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A record 22 people were shot dead by German police in 2024, according to a report by the news agency dpa based on law enforcement records, more than in any other year this century.It is more than double the total recorded in 2023, when 10 people were killed; 11 were neutralized in 2022 and eight in 2021, according to the report published on Tuesday.According to statistics from the Civil Rights and Police publication, the 2024 fatalities may represent the highest annual total since German reunification in 1990. The previous record highs were 19 deaths in both 1995 and 1999.Many of…

Authored by Jonathan Turley,After a presidential campaign where both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back on claims that they were trying to shut down much of the fossil fuel industry, Biden waited until the final days of his administration to ban oil and gas drilling over 670 million acres of America’s coastline. President-elect Donald Trump responded that “It’s ridiculous.I’ll un-ban it immediately. I have the right to un-ban it immediately.”It will likely be more difficult than a simple “un-ban” order.Environmental groups will likely push a “sue, baby, sue” campaign to counter Trump’s “drill, baby, drill.”In his statement, Biden justified the…

Merrick Garland US Attorney General Merrick Garland is fighting to release Jack Smith’s final report after Judge Cannon issued a temporary injunction blocking it from public view. On Tuesday Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked Jack Smith’s report on his lawfare investigation into President Trump. US Attorney General Merrick Garland previously said he would release Jack Smith’s final report on Trump. Judge Cannon’s temporary injunction lasts until three days after a federal appeals court issues a ruling on a pending motion to block Jack Smith’s report in a case involving other defendants in the classified documents case. Lawyers for Trump’s co-defendants…

BASEL, SWITZERLAND – OCTOBER 26: Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France serves the ball against Holger … [+] Rune of Norway during the Swiss Indoors Basel – Day 6 at St. Jakobshalle on October 26, 2024 in Basel, Switzerland. (Photo by Marcio Machado/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images)Getty Images If there’s one male player, nobody wants to see when the Australian Open draw comes out on Thursday, it’s 6-foot-8 Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard. The 21-year-old cranked out a 151-mph serve last year and just last week banged out 20 aces in a straight-sets win over former U.S. Open semifinalist Frances Tiafoe at the…

Multigenerational Latino Familygetty On the Latino economic front, there is good news, bad news, and worse news. The the overall economic condition of Latinos is improving. The U.S. Department of Treasury reports that between 2013 and 2022, the median wealth of Latino families increased by 252%. However, the Latino wealth gap persists. A recent report from Brookings reveals that the average white family possesses five times the wealth of the average Latino family. Finally, the Latino wealth gap is likely to widen. How can this gap possibly grow even wider? The Largest Transfer of Intergenerational Wealth Between now and 2045…

France’s top diplomat fires a warning shot across the bows of Donald Trump, warning Europe considers Greenland part of its “sovereign borders” and should be left alone. European leaders are reacting with alarm as past and future President Donald Trump talks up the importance of the United States acquiring Greenland, the world’s largest island and a strategically valuable if underdeveloped Arctic territory in the North Atlantic. As Trump’s son flew into Greenland on the Trump jet this week the French foreign minister has appeared to tacitly put the notion of the United States buying territory off an ally on a…

Mark Zuckerberg stunned the world when he announced this week that Meta would embrace free speech on its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. But to hold the billionaire to his promises of removing bias and censorship from these platforms, we must first acknowledge the terrible levels of censorship faced by conservatives on Zuckerberg’s platforms since 2016. Here are six particularly egregious examples from Zuckerberg’s inglorious reign as the internet’s arbiter of truth. On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced there would be major changes to the content moderation policies on Facebook and Instagram, citing a desire to embrace free speech…

A Jordanian national, who violated the terms of his admission to the United States, is accused of making a bomb threat to a South Carolina Highway Patrolman after having been pulled over for missing a license plate. Ahmad Jamal Khamees Alhendi, a 28-year-old legal immigrant from Jordan who came to the U.S. in September 2018 but who violated the terms of his admission, has been arrested and charged in Greenville County, South Carolina, for breach of peace, falsely making a bomb threat, and operating an unregistered vehicle. According to investigators, a South Carolina Highway Patrolman pulled over Alhendi on January 2…

It took Toyota decades to crack the European market with Lexus but look at it now: from the low thousands year in year out to what should be around 75,000 sales 2024. Hyundai knows it needs to be patient with Genesis in this region, with volumes remaining modest. The same applies in China.Detailed full-year data are yet to be publicised but looking at local trends as at the end of November, the number three brand in South Korea should have delivered some 130,000 cars and SUVs. As for the US, volume there looks set to be 70,000-plus. Europe will be…

President Joe Biden told USA Today he still hasn’t decided whether to issue preemptive pardons to political allies before he exits the White House, confirming that he’s yet to close the door on insulating those who President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have threatened to target for prosecution. He said he also told Trump not to target his perceived enemies. “I tried to make clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive for his interest to go back and try to settle scores,” Biden said, adding that Trump only listened, not confirming whether he intended to target the…