Man arrested in fatal shooting of Chicago police officer who was heading home from work Police say a 22-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was slain while off-duty and heading home from work. 05/2/2024 - 6:22 am | View Link
Armed assault suspect shot dead by NYPD-federal task force during ‘violent struggle’ inside NYC store: police A gun-wielding assault suspect was shot dead Tuesday by members of a joint NYPD-federal task force inside a Manhattan eyeglasses store after a “violent struggle,” police said. The suspect, identified ... 04/30/2024 - 12:32 pm | View Link
Police in NYC fatally shoot armed man wanted in connection to felony assault. Here's what they say happened. A man wanted in connection to a felony assault was shot and killed by officers in Manhattan on Tuesday after police say he pulled out a gun. 04/30/2024 - 10:32 am | View Link
Four police officers shot dead in home standoff Four police officers were killed in a three-hour standoff at a home in Charlotte, North Carolina. Gunfire erupted as law enforcement officers served an arrest warrant at the barricaded home on the ... 04/30/2024 - 8:18 am | View Link
Man who fatally shot 4 officers had ‘extensive criminal history,’ police chief says The shooter had charges and convictions across North Carolina, a Charlotte Observer review of public records shows. 04/30/2024 - 5:59 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.