Remains of child found in Oklahoma during search for missing 4-year-old girl Oklahoma officials looking for a missing 4-year-old girl found the remains of a child Tuesday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. "At this time, the OSBI cannot confirm the remains are ... 03/27/2024 - 10:50 pm | View Link
Oklahoma trooper helps elderly couple missing from Texas after they ran out of gas Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) is applauding a trooper they said went above and beyond on Tuesday.OHP said Trooper Bailey Bennett stopped to help an elderly cou ... 03/27/2024 - 10:03 pm | View Link
Investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse picks up speed as divers search for missing workers Investigators collected evidence Wednesday from the cargo ship that plowed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, while in the waters below divers searched for six construction workers who plunged ... 03/27/2024 - 11:16 am | View Link
8-year-old girl found dead in pipe after swimming at Texas hotel Police in Houston are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found inside a large pipe for a lazy river at a Houston hotel where she’d been swimming with her family. Aliyah Jaico ... 03/27/2024 - 9:01 am | View Link
Workers missing after Baltimore bridge collapse presumed dead; Supreme Court hears arguments in abortion medication case | Hot off the Wire podcast All six workers missing after a Baltimore bridge collapsed are presumed dead and the search for their bodies has been suspended until Wednesday morning. The Maryland State Police ... 03/27/2024 - 2:15 am | 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.