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The girlfriend of U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick is suing former President Donald Trump as well as two of the Capitol rioters.Sandra Garza, Sicknick’s girlfriend, is requesting that each of the defendants pay $10 million, according to the lawsuit filed on Thursday. Her lawyer says that any recovery that comes as a result of the lawsuit will be donated to charity.The lawsuit accuses Trump of directly inciting “the violence at the U.S. Capitol that followed and then watched approvingly as the building was overrun.””After Defendant Trump’s speech ended, insurgents charged the hill surrounding the U.S. Capitol and began scaling…

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Peloton has agreed to pay a $19 million fine for failing to promptly report treadmill hazards and for distributing recalled treadmills, the Consumer Products Safety Commission said Thursday. The fine resolves charges that the company had “knowingly failed to immediately report” to the US regulator defects with its Tread+ treadmill, it said in a statement. The civil penalty also settles charges that Peloton distributed recalled treadmills in violation of the Consumer Product Safety Act. The commission said it had levied “one of the largest civil penalties in our history” due, in part, to the company “distributing recalled products with a…

A Connecticut state lawmaker was killed on the road early Thursday morning after a wrong-way driver slammed into him and his vehicle erupted into flames, authorities said. State Rep. Quentin Williams was fatally struck on his trip home from the governor’s inauguration ball — and just hours after being sworn in for his third term in office. “We were about as close as any two people could come, and I can just say that I’ve rarely gotten calls … I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a call as devastating as the call that I got at 6:06 this morning,” State…

From: earthriseEarthrise explores how the law is protecting life on Earth by granting rights to nature and holding multinationals to account.earthrise explores how individuals and communities are using the law to mitigate the effects of the climate and nature crises. In Huaraz, in the Peruvian Andes, we meet farmer and mountain guide Saul Luciano Lliuya whose home is at risk of flooding due to glacial melt. Together with the environmental justice NGO, Germanwatch, Saul is taking one of the Global North’s largest polluters to court, claiming it holds some responsibility for the threat to his home. If successful, a precedent…

NEW ORLEANS — When the first round of NBA All-Star voting came out Thursday, Kevin Durant sat atop the Eastern Conference.  It was the latest sign that the superstar is not only at the peak of his powers — having arguably his most efficient season despite being 34 — but has spent the past month lifting the Nets near the top of the standings and himself into the MVP race.  Brooklyn (25-13) comes into Friday’s game with the Pelicans fresh off its first loss in a month, a defeat in Chicago. But even as the Nets’ league-best 12-game winning streak…

Rep.-elect Maxine Waters, D-Calif., appeared to get in a shouting match with Republicans on the House floor during the ninth round of voting to elect a speaker on Thursday. “This is my 9th vote for Hakeem Jefferies,” Waters stood up and said when it was her turn to vote before turning and pointing to a group of Republicans behind her. “Matt Rosendale, get it together.” Waters continued speaking but was drowned out by several Republicans shouting, “Order!”  About an hour before the exchange, Rep.-elect Matt Rosendale, R-Mt., named Waters while speaking on the floor.  “Last summer we began to negotiate, a group…

A teenager is in a critical condition after a car left the road in regional New South Wales and slammed into a tree.Emergency services were called to Coronation Drive, in Orange, 250 kilometres south-west of Sydney, shortly after midnight on Friday after reports of a car accident.Fire and Rescue officers found a 17-year-old boy in the front passenger seat of a Subaru Impreza suffering from serious injuries.Stream your news live & on demand with Flash for $8/month and no lock in contracts. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Offer ends 31 October, 2023″A 17-year-old boy, who was the front-seat…

A Loudon County, Virginia father who was arrested in June 2021 for refusing to leave a school board meeting has been found not guilty. Jon Tigges attended a Loudoun County School Board meeting on June 22, 2021, joining other parents to protest Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the district’s transgender policies that, among other things, required district employees to use students’ preferred names or pronouns.   The meeting descended into chaos and the school board cut off public comments. Tigges and another parent were arrested for refusing to leave. A total of 259 people signed up for public comments. Only 51 voices…

CNN  —  A 21-year-old sexual assault suspect accused of kidnapping three children over the span of two days was taken into custody Thursday, police in Wichita, Kansas, said. All three children have been located and are safe, Wichita Police Department spokesperson Chad Ditch told reporters during a Thursday news conference. A teenage girl reported being kidnapped on Wednesday evening by a “biracial male driving a blue vehicle” who attempted to sexually assault her in the car, Ditch said. The teen was let go by the suspect and reported the incident to a family member. Authorities began looking into the case…