Emotional support alligator named Wally, famed for its social media following, has gone missing An emotional support alligator named Wally — whose viral fame skyrocketed when it was barred from a Philadelphia Phillies game — has disappeared. His owner suspects foul play. 05/2/2024 - 5:46 am | View Link
Police:Car crash into Mercer business associated with gun thefts Mercer police said the car traveled the wrong way up North Diamond Street about 5:15 a.m. and crashed into Seconds Count Firearms at the corner of North Diamond and North Pitt streets. District ... 04/29/2024 - 11:37 am | View Link
4 fateful hours: The night Preston Lord crossed paths with the 'Gilbert Goons' The Arizona Republic pieced together this account of what happened on the night Lord died from multiple witnesses and a detailed police report. 04/18/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Prairie Fare: What you eat may affect your vision I noticed our backyard was starting to sprout green grass after some April showers. Some of my perennial plants are beginning to peek through the mulch in my flowerbed. I ... 04/17/2024 - 7:00 pm | View Link
House's Ukraine, Israel aid package gains Biden's support as Speaker Johnson fights to keep his job President Joe Biden said Wednesday he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. 04/17/2024 - 11:45 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.