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A Jewish civil rights organization says its annual tally of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year. A report released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League found 2,717 antisemitic incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism in 2021. That's 34% increase over the previous year and the highest total since the New York City-based group began tracking such incidents in 1979. The ADL says a surge in incidents coincided with an 11-day war between Israel and the Hamas militant group.
President Joe Biden is announcing he has granted the first three pardons of his term. Biden is providing clemency to a Kennedy-era Secret Service agent from Chicago convicted of federal bribery charges that he tried to sell a copy of an agency file. Biden also has pardoned two people who were convicted on drug-related charges in Texas and Georgia but went on to become pillars in their communities. The Democratic president also has commuted the sentences of 75 others for nonviolent, drug-related convictions. The White House announced the clemencies as it launched a series of job training and reentry programs for those in prison or recently released.
MADISON, Wis. — With more than 40 years of experience caring for people in southern Wisconsin who are in the final months of life, Agrace now has another way to improve local residents' quality of life—a new adult day center in Madison. The Agrace Adult Day Center provides daytime care for older adults who need company and support because they cannot, or choose not to, stay alone all day. In...
MADISON – The pandemic put a pause on a lot of things, including in-person learning. But beyond a gap in education, researchers have found virtual learning has caused another delay for students. When it comes to sitting still in a classroom for hours at a time, raising our hand with questions, or working with others on group projects, we often...
President Joe Biden's administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid. The administration is trying to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the coronavirus. Paxlovid is produced by Pfizer and was first approved in December. Supply of the regimen was initially very limited. But as COVID-19 cases across the country have fallen and manufacturing has increased, it is now far more abundant. The White House said Tuesday it is moving to raise awareness of the pill and taking steps to make it easier to access.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, police have identified Christopher Schurr as the officer who killed Patrick Lyoya three weeks ago. Lyoya was a Black man and native of Congo who was fatally shot in the back of the head after a struggle with the officer. Grand Rapids Chief Eric Winstrom had declined to name the officer but changed course Monday. Schurr has been a Grand Rapids officer since 2015. He grew up in the area and was a star pole vaulter at Siena Heights, a small Michigan college. In 2014, Schurr told Vaulter Magazine that he was getting married in Kenya because he couldn't afford a wedding celebration and take a separate trip to Africa to build homes. So he was going to do both at the same time.
ROCKTON, Ill. — More than 10 months after a six-alarm fire ripped through a northern Illinois chemical plant, the company that owns the facility has been ordered to reimburse multiple state and local agencies that responded to the blaze. The order was announced Monday by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Winnebago County State's Attorney J. Hanley as part of...
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