I was talking about the driver. The driver arrested back then was this Mo Robinson chap, who said he was just driving them; looked very shocked in the pic, as if he was just discovering his dead cargo too.
Manslaughter is correct for them. I suppose the courts got lucky these poor Vietnamese died, or it would have simply been an immigration racket charge and they'd all be doing this again.
You know this begs our friend Zenobia's attentions, this news.
Three Albanians in a secret compartment,
being hunted by the domestic department.
'Let's run, we'll be locked up' said Afrim.
'We never shudda come' said Afroz, 'this truck !'
Said Saban the wisest 'I shudda just embraced the suck.'
[Syracuse.com] Los Angeles — Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. agreed Tuesday to pay a record $25 million fine to resolve criminal charges that it served tainted food that sickened more than 1,100 people in the U.S. in outbreaks from 2015 to 2018 and sent sales plunging.
The fast food company was charged in Los Angeles federal court with two counts of violating the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by serving adulterated food that caused four outbreaks of norovirus, which causes diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal cramps, and a food poisoning incident.
The company admitted that poor safety practices, such as not keeping food at proper temperatures to prevent pathogen growth, sickened customers in Los Angeles and nearby Simi Valley, as well as Boston, Sterling, Virginia, and Powell, Ohio. Could happen at any restaurant/chain given lax practices. The schadenfreude came from the virtue-signalling they partook in
The string of outbreaks, which began in August 2015 in Simi Valley, came about two months before an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle spread to multiple states that temporarily closed dozens of restaurants and hurt sales as other food scares emerged. The criminal case was not related to E. coli.
The Newport Beach, California-based company entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that will allow it to avoid conviction by continuing to improve its food safety program, following other rules and paying the record-setting fine for a food safety case, federal prosecutors said.
JUST IN: Senate passes $500B interim funding deal which includes additional funds for the small business loan program, hospitals and testing; measure moves to the House.
“This gives us the strength to go forward,” Domenico Arcuri tells reporters on Tuesday. There are currently some 2,500 patients receiving intensive care for coronavirus infections.
For several days running now in Italy, the number of patients in intensive care wards have been diminishing. Italy has Europe’s highest number of deaths — more than 24,000 — in the outbreak, which in the early weeks overwhelmed hospitals, especially in the north where most known cases were registered.
In role reversal, Egypt sends virus aid to US
[IsraelTimes] Egypt yesterday flew a plane of medical supplies to the United States to assist in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, a role reversal for a top US aid recipient.
Egypt’s general-turned-president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has been eager to cement relations with US President Donald Trump, and his country has already shipped medical goods with fanfare to China and Italy.
A video statement from Sisi’s office shows crates in wrapping that read in English and Arabic, “From the Egyptian people to the American people,” being loaded into a military cargo plane.
The plane brought 200,000 masks, 48,000 shoe covers and 20,000 surgical caps among other supplies, says Ruppersberger, a Democrat who heads the bipartisan group.
[KhaamaPress] The Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Vinay Kumar handed over tablets to acting minister of defense Asadullah Khalid in a bid to help fight the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... (COVID-19) outbreak among Afghan forces.
"Amb @vkumar1969 today handed over the consignments of hydroxychloroquine and paracetamol tablets to HE Minister of Defense @AsadullahKhaled India has gifted 500,000 tablets of hydroxychloroquine and 100,000 tablets for the Afghan people and ANDSF personnel," the Indian Embassy in Kabul said in a Twitter post.
The government of India handed over 600,000 tablets to Afghanistan in a bid to help the Afghan authorities cure the patients of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.
"In a series of offerings of critical drugs, India sent 100,000 paracetamol and 500,000 hydroxychloroquine tablets to #Afghanistan through Ariana Airlines today. This is in addition to the 1st consignment of wheat India shipped earlier to bolster food security. Heartfelt thanks!" Tahir Qadiry, Afghanistan’s Charge d’Affaires in New Delhi said in a Twitter post.
This comes as global demand for the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine had boosted over the last few weeks after some studies showed that it helped to reduce the viral load in Covid-19 patients, according to Hindustan Times.
[IsraelNationalNews] The United Kingdom has confirmed 17,337 deaths from coronavirus, but the actual numbers may be much higher, a Financial Times analysis showed.
According to the analysis, as many as 41,000 people across the UK may have died of the virus, but the official numbers include only deaths recorded in hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.
The Times' figures are extrapolated from Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures published on Tuesday, and includes deaths which occurred outside hospitals as well.
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How to count has always been an issue. Saw an interesting study that compared historical average death rates over current death rates. Think that might wind up being the closet approximation we come up with.
Those RACISTS!
[SD UnionTrib] As the coronavirus spreads throughout Baja California, the mayor of Ensenada took an extraordinary step Sunday night of completely closing off access to the city to prevent more cases.
So far, there have been 786 cases confirmed in Baja California with only 12 of those confirmed cases in Ensenada, a coastal tourist destination about 78 miles south of San Diego.
Ensenada Mayor Armando Ayala Robles said entry into the city would only be allowed for emergencies, medical appointments, transportation to essential workplaces and to allow for the supply of food and medicine.
"Everything is for the good of our families," said Ayala Robles, noting the high number of deaths from the coronavirus in nearby Tijuana and in southern California.
Director of Economic Development Fernando López MacGregor said the mayor and city officials had been working with the business community on a contingency plan to protect citizens from falling ill since news of the coronavirus first began in early 2020.
López MacGregor said the city formed the Covid-19 Municipal Contingency Plan with input from several commissions on health, safety, tourism, consumer protection, economic development, social communication, labor affairs, social welfare commissions, as well subcommittees on the environment and human rights.
The commissions have representatives from all three levels of government, as well as members of business chambers, civil associations and civil society, he said.
"We are neighbors of two of the (municipalities) with the highest rate of cases in the country, in all of Mexico, which is Tijuana and Mexicali," said López MacGregor. "It is important to generate a filter to be able to somehow stop this expansion (of the disease.)"
López said all tourism in the city had already been suspended, since "stay-at-home" recommendations went into place in Baja California in late March.
López said entry into the city was closed not just on the Tijuana-Ensenada toll road, a coastal, scenic route often traveled by tourists, but in all directions, including from the north, east and south.
"For the time being, we are asking visitors not to come," he said, adding the city would welcome tourists "with open arms" as soon as it is safe to do so.
"Do not cancel your trip, just reschedule it for after the emergency passes. There will be an opportunity to receive (visitors) as soon as there are safer conditions for everyone," he said.
In the weeks following beach closure orders in San Diego, beaches in Rosarito were packed. City officials there say police are still having to ask United States citizens on a daily basis to get out of the water.
Ayala Robles, the mayor, said people in Ensenada could face sanctions if they take advantage of the city's new coronavirus measures to enjoy empty public spaces, like beaches, for recreation.
Andres Campos, a restaurant owner and the executive director of the Ensenada Economic Development Corporation, said businesses have been abiding by the closure orders.
"We're doing it with the objective of being one of the first cities to reopen the doors for normal business at least for our local customers because we've seen ... other places around Mexico and around the world, they haven't really gone through with what the government asked, and their quarantine is going to be longer," said Campos Ensenada is a lovely and friendly town - before
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Russia is barely scraping by to build small coastal corvettes. Invade your neighbor that is your source for marine turbines and ship building suffers.
[Ynet] HMOs await Health Ministry's decision on whether to re-examine individuals tested using faulty swabs shipped from China as officials unsure malfunction has affected test results.
Looks like the Marines just swapped out VMFA-121's F-35Bs at MCAS Iwakuni in Japan for a freshly manufactured batch. So the the Marines won't have the oldest F-35s in Japan anymore.https://t.co/4foTxD2OXD
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Rather conjures an image of some Wally Cox looking guy waiting quietly to ask Xi to please sign this, oh yes, here as well. You have been served. Have a nice day.
[BREITBART] South Korean officials told the nation’s Yonhap news agency on Tuesday a CNN report claiming North Korean dictator Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... was “in grave danger” were “not true” and that “nothing unusual” appeared to be happening in the communist country.
Yonhap also found no evidence of Kim enduring any medical hardships ongoing at North Korea’s embassy in Beijing and Chinese government sources told Reuters they, too, had no evidence of a medical emergency in Pyongyang.
Say in ain't so, Joe.
[ZeroHedge] A cache of nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly belonging to the World Health Organization (WHO), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wuhan Institute of Virology, Bill Gates Foundation and several other groups involved with the coronavirus pandemic response were dumped on 4chan before appearing on several other websites, according to the SITE Intelligence Group....
WHO chief information officer Bernardo Mariano told Bloomberg that the organization wasn't hacked, and that the data was possibly obtained through prior data breaches.
"The employees may have used their work email address to register an account for a particular website, and then that website has been hacked, leaking their password."
According to Mariano, 400 of the credentials were still active - and he claims that none of the passwords were used to access sensitive information due to the organization's two-factor authentication system. 4chan users, on the other hand, said that they were able to use the passwords to gain access to a WHO website called "Extranet," according to Bloomberg.
Mariano added that the organization has been seeing an increasing number of attempted cyber-intrusions since mid-March, and that there had recently been a "sustained attempt" to hack into the computers of four WHO employees in South Korea, along with the organization's Geneva headquarters.
4chan users said they were using the credentials to download 'everything' they could....
Australian cybersecurity expert Robert Potter said he was able to verify the WHO information, and that "their password security is appalling."
"Forty-eight people have ‘password' as their password," he said. Others used their own first names or "changeme."...
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"The employees may have used their work email address to register an account for a particular website, and then that website has been hacked, leaking their password."
Meaning their employees are using the same password for other accounts. And we are supposed to listen to them as the 'experts'???
SEOUL (Reuters) - As Detroit’s automakers shut production in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor cranked up its factories back home to ship cars to the United States, a move that is proving costly for the world’s fifth-largest auto group.
Hyundai (005380.KS) ramped up domestic production to as much as 98% of capacity by late March, not only as the Korean market was recovering from a bad February but also because it bet on demand for Tucson SUVs and other models from U.S. customers, its biggest overseas market outside of China.
Hyundai shipped 33,990 vehicles to the United States in March, or 4.3% more from a year ago, according to company data.
While Hyundai is one of few global automakers whose production has recovered at home, its exports optimism has been dampened by the severity of the U.S. outbreak, weak consumer sentiment that battered the industry, and as rivals have quickly moved to guard their turf.
[ZeroHedge] It apparently took a global pandemic and corresponding economic shutdown of entire nations' economies for the American public to realize that surprisingly, the US military relies heavily for supplies involved in weapons systems manufacturing just south of the border.
The Pentagon's defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, Ellen Lord, urged at the start of this week that Mexico reopen those factories which many US defense firms rely on, especially aircraft manufacturers, previously shuttered due to COVID-19.
"I think one of the key things we have found out are some international dependencies," Lord said Monday at a Pentagon press briefing. "Mexico right now is somewhat problematical for us but we’re working through our embassy, and then there are pockets in India, as well."
This follows Lord previously saying she would write Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard "to ask for help to reopen international suppliers" in Mexico. "We are seeing impact on the industrial base by several pockets of closure internationally," she had warned.
Lord said further in her Monday comments:
Domestically, we are seeing the greatest impacts in the aviation supply chain, ship-building, and small space launch. We are seeing impacts on the industrial base by several pockets of closure internationally. Particularly of note is Mexico, where we have a group of companies that are impacting many of our major primes.
Among major defense suppliers that have outsourced vital portions of their supply-chain to Mexico include General Dynamics, Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Textron, General Electric, Honeywell, and others.
For example, key electrical components in Lockheed's Black Hawk and S-92 helicopters as well as fighter jets are manufactured in Chihuahua, Mexico under the aegis of French firm Safran - Mexico's largest aerospace employer.
Military news site Defense One cites a United States International Trade Commission 2013 report which helps explain why over the past decade US defense firms' supply chains have increasingly relocated to America's southern neighbor.
"Lower manufacturing costs (largely due to a lower wage structure), proximity to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the United States, duty-free access to other important aerospace markets, and a Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA) with the United States all contribute to Mexico’s greater appeal compared with other global manufacturing locations," the report outlined.
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Do we make anything here, anymore? Maybe we should bring all the important stuff home. That might create a few jobs. Kill the unions first. Put in place a RTW Law nationwide.
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At least we have our best people on the case. The clam brained Lord has already 'discovered' international dependencies. Golly! I wonder did she accomplish that on her own, or was Dr Watson required. Then, with commanding persuasion she tells some Mexican counterpart we are feeling 'impact'. Well just double-Golly. No doubt she is now confounded, yea baffled with the inevitable reply, 'Y yo siento porque?'
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There's that balance of consumers paying higher prices for products (to maintain [union] labor) or to outsource production with cheaper labor costs with corresponding cheaper prices for consumers. If quality is the same or better, I am for cheaper prices every time.
Having said that, you mean to tell me that the Pentagon has factories which are "vital" to US weapons programs but are overseas? Uh, yeah, o.k.
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It seems that “felony stupid” is a prerequisite KSA in the defense logistics agency penumbra as well. Is there any part of our government that PC and diversity selection hasn’t ruined?
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It take a while to build a new factory and get it up to speed. In the meantime, the need for the product remains. And how many of those factories just south of the border belong to American companies whose home office employs Americans living north of the Mexican border?
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All those companies have a legal department. It was someone in the legal department's job to report that the company was eligible under the arcane rules that typify all gummint programs, and to recommend that they apply for the program. It would have been up to the board of directors to decide the optics were bad. Says a lot about corporate governance in America these days.
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Maybe just buying Carlisle Group stock will suffice, or?
[Newsweek] A California-based electrical engineer has been found guilty of attempting to export sensitive military electronics to China and could face more than two centuries behind bars.
Yi-Chi Shih, 64—a part-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)—was convicted on 18 federal charges last week, linked to a plot to illegally obtain microchips from an American company and export them to China, where they could be used in a range of military systems including missiles and fighter jets.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that Shih faces a faces a statutory maximum sentence of 219 years in prison. A co-defendant—Kiet Ahn Mai of Pasadena, California—had already pleaded guilty to smuggling charges linked to the plan in December.
Shih posed as a customer to acquire the hardware—so-called monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs)—from an unnamed U.S. company.
The MMICs were then shipped to Chinese company called Chengdu GaStone Technology (CGTC), where Shih had previously served as president. The firm was in the process of building its own MMICs factory, the DOJ press release said.
Such technology cannot be exported without Commerce Department authorization, which Shih did not have. MMICs are sensitive because of their use in a range of commercial and military applications, including missiles, missile guidance systems, fighter jets, radar and electronic warfare.
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Since he is Chinese use the CCP penalty. Have him dig a grave , kneel at the edge , fire a bullet into the back of his so he falls into the hole, then bill his family for the cost of the bullet.
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This is another case of raging, right-wing anti-intellectualism.
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Sit him in an electric chair and turn it to trickle charge.
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MMICs are an old technology, certainly not secret.
The dude was exporting FAR banned manufactured technology to his OCONUS buddies without a license. Poss to accelerate integration and weapon assembly.
I wouldn't consider Newsweek, raging or right-wing.
[DAWN] A group of senior doctors in Pakistain and abroad on Tuesday wrote a letter to the government, urging it to review its decision to allow congregational prayers to be held in mosques and limit the prayers to 3-5 persons as it had done previously in view of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... outbreak.
The letter, the veracity of which was confirmed to Dawn.com by Indus Hospital CEO Dr Abdul Bari Khan, was also addressed to the Learned Elders of Islam and business community. While thanking the government and Learned Elders of Islam for developing a consensus over the issue, the letter listed the medical community's "strong reservations" over the decision to allow prayer congregations.
On Saturday, President Dr Arif Alvi had announced that neither the state machinery nor holy mans would stop citizens from visiting mosques as the government accepted almost all demands of the holy mans related to the holding of Friday, Taraweeh and daily congregational prayers with the condition of social distancing and other precautionary measures.
But the letter written by the doctors warned that with mosques across the country being filled predominantly by people over the age of 50, the risk of the virus spreading is high. It said videos that surfaced in the past 48 hours had shown that more than 80 per cent of the people attending prayers in mosques were mostly in their 60s and 70s.
"Clearly this has resulted in the violation of the first and foremost principle of preventing the spread of the virus in the most vulnerable group" of elderly people, stated the letter, which has been endorsed by the Pakistain Islamic Medical Association (PIMA).
"With Ramazan approaching, we would understandably expect higher number of namazis (worshippers) attending the prayers. Moreover, long Taraweeh prayers and waiting times will lead to prolonged gatherings. It is all but certain that this will cause significant mayhem, as the mosques practising social distancing will only be able to accommodate 20-25pc of the regular namazis, which will further worsen the situation," it added.
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[MAIL] Ohio police broke up a large Amish barn party with more 100 attendees and four men were hit with charges, after the group defied stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Geauga County Sheriff’s Office were called to the large party just after midnight Sunday on the 13400 block of Bundysburg Road in Huntsburg Township following a noise complaint.
There officers found 100 people drinking and partying in a barn.
One man was so intoxicated he had to be transported to a nearby hospital, officers said and was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge.
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Amish Puppy Mills... My sister was living in Maryland and was thinking of breeding cats / dogs as a sideline and discovered this problem. So always, always check out the source of the animal. So not all of them are as saintly as you would see in the movies (they are humans after all...).
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Keep thinking about TV show set in Seattle. Lady character a bicycle messenge, always avoiding drones (what a concept back then) and ending show sitting on top of the Space Needle. Been bugging me. What was that show?
[TaxProf} Karen Sloan (Law.com), Due to COVID-19, Fewer International Students Could Hit Law Schools—Hard:
International students have become an increasingly important component of student bodies and budgets at U.S. law schools over the past decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic appears likely to shut off—or at least dramatically narrow—that pipeline for the coming academic year.
Many international students want the experience of living and studying in the U.S. for a year or more and may be reluctant to sign up for online programs if university campuses remain closed in the fall, according to law school administrators. International travel restrictions could also hinder their ability to study in the U.S. In addition, whether foreign students will be able to obtain visas in time for the fall is also uncertain. The State Department has currently suspended routine visa services across the globe. Finally, questions remain about the ability of LL.M. students to sit for the New York bar exam if classes remain online, as the state’s rules require in-person instruction.
“It’s not going to slow down—it’s going to shut,” said Marc Miller, dean of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. “There is no plausible scenario for [international law students] to be here, even if they have the resources, schools are open, and they want to be here. If you can’t get a visa—unless you can start digitally—it doesn’t matter. And it’s not clear that people can start in January either. We may be talking about a year delay, or more, imposed by the realities of immigration policy and the availability of international air travel.”
Miller is one of many law deans thinking through how to adjust programming to accommodate international students who may not be able to come to the U.S. in the fall, or who simply don’t want to travel here amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Arizona has a small LL.M. program, but international students make up 20% of its J.D. class. ...
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We can only hope and pray international student exchange programs in the areas of microbiology, medicine, science, and aviation suffer a similar fate.
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International Student Services - University of Arizona [Search domain global.arizona.edu/iss]
The University of Arizona is home of the Global Wildcats! You are welcome here! We host more than 4,000 international students and scholars from all over the globe.
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Has increasing the number of foreign lawyers made the world a better place? Doesn't seem like it to me and its about time they reversed the policy.
Let foreigners learn engineering of the type that will help them build their nations (structural engineering), not of the kind that gives them access to missile technology.
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A rare case where I would be fine with a "temporary" government program that never goes away.
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the left will have their hair on fire over this. The left wants you to shelter in place but they're O.K. with unrestricted immigration and open borders. Go figure. Schizophrenia?
#Falcon9 to become most-flown currently active US rocket with tomorrow's launch, taking the mantle from #AtlasV. And where are all the #Starlink sats deployed so far? We've got you covered for that AND MORE in our flight preview article! #SpaceX
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BTW by the end of this year StarLink might start impacting Comcast, ATT and Verizon with Up/Down Giga-bit data to home users.
420 StarLink Sats currently launched
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[BREITBART] South Korean officials told the nation’s Yonhap news agency on Tuesday a CNN report claiming North Korean dictator 
SEOUL (Reuters) - As Detroit’s automakers shut production in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor cranked up its factories back home to ship cars to the United States, a move that is proving costly for the world’s fifth-largest auto group.
A California-based electrical engineer has been found guilty of attempting to export sensitive military electronics to China and could face more than two centuries behind bars.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[MAIL] Ohio police broke up a large Amish barn party with more 100 attendees and four men were hit with charges, after the group defied stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.
[TaxProf} Karen Sloan (Law.com), Due to COVID-19, Fewer International Students Could Hit Law Schools—Hard:
