BRUSSELS – Record amounts of cocaine are being seized in Europe while manufacturing of the drug is now taking place inside the European Union, officials in charge of fighting and monitoring drug use in the bloc warned on Friday.
As Frances Stuart stood before various representatives of Ellis County businesses, churches and nonprofits last week at Waxahachie Bible Church she said the keys to addressing the county’s homeless problem sat in that room.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court keeps secrets. Year after year, in major case after major case, there’s little beyond what the justices say during oral arguments that suggests how they will rule until they actually do.
WASHINGTON – Employers posted a record 11.5 million job openings in March, meaning the United States now has an unprecedented two job openings for every person who is unemployed. The latest data released Tuesday by the the Bureau of Labor Statistics further reveals an extraordinarily tight labor market that has emboldened millions of Americans to seek better paying jobs, while also contributing to the biggest inflation surge in four decades.
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump’s businesses and inaugural committee have reached a deal to pay Washington, D.C., $750,000 to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the committee overpaid for events at his hotel and enriched the former president’s family in the process, according to the District of Columbia’s attorney general.
LONDON – The World Health Organization said the rates of people who are obese and overweight in Europe have hit “epidemic proportions,” with nearly 60% of adults and a third of children in one of those categories.
Connecticut trooper arraigned in death of Soulemane MILFORD, Conn. – A white Connecticut state trooper who fatally shot a Black man, Mubarak Soulemane, following a high-speed chase in 2020 was arraigned Tuesday on a manslaughter charge.
The Ennis Police Department announced Monday the suspect in Friday's shooting has been arrested. Police reported that a shooting took place around 9 p.m.
Authorities in Las Vegas say a barrel containing human remains was discovered in Lake Mead, and more could turn up amid a drought that has dropped the lake’s water level to historic lows. The barrel was discovered Sunday afternoon by boaters who alerted the National Park Service.
BUDADPEST, Hungary – Slovakia and Hungary said Tuesday that they will not support sanctions against Russian energy that the European Union is preparing over the war in Ukraine, saying they are too reliant on those supplies and there are no immediate alternatives.