Month: June 2023

BOSTON — A 32-year-old woman who worked for the state of Massachusetts fraudulently enrolled as a student at several Boston high schools using false identification and documentation during this school year, officials said Tuesday. The woman, who has not been identified, “has been discharged and is ordered to stay away from Boston Public Schools,” BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper said in a letter to the school community. At various times during the 2022-2023 school year, the woman attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Brighton High School and English High School while using the transfer student process and enrolled under various aliases,…

The names of relatives of accused Long Island Rep. George Santos who agreed to co-sign his $500,000 bond in his money laundering and wire fraud case will be made public Thursday, a federal judge has ruled. “All previously sealed documents, including the bond, must be sealed to the extent that the names of [Santos’] sureties must be disclosed,” U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert said in an order Tuesday.The judge’s decision comes in response to an appeal by Santos’ attorney after a successful legal push by more than a dozen media outlets, including Newsday, to have the names of those who…

NORMAN — A new era of Oklahoma football is on the horizon, and the release of last week’s 2024 SEC conference schedule offered the first glimpse of what it might look like. While the Sooners are still more than a year away from playing their first games as members of their new conference, it doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that it will be a battle every week to compete for a conference championship. They will have a true SEC experience in 2024. With trips to some of the biggest venues in college football, including LSU’s Death Valley, The…

San Francisco, CA CNN — President Joe Biden compared Chinese President Xi Jinping to “dictators” during a political fundraiser in California on Tuesday night, making the unscripted remarks about a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that his recent trip had given “progress” in repairing the fractured relationship between Washington and Beijing. “The reason Xi Jinping was so upset when I shot down the balloon with two wagons full of spy equipment is that he didn’t know it was there. No, I’m serious. This is a great shame for dictators, when they didn’t know what happened,” Biden…

President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator” on Tuesday, sparking a furious reaction from Beijing in a sudden outburst after talks between the two superpowers aimed at easing their geopolitical animosity. Speaking at a California fundraiser, Biden suggested Xi was embarrassed because he didn’t know about the alleged Chinese spy balloon flying over the United States earlier this year, despite his status as China’s all-powerful leader. China quickly responded to the remarks, calling them “extremely absurd and irresponsible”. President Xi’s description came a day after a high-level visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing, an…

BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday called President Joe Biden’s comments describing Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a dictator “extremely absurd and irresponsible.” The fresh spat of words comes just over a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a visit to Beijing aimed at breaking the ice in a relationship that has hit an all-time low. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said Biden’s comments at a fundraiser in California “are completely contrary to the facts and gravely violate diplomatic protocol and gravely infringe on China’s political dignity.” “It is a flagrant political provocation. China expresses strong dissatisfaction and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Trust in the scientific community declined among American adults in 2022, a major survey shows, driven by a partisan divide in views of both science and medicine that emerged during the pandemic of COVID-19. Overall, 39% of American adults said yes “A lot of confidence” in the scientific community, down 48% in 2018 and 2021. So says the General Social Survey, a long-running poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago that tracks Americans’ views on issues key since 1972. An additional 48% of adults in the last survey reported “only some” confidence, while 13%…

BOSTON – Police are investigating how an adult could fraudulently enroll as a student in city schools using false identification and documentation this school year, school officials said Tuesday. The adult, who has not been identified, “has been discharged and is ordered to stay away from Boston Public Schools,” BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper said in a letter to the school community Tuesday. At various times during the 2022-2023 school year, the adult attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Brighton High School and English High School while using the student transfer process and enrolling under various aliases, she said Skipper in…