Month: June 2023

BOSTON: Two faces dissected for $600. Human brains for $200. “Head #7” for $1,000. A former Harvard Medical School morgue director, his wife and a Peabody business owner are among several people accused of trafficking stolen body parts from the school’s morgue that were intended for use by researchers in a grotesque multi-state scheme, with part of the body. pieces sold through Facebook and PayPal and sent through US Postal Service mail, court documents allege. Cedric Lodge, 55, and his wife, Denise Lodge, 63, both of Goffstown, New Hampshire, and Katrina Maclean, 44, of Salem, who own Kat’s Creepy Creations…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Moments after Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges of amassing classified documents and then conspiring to obstruct an investigation into them, Republicans in Congress turned their backs on him. Spokesman Kevin McCarthy launched a fundraising email denouncing the “witch hunt” against the former president and asking donors to sign up and “stand with Trump.” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell shied away from criticizing the former president or assuring that the national judiciary will be impartial, refusing to take questions about the unprecedented indictment. And at a public meeting in the basement of the Capitol, Rep….

CNN — President Joe Biden and his team are in the middle of a conversation with other NATO members about how and when Ukraine can join, a debate that could expose tensions in the alliance ahead of a key summit. The question of Ukraine’s membership in NATO is one of the issues the leaders will address when they meet in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius in mid-July. Also under discussion are new defense spending commitments and a successor to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who plans to leave his post in the fall. However, it is the question of Ukraine’s membership that…

While city voters traditionally skew Democratic in national elections, this is not true for local elections, and the mayoralty appears as nonpartisan on the ballot. No one has been elected to the White House, or even received a major party nomination, directly from the mayor’s office, although Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, with a population of about 100,000, he came closer than most in the 2020 Democratic primary, winning Iowa and coming in second in New Hampshire, but slipped and fell before Super Tuesday. Miami, with a population of approximately 450,000, gives Mr. Suarez a considerably bigger starting point….

why does it matter The resolution of censure, which arrived a day after Mr. Trump’s arraignment in federal court on 37 criminal charges related to his mishandling of classified documents and his efforts to obstruct federal investigators was the latest bid by Republicans to retaliate against Democrats for their handling of ex- – president But while the measure, which accused Mr. Schiff of deliberately lying for political gain, was highly partisan, it raised complicated questions about accountability and retribution. The statements of Mr. Schiff that there was “ample evidence” that Mr. Trump colluded with Russia were undermined by the findings…

A nonprofit that encourages civic engagement and voting among college students says it will lose about $50,000 in student fees next year. This information was reported for the first time by the Daily Montanan. The Montana Public Interest Research Group, better known as MontPIRG, has operated on state college campuses for nearly four decades. University of Montana students recently voted to renew a fee to fund the organization, but Daily Montanan reporter Keila Szpaller told MTPR the Board of Regents has not approved the fee this year. “And, there’s a bit of a saying around that,” Szpaller said. “The commissioner’s…

Àngel Pasuy stayed on his tribe’s land in the Colombian cloud forest, listening to a symphony of birdsong. An indigenous land use planner of the Kamentsá Biya reserve of Sibundoy, Pasuy and his people have called the steep slopes of the area Mocoa for centuries. Its reserve borders a nationally protected forest reserve that connects the Amazon Basin with the Andes Mountains, home to hundreds of plant and animal species and the source of dozens of waterways. But Pasuy is now worried about the future of the forest. In the past year, exploratory drilling for a possible copper mine has…

Washington – The House voted to reject it on Wednesday a resolution supported by the GOP to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for his role in congressional investigations into former President Donald Trump, effectively killing the effort to publicly impeach him. House Democrats introduced a resolution introduced by Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, a staunch Trump supporter. The motion succeeded by a vote of 225 to 196, with 20 Republicans voting with the Democrats. A simple majority was needed to pass it. “I’m surprised by the vote,” Schiff told reporters. “Basically, almost one in 10 Republicans voted against…