A Colorado county has gotten almost every homeless person off of the streets by enacting a “Handouts Don’t Help” initiative amid the nearby city of Denver’s all-out homeless and drug crisis. Less than an hour south of Denver, Douglas County has taken the panhandling, loitering, drug dealing, and street-sleeping problems seriously. Around 70 signs have been erected at intersections and roads that used to be popular homeless spots, directing people to DouglasHasHeart.org — a webpage with...

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“It gets to the very fundamental nature of democracy,” says Danielle Jefferis, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law. “Who has a right to cast a ballot?” The Nebraska case weighs the redemptive power that the right to vote can have on those who’ve lost it, with the principle that voting rights come with responsibility to protect the integrity of elections. Thousands of Nebraskans with felony convictions could be denied voting rights under an opinion now under...

OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein articulated a vision for the future of deep-sea exploration during his testimony before the U.S. Coast Guard panel on Monday. Sohnlein, who co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, left the company before the implosion of the Titan in June 2023. He outlined plans for a fleet of four to five deep-diving submersibles, each designed to carry five passengers to depths of 6,000 meters (approximately 19,685 feet). Sohnlein emphasized that the absence of a...

CARACAS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Bleider Leves, a 17-year-old mechanic, was heading to his Caracas home one day in late July after Venezuela's contested election when police grabbed him on the street. Officers beat, tortured and jailed him without cause, his mother said. Nearly two months later, the teenager remains imprisoned but there have been no charges nor any sign he will be released, his mother, Adelaida Herrera, said in an interview. Rights groups alleged there have been 25 deaths and 2,400...

Egypt said it sent military aid to Somalia, the latest show of support for the Horn of Africa nation that’s embroiled in a feud with neighboring Ethiopia over a breakaway territory. A shipment that recently arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, is part of backing “for the efforts of sisterly Somalia to achieve security and stability, combat terrorism” and preserve its sovereignty and unity, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Monday in a brief statement.

Donald Trump has promised to visit Aurora, Colo., where he has claimed that Argentinian gangs have taken over apartment buildings. The Republican mayor is welcoming Trump to show him otherwise.

"Only 5% of single-use plastic is recycled in the U.S.," according to the AG. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental nonprofit groups are suing ExxonMobil for the company's alleged role in the global plastics pollution crisis. The state claims the oil and gas giant engaged in a "decades-long campaign of deception" to lie to consumers about the sustainability of plastic recycling, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in San...

All too often, people leave a date with no idea how the other person feels about them. If you're not into the other person, it can be stressful trying to gauge how they feel about the situation.Should you go forward and have another date? Will it come across as presumptuous to let them down? If they're not into you either, will they make you feel stupid for laying out the reasons you don't want to go out again? Or is it leading someone on to stay mum about the lack of connection?While there's no easy way to navigate letting a date down, avoiding these awkward conversations oftentimes results in the awful trend of ghosting, which leaves one person completely in the emotional lurch.Since ghosting is so common, and it's rare to see healthy emotional rejection modeled online, Reddit user karmabandido's breakup text with his date quickly went viral for its honesty.This is the ideal example of how to let someone down easy, he was polite and respectful, didn't ghost her — but also didn't mince words about the lack of connection. In return, she was able to reveal that she felt the same way and they were able to avoid further awkward interactions without ghosting or negging each other.This article was originally published by our partners at someecards and was published on 4.12.19