Dunlap High School Senior dies in late night crash A head-on crash near the Louisville Slugger Complex late Saturday night has left a Dunlap High School Senior dead. The Peoria County Coroner says the crash happened just before 11:45 PM Saturday night ... 05/5/2024 - 10:47 am | View Link
Pedestrian dies in Huntsville after being struck by a car A 37-year-old woman died Saturday night after she was struck by a vehicle in north Huntsville, according to Madison County Coroner Tyler Berryhill. Authorities identified the woman as Mylynda Cox. She ... 05/5/2024 - 7:38 am | View Link
Hit-Run Crash: 37-Year-Old From Huntington Station Suffers Serious Injuries In Dix Hills A person suffered critical injuries in an early morning hit-and-run crash on Long Island. It happened around 12:15 a.m. Sunday, May 5 in Dix Hills. The victim, Amilar Velasquez, a 37-year-old ... 05/5/2024 - 5:56 am | View Link
OSP: 15-year-old dies, 2 teenagers injured after crash in Highland County A 15-year-old has died, and two other teenagers were hospitalized after a single-vehicle crash in Highland County on Saturday morning.According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a 17-year-old was ... 05/3/2024 - 11:49 pm | View Link
Utah Road Rager Dies In Crash A 27-year-old man is dead after the Mazda3 he was driving wrecked out at high speed, hitting a tree and splitting the hatchback in half. Allegedly, what preceded the crash was a road rage incident to ... 05/3/2024 - 10:30 am | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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