Here is your quick catch-up on world news today. Five stories, short reads, all the details that matter. Berlin Pride Attacker Was a Convicted ISIS Recruit Released Early, and Germany Wants Answers Police shot and killed 21-year-old Abdul Ballout on Sunday evening in the Spandau district, one day after he drove a rented van into … Read more
James Hodges lost his sight in 1995 and served in the Navy anyway. On Halloween morning in 2022, he was walking home through Lake City, Florida, after jury duty got canceled, when a deputy stopped him over the object in his back pocket. She thought it was a pistol. It was his cane. Hodges pulled … Read more
A teller in Caldwell, Idaho stopped a $37,000 wire transfer and set off a bank fraud arrest that police say stretched across state lines. The customer at the counter handed over a driver license that did not match the account records on the screen. Staff kept her at the window and quietly called police. How … Read more
Filming police in public ranks among the most contested rights in America today. Bodycam footage out of Pueblo, Colorado shows exactly why. An officer spotted a man photographing patrol cars outside a police building, demanded his name, and put him in handcuffs within seconds. What the Footage Shows The man stood on a public sidewalk. … Read more
In December 2025, the Cleveland Police Department in Oklahoma released body camera footage of a confrontation that most inter-agency disputes never let the public see. The Pawnee County Sheriff and Cleveland police exchange — an expletive-filled argument in a parking lot on October 28 — ended with the city revoking the agreement that let its … Read more
In February 2020, a senior Albuquerque Police Department officer arrived at a substation for his shift and left in handcuffs. The arrest of Jeffrey Wharton — captured on body camera as fellow officers removed his duty belt and cut away his uniform — became one of the most widely viewed police accountability videos of that … Read more
In June 2023, a jury awarded $9.3 million to Luther Gonzales-Hall, a Michigan man who was tackled and arrested by a Dearborn police officer in 2018 after asking for directions. The Dearborn White Castle verdict became one of the largest civil rights awards ever entered against an officer from that department, and the case has … Read more
On March 31, 2018, a routine traffic stop on Route 9W in Tenafly, New Jersey became one of the most widely watched dashcam videos in the country — and ultimately ended the public career of Caren Turner, a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Caren Turner traffic stop is … Read more
Most businesses put off switching internet providers for one reason. They picture the day the old line gets cut, the new one does not work, and the office goes dark for hours. That fear is reasonable, but it is also avoidable. Businesses that switch providers without a single minute of downtime follow the same basic … Read more
Your internet provider probably does not need to sign a BAA, and that changes how you should think about this Most articles about “HIPAA compliant internet” start from a mistaken premise. They imply that your internet service provider needs to sign a Business Associate Agreement, the same way your cloud storage vendor or your EHR … Read more
If your internet has ever dropped at 7:15 on a Friday night with a full dining room and six DoorDash orders stacked up, you already know why this guide exists. Most “best business internet” articles target office buildings full of people checking email. Restaurants run a different game entirely. You’re processing cards through a POS … Read more
If your company runs on Cox Business internet, you have probably heard the merger news and wondered what it actually means for your account. Charter Communications is acquiring Cox Communications in a $34.5 billion deal. Regulators have cleared most of the path. The Cox name is not disappearing, but the Cox you know is changing. … Read more