Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a CNN interview that he was shocked almost beyond words by a heartbreaking video of a mother identifying her son’s body. During the interview, which aired Sunday, the CNN anchor, Jake Tapper, played a video of a Ukrainian woman collapsing into tears after she had seen the body of […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin.Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Image Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer was the first EU leader to meet with Putin since the invasion. Nehammer told NBC’s “Meet the Press” the conversation was “frank and tough.” He also said Putin is “in his own war logic” and thinks Russia is winning the war. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer […]
NEW YORK — Ahmet Nejat Ozsu won’t budge. For 15 years, he has lived in the same apartment — a one-bedroom with an enviable private deck on the top floor of a building on the Upper West Side. So when a developer, the Naftali Group, bought the Manhattan building for $70 million in June and […]
An iron bridge over a canal has disappeared in Rohtas district, India.India Ahead News A 550-ton bridge in India was stolen by a gang of thieves, per the news agency Asian News International (ANI). The men dismantled the bridge in broad daylight, ANI reported. Two government employees and a local politician were later arrested, according […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s findings that illusionist David Copperfield and the MGM Grand hotel-casino were not financially responsible for a British tourist’s injuries during a signature vanishing act at a Las Vegas Strip show in 2013. Gavin Cox and his wife, Minh-Hahn Cox, alleged that the multimillionaire […]
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will be getting back the $75,000 in fines he paid to a Connecticut court for failing to appear at a deposition last month in a lawsuit over his assertions that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a judge has ruled. Relatives […]
John Jacob Astor IV was one of the wealthiest people in the world.Library of Congress / Getty When John Jacob Astor IV died on the Titanic 110 years ago, he was one of the richest people in the world. He built landmark New York hotels like the Astoria Hotel and the St. Regis. Astor’s wife, […]
Days before his birthday in August 2019, an employee at a Kentucky-based laboratory asked his office manager to not arrange a celebration for his birthday. It wasn’t the fear of getting older, but rather an anxiety disorder that can spur “panic attacks in stressful situations,” according to court documents. The employee, who was hired in […]
The Russian missile cruiser “Moskva” before it sank.Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press The Moskva, Russia’s Black Sea fleet flagship, sank on Thursday after an explosion. Russian state media reported in 2020 that the ship was due to take a holy relic on board. It’s unclear whether the relic — a piece of the “true cross” — was […]
Editorial cartoon Vote ‘no’ on rezoning golf course The Riviera Golf Club consists of several non-contiguous parcels of property that wind their way through the heart of the 55+ community of Riviera Golf Estates. As originally intended, the golf course acts as a flood plain for the surrounding community. The owners of the golf course […]