Author: Homer Clarke

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens as Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody speaks during a press conference in 2022. On Monday, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) submitted a court filing to the state Supreme Court claiming a proposed ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state “does not satisfy the legal requirements for ballot placement.” The proposed amendment in question, led by Floridians Protecting Freedom, would prohibit state restrictions on abortion viability. Currently, abortion is banned at around 15 weeks in the state; Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a six-week ban earlier this year which is currently blocked in court. Florida abortion rights advocates began working…

President Bola Tinubu has assured prospective investors of his administration’s determination to adopt necessary fiscal and regulatory measures toward the ease of doing business in Nigeria. At the Nigeria-US Executive Business Roundtable, the President said he recognised that investment capital is cowardly in nature. He said that was the reason behind his bringing successful Nigerian industrialists and public officials to share their experiences and operational plans, respectively. Tinubu said this was in addition to all he had done to boost the confidence of the global investment community in Nigeria, by reforming the fiscal, monetary, regulatory and tax policy environment. “Nigeria…

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare confirmed an Idaho resident from Southwest Boise contracted measles, prompting health officials to issue a reminder of the importance of vaccines. The resident, whose name hasn’t been released, was not vaccinated from measles and was exposed to the illness after traveling internationally. They were hospitalized and are currently recovering at home. However, when they returned, they potentially exposed others. IDHW says they visited the Boise Airport on Sept. 13 and Nampa on Sept. 14-15 during his infectious period, potentially exposing others. Health officials are investigating and contacting those who may have…

About 500,000 people who recently lost Medicaid coverage are regaining their health insurance while states scramble fix computer systems that didn’t properly evaluate people’s eligibility after the end of the coronavirus pandemic, federal officials said Thursday. The computer issues affected people in 29 states and the District of Columbia and likely included a significant number of children who should have been eligible for Medicaid at higher income levels even if their parents or caregivers were not, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. All states are undertaking a massive review of their Medicaid rolls after a three-year, pandemic-era prohibition on ending…

When is a Spirit Halloween store branding exercise not a Spirit Halloween store branding exercise? When it’s a film released in the UK, where Spirit Halloween stores just aren’t a thing. In the US (where this film was titled Spirit Halloween: The Movie), consumers are blessed with more than 1,500 of them, and this pre-teen Halloween yarn set in a store built over the final resting place of evil property developer Alex Windsor (Christopher Lloyd) presumably registers more immediately as an attempt to shift some All Hallows’ Eve merch. As far as weird IP inspirations go, it’s not the worst,…

Wellington, Sydney (6/10 – 33) Nearly a month after suffering brutal humiliation by host country France, New Zealand has barged through to the 2023 Rugby World Cup quarter-finals. France is supposed to be a polite, cultured society, but on 8 September they whacked the All Blacks 27-13. Sacré bleu! In that distant past, an ugly performance with questionable strategy and ill-disciplined plays made New Zealand an unlikely choice of becoming the first country in line to win the Rugby World Cup four times. All the rugby world was amazed as the All Blacks boomeranged back in style, picking themselves up…

Two City of Jackson animal control officers have been arrested. Marquette Allen II and Roderick Hibbler have been charged with embezzlement and conspiracy. The charges stem from alerts of exceptions on exceeding fuel purchases within the Animal Control Unit, a press release stated. An internal investigation revealed significant evidence in the theft of fuel through the City of Jackson’s Fuelman program throughout this year, the release continued. The total amount of fuel and monetary value has yet to be compiled. Source: Wlbt

Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleaded guilty Monday to all state charges against them stemming from the torture and abuse this year of two Black men, one of whom was shot in the mouth. Their pleas Monday came after the former officers – five of them deputies for the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office, the sixth an officer for the Richland Police Department – pleaded guilty this month to federal charges in connection to the same January incident, which the victims have claimed was motivated by their race. Former deputies Christian Dedmon, Hunter Elward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke and…

(9/3 – 40) Kazakhstan is gearing up for snap elections of the lower house of parliament on March 19, and there is a sense of anticipation in the air. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who came to power in 2019, called for snap elections in the wake of the deadly street protests in January 2022. The elections are part of the president’s ambitious reform agenda, Jana Kazakhstan (New Kazakhstan), which aims to usher in a new era of political liberalization. The parliamentary elections are stage two of Tokayev’s program, following his re-election winning 80 percent of the votes last November. The coming…

The online giant has been accused of tricking customers into joining its Prime service, “trapping” them in automatically renewing subscriptions. Such memberships are a main profit driver for the retail behemoth. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday filed suit against Seattle-based online retailer Amazon, for deceptive business practices. The FTC, an anti-trust and consumer protection watchdog, says it filed suit against Amazon in the US District Court in Seattle for using “manipulative, coercive or deceptive user-interface designs known as ‘dark patterns’ to trick customers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions.” Prime, which affords members discounts on products as…