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Employees at a small recreation and park district, one of the oldest in Sacramento County, are using body cameras to ensure their own safety after unruly encounters with the public while doing their jobs. The Arden Manor Recreation and Park District manages facilities and offers services at three parks in Arden Arcade, including Deterding Park, […]

The Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DITIB) announced in Cologne on Friday that from 2025 onwards, 75 graduates of Islamic theology from Turkey will be trained in Germany every year. The young men are to receive intensive German and integration courses in Germany. After a total of two years of training, they will […]

Backfire News Meet The Ferrari That Helped Put Pink Floyd On The Map Everyone knows Pink Floyd, one of the greatest rock bands to ever grace a stage. What many don’t know is a beautiful Ferrari 250 GTO played a key role in getting the group in front of hordes of screaming fans, spreading its […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) gesticulating in the Federal Chancellery during the visit of the President of the Republic of Moldova. Fabian Sommer/dpa German Chancellor Olaf Scholz does not expect the new lower tax income estimate to have any serious impact on the deliberations on the next federal budget. “As far as the issue of […]

Is it not enough that cicadas are the loudest bugs — rivaling the roar of a Stihl chainsaw after a hurricane? Or that they’re among the largest insects, some of them bigger than hummingbirds? Now a pair of chemical and biomolecular engineers have drawn these superlative insects into a bit of a … peeing contest. […]

If there’s one thing to come out of Google I/O 2024 that really caught my eye, it’s Google’s Project Astra. In short, Astra is a new AI assistant with speech, vision, text, and memory capabilities. You can talk to it as if it were another person in the room, ask it to describe things it sees, […]

In the rape trial in Germany of the Madeleine McCann murder suspect identified under privacy laws as Christian B, doubts have been raised about the accounts of an alleged victim. The female witness’ ex-boyfriend from Ireland and a former bar owner from Portugal accuse the woman of untruths and a fabricated rape, according to documents […]

Marc Lamont Hill talks to journalist Orly Noy about the extreme elements in Israel’s leadership. Israel’s war on Gaza rages on with the death toll at more than 35,000 Palestinians and climbing. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is facing growing internal friction over the way forward in the war. Many of the coalition’s far-right members […]

Updates are still coming in regarding Roger Fortson, the airman who was killed in a deputy-involved shooting on Friday, May 3 in Fort Walton Beach. Following the recent release of the body camera footage from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, national civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Fortson family, said the new evidence only supports […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate and five other people were killed when people opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas, officials said. State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late Thursday, along with mayoral candidate Lucero López Maza. […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate and five other people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas, officials said. State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late Thursday, along with mayoral candidate Lucero López Maza. […]