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☆ A key service helping convicted US veterans recover remains dysfunctional for everyone else, but there's a fix
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Ella Sherman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Veteran treatment courts, which prioritize rehabilitation for convicted veterans, provide comprehensive care, but the public version of these courts fail to deliver comparable support. Landing in a treatment courtAs of 2022, there were over 4,153 adult drug courts and 511 veteran treatment courts in the United States. There are numerous ways a person who has been convicted can enter a drug treatment court. Many adult drug treatment courts are unable to admit violent offenders due to the BJA prohibition. He describes his veteran treatment court experience as going through an "intense supervised probation" that gradually lessened.

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Hondo Underwood is a former car thief. Underwood speaks with Business Insider about methods of breaking into vehicles, such as relay theft. He talks about what it's like to be in high-speed car chases and play cat and mouse with the police. He also notes the models of cars he stole, including Chevrolets and Ford pickup trucks, and discusses the realism of car theft in movies and games like "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Grand Theft Auto." Underwood, a Marine Corps veteran, was ordered to complete a rehabilitation program by a Colorado Veterans Treatment Court.

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☆ Inside Hollywood’s new effort to curb gun deaths
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Josh Campbell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Hondo heads to the bedroom closet, removes his semi-automatic service weapon, and safely locks it away in his gun safe. “I’m big badass Hondo, and I get out there and take down bad guys,” actor Shemar Moore, who plays Hondo, told CNN. ‘A uniquely American epidemic’“We lose eight kids a day in this country — a uniquely American epidemic — to family fire,” Kris Brown, president of Brady United, told CNN. While gun policies can be politically polarizing, Dettmann said encouraging the safe storage of firearms shouldn’t be controversial at all. While the production team at “S.W.A.T.” has purposefully incorporated safe gun storage into their scripts, they haven’t stopped there.

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Frank Howard, a four-time All-Star who slugged 382 home runs during a lengthy major league career that included a World Series title with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1963, has died. A spokesperson for the Washington Nationals said the team was informed of Howard's death by his family Monday. “Growing up a baseball fan in Washington D.C., Frank Howard was my hero,” Nationals owner Mark Lerner said in a statement. “We didn’t score a whole lot of runs, and it was on his back a lot of times to score a few runs,” Bosman said. “I don’t think I saw him angry more than two or three times,” Bosman said.

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☆ ‘Io Capitano’: An African odyssey inspired by true events wins at Venice Film Festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Tom Page | Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In “Io Capitano” (“Me Captain”) by director Matteo Garrone, there is no shame in retreating into imagination. “Io Capitano” premiered last week at the Venice Film Festival, where Garrone won the award for best director and Sarr was named best young actor, and was released in Italian cinemas on September 7. Moustapha Fall attends a red carpet for "Io Capitano" at the Venice International Film Festival. “I started crying during the film,” Kouassi said, speaking the day after the premiere. “I think it is important – it is sending a very great message to Europe.”“Io Capitano” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 6.

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☆ Supreme Court extends Trump-era pandemic immigration rule to allow quicker deportations
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to keep in place for now a controversial Trump-era rule that allows Customs and Border Patrol officials to deport migrants at the U.S. southern border as a public health measure in response to the pandemic. The Supreme Court also agreed to hear oral arguments in February and rule on whether the states can intervene, with a decision due by the end of June. More than 2 million people have been deported at the southern border under the policy since 2020. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked the Biden administration earlier this month from ending the controversial policy. But Republican-led states intervened in the case and successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to block that lower court ruling.

☆ Remaking the River That Remade L.A.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Michael Kimmelman | Photographs Adali Schell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +33 min

Remaking the River That Remade L.A.February 1938 was a wet month in Los Angeles. Reservoirs overflowed, dams topped out and floodwaters careered down Pacoima Wash and Tujunga Wash toward the Los Angeles River. The Los Angeles River was never a storybook river of the kind that, like the Hudson or the Seine, we associate with great cities. Among the naysayers is a venerable organization called Friends of the Los Angeles River, founded by the Texas-born poet and performance artist Lewis MacAdams. “With all the problems L.A. is facing,” he said, “even if it costs $50 billion to fix the river, we should just effing do it.”The headwaters of the Los Angeles River aren’t easy to find.

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