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☆ More than 3 million middle and high school students reported using tobacco in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Raenu Charles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

For the ninth consecutive year, e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product among youth – about 2.55 million reported using them – followed by cigars, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. Non-Hispanic White youth reported the most e-cigarette use, 11%, while Black youth reported the most combustible tobacco product use, 5.7%, including cigar use, 3.3%. “Commercial tobacco product use continues to threaten the health of our nation’s youth, and disparities in youth tobacco product use persist,” Deirdre Lawrence Kittner, director of CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, said in a statement. Researchers call for continued surveillance of all tobacco products, sustained implementation of tobacco control strategies and FDA regulation of tobacco products. However, with an ever-changing tobacco product landscape, there’s still more work to be done,” Brian King, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said in a statement on Thursday.

☆ Brittney Griner Is Moved to Russian Penal Colony
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Brittney Griner in a Moscow court in August. The U.S. basketball star faces serving her sentence in a Russian penal colony. MOSCOW—U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was transferred to a penal colony in Russia to serve the remainder of a nine-year drugs conviction, dashing supporters’ hopes that she might be freed in a prisoner swap before having to do hard time. Ms. Griner’s legal team said Wednesday that she was moved on Nov. 4 from a detention center outside the Russian capital where she had been held since her February arrest and is on her way to a penal colony.

American basketball player Brittney Griner, jailed in Russia in what the United States calls a wrongful detention, is being moved to a penal colony, her attorneys said Wednesday. “Every minute that Brittney Griner must endure wrongful detention in Russia is a minute too long,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement Wednesday. Griner pleaded guilty in July, but said that she'd packed hurriedly for a flight and brought the canisters to Russia unintentionally. Griner treated injuries with medical cannabis, her attorneys argued at the trial. She had been in Russia to play with a Russian Premier League women’s team, UMMC Ekaterinburg, which she has done since 2014.

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was transferred last week from a detention center outside the Russian capital and is on her way to a penal colony, her legal team said on Wednesday. She was sentenced on Aug. 4 to nine years in a penal colony on charges of possessing and smuggling drugs. Griner had pleaded guilty but said she had made an "honest mistake" and had not meant to break the law. The souring of ties between Russia and the West has complicated the talks to secure Griner's release. Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan, in an earlier statement, described Griner's conditions as "intolerable" and the trial she had to go through as "another sham judicial proceeding."

☆ White University of Kentucky student who repeatedly used racial slur and assaulted Black students will withdraw, lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The white University of Kentucky student who was caught on video assaulting Black students will voluntarily withdraw from the university, her lawyer told NBC News on Tuesday morning. University of Kentucky student Sophia Rosing, left, uses racial slurs while attacking two Black students, including Kylah Spring, right. At the rally, Spring said she would not cower to her attacker. University of Kentucky student Kylah Spring speaks at a rally following a racist assault on her and another Black student, captured on video Nov. 6, 2022. WLEXThe University of Kentucky has had several incidents of racism on campus that have targeted Black people in recent years.

☆ Fact Check-A video of a man dropping ballots off in Gwinnett County, Georgia is not proof of widespread fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Social media users are sharing a video dated 2020 of an individual dropping off multiple ballots at a drop box in Gwinnett County, Georgia that they say proves ballot fraud is occurring. The video is from the 2020 election at a voting drop box in Gwinnett County in Georgia, said Joe Sorenson, a spokesperson for the Gwinnett County Government. In Gwinnett County, absentee ballots can be dropped by an elector’s family member, caregiver or other resident living in the same household. The Georgia State Election Board investigated three similar videos from Gwinnett County drop boxes. The Georgia State Election Board dismissed three similar cases of ballot harvesting in Gwinnet County after investigating the videos in May 2022.

☆ Americans convicted in Japan on Carlos Ghosn’s escape return home
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO — An American father and son convicted in Japan on charges of helping former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn escape to Lebanon by hiding in a box have been returned to the U.S., their lawyer said Tuesday. The U.S. and Japan have an extradition treaty, while Lebanon has no extradition treaty with Japan. Peter Taylor has already been released, and is back with his family in Massachusetts, said Kelly, whose office is based in Boston. During their trial in Tokyo, Michael and Peter Taylor apologized and acknowledged guilt, saying they had been misled by Ghosn. He says he fled because he could not expect a fair trial in Japan.

☆ Tyson Foods CFO arrested after drunkenly entering random woman's home and sleeping in her bed, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The chief financial officer of Tyson Foods and son of the company's chairman was arrested in Arkansas over the weekend after he entered a random woman’s home while intoxicated and fell asleep in her bed, according to police. John R. Tyson, 32, was found asleep at the home in the 400 block of North Mock Ave. in Fayetteville on Sunday at 2:05 a.m., according to the preliminary arrest report. The officer woke Tyson up and he sat up in bed but did not verbally respond. After briefly sitting up, he laid back down and attempted to go to sleep, the preliminary arrest report said. He joined Tyson Foods in 2019 and serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, according to the company's website.

☆ Tyson Foods CFO Arrested After Authorities Say He Fell Asleep in Wrong Home
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Patrick Thomas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

John R. Tyson was promoted to chief financial officer for the $24 billion meat company in September. John R. Tyson , Tyson Foods Inc.’s chief financial officer and son of the meat giant’s chairman, was arrested over the weekend after authorities said he fell asleep in the wrong house. Mr. Tyson, 32 years old, was found asleep in a woman’s bed at her home in Fayetteville, Ark., on Sunday morning, according to a preliminary arrest report filed by the Fayetteville Police Department. He was arrested for criminal trespass and public intoxication, according to the report, and booked at the Washington County Detention Center. He was released Sunday evening.

☆ Tyson Foods CFO Arrested After Authorities Say He Fell Asleep in Wrong House
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Patrick Thomas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

John R. Tyson , Tyson Foods Inc.’s chief financial officer and son of the meat giant’s chairman, was arrested over the weekend after authorities said he fell asleep in the wrong house. Mr. Tyson, 32 years old, was found asleep in a woman’s bed at her home in Fayetteville, Ark., on Sunday morning, according to a preliminary arrest report filed by the Fayetteville Police Department. He was arrested for criminal trespass and public intoxication, according to the report, and booked at the Washington County Detention Center. He was released Sunday evening.

☆ Kentucky student arrested after video shows her using racial slur, assaulting students
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Police arrested a University of Kentucky student who was caught on camera using a racial slur and physically attacking two Black students on Sunday. The student tries to restrain Rosing, who appears to be visibly intoxicated and struggles to stay standing in the video. A university spokesperson confirmed to NBC News that Rosing was the student who was arrested. In his email to students, Capilouto, the university president, said the student employee victim "acted with professionalism, restraint and discretion." That fan — Ashley Lyles, who subsequently apologized in a statement to WLEX — was not a student, according to a university spokesperson.

☆ Tyson Foods CFO arrested for public intoxication, trespassing
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

CHICAGO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Tyson Foods (TSN.N) Chief Financial Officer John R. Tyson, 32, was arrested for criminal trespassing and public intoxication in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Sunday, according to a police report. The $24 billion company named John R. Tyson, great-grandson of its founder, CFO in September. John R. Tyson, who was previously the company's chief sustainability officer, could not immediately be reached for comment. Tyson Foods reports quarterly earnings on Nov. 14. John R. Tyson was booked at the Washington County detention center and released Sunday evening.

☆ Tyson Foods CFO John Tyson was arrested in Arkansas after allegedly becoming intoxicated and falling asleep in the bed of a woman who didn't know him
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tyson Foods CFO John Tyson was arrested Sunday in Arkansas after allegedly becoming intoxicated. Tyson is a fourth-generation member of the Tyson family, and was made CFO of the company last month. Tyson was named CFO of Tyson Foods on October 2, after serving as executive vice president of strategy and chief sustainability officer. He is also the great-grandson of Tyson Foods founder John W. Tyson. Ramsey, who formerly worked at Tyson Foods, was fired along with 19% of Beyond Meat's workforce in October.

☆ Ex-Green Beret, Son Return to U.S. After Prison Sentence Over Carlos Ghosn Escape
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Nick Kostov | Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The American father and son who helped former Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. Chairman Carlos Ghosn escape from Japan have returned to the U.S. after spending 20 months in Japanese jails. Michael Taylor , a 62-year-old former Green Beret, is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles with a release date set for Jan. 1, 2023, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. His son Peter Taylor is back home in Massachusetts with his family, according to their lawyer, Paul V. Kelly . Mr. Kelly said he was in discussions with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and parole officials about releasing his client sooner. Bloomberg News reported earlier that the Taylors were back in the U.S.

☆ Married couple arrested after pregnant Arkansas woman and her fetus found dead in different locations
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A married couple was accused of kidnapping Thursday after the body of a missing pregnant woman and her fetus were found in separate locations in Missouri, authorities said. Benton County Sheriff's Office via FacebookSmith said he expected more charges against the couple, Amber and Jamie Waterman. Human remains were found that appeared to be connected to Bush's missing person's case, the McDonald County Sheriff's Office said. That would someone prey upon a pregnant woman at her most vulnerable state is unimaginable. Two counts of homicide were possible in the case because state law allows the charge in the killing of a pregnant woman, Smith said.

☆ Two dead in gang violence at Ecuador prison after inmate transfers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Alexandra Valencia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Soldiers guard a gate after several inmates were killed in fights between gangs, in Guayaquil, Ecuador November 2, 2022. REUTERS/Santiago ArcosQUITO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Fighting between gangs at Ecuador's most violent prison has killed at least two people, prisons agency SNAI said on Wednesday, on the heels of attacks against police over prisoner transfers. The transfers are an attempt to reduce overcrowding and improve conditions for inmates, SNAI has said. Lasso has repeatedly accused drug gangs of using violence - including inside prisons - to retaliate against his government's efforts to combat them. Ecuador's prison system has faced structural problems for decades, but jail violence has soared since late 2020, killing at least 400 people and terrorizing inmates' families.

☆ Goran Gogic: Former heavyweight boxer charged with trafficking over $1 billion worth of cocaine
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Matt Foster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic was charged with the maritime trafficking of over $1 billion worth of cocaine through US ports, the US Department of Justice said on Monday. The 43-year-old Montenegrin was arrested on Sunday night as he tried to board an international flight from Miami, the DOJ said in a news release. Gogic has been charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and three counts of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, according to court documents. The DOJ says US law enforcement officers seized three shipments of cocaine. It was “one of the largest seizures of cocaine in United States history” and worth over $1 billion, the DOJ said.

☆ D.C. school bus driver charged with DUI after allegedly crashing into a ditch, injuring 9 students
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A school bus driver in D.C. was charged with driving while intoxicated after police said he crashed into a ditch, injuring nine children returning from a field trip. The bus — carrying 44 children and four adults — hit a rock, causing the rim to bend and the tire to flatten. "Reynolds continued driving until the adults on the bus convinced him to follow a second bus, which was also returning to the school from the field trip," police said. The agency's Motor Carrier Safety also found 18 safety violations between Reynolds and the other bus driver transporting children on the trip. "MCS determined that none of the bus drivers were properly licensed to operate a school bus," authorities said.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center was released and “reunited with his family” in Pakistan, the country's foreign ministry said in a statement Saturday. “We are glad that a Pakistani citizen detained abroad is finally reunited with his family,” the statement said. The Pentagon said in a statement Saturday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had “notified Congress of his intent to repatriate Saifullah Paracha to Pakistan” last month. Following Paracha’s release, 35 detainees remain in Guantanamo Bay and 18 have been cleared for release, according to Amnesty International. The most high-profile prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay prison is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

☆ ‘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.

☆ Former South Carolina deputies won't face federal charges in jail death of Black man who was pepper-sprayed and stunned
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Two former South Carolina jail deputies will not face federal criminal civil rights charges for the in-custody death of a Black man who was pepper-sprayed and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. The federal case involving Jamal Sutherland's Jan. 5, 2021, death at Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center in North Charleston is now closed. A use-of-force expert who reviewed the case for Wilson said that he didn't find that the deputies violated jail policies but noted that those policies are "indefensible." Houle and Fickett were fired by the department following Sutherland's death. Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano said the video of Sutherland’s death was "horrific."

That the WNBA star, who lost her appeal Tuesday, is a gay Black woman could add unknown variables to a penal system that is known to be remote and harrowing. “Conditions in prisons and detention centers varied but were often harsh and life threatening,” a 2021 State Department report on Russian human rights abuses said. “Russian prisons are grim, even relative to prisons in other countries. Prisoners were used for farming, mining or logging in sparsely populated areas of the country or worked in sweatshop conditions. It can often take weeks for prisoners to arrive at the prisons on prison trucks and specially designed train carriages called Stolypins.

☆ Brittney Griner’s Appeal Denied by Moscow Court
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner seen on a video linkup from a detention center at the Moscow Regional Court in August. MOSCOW—A Moscow regional court declined to overrule the drugs conviction of U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner , paving the way for the two-time Olympian to serve nine years in a penal colony for the possession and smuggling of less than a gram of hashish oil. The court hearing Ms. Griner’s appeal on Tuesday had the option of leaving the verdict as it is, reducing the sentence or overruling it and returning it to the lower court where the case was first heard.

CNN —Brittney Griner is appealing her verdict in Russian court Tuesday, nearly three months after the US basketball star was convicted of smuggling drugs into the country and sentenced to nine years in prison. Griner’s appeal will be considered in the Moscow Regional Court in a hearing at which her attorneys are expected to argue the verdict was unfair and unjustified under Russian law, they told CNN. The court hearing the appeal can choose to leave Griner’s verdict in place, overrule it and send it back to the lower court, or reduce Griner’s prison term, they said. “Brittney is very strong person and has a champion’s character,” Blagovolina and Boykov told CNN in a written statement ahead of Griner’s appeal. “However, she of course has her highs and lows as she is severely stressed being separated from her loved ones for over eight months.”“She is very nervous waiting for the appeal hearing,” they added.

Instead, they're embroiled in a battle over who is the legal owner of all that stolen crypto. A company spokesperson told CNBC that Bitfinex customers could have sold the tokens for cash and then used the cash to buy more bitcoins at the time. The decision to offer customers tokens came after the company decided to generalize its losses across all account holders by 36%. Bitfinex hack victim Rafal Bielenia. Will Hogarth, who also had his crypto stolen in the Bitfinex hack, told CNBC, "I still expect my bitcoin back and I don't see any reason why they would keep it."

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