66-year-old charged after being shot at by St. Louis police ST. LOUIS – A 66-year-old St. Louis man is facing weapons charges after being shot at by a police officer. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the ... 05/2/2024 - 5:16 am | View Link
St. Louis Man Charged with Attempted Murder After Chicago Shooting Injures Two Women A St. Louis man is facing serious charges after a violent incident in Chicago that left two women injured by gunfire. Craig Messiah-Smith, 24, from the 1100 block of S. Laredo St. Louis, Missouri, has ... 05/1/2024 - 8:12 am | View Link
Second man charged with gunning down St. Louis teen in 2021 now in custody A St. Louis grand jury in April indicted Omarion Chantez Mays and James Jamel Blake on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. 04/30/2024 - 5:03 am | View Link
Man shot to death in Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis ST. LOUIS — A man was shot to death Monday night in the Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis. Police said the shooting victim was found about 10:30 p.m. Monday. He was on the ground in front of an ... 04/30/2024 - 1:47 am | View Link
St. Louis County man convicted in woman’s death after prom dispute ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A jury convicted a St. Louis County man in the shooting death of a woman that followed a prom party dispute. Emonne Dillon, 20, was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder, ... 04/26/2024 - 8:53 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.