The Daily Populous

Wednesday October 5th, 2022 day edition

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Attorney says LAPD officer killed in training exercise was targeted for being a whistleblower.

The attorney representing Los Angeles police officer Houston Tipping's mother claims that the 32-year-old was targeted by other officers for being a potential whistleblower.

Even though a coroner's report ruled Tipping's death an accident, attorney Brad Gage says he was targeted because he was a whistleblower in an assault case involving other officers.

"LAPD claims in Public Records Act requests there was no incident report at all," said Gage.

"LAPD claims there was no video taken this day," he said. »

Trump asks Supreme Court to weigh in on review of classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago

Authored by eu.usatoday.com

Trump asks Supreme Court to weigh in on review of classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.

WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to review part of an appeals court order dealing with classified documents seized at his Florida estate in early August.

That independent review is needed, Trump told the court, "to determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified.". »

Slovenia becomes first East European country to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption

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Slovenia, which emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia, is the first former communist country to endorse this reform in Europe, as most of its neighbours do not allow civil unions or same-sex marriages.

The government of Estonia came the closest in 2016 by agreeing to recognize same-sex unions created in other countries.

In July, Slovenia's highest court ruled that the law defining marriage as only between a man and a woman discriminated against gay and lesbian couples. »

Czechs troll Russia with mock annexation of Kaliningrad

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Another map featured the Russian exclave’s name replaced as Královecký kraj (Kaliningrad region), and cities changed to their Czech-language equivalent, including the main city of Kaliningrad (Královec).

At the time of writing, the Czech-language Wikipedia page of Kaliningrad was also shown as belonging to the Czech Republic.

But Moscow’s recent illegal annexation of Ukrainian districts appears to have opened Pandora’s finicky territorial box. »

The Downside of Imperial Collapse

Authored by foreignaffairs.com

Empires form out of chaos, and imperial collapse often leaves chaos in its wake.

Were any or all of today’s great powers to dramatically weaken, confusion and disorder would increase inside their borders and around the world. »