NEW YORK — When No Labels’ critics got the loudest, it was Joe Lieberman who came to the group’s defense. The former Connecticut senator was a founding chairman of the centrist organization that focused, above all, on promoting bipartisanship in national politics. Despite its benign stated mission, No Labels inflamed many people across politics by […]
A man arrested in connection with Monday’s killing of a New York City police officer was heckled by an impromptu crowd of New Yorkers Wednesday as he was hustled into a police car. Lindy Jones, 41, has been identified as the driver of a vehicle approached by NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller in his final moments […]
John Ioannidis is one of the ten most cited scientists globally and is generally recognized as one of the best. His best-known work is Why Most Published Scientific Results Are False, which has helped revolutionize how people think about the incentives in science. A researcher at Stanford who is a member of 5 departments, including […]
MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from last week’s Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in a hospital, Russian officials said. That person was one of five still hospitalized in “extremely grave condition,” and the doctors “did everything they could” to save them, Russia‘s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko […]
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi House leader said Tuesday that he won’t move forward with a bill to allow a casino in the capital city of Jackson – a proposal that would have been a dramatic change in a decades-old a state law that limits casinos to areas along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi […]
LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won’t get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site’s publication of classified American documents. Two High Court judges […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. — A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter in the 2013 death of his girlfriend. Richard Schmitz, 55, took a plea deal in January, one day before he was due to go on trial for the death of Meshell Will, 38, whose badly decomposed body […]
MOSCOW — The death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack has risen to 133, Russia’s top state investigative agency said Saturday. The update from the Investigative Committee comes as authorities are combing the charrred wreckage of the Crocus City Hall on Moscow’s western edge for more victims. Officials previously put the death toll from […]
Happy Friday, Gentle Readers, I hope this missive finds you well. I enter the weekend both hopeful and hopeless. As a March Madness fanatic, I was thrilled to watch my Dayton Flyers knock off Nevada yesterday in a nail-biting, come-from-behind 63-60 win. We’ll see what happens in Round 2. I don’t know who they […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Jurors in 1994 recommended by a 9-3 vote that Rocky Myers be spared the death penalty and serve life in prison. A judge sentenced him to die anyway. Myers is now one of nearly three dozen inmates on Alabama’s death row who were placed there under a now-abolished system that allowed judges […]
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