence handed down by a Hong Kong court as the authorities move to clamp down on political dissent in the Chinese territory.
Colorado man sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic synagogue
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A Colorado man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Friday for plotting to blow up the 119-year-old Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Richard Holzer -- who self-identifies as a neo-Nazi and ...
Why women should monitor blood pressure differently, according to a new study
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When you visit the doctor, often the first order of business is wrapping a blood pressure cuff around your arm and looking to the display screen for the magic number. What's that number, you ask? Less than 120 over ...
Children exposed to tobacco smoke could be at risk for high blood pressure
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Children who are exposed to tobacco smoke have a greater chance of having high blood pressure, a new study has found. Researchers found 6% of children who were exposed to tobacco smoke had high blood pressure compar...
What Mitt Romney gets *exactly* right about Donald Trump
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Mitt Romney is no fan of Donald Trump. In fact, the Utah Republican senator may be the single most prominent critic of the 45th President within the GOP. Mitt Romney is also a political realist. Which is why he said...
British aristocrat sentenced to 10 months in prison for sexual assault at his castle
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London A relative of Queen Elizabeth II has been jailed for 10 months for sexual assault, after forcing his way into a woman's bedroom and attacking her at his Scottish castle last year. Simon Bowes-Lyon, the Earl of...
Why has Donald Trump fought so hard to keep his tax returns secret?
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The Supreme Court's rejection Monday of an attempt by Donald Trump to keep Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from seeing his tax returns (and other financial documents) was rightly cast as a major legal setbac...
Alexey Navalny remains in jail after Moscow appeals court confirms prison sentence
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Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny will remain behind bars after a Russian court partially rejected his appeal over a two-and-a-half year prison sentence handed down earlier this month. The court did shorten the activist...
White House says it’s responding to pressure to act fast on USPS problems
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The White House is working to quickly fill the vacant seats on the Postal Service Board of Governors. "President Biden has made clear his feelings on the current leadership of the Postal Service and the challenges i...
Biden team finds promises hard to make — let alone keep
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Speaking on television last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted April would be "open season" for receiving the coronavirus vaccine, welcome news for a nation entering its second year under pandemic-forced lockdowns an...
Brazil will vaccinate an entire city’s adult population to test the effect on Covid-19 infection rate
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Brazil's Butantan Institute kicked off a campaign on Wednesday to vaccinate all of the adult population of a city to see if it's possible to reduce the number of cases. The study will involve the city of Serrana, in...
James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s former rogue FBI informant handler John Connolly granted conditional medical release from prison
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The former rogue FBI informant handler for mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger will be released from a Florida prison on a conditional medical release, a spokesman for the Florida Commission on Offender Review told CNN. ...
After 68 years in prison, America’s oldest juvenile lifer was released
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Joe Ligon, believed to be the oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer in the United States, has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after spending nearly seven decades behind bars. Ligon was incarcerated in ...