Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are threatening to take over several government buildings if the territory’s Beijing-friendly chief executive does not resign Thursday. The student protesters are giving Leung Chun-ying until midnight local time (1600 GMT) to resign, and have already begun camping outside his office in the semi-autonomous Chinese city, and have demanded China […]Load more...
Mexican authorities say they have captured Hector Beltran Leyva — one of the country’s most wanted drug kingpin suspects. Soldiers arrested him Wednesday in the central Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende after a nearly year-long operation. No other details are available. Beltran Leyva is one of four brothers who allegedly headed a vicious […]Load more...
On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. Hudson’s death raised public awareness of the epidemic, which until that time had been ignored by many in the mainstream as a «gay plague.» Hudson, born Leroy Harold Scherer Jr., on November 17, 1925, […]Load more...
On this day in 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, home of such natural wonders as Half Dome and the giant sequoia trees. Environmental trailblazer John Muir (1838-1914) and his colleagues campaigned for the congressional action, which was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison and paved the way for generations of hikers, campers […]Load more...
A new poll shows the U.S. economy is the single most important issue for American voters, ahead of elections in November to decide one-third of the members of the U.S. Senate and all members of the House of Representatives. According to an Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday, nine in 10 Americans likely to vote in […]Load more...
“The Equalizer” opens with a quote from Mark Twain saying that the two most important days in your life are when you are born and when you find out why. This introduces the major theme of the film: that it’s up to us to figure out our role in life. Are we the person we’re […]Load more...
When «Evel Dick» Donato left «Big Brother 13» during filming, he cited only «personal reasons» for his decision. He’s now revealing the reason for his exit: He is HIV positive. The winner of «Big Brother 8» shared his revelation on an episode of the VH1 reality series «Couples Therapy» set to air Wednesday. Donato and […]Load more...
A Rhode Island child has died of a bacterial infection associated with Enterovirus D68, state public health officials said on Wednesday. The 10 year old of Cumberland, Emily Otrando, died as a result of a staphylococcus aureus sepsis associated with the respiratory virus, which the Rhode Island Department of Health in a statement called a […]Load more...
The director of the U.S. Secret Service, Julia Pierson, has resigned. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday that Pierson met with President Barack Obama, who expressed appreciation for her 30 years of service to the country. Earnest said Pierson took responsibility for the service’s shortcomings and for fixing them. Earnest said the president continues […]Load more...
HYDE PARK, NEW YORK—In 1946, when the American military returned from the World War II, a small vocational culinary institution was established for veterans in the northeastern United States. Today, it is called the Culinary Institute of America – with three campuses in the United States and one in Singapore. More than 12 percent of […]Load more...
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