Police officer struck, killed by semi-truck in Utah; suspect in custody An officer with the Santaquin Police Department was killed Sunday while on a call. The call turned out to be of suspicious nature and the driver reportedly ran over the officer, Santaquin Police Lt. 05/5/2024 - 7:18 am | View Link
Man walking along tracks struck, killed by Amtrak train, police say A southbound Amtrak train struck and killed a man walking on the tracks ... The train rain came to a rest near 15th Street and did not block traffic. The West Palm Beach Amtrak station is at 209 S. 05/1/2024 - 12:26 pm | View Link
Arrest made in Wauwatosa related to hit-and-run on Milwaukee's north side that killed 4-year-old girl "That is garbage, it’s garbage, it’s bullshit and it should not happen," Mayor Cavalier Johnson said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. 04/30/2024 - 7:13 am | View Link
Pedestrian struck and killed in hit-and-run in Lebanon County, police say A pedestrian was struck and killed Tuesday morning in Lebanon County. Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8 Today. Emergency crews were called to Eastfield Drive in South Lebanon Township at 7:37 ... 04/30/2024 - 5:40 am | View Link
Firefighters say 6-year-old was protecting his 3-year-old brother when they died in house fire They are also finding purpose in this horrific loss. “It was dark. It was evil, but we’re not running away from it. We want to shine the light,” the father added. “We want to help others.” ... 04/25/2024 - 8:08 pm | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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