In 2008, Fate Winslow was approached by a plain-clothed undercover police officer in Shreveport, Louisiana, looking for some marijuana. Winslow, recently homeless at the time, borrowed a friend’s bike and came back 10 minutes later with two small bags of marijuana worth $20, according to the Innocence Project New Orleans, who represented Winslow. The officer
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Eminem has released a new surprise album, a companion to his 11th studio album, “Music to Be Murdered By.” The Detroit rapper dropped “Music to Be Murdered By — Side B,” Thursday at midnight. The album, produced by Eminem and longtime collaborator Dr. Dre, also features DJ Premier, Ty Dolla $ign and Sly Pyper. Eminem
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Starting New Years Day, police officers in parts of Arizona will now be required, if not already doing so, to cite those caught on their phones while driving.
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When Tesla officially joins the S&P 500 on Monday, Elon Musk’s electric car company will instantly become the top performing stock in the index for 2020. Shares of Tesla are up nearly 700% so far this year, more than double 2020’s current top performer on the index. The stock has surged almost 65% since the
Continue Reading New York City officials announced changes to middle and high school admissions to improve fairness and balance inequities across the system. Beginning for the 2021 school year, middle schools will have a one-year pause on criteria used for admissions screening. That includes state exams, which were cancelled this year due to Covid-19. “These changes will
Continue Reading The New York Times announced Friday that “Caliphate,” the newspaper’s award-winning podcast about the Islamic State, “did not meet our standards for accuracy,” an announcement that marks a black eye for the paper and a reporter who had been seen as one of its stars. “Caliphate,” a 12-part podcast released in 2018 about the inner
Continue ReadingAmerican restaurants are dying and Covid is killing them. More than 110,000 US restaurants have closed during the pandemic — and more are likely to shut, with winter limiting outdoor options, cases surging and states imposing new restrictions. While Congress is negotiating a package that would include new relief money to keep the airline industry
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump lauded Tommy Tuberville this week after the Republican Alabama senator-elect said he is not ruling out joining a House member to object to the election results when Congress meets in a joint session to accept the votes of the Electoral College. Trump is continuing to push senators to overturn the election while
Continue Reading New York Police Department officials did not anticipate the large number of protesters or violence that came at them during the George Floyd demonstrations and that, combined with insufficient staffing and lack of training, led to poor judgment and excessive force, according to a report released Friday. The city Department of Investigation, appointed by Mayor
Continue ReadingHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been vaccinated by Capitol Attending Physician Dr. Brian Monahan, the California Democrat announced Friday, the day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell he would soon be receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. “Today, with confidence in science & at the direction of the Office of the Attending Physician, I received the COVID-19
Continue Reading Authorities say they’ve busted a large illegal winery operating out of a wastewater treatment plant in a small Alabama town. It happened in the town of Rainsville, home to around 5,000 people and about 100 miles northeast of Birmingham. After receiving an anonymous tip Thursday about a possible illegal wine production operation being run inside
Continue Reading The impact of Korean pop band BTS on the global music scene is hard to overstate. Time magazine recently named BTS Entertainer of the Year in its annual tradition of highlighting exceptionally influential figures. Time writer Raisa Bruner called them an “outsize success” for what the boy band has been able to accomplish in 2020:
Continue Reading A Minnesota man sentenced to life in prison as a teenager when Amy Klobuchar was the county attorney has been released, after years of claiming innocence. In 2002, Myon Burrell was jailed for life — at age 16 — for the killing of an 11-year-old girl by a stray bullet. Earlier this year, after new
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Jason Gates spends a lot of his time thinking about trash, and how we can generate less of it. Since 2013 his San Francisco-based startup, Compology, has used cameras and artificial intelligence to monitor what’s thrown into dumpsters and trash containers at businesses such as McDonald’s restaurants and Nordstrom department stores. The point is to
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The Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) announced a new program that will provide essential frontline workers combating COVID-19 with childcare resources.
Continue Reading Researchers have uncovered the fossil of an early mammal named the “crazy beast” that lived 66 million years ago alongside dinosaurs and giant crocodiles on Madagascar, and it’s unlike any mammal ever known, living or extinct. This mammal, about the size of an opossum, had a mix of strange characteristics that haven’t been seen together
Continue Reading Researchers have uncovered the fossil of an early mammal named the “crazy beast” that lived 66 million years ago on Madagascar, and it’s unlike any mammal ever known, living or extinct. This mammal, about the size of an opossum, had a mix of strange characteristics that haven’t been seen together before. It highlights evolutionary strangeness
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(CNN) — Tomemos un breve descanso de la pandemia y las elecciones presidenciales y centrémonos en dos cosas realmente importantes con respecto a Rusia: el presunto hackeo ruso al gobierno de EE.UU. y los rusos que perseguían a Navalny. 1. Identifican a equipo que siguió a Navalny antes del envenenamiento: CNN y los periodistas de
Continue ReadingFormer President Barack Obama appeared in three digital campaign ads urging Georgians to vote for Rev. Raphael Warnock ahead of the Senate runoff election in January. “If we want Joe Biden to succeed in tackling this virus and getting folks back to work, we need Raphael Warnock in the Senate,” Obama said in one of
Continue ReadingThe expectation that President Donald Trump will issue a flurry of pardons in his final days in office has sparked a contentious discussion among congressional Republicans over whether former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden deserves one. Snowden, who has been living in exile in Russia for several years now, is accused of espionage and
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