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WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s late disclosure last month of his sizable stake in Twitter Inc., TWTR -2.48% according to people familiar with the matter, a lag that allowed him to buy more stock without alerting other shareholders to his ownership.The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Mr. Musk’s tardy submission of a public form that investors must file when they buy more than 5% of a company’s…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Weekend Post Culture Celebrity Books 'Just because our borders are closed it doesn’t mean that our minds have to be,' Feore says of the new audio series True North Heists, which he narrates Publishing date: Oct 23, 2020  •  October 23, 2020  •  5 minute read  •  Join the conversation Colm Feore provides the voice of the narrator in Audible's True North Heists. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Inadequate training has been blamed for a lack of confidence among police officers dealing with hate crimes targeted at disabled people. A new report from the…

“I do think that it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country, and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice,” said Mr. Musk, who was speaking virtually at the Financial Times Future of the Car summit. Mr. Musk called the ban a “morally bad decision,” saying permanent bans undermine trust in Twitter. “If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either deleted or made invisible, and a suspension—a…

Gun homicides in the U.S. reached their highest level in more than 25 years during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Homicides from guns rose 35% during the first year of the pandemic to the highest level since 1994, according to a CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report published Tuesday. The homicide rate from firearms increased to 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2020 compared to 4.6 per 100,000 in 2019.Excluding suicides, more than 19,000 people were killed by guns in 2020…

WASHINGTON—Tech-industry representatives are coming to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the remote-work trend will lead to more offshoring of software developer and other technology jobs unless the U.S. admits more high-skilled immigrants.Remote jobs in tech jumped by more than 420% between January 2020 and last month, growth that was intensified by the pandemic, according to a jobs data review by Tecna, a trade group for regional tech councils. In February, more than 22% of all tech jobs were listed as remote,…

A book based on long-running crime series Crime Patrol is set to hit the stands on December 11. Westland Publishing will release "Crime Patrol: The Most Thrilling Stories by Annup Sonii and Oswald Pereira", which has been endorsed by Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn. "Crime doesn't pay, but it makes for good reading. This book gives you a ringside view of some of the most dangerous crimes," Ajay has said. The book covers true crime stories in India's small towns than just focusing on big metros, and reminds…

One of the most celebrated English crime writers of modern literature, author Phyllis Dorothy James, whose poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh featured in a series of bestsellers, was born on August 3, 1920. The grand dame of mystery, who seemed like the perfect successor to the likes of Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham, started writing when she was in her 40s, and though most famed for her crime fiction, also once wrote a futuristic satire, short stories and a few non-fictions as well. On her 99th birth…

From Feluda created by Satyajit Ray to Byomkesh Bakshi written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, most of the iconic detective characters of Indian literature are more than half a century old. In fact, in recent times, little has been done in the detective or crime thrillers genre, and one of the only worthy addition to the clan of world-class detective inspectors from India-- the likes of Inspector Rebus and Hercule Poirot -- that comes to mind is Anita Nair's character, Inspector Borei Gowda. In the last decade, Borei…

Last year when Facebook FB -6.77% blocked news in Australia in response to potential legislation making platforms pay publishers for content, it also took down the pages of Australian hospitals, emergency services and charities. It publicly called the resulting chaos “inadvertent.”Internally, the pre-emptive strike was hailed as a strategic masterstroke. Facebook documents and testimony filed to U.S. and Australian authorities by whistleblowers allege that…