Miami-Dade teacher, husband arrested in child abuse and drug trafficking case

MIAMI (CONVERSEER) – A Miami-Dade County elementary school music teacher has been arrested on child abuse charges, while her husband faces multiple drug trafficking offences following an extensive undercover investigation by the Hialeah Police Department. Peder Larsen, 48, and his wife, Sharon Larsen, 47, were both taken into custody after officers uncovered an ongoing narcotics…

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VW to offer investments to US to ward off Trump’s car tariffs

BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Volkswagen (VW) is offering to make large-scale investments in the United States to ward off high tariffs on its imported vehicles, according to chief executive Oliver Blume. “The Volkswagen group aims to invest more in the US,” Blume told Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung daily in remarks published on Friday. VW already employs…

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Ghana embassy reopens May 29 in Washington D.C. after corruption scandal, IT overhaul

WASHINGTON (CONVERSEER) – The Ghanaian Embassy in Washington D.C., United States, is set to reopen on Thursday, May 29, following a temporary shutdown triggered by a major corruption scandal involving a fraudulent IT scheme. The closure, which began on May 26, was part of a sweeping restructuring after an internal breach revealed that a locally…

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Minneapolis grapples with pain 5 years after George Floyd’s death

MINNEAPOLIS (CONVERSEER) – Five years after the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct was set ablaze during mass protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, the city still bears the scars—physical, emotional, and systemic—of that tumultuous time. Alfred Flowers Jr., a local youth sports coach who grew up in the neighbourhood surrounding the Third Precinct,…

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