At least 70 people killed by flooding in Kenya as more rain is expected through the weekend Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said Friday, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. The East African country ... 04/26/2024 - 8:23 am | View Link
Palestinian Red Crescent says 14 dead in Israeli West Bank raid The Palestinian Red Crescent said Saturday at least 14 people had been killed in an Israeli raid on Nur Shams refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. 04/20/2024 - 10:19 am | View Link
Kenya mourns defense chief killed in helicopter crash Kenya began three days of mourning on Friday after its defense chief and nine other senior officers were killed in a helicopter ... caused by armed bandits and cattle rustlers. 04/19/2024 - 4:17 am | View Link
Kenya's military chief among 10 people killed in helicopter crash NAIROBI - Kenya's military chief, General Francis Ogolla, was among 10 people killed when their military ... in northwest Kenya to combat endemic cattle-rustling, came down just minutes after ... 04/18/2024 - 3:14 pm | View Link
Francis Ogolla: Kenya investigates crash that killed military chief Gen Ogolla became head of Kenya's armed forces in April last year Kenya's government has sent a team to investigate the helicopter crash that killed military chief Gen Francis Ogolla and nine others. 04/18/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
At the gymnastics world championships in Antwerp, Belgium, in October, Fred Richard found himself in an unfamiliar position—face down on the mat.
Entering the last event in the all-around competition, in which gymnasts compete in six events—vault, floor, high bar, parallel bars, pommel horse, and rings—he did something he doesn’t normally do.
(NEW YORK) — Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1,” has died at age 77.
Auster’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his literary representatives, the Carol Mann Agency, which did not immediately provide additional details.
British singer-songwriter FKA twigs, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, testified before the U. S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property on Tuesday about the dangers of artificial intelligence. She relayed that she was especially concerned as an artist whose music and performances are used by third parties to train artificial intelligence models.
In Derek Cianfrance’s 2010 love-on-the-rocks heartbreaker Blue Valentine, Ryan Gosling plays a husband and father, Dean, who appears to be nothing but an annoyance to his wife, Michelle Williams’ Cindy, a harried nurse. She hustles to get their young daughter out the door to school, even as Dean, relishing the role of the fun dad, turns breakfast into a game.
From Brittney Griner’s eagerly anticipated memoir to a long-awaited sequel to Colm Tóibín’s beloved novel Brooklyn, the best books coming in May offer a range of choices for every reader. Those looking for a good laugh should check out the latest high-society comedy from Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan or filmmaker Miranda July’s first novel in 10 years, which offers a profoundly humorous take on menopause and mortality.
(WASHINGTON) — The U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn’t legalize it for recreational use.
The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.”
So what does that mean, and what are the implications?
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What has actually changed?