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Fired CNN primetime host Don Lemon will reportedly receive approximately $24.5 million as part of a separation deal with the news network nearly a year after his exit. The settlement equals the amount that Lemon, 57, would have been paid had he been allowed to stay on at CNN through the end of his contract three-and-a-half years from the time of his firing, the Wrap reported. Lemon was axed from CNN in April after his brief and tumultuous run as a morning show co-host by then-CEO Chris Licht, who was later booted himself. Lemon’s ouster came just two months after...

Michigan is asking residents to help house migrants in their homes and help resettle them into society as the crisis at the southern border continues. The state Department of Labor and Economic Development said volunteers who wish to participate must commit for at least 90 days as part of the refugee support program. "Programs like the Welcome Corps advance the Office of Global Michigan’s mission to make Michigan the home for opportunity for our immigrant, refugee and ethnic communities," said Poppy Hernandez, Global Michigan Director and Michigan’s Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer. "Expanded refugee resettlement pathways empower more Michiganders to...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic church in the United States. The agreement between the Diocese of Camden, which encompasses six counties in southern New Jersey on the outskirts of Philadelphia, and plaintiffs was filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Camden on Tuesday.

You would think after the insanity that was CHAZ/CHOP, Seattle might have taken a hard look at their relationship with law and order. You would be wrong. Seattle is in King County, and the County Executive’s Office is moving ahead with plans to “abolish prisons.” A leaked email published by Christopher F. Rufo, contributing editor at City Journal, shows active plans to reduce both adult and juvenile detention and close the county jail in Seattle. The juvenile detention center would be converted to house other programs by 2025. According to Rufo, this plan will eliminate 60% of the county’s jail...

Workers from Seattle's Department of Transportation (SDOT) ended up leaving the CHOP after two hours of staging equipment around the protest zone without removing barriers.

The Oakland City Council has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a dozen Occupy Oakland protesters who said they were the victims of excessive force during clashes with police in 2011. **SNIP** Plaintiffs Suzi Spangenberg and Sukay Sow say they were injured by flash-bang grenades thrown by officers. Spangenberg will get $500,000. Sow says she suffered a second-degree chemical burn on her foot during the clash at a City Hall camp and will get $210,000.

Robert Zubrin —The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must Fifteen years ago, aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin published The Case for Mars, and issued a clarion call to his fellow scientists, and the people of Earth. We need to plan our Mars colony, and we need to do it now. Today Zubrin has released an updated and revised version of his classic book, outlining the most realistic way to get ourselves to Mars and start setting up a human society there. Smart, idealistic, and pragmatic, this book is more important than ever. And...

Steven Rattner, the former car czar, has agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over kickback claims involving the New York State pension fund, a person with knowledge of the negotiation said Wednesday. Mr. Rattner will accept a multiyear ban from the securities industry and pay a fine of more than $5 million, the person said. He is still in negotiations over a similar settlement with the office of the New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo.

"Make a $10 donation to help rebuild the town of Homesh, which was destroyed during the 2005 Disengagement-Expulsion. The town will symbolically and defiantly be called "Homesh -Obama Hill" until President Obama is out of power ." Made mine today! You also have the opportunity to sign a "letter to Obama" informing him that you have made a financial donation to help with construction in Samaria in defiance of Obama's pressure on Israel.

FORT HUACHUCA — A federal judge has approved a lawsuit settlement in which the post and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will renegotiate a biological opinion. “Fort Huachuca’s proactive decision to re-initiate consultation was instrumental in the Center for Biological Diversity and the Army agreeing to settle the lawsuit involving activities at Fort Huachuca and the impact of these activities on the San Pedro River basin,” post spokeswoman Tanja Linton said Tuesday. Jeff Humphrey, a Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman in Phoenix, said the settlement was signed Friday by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson, who is assigned to...

Muslims warned to integrate if they want to settle in Australia By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 06/09/2006) Muslims who settle in Australia must denounce terrorism, learn English as quickly as possible and forget the ancient hatreds and prejudices of their homelands, the government has warned. Islamic leaders should condemn terrorism unequivocally and embrace tolerance and freedom of speech, ministers said, amid fears that Australia could be subject to an attack similar to the London bombings last year. "Migrants who come to Australia are expected to speak English and endorse basic Australian values, and it's going to be a problem...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea said Friday that establishing a peace agreement to replace the cease-fire that ended the Korean War would also resolve its nuclear standoff with the international community. A peace pact would "lead to putting an end to the U.S. hostile policy toward (North Korea), which spawned the nuclear issue," a spokesman for the North's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. That would "automatically result in the denuclearization of the peninsula." The unnamed spokesman, quoted by the North's official Korean Central News Agency, said such a move would "give a strong impetus" to international nuclear...

Buried deep in the appalling announcement of Cuba's new place on the UN's Human Rights Commission was the name of the country that nominated that outpost of tyranny for the honor: Argentina. It's not the first time the southernmost country in the New World has done the bidding of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Last December, a Cuban dissident who sought de-facto asylum in Havana's Argentine embassy was unexpectedly denied an exit visa and forced back into the hands of Castro's waiting agents. Such events underline Argentina's political direction. A few years ago, Argentina was one of the U.S.'s major non-NATO...

Columbine victim's kin settle suit By The Denver Post Article Published: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 A civil lawsuit brought by the family of a Columbine High School shooting victim against a former Arapahoe County sheriff's deputy has been settled out of court. Sue Petrone and Brian Rohrbough, the parents of slain student Daniel Rohrbough, have dropped their suit against James Taylor. After the April 20, 1999, shootings, Taylor told the 15-year-old's family he was present when Daniel Rohrbough was shot. Taylor told the family he heard machine-gun fire, saw a Denver police officer in the area and watched Rohrbough go...

9/11 panel: Don’t settle for political hay Sun-Gazette Editor Compared to the media spotlight on National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before the Sept. 11 Commission, the appearance of Attorney General John Ashcroft happened virtually under cover of darkness. There’s a curious relative quiet about the smoking gun Ashcroft dropped in the commission’s lap, in the form of a 1995 memo written by Jamie Gorelick — then the Clinton-appointed deputy attorney general and now a member of the Sept. 11 Commission — that reinforced the much-discussed “wall” between the FBI’s criminal investigations and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism activities. Gorelick instructed then-FBI-director...

Citigroup, JP Morgan Settle Enron Charges 1 hour, 31 minutes ago By Chris Sanders and Paul Thomasch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. on Monday paid more than $300 million to settle charges by securities and law enforcement officials they helped Enron Corp. cheat investors out of billions of dollars. The settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau brings an 18-month investigation to a close and lets the two largest U.S. banks avoid criminal prosecution for securities fraud. The probe found that Citigroup (NYSE:C - news) and...

<p>LOS ANGELES(AP) - A wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of an actor shot to death by a police officer during a Halloween costume party three years ago has been settled for an undisclosed amount, city officials said.</p> <p>City officials would only announce Wednesday that the deal was a six-figure settlement. The settlement still needs City Council approval before it is paid out to the actor's family. The terms of the settlement will become public if the council approves it, said Eric Moses, spokesman for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo.</p>