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Month: April 2021

Ex-NFL player Phillip Adams killed 5 in South Carolina before taking his own life, authorities say

Former NFL player Phillip Adams killed five people — including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren — at the physician’s South Carolina home Wednesday before killing himself in his own family’s home nearby, authorities said. Investigators believe Adams, 32, forced his way into Dr. Robert Lesslie’s home in Rock Hill and

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OPINIÓN | Es probable que Biden no consiga todo en su proyecto de inversión pública… y eso no es malo

Nota del editor: Roberto Izurieta es director de Proyectos Latinoamericanos en la Universidad George Washington. Ha trabajado en campañas políticas en varios países de América Latina y España, y fue asesor de los presidentes Alejandro Toledo, de Perú; Vicente Fox, de México, y Álvaro Colom, de Guatemala. Izurieta también es colaborador de CNN en Español.

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Mueller fraud investigator brought in to help Vance’s probe of Trump Org.

A former FBI forensic accountant key to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election is one of several accountants working on the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into the Trump Organization, people familiar with the matter say. Morgan Magionos, who was a lynchpin to the prosecution of former President Donald

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EPA replaces Trump-era chemical guidance, calling it ‘compromised’ by politics

The Biden-led Environmental Protection Agency says Trump administration political officials “compromised” an assessment of chemical dangers and has replaced it with a new one they say “upholds the tenants of scientific integrity.” “The assessment posted today fixes the errors in the version issued earlier this year, was developed by EPA career scientists, and upholds the

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What the Founders would say about mass shootings

Every time America suffers a mass shooting, I wonder how James Madison would have reacted. Despite the grinding familiarity of gun massacres, today’s America seems to have developed strategies of denial. Many on the right would arm everyone except “felons” and “the mentally ill,” and the left teaches a version of the same dichotomy: The

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‘Them’ taps another vein of horror in the Black experience of the 1950s

“Them” inadvertently serves as a reminder of how deftly Jordan Peele threaded the needle of social commentary and horror with “Get Out,” and how elusive that target can be. Comparisons are inevitable to Peele’s films and HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” but this 10-part Amazon anthology series proves provocative and bingeable while taking some questionable detours en

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