The DOJ reopened the Till investigation after a key figure was quoted in a 2017 book saying that she lied when saying that the Black teen whistled at her and made sexual advances, an accusation that led to his brutal murder. The department concluded that it could not prove that Carolyn Donham, who is in her 80s, lied in her accusation and did not file any new charges related to his death....
Thompson, a longtime Saturday Night Live cast member, was hosting the ceremony for the first time and introduced Euphoria star Zendaya from the stage and followed with a crack about The Great Gatsby actor. “Zendaya just turned 26. Twenty-six is a weird age in Hollywood. Young enough to play a high school student, but too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio,” Thompson said, drawing laughs from the audience inside Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater....
Since then the name Byzantium has symbolized the lost glory of the Hellenic culture of the Orthodox Church. Its value today, however, goes further than its Christian mysticism or its monumental icons: Byzantine art would go on to inspire future masters. Renaissance painters like Gerard David and El Greco, 19th-century impressionists like Cezanne and Gauguin, and 20th-century masters like Picasso and W. B. Yeats are all indebted to Byzantium’s legacy....
title: “Empty Title” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-22” author: “Brent Bickers” UNDERHILL: Why did you take up the Jubilee 2000 cause? BONO: It began about 18 months ago. I had just made a speech to my band about how I wouldn’t get distracted from our next record. Then along came this idea–that we could harness all this energy and sense of anticipation for what is really an arbitrary date and actually make something of it, so that when we wake up on Jan....
The Foundation, in partnership with Facebook Messenger, will broadcast live from Symbio Wildlife Park in Helensburgh, Australia. No Facebook account is required to visit and join the koala group video chat—just go to the Koala Room on the Foundation’s Facebook page for what it claims is the world’s first koala Messenger room. Two Symbio Wildlife Park zookeepers, Naomi Johnston and Elizabeth Florance, will host the room. Participants can enjoy the antics of koalas Imogen, Ellie, Johnny, Grace and Baby Kev....
The privately commissioned wall began construction over Memorial Day weekend last year. In December, operations were halted by an order from a Hidalgo County judge after the National Butterfly Center argued the project would create flooding risks. In early January, a federal judge allowed North Dakota-based Fisher Sand and Gavel to resume construction. Two reports, first obtained and reported on by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune and commissioned by the National Butterfly Conservatory, indicate that sections of the three-mile fence is at risk of overturning due to erosion....
The study said that it wasn’t possible to predict the size of tremors or possibility of an earthquake happening if the country continues fracking—drilling into the earth to release gas produced by shale rock—procedures in Lancashire, England. The shale gas extraction project on Preston New Road, run by Cuadrilla Resources, has been at a halt since August, when a 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck the area. Government mandates require fracking operations be halted for any tremors measuring above a 0....
LIVE: Follow updates from USA vs England World Cup Group B match And they will be heavily fancied again when they take on a USA side who were held by Wales in their opening fixture. However, it is worth remembering that the last time these sides were last paired in a World Cup group stage (South Africa 2010), the United States finished first to England’s second following a 1-1 draw between the two....
The whale was found on Strand Beach in Cape Town, South Africa on November 26. “I’ve just had in that the actual weight of it was 26.6 tonnes [around 58,600 lbs], and it was 13.5 meters [44.3 feet] in length,” Lisa Starr, the founder of the Helderberg Ocean Awareness Movement in South Africa told Newsweek. “The city do believe it [died from] natural causes. There is nothing sinister happening in the ocean at the moment....
Could Iran really help stabilize Iraq? James Baker and Lee Hamilton, the co-chairs of the study group, believe Iran can be persuaded, mainly through incentives, to stop supporting militia groups in Iraq and promote conciliation between Shiites and Sunnis. Diplomacy with Iran and Syria marks one of the report’s three main recommendations (alongside shifting the role of American troops in Iraq from combat to support and jump-starting the Israeli-Arab peace process)....
But these alleged victims used U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman’s open invitation to self-identified victims to pursue some measure of closure, even if it was not of the sort they had hoped for when the government announced Epstein’s arrest in July after years of evading significant accountability for his alleged crimes. “I am a victim of Jeffrey Epstein,” Courtney Wild said to a hushed courtroom, using an opening line that would be reprised by many of her fellow accusers....
EBV also increases the risk of certain cancers, and it seems to play a role in some autoimmune and other medical conditions. The virus is named for Epstein and Barr, who discovered it in 1964. What Is the Epstein-Barr Virus? Epstein-Barr virus, like other viruses, is a microscopic agent that can only survive and replicate by infecting a host. EBV is grouped together with other similar viruses categorized as double-stranded DNA viruses, because of their specific structure....
“I’m going to make some tough choices. People are not going to agree with some of them.” Adams said during a press conference at Citi Field where he was joined by executives from the Mets and Yankees. “I must move this city forward.” Irving is not the only player that will be affected by the exemption, unvaccinated New York Yankees or Mets players would have been banned from playing in their home games if the mandate was still in place....
Dickerson, who serves as the Ram’s vice president of business development, said on Twitter that he will speak with the team on behalf of fans about the matter. MORE: Twitter’s apathy to the Ram’s new logo was palpable. The Rams logo was officially released in a short video on Monday. The primary logo has a ram horn intertwined with the letters L.A. The secondary logo is a white ram head with yellow horns and blue detail....
In a statement posted to Twitter by KMBC reporter Micheal Mahoney, Greitens’ campaign characterizes him as a “great Dad” who is allegedly the victim of “a woman with a documented history of mental illness and emotionally abusive behavior.” The statement elaborates on this contrast, alleging that his ex-wife, Sheena Greitens, spent a week in Washington, D.C., filing court documents with false accusations while he was spending spring break with the couple’s two sons....
Kay, 47, was found guilty Thursday of one charge of conspiracy to possess fentanyl with the intent to distribute and one charge of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death. Kay could be sentenced to a minimum of 20 years and a $1 million fine for the drug-related conviction. The 27-year-old Angels player was traveling with his team to play against the Texas Rangers when he was found dead in his hotel room on July 1, 2019....
Trump, who is executive vice president of the Trump Organization, spoke to Newsmax TV’s Cortes & Pellegrino on Monday and highlighted the recent spike in gas prices and increased migrant crossings at the southern border, among other issues. “You know, it’s sad. My father had these problems under control,” Trump said, calling the border situation “an absolute mess” and touting the U.S.-Mexico border wall, which was a major plank of the former president’s 2016 campaign....
She was 28 years old at the time, and I was too young to grasp the severity of the situation, but an 8-year-old can tell when her mom isn’t herself. She was constantly tired, randomly getting sick, and spent a lot of time going back and forth to the doctor undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. Everyone was tense. After a year, she was deemed cancer-free, but cancer was like this looming presence....
As the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries notes, “true sanctuaries” are places that “[provide] excellent and humane care for their animals in a non-exploitative environment.” These facilities typically house “displaced, wild, equine and farm animals.” The cow, who has since been named “Stacy,” ran away from a business in Queens, New York, in mid-December. Later that day, officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) discovered the calf in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, where she was “safely corralled....
The win gave Jorstad his second WSOP gold bracelet after he won the $1,000 Tag Team event earlier in the summer alongside teammate Patrick Leonard. MORE: Stream the WSOP on PokerGO | Full WSOP schedule 2022 World Series of Poker heads-up battle: A fateful duel Jorstad, 34, is a native Norwegian but currently resides in London, England. Known mostly for online cash games, he does occasionally dabble in tournament play, with 20 WSOP online cashes to his name....
