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☆ This common problem with tenant background checks is costing renters
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Inaccurate screening reports are driving moving costs for renters even higher, according to a new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The problem is pervasive, says Eva Rosen, an associate professor at Georgetown University who studies the intersection of poverty and American housing policy. Inaccurate reports lead to rejectionsLandlords often use application fees to run background checks on perspective tenants. The average fee is between $40 and $59, but almost 10% of renters reported application fees more than $100. Screening reports are typically sent directly to landlords.

☆ Days after Biden's face-to-face meeting with Xi Jinping, Kamala Harris is making a rare trip to a South China Sea hotspot
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Christopher Woody | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Palawan looks over the South China Sea, where Beijing and its neighbors have competing claims. "This is another historic visit, as the vice president is the highest-ranking US official ever to visit Palawan," a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday. It divides the Sulu Sea and the South China Sea, where the Philippines is one of several countries that dispute Beijing's expansive claims. The Philippine province of Palawan separates the Sulu Sea and the South China Sea. Asked on Tuesday how China should view the trip, the US official said, "China can take the message it wants.

☆ King Charles asks UK parliament to allow brother and sister to act in his place
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - King Charles asked the British parliament on Monday to amend the law to allow two more of his siblings to act on his behalf in his absence, adding them to a group which currently includes his disgraced brother Prince Andrew. That currently means that in addition to Charles's wife Camilla and his eldest son and heir Prince William, the grouping comprises the king's younger son Prince Harry, younger brother Prince Andrew, and Andrew's eldest daughter Princess Beatrice. That has led to criticism from some commentators because neither Andrew nor Harry carry out official royal roles any more. Meanwhile, Harry stepped down from royal duties in 2020 and moved to California with his wife Meghan. The change will require parliament to amend the terms of the Regency Act.

☆ Deutsche Bank Faces Threat of Fines Over Money-Laundering Controls
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Patricia Kowsmann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +2 min

Germany’s top financial watchdog threatened to fine Deutsche Bank AG if it doesn’t implement controls against money laundering by a set deadline, suggesting the regulator isn’t satisfied with the bank’s efforts to police dirty-money flows. Deutsche Bank needs to meet deadlines by mid-2023. Costs, however, remain under strain, partly because of how much the bank is spending to boost internal controls. Deutsche Bank also has monitors in place as part of a 2017 settlement with New York state authorities related to “mirror trades,” in which the bank moved $10 billion of Russian client money out of the country. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Deutsche Bank said it would withdraw from the country.

☆ British police say immigration centre attack was terrorist incident
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - British police said on Saturday evidence showed an extreme right-wing terrorist ideology had motivated a petrol bomb attack on an immigration centre in the southern English port town of Dover on Oct. 30. Nobody was seriously hurt in the incident, and police said 66-year-old Andrew Leak - who was found dead at a nearby service station soon after the attack - had apparently acted alone. This meets the threshold for a terrorist incident," said Tim Jacques, senior national coordinator for counter terrorism policing. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said Britain is a compassionate and welcoming place for asylum seekers, but this depends on the country being able to effectively police its borders. Sunak's interior minister, Suella Braverman, is facing heavy criticism for describing the arrival of asylum seekers as an invasion.

☆ ‘Dying Inside’: Chaos and Cruelty in Louisiana Juvenile Detention
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Megan Shutzer | Rachel Lauren Mueller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +47 min

But inside the walls at Ware, one of the state’s largest juvenile detention facilities, children have been trying to kill themselves with stunning regularity. In Louisiana, where brutal conditions prompted juvenile justice reform two decades ago, the system is again in crisis. Most Ware guards are Black, as well, though nearly all of its leaders are white, as are the local judge, sheriff and district attorney. “Of course, they still do.” In reports to the state, Ware’s nurses described carpet burns on children’s faces and head-to-toe bruises from restraints. In fact, of the four guards convicted of sexually assaulting children at Ware, Mr. Peace would be the only one imprisoned.

☆ 'We're going to hang you': DOJ cracks down on threats to election workers ahead of high-stakes midterms
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

That is just one example of the rising number of violent threats election workers in the days leading up to the Nov. 8 midterms. "These threats against election officials continue," Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida, told CNBC. Additional funding from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan can also be used to protect election workers, Polite said. DOJ launched an election threats task force in July 2021 to ensure voters are safe at the polls and to look into the rise in threatening behavior against election workers like Moss. Jared Polis signed an act protecting election workers from threats, coercion or intimidation into law.

☆ Uganda court hands life sentence to man caught with elephant ivory
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KAMPALA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A Ugandan court has handed a life sentence to a man caught with nearly 10 kg of elephant ivory, the country's highest punishment ever for wildlife violations, authorities said on Friday. Pascal Achiba was sentenced by the country's Standards, Utilities and Wildlife Court on Thursday after being convicted for unlawful possession of protected species, the state-run Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) said in a statement. Achiba was arrested in January in a suburb of the capital Kampala alongside two pieces of ivory weighing 9.55 kg. Poaching and illicit wildlife trade is rampant in Uganda where police frequently seize hauls of ivory, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife products. In July 2020, a man who pleaded guilty to killing Rafiki, a beloved 25-year-old male gorilla in Uganda, was sentenced to 11 years in jail.

☆ A Florida cop advised one of the people arrested in DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown how to defend himself against the charges, body camera footage shows
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ron DeSantis' voter fraud crackdown. Police body cam footage obtained by the Tampa Bay Times shows cops appearing sympathetic toward those they were arresting. All 20 people arrested on August 18 were given voter registration cards to vote in the 2020 election, the Times reported. The August 18 arrests happened just hours before DeSantis held a press conference announcing that 20 people had been charged with voter fraud connected to the 2020 presidential election. Those arrested, who had all received voter registration cards, are now facing up to five years in prison, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

☆ Biden and Democratic Norms
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Democrats have spent six years warning about the threat to democratic norms and institutions, and sometimes they’re even right—the Jan. 6, 2021 riot being Exhibit A. But they’d have more credibility if they stopped undermining democratic institutions when it suits their political purposes. President Biden is a leading offender on that score these days, and he did it again last week by attacking the Supreme Court at a Democratic fundraiser. “I view this off-year election as one of the most important elections that I’ve been engaged in because a lot can change because the institutions have changed. The Supreme Court is more of an advocacy group these days than it is a, even-handed about it,” the President said at an event for Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester .

☆ Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz spared death penalty. Victims' families might be better off.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Emilia Benton | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Though many were shocked he didn’t receive the death penalty, and many victims’ family members were visibly upset by the decision, it’s wrong to assume this would have automatically brought them solace. The lengthy proceedings stirred up decades-old memories of waiting to find out whether my own mother’s murderer would receive the death penalty. It’s the prime example people use when they’re surprised to learn I’m not fervently in favor of the death penalty. Sometimes family members of victims do have clear-cut feelings that the death penalty is needed. It’s time for everyone in this country, from lawmakers to the general public, to prioritize the effect of the death penalty on a victim’s survivors over their own political ideologies.

Chicago police are looking for a man who they say attacked and sexually abused an 11-year-old girl last week as she walked home from school. The attack happened around 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Washington Park neighborhood, police said in a statement. The attacker, described as a man 45 to 60 years old, grabbed the girl from behind, put his hand over her mouth, pulled her into an alley and sexually abused her, police said. The attack involved a student at Dulles Elementary School, a K-8 campus. By Monday there had been no arrests, Chicago police said, and detectives continued to investigate.

Prosecutors with the 18th Judicial District and DEA agents seized 114 pounds of pure fentanyl in Colorado. A spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol, which made the initial discovery of the fentanyl, provided a blunt account of the botched operation. But after this story was published, a DEA official confirmed the seizure of 114 pounds of fentanyl. "DEA is relentlessly pursuing the individuals that were involved in the trafficking of the seized fentanyl and will continue to do so." “We’ve got a record amount of fentanyl involved here, in fact, enough fentanyl to kill everyone in the state of Colorado,” Figliuzzi said.

☆ Jesse Watters' rise at Fox, from Bill O'Reilly's ambush man to Tucker Carlson wannabe
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

At the time, Watters was best known for pulling off elaborately planned ambush interviews on "The O'Reilly Factor," then Fox News' top-rated show. When Grim picked his phone up and trained it again on Watters, the smile was gone from Watters' face. Watters on the set of his show "Jesse Watters Primetime." In early 2022, "Jesse Watters Primetime" debuted, airing right before "Hannity." Watters, whose entire career has been at Fox News, might be a safer bet, according to Muto, the former O'Reilly producer.

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☆ 3-year-old dies in Chicago after allegedly being pushed into Lake Michigan by aunt, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A 3-year-old boy has died after he was pushed into Lake Michigan in Chicago by his aunt, officials said. The child was pulled from the water by emergency personnel and transported to a hospital in critical condition, police said. Moreno was denied bail at a court hearing Wednesday where the defense argued that she has mental health issues, NBC Chicago reported. Prosecutors said that Moreno lives in Des Plaines, a Chicago suburb, with her family and left the house with Josiah without anyone else knowing. He was in the water for 30 minutes when divers pulled him out from the bottom of the lake, according to prosecutors.

In lieu of being incarcerated, he agreed to complete a court-supervised treatment program at Hennepin County Veterans Court. Minnesota’s new law establishes a consistent set of standards for every criminal court in the state, depending on the offender’s criminal history and the severity of the crime. But the Hennepin County Veterans Court has started to see some of its early impacts. At least 22 veterans have graduated its treatment program since the law went into effect on Aug. 1, 2021. The lack of data on the issue led the Council on Criminal Justice to launch a national commission to examine over the next two years why so many veterans land behind bars.

Three people were gunned down in a quiet Chicago suburb on Friday before the alleged shooter was found dead inside a burning home, authorities said. Police responded to a domestic disturbance call at 6:35 a.m. CDT in the 5500 block of Ann Marie Lane, in Oak Forest, which is about 27 miles south of central Chicago, officials said. A fourth body was found inside that burning house and that person “is believed, at this time, to be the offender in this case,” police said. But three hours later, Oak Forest authorities said all was clear: "There is no longer a threat to the community." The gunfire and blaze happened about 50 miles south of downtown Highland Park, where a sniper allegedly killed seven people at a Fourth of July parade 2 1/2 months ago.

☆ Fact Check-Video of man hiding in fridge was not captured after Putin’s announcement on military mobilisation
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

However, the clip is from 2015 and shows court bailiffs looking for an offender who failed to appear in court. The clip purportedly showing military personnel hunting down an unwilling recruit shows uniformed men searching a house and eventually finding a man hiding inside a refrigerator. “Military mobilisation in Russia. The video clip purportedly showing forced recruitment following Putin’s order on military mobilisation is not from September 2022. It was captured in 2015 and shows court bailiffs searching an apartment for a person who did not appear at court regarding theft charges.

☆ Deutsche Bank in $26.3 million shareholder settlement over Epstein, Russian oligarch ties
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe logo of Deutsche Bank is pictured on a company's office in London, Britain July 8, 2019. Sewing has since taking over in 2018 tried to show investors that Deutsche Bank has addressed its internal controls shortfalls. New York's Department of Financial Services fined Deutsche Bank $150 million in July 2020 over its relationships with Epstein and Danske Estonia. Friday's settlement covers Deutsche Bank investors in the United States from March 14, 2017 to Sept. 18, 2020. The case is Karimi v Deutsche Bank AG et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

☆ Deutsche Bank in $26.3 mln shareholder settlement over Epstein, Russian oligarch ties
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Convicted NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere was attacked by a fellow inmate and sex offender before being wrongly punished for the incident, his attorneys said in a lawsuit. Raniere has limited knowledge of the assault.”Raniere was “given a disciplinary ticket for ‘fighting’ ” and placed in the prison’s Special Housing Unit. Withers, the alleged attacker, is serving 18 years for his convictions linked to a sex trafficking operation. “The BOP is committed to ensuring the safety and security of all inmates in our population, our staff, and the public. Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison following his 2019 conviction on federal sex trafficking, racketeering and possession of child pornography charges.

☆ Costco and Albertsons are using this tech startup to reduce waste and lower carbon emissions
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Diana Olick | In Dianaolick | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

And much of that waste could be repurposed or recycled, if only it were better identified and sorted. That's where a startup called Smarter Sorting comes in. Using the Smarter Sorting data to determine exactly what is in the product, and especially if any ingredients are toxic, retailers and manufacturers can make more informed decisions on how best to handle its inevitable disposal. "Albertsons, one of our customers today, just released a sustainability goal report with four main pillars in it, and one of the main pillars for them is the reduction of food waste," said Claudia. Smarter Sorting's backers include Regeneration VC and G2 Venture Partners, with total funding to date of just over $55 million.

☆ How Josh Harris, the owner of the 76ers and Devils, upset Apollo insiders with the time he spent on personal investments
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Casey Sullivan | Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

One former Apollo executive couldn't wrap his mind around how the firm got investors onboard with Harris' personal activities. One advisor to Harris' family office said there would be an internal conversation every year to ensure the proper expense allocations. Several former Apollo employees, however, said other Apollo executives were concerned about Harris' use of firm resources. Few if any sources Insider spoke with expected much to change in how private-equity executives managed their personal investments. The lawyer said that the documents often state that a firm's executives will dedicate "as much time as reasonably necessary" to managing their investments.

☆ Indigenous Community Reels After Stabbing Attacks in Canada
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Vipal Monga | Photographs Kitra Cahana For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, Saskatchewan—On a recent day in this small community on the Canadian prairie, people gathered in the school gym listening to traditional indigenous drums and mournful music at back-to-back funerals. Outside, people huddled in groups, crying and smoking. It has been two weeks since this territory of 2,000 people became the scene of one of the worst mass killings in Canadian history. Two brothers allegedly went on a rampage that left 10 dead and 18 injured. Locals said there are still many unanswered questions about what triggered the attacks, how they unfolded and why law enforcement failed to track down one of the brothers, a violent offender, after he disappeared in May.

☆ Here are all the famous people Jeffrey Epstein was connected to
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-28 | by ( Taylor Nicole Rogers | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jeffrey Epstein was known for jet-setting with the likes of billionaires, presidents, and princes. Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2020, as he awaited trial on charges of sex trafficking minors. "I invest in people — be it politics or science," Epstein was known to say, New York Magazine reported. Epstein, 66, died by suicide in a Manhattan jail on August 10, 2020, as he awaited trial on charges of sex trafficking of minors. Here's what we know about the famous people who crossed paths with Epstein.

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