Two Michigan men charged after tying up, brutally beating 61-year-old comic book store owner in Pennsylvania Two Michigan men have been charged after they allegedly tied up and beat a Pennsylvania comic book store owner while robbing the store in September 2022. 03/21/2024 - 7:14 am | View Link
Deceased gunman, officers involved in shootout in Hamilton Township identified by NJ officials The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General has identified the deceased gunman and the police officers involved in a shootout in Hamilton Township, New Jersey on March 8. The decedent has been ... 03/20/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Man accused of starting fight that led to 2022 South Street mass shooting sentenced PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Rashaan Vereen, a man who investigators said started a fight that led to a mass shooting on South Street two years ago, has now been sentenced, according to court documents ... 03/20/2024 - 7:06 am | View Link
New law makes it easier for more people to become Philadelphia police officers PHILADLEPHIA (WPVI) -- A new law is making it easier for more cadets to be considered and potentially become police officers in Philadelphia. Governor Josh Shapiro signed a law at the end of last ... 03/17/2024 - 2:27 pm | View Link
Philadelphia woman accused of stabbing Bucks County man to death, fleeing to Tennessee WRIGHTSTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia woman has been charged after she allegedly killed a man in Bucks County and fled to Tennessee back in October 2023. Bucks County District ... 03/5/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to 50 years behind bars.
In some respects, Bankman-Fried’s story is familiar. He is hardly the first prominent figure in the financial world to face consequences for some very poor decisions.
After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, “taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK.” Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
No one in human history has ever seen an eclipse quite like the one seen by the crew of Apollo 12 on Nov. 21, 1969. Countless billions of us have seen the moon eclipse the sun, casting its shadow on the Earth; countless billions have seen the Earth similarly block solar light, casting a shadow on the moon.
All animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknesses in our perceptions of the world. The most basic weakness we have is that our perceptions don’t tell us everything about what’s going on with the world.