A Manhattan jury found Majors, 34, guilty of one misdemeanor assault charge and one harassment violation stemming from his March confrontation with then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
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Houthi attacks on commercial ships have upended global trade in vital Red Sea corridor
The attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have scared off some of the world’s top shipping companies and oil giants
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Love it or hate it, self-checkout is here to stay. But it’s going through a reckoning
Self-checkout isn’t going away, especially with still stubborn labor shortages.
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Southwest Airlines settles with DOT for $140 million over 2022 holiday meltdown
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Southwest failed to ‘provide adequate customer service assistance,’ provide ‘prompt flight status notifications’ and did not give ‘refunds in a prompt and proper manner.’
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Statewide initiative recruits employers to combat substance use disorder in the workplace
The goal is to create supportive workplace cultures for employees in recovery by connecting employers to resources, services and training.
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Maine law enforcement officers often lack direction for how to conduct welfare checks
Procedures have come under scrutiny since it was revealed that police tried to reach Robert Card weeks before the Lewiston mass shootings.
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Flu is on the rise while RSV infections may be peaking, U.S. health officials say
But COVID-19 continues to cause the most hospitalizations and deaths among respiratory illnesses – about 15,000 hospitalizations and about 1,000 deaths every week, the U.S. CDC says.
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Report: Belief death penalty is applied unfairly shows capital punishment’s growing isolation in U.S.
In 2023, there were 24 executions in the U.S., with the final one for the year taking place Thursday in Oklahoma, and another 21 inmates were sentenced to death.
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For a male sexual assault survivor, justice won in court does not equal healing
It took 8 years and the #MeToo movement to spur Sam Schultz to tell police they were sexually assaulted by an opera star and his husband.
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Biden tells Asia-Pacific leaders U.S. ‘not going anywhere’ as he looks to build economic ties
Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping understand that the complicated ties between the U.S. and China have major global impacts.