South Carolina teacher charged for alleged relationship with minor student

The move follows rapid infrastructure expansion at Samsung SDS Samsung SDS appointed a new CEO in November AI data center demands are skyrocketing Samsung’s IT services division has announced plans to build an AI data center as the firm looks to capitalize on growing industry demand for AI compute. Samsung… Read Details ⇢

Republicans in the US Congress have come up with a new funding package to avert a holiday-season government shutdown, Donald Trump said Thursday, December 19, after an earlier cross-party deal was derailed by the president-elect. “SUCCESS in Washington! Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to a very good… Read Details ⇢

Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived a decade of sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of strangers, said she hoped her ordeal would help make the world a better place for “women and men alike” as her former spouse was jailed for 20 years. FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks to… Read Details ⇢

The Pentagon says there are 2,000 U.S. troops deployed in Syria, more than double what officials with the Department of Defense have been telling reporters for months. “We have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 U.S. troops deployed to Syria,” Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Ryder told… Read Details ⇢

As Ecuador’s historic drought continues, power cuts may persist until April, said Jorge Luis Hidalgo, an energy consultant. For decades, experts have urged authorities to increase Ecuador’s energy supply by expanding its solar and wind energy capacities and bolstering its thermoelectric plants. But Hidalgo said that electricity and fossil fuel… Read Details ⇢

There’s a fine line between a Superman fan and a Superman snob. I fall into the former category, but I can’t deny some snobbery when recommending which Superman content you should watch before flying into Director and DC head James Gunn’s Superman revival, which is set to execute a perfect… Read Details ⇢

Critics of France’s Fifth Republic would do well to ponder this lesson. Rather than heedlessly throwing away the Constitution, they should draw inspiration from its astonishing flexibility, for who got the better of the monarch, on Friday, December 13? Who put the brakes on Emmanuel Macron’s insatiable appetite for domination?… Read Details ⇢

Dozens of defendants in the Pelicot trial — the men who visited the Pelicot family home to rape Gisele Pelicot who was unconscious after being drugged by her husband — were handed terms of between three and fifteen years. Women’s rights groups and the three Pelicot children, expressed disappointment, arguing… Read Details ⇢

Attorneys at the Department of Justice are urging federal judges to reject petitions from at least two Jan. 6 defendants who are asking that they be allowed to return to the nation’s capital for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Cindy Young, convicted of four misdemeanors for her involvement in the riot… Read Details ⇢