Social Media Has Already Won The Latest Press War The "traditional media" has been slowly displaced by the new "online" media, and that now includes social media ... 04/30/2024 - 6:48 am | View Link
Threatening social media post prompts increased police presence at San Bernardino County high school A district letter to parents and the school community said that the video was brought to the attention of both the district and law enforcement Thursday night. 04/26/2024 - 5:44 am | View Link
4 social media platforms we’ve lost, and what happened to them Though it’s possible the app won’t actually be banned in the U.S., the potential end of the platform prompted some social media users to reflect on those we have lost. Here’s a look at the social ... 04/25/2024 - 10:49 am | View Link
Fellow reservist warned of mass shooting before gunman's attack in Maine That led to a two-week hospitalization in July for Card, months after relatives warned police he had grown paranoid ... day for the many lives that are lost for no reason and those that are ... 04/25/2024 - 7:49 am | View Link
Restoration efforts underway to fix historic Maine bell house after damaging storm The old Fog Bell House at Pemaquid Point suffered heavy damage after its wall was ripped open during a gnarly January storm. 04/24/2024 - 6:20 pm | 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.