PITTSBURGH, PA — Beginning today, Pittsburgh police no longer will work eight hour work days, Instead, they will work four 10-hour shifts each day with three consecutive days off. This organizational change is designed to enhance officer wellness the city police chief said. “An additional day away from work each week to focus on family,…
Cairo — Nestled among several other cemeteries in Old Cairo, sits the only American Cemetery in Egypt’s ancient capital. The plots were neglected for years, overgrown and at risk of falling apart, until a small group of “friends” set to work to save it. The Reverend Andrew Watson, an American missionary, asked Egypt’s ruler in…
Vienna, Austria — The detained chief of Ukraine’s Russian-held nuclear power plant has been released, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Monday. Click Here: Boca Juniors soccer tracksuit “I welcome the release of Ihor Murashov, director general of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant; I have received confirmation that Mr Murashov has…
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Former Russian state television journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested against Moscow’s Ukraine offensive during a live broadcast, was Monday put on a wanted list for allegedly breaching pre-trial house arrest. Law enforcement detained the 44-year-old in August and charged her with distributing information about the Russian armed forces deemed to be false by the government….
A Russian court on Monday set Oct. 25 as the date for American basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession. Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted Aug. 4 after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil…
FARMINGDALE, NY — Vico Costiera Amalfitana, an Italian restaurant in Farmingdale, donated $1,250 to The Chloe Belle Foundation, a cancer charity in Northport, after a month-long fundraiser in December. Vico, at 313 Main Street, donated $5 of every pizza or family meal package sold, giving the foundation funding for its beach wheelchair program and care…
The U.S. allowed more than 25,000 refugees into the country in fiscal year 2022, using only 20% of 125,000 refugee spots allocated by the Biden administration, which continued to struggle to rebuild a resettlement system gutted by Trump-era limits and the COVID-19 pandemic, a top State Department official told CBS News. Deputy Assistant State Department…
Ukrainian forces scored more gains in their counteroffensive across at least two fronts Monday, advancing in the very areas that Russia is trying to absorb and challenging Moscow’s effort to engage fresh troops and its threats to defend incorporated areas by all means. In their latest breakthrough, Ukrainian forces penetrated Moscow’s defenses in the strategic…
TYSONS, VA — With a decline in commercial tax revenue looming, Sen. Scott Surovell (D-Mount Vernon), the majority leader of the Virginia Senate, has been a strong advocate for building a casino in Tysons. “When you see commercial office buildings in this county selling at a third of the price they did five years ago,”…