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Crude goes up, crude goes down

2 years 6 months ago
That was quick: Don't get too comfy, though. Tomorrow some reporter will yell a question at MBS about Saudi oil production and he'll just flash them an enigmatic smile and then walk away. Within an hour oil will be selling for a thousand dollars a barrel or something.
Kevin Drum

Court (Correctly) Says Germany’s Social Media Censorship Law Goes Too Far

2 years 6 months ago
Remember NetzDG? This is the German content moderation law that has been a complete disaster from day one. It puts all sorts of requirements on social media companies to remove undesirable content in a very short period of time. Other countries, like Turkey, have used it as inspiration to pass their own laws to censor […]
Mike Masnick

Guilty Plea Entered In Death Of Godfrey Toddler And Her Dog

2 years 6 months ago
GODFREY - A man accused of crashing a pickup truck into a 2-year-old girl and her dog, killing both, has pleaded guilty to failure to report an accident involving injury or death. Paul Broadway, 64, of Godfrey, was charged after an Aug. 31, 2020, accident in which the pickup truck he was driving crashed into Ellee Grace Kiser, 2, of Godfrey. The victim ran into the roadway at Pine Grove and West Broadway. The child died at St. Anthony’s Health Center a day later of head injuries. Broadway left the scene but was arrested by Alton police the next day. Broadway pleaded guilty Monday in exchange for a prosecution agreement that he be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison. A sentencing hearing will be held at a later date. At a press conference shortly after the accident, Sheriff John Lakin said that, after the accident was reported, the Sheriff’s Office was flooded with calls from the public. Police obtained a description of the truck, and the accident

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ISP Arrests Man For Drug-Induced Homicide

2 years 6 months ago
FLORA - On March 9, 2022, Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Zone 8 announce the arrest of Phillip Blaine Henson, a 52-year-old male from Flora, IL, for Drug Induced Homicide (Class X Felony). On November 17, 2022, at approximately 1:26 p.m., the ISP DCI - Zone 8 was requested to conduct a death investigation in Flora, IL. A female, later identified as Stephanie L. Harrell, a 54-year-old of Flora, IL, was found deceased in her vehicle parked in an agricultural field entrance on Olive Street, just north of US Highway 50 in Clay County. On March 8, 2022, Phillip Blaine Henson was charged with Drug Induced Homicide (Class X Felony), filed in the Circuit Court for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Illinois in Clay County. Henson is currently detained at the Vanderburgh County Jail in Evansville, Indiana with bond of $1,000,000 / 10 % to apply. No further information is available at this time. ISP DCI - Zone 8 was assisted by the South Eastern Illinois

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The Batman Does All the Things a Batman Movie Should Do

2 years 6 months ago
Veering from the false realism of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy and the more earnest fantasias of Zack Snyder's work, Matt Reeves' The Batman moves toward a looser and better-humored fantasy space in its treatment of its title figure.…
George Elkind