Russian electoral authority officially declares Putin winner in presidential poll The Russian electoral authority on Thursday officially approved the 2024 presidential election results, declaring incumbent President Vladimir Putin the winner, with 76.3 million people ... 03/21/2024 - 7:52 pm | View Link
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Assad congratulates Putin on re-election as Russian president Bashar Assad wished Putin success in carrying out his duties, pointing to the special nature of relations between Syria and Russia BEIRUT, March 18. /TASS/. Syrian leader Bashar Assad has sent a ... 03/17/2024 - 9:56 pm | View Link
Russian election: Putin declares inevitable landslide victory Tens of thousands of Russians turned out on Sunday to register their opposition to President Putin’s regime as he won a predictable landslide in rubber-stamp elections that will extend his rule ... 03/17/2024 - 8:39 pm | View Link
Putin declares landslide in winning fifth term March 17 (UPI) --Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked voters for their faith in him as he appears headed for a fifth term in office. The latest results show Putin with 87% of the votes ... 03/17/2024 - 5:16 pm | View Link
On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to 50 years behind bars.
In some respects, Bankman-Fried’s story is familiar. He is hardly the first prominent figure in the financial world to face consequences for some very poor decisions.
After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, “taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK.” Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
No one in human history has ever seen an eclipse quite like the one seen by the crew of Apollo 12 on Nov. 21, 1969. Countless billions of us have seen the moon eclipse the sun, casting its shadow on the Earth; countless billions have seen the Earth similarly block solar light, casting a shadow on the moon.
All animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknesses in our perceptions of the world. The most basic weakness we have is that our perceptions don’t tell us everything about what’s going on with the world.