Though federal law prohibits using DNA from victims in the national Combined DNA Index System, states and cities often retain DNA in their own databases. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThen-San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin declined to prosecute the woman in February 2022 when he found out how her DNA had been obtained. In 2016, a woman […]
Daily Archives: September 16, 2022
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Nationwide protests sparked initially by the almost doubling of petrol prices has brought the Caribbean country to what the UN has described as a “standstill.” Haiti is grappling with multiple crises of an economic, political, security and humanitarian nature. The country’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July last year and in August an earthquake […]
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These High School ‘Classics’ Have Been Taught for Generations – Could They be on Their Way Out?
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This article by Andrew Newman is republished here with permission from The Conversation. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; it does not, however, represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors. If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned […]
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Kyrgyzstan reports ‘intense battles’ with Tajikistan along disputed border despite ceasefire agreement. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have accused each other of breaching a ceasefire intended to end deadly border clashes in a disputed area. Kyrgyzstan reported “intense battles” with Tajikistan and said its neighbour was moving forces and equipment to the border. In a statement on […]
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Viewers of Amazon Prime’s new Lord of the Rings series The Rings of Power have no doubt noticed the show’s clever way of transitioning between certain disparate storylines: with a map of Middle-earth, sweeping from wherever you just were to wherever you’re about to go. Book fans will recognize the map as a faithful take […]
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Vertical farm in Finland. Credit: Creative Commons. Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois, usa) Friday, September 16, 2022 Inter Press Service URBANA, Illinois, USA, Sep 16 (IPS) – Cities across the world including New Jersey and California, a State that is home to a multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, have continued to experience climate change linked extreme […]
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Ukrainian president says some mass burial victims were tortured | Russia-Ukraine war News
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Investigators searching through a mass burial site in Ukraine have found evidence that some of the dead were tortured, including bodies with broken limbs and ropes around their necks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. The site near Izyum, recently recaptured from Russian forces, appears to be one of the largest discovered in Ukraine. In […]
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We Asked Ukrainians Living on the Front Lines What Was an Acceptable Peace – Here’s What They Told Us
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This article by Gerard Toal and Karina Korostelina is republished here with permission from The Conversation. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; it does not, however, represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors. Ukraine’s recent counteroffensive success against Russian troops in the Kharkiv region has raised hopes that […]
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