Call for ministers to overrule 'two-tier' sentencing changes
From April, an offender's ethnicity or faith will be a bigger factor in deciding whether to jail them.
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A former Polish prime minister is charged with exceeding his powers over a 2020 election call
A former Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has been charged with exceeding his powers when he ordered a presidential election to be carried out solely with postal votes during the COVID-19 ...ABC News - Feb. 27 -
UK prime minister dismisses calls to cancel Trump visit after Zelensky meeting
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer dismissed calls to cancel President Trump’s invitation for a state visit to the United Kingdom, following the explosive Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian ...The Hill - 3d -
NFL mulling one of these two rule changes to new kickoff; league could also make drastic change to onside kick
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Call Of Duty 2026 Could Drop Last-Gen Systems And Make Other Big Changes - Report
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A Ukrainian man is sentenced for planning sabotage on Russia's behalf
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Bosnian-Serb leader sentenced to jail in landmark trial
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For the first time, Alabama governor commutes a death sentence
In a first, Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, an ardent supporter of capital punishment, commuted the death sentence of an intellectually disabled man convicted of murder on Friday.NBC News - 5d -
Will Starbucks’s Turnaround Be Successful? It All Comes Down to 1 Sentence
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Man sentenced to 105 years for murdering Dutch soldier outside Indiana hotel
An Iman convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a Dutch solider in downtown Indianapolis after a fistfight in 2022 was sentenced to 105 years in prison.NBC News - Feb. 25
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