A man facing life behind bars is challenging the state of Victoria’s prison ban on the salty condiment beloved by many Australians. The case drew condemnation from a minister for corrections.
Australian prison officials banned Vegemite in Victoria State out of concern that its potent taste and smell would prevent drug-sniffing dogs from finding contraband.
At a hearing on the crash that led to the collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore, investigators said the six construction workers might have survived if the police had warned them in time.
Agents were active in the Raleigh area on Tuesday, though the scope of the immigration crackdown in the state’s Research Triangle region was not immediately clear.
Since Saturday, the Border Patrol had been focusing its efforts in North Carolina on Charlotte, the state’s largest city, which is home to a growing population of immigrants.
A combination of technological developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer and filmmaker. What’s at stake is history itself.
The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. Often, it can be difficult for the public to tell them apart, or to understand what powers each agency has.
The Houses of Parliament in London. Dan Jarvis, the British security minister, described a “covert and calculated attempt” by China to gather intelligence there.
Gov. Greg Abbott said the state could now take steps to shut down the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The group said the declaration had no basis in fact or law.
Nurses and guards in Oneida County, N.Y., cracked wise and complained about poor equipment as Antwan Cater lay unconscious in a drug-induced seizure. His father has filed a lawsuit in the case.
Problems for Antwan Cater, who had a daughter and had struggled with drugs and his mental health, began soon after he arrived at the Oneida County Correctional Facility.
Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.
Meta has defended itself by saying that it faces plenty of competition from rivals, including TikTok and YouTube, and that it benefited the nascent apps with bountiful resources.
Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the United States started talking about it as a literal organization.
A vote on Sunday rejected the expansion of a foreign military presence. It came as the U.S. military’s campaign in waters near Latin America has been roiling the region.
Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as transgender, helped to shape personnel and foreign policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore.
Ms. McCutcheon embraced her boyfriend, John Quinn, for the last time before she left the country.
With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox robot taxi in San Francisco to compete with Waymo, autonomous services are gaining momentum. But there are pros and cons.
A Zoox driverless vehicle on a San Francisco street.
The Security Council’s backing offered a scaffolding of international legitimacy that will be needed to persuade countries to help see the plans through.
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