A man in western Connecticut intentionally set his home on fire to escape after allegedly being held captive by his stepmother for more than 20 years with little food and no medical care, authorities said Wednesday. Police, fire and emergency personnel responded to reports of a burning home in Waterbury on February 17 and found […]
The gunman who held intensive care unit staff hostage at UPMC Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania before killing a police officer and injuring five other people Saturday believed that more could have been done to save his wife, who was on life support for a terminal illness, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the […]
Hamas’s military wing released a video on Saturday of Liri Albag, one of some 250 people taken hostage by the group in its attack on Israel, as Israeli and Hamas officials held further rounds of indirect cease-fire talks via mediators in Qatar. Roughly 100 hostages are still being held in Gaza nearly 15 months since […]
LANDOVER, Md. — LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Jimmy Carter was honored with a moment of silence before the Atlanta Falcons’ game at the Washington Commanders on Sunday night, hours after the 39th president of the United States died at the age of 100 in Plains, Georgia. Beyond being a Georgia native who led the country […]
STORY: :: Mourners honor two pilots and a flight attendant who died in the Azerbaijan Airlines crash :: Baku, Azerbaijan :: December 29, 2024 Captain Igor Kshnyakin and co-pilot Alexander Kalyaninov, both ethnic Russians with Azerbaijan citizenship, and Hokuma Aliyeva, a flight attendant, were laid to rest in Baku. Earlier on Sunday, they were given […]
Archaeologists in Berlin have uncovered the remains of 188 figurines that were used as reliquaries — objects that held the bones of people who were considered to be saints or worthy of veneration. The reliquaries were found during excavations of the Molkenmarkt, meaning “whey market,” which is the oldest square in Berlin. The figurines date […]
Canadian rapper supported the hometown Toronto contest, sharing clips from the competition in his Instagram stories Drake awarded $10,000 to a fan who won a lookalike competition thrown in his honor. Organized by Casuals Cakery, the contest was held on Saturday in the rapper’s hometown of Toronto. Prior to the event, Drake apparently got word […]
Luigi Mangione Arrives at Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pa.. NBC News A 26-year-old man identified as a “strong person of interest” in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York was denied bail as he was arraigned Wednesday evening in a Pennsylvania court on gun and forgery charges. University of Pennsylvania graduate […]
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Our planet’s future hangs in the balance due to the unabated greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. Treating these emissions as something that can be owned and exchanged in a market has been touted as a solution since the early 1990s, when UN negotiations to agree a limit to global […]
The mixed martial arts fighter known as “Notorious” was ordered to pay the equivalent of $257,000 to a woman who said he raped her in 2018.
