FBI launch investigation as shocking footage of police beating a student provokes outrage across the U.S. --Students at the University of Maryland claimed police had been looking for trouble and picked on innocent bystanders. A shocking video of police beating a student has provoked outrage across America and led to a probe by the FBI into alleged police brutality. John McKenna is still recovering from his injuries after three officers clad in riot gear assaulted him with batons as he offered no resistance. The 21-year-old was beaten unconscious and needed eight staples put into a gaping wound on his skull.
Plan Would Require Homeless to Work to Qualify for Rent Subsidies (NY) The Bloomberg administration is planning to require more homeless families to get jobs in order to qualify for rent subsidies, city officials said Tuesday. For the last three years, the city had provided certain homeless families with vouchers good for one or two years of free or steeply discounted rent. Now the Bloomberg regime is seeking to require that nearly all families have at least one member with a job before they receive a rent subsidy. Participants would also pay more toward their rent.
Powerful earthquake in western China kills nearly 600 people and injures 10,000 A series of strong earthquakes struck China's western Qinghai province yesterday, killing nearly 600 people and injuring thousands more. The quake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, struck an area in southern Qinghai, near Tibet. It was centred on Yushu county, a region with a population of about 100,000, mostly herders and farmers.
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