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Editor’s Note: This story contains disturbing accounts of sexual violence. CNN — Steve Fishman was still in his teens when he came face-to-face with a serial killer. At 19, he was hitchhiking from a friend’s place in Boston to Norwich, Connecticut, where he was an intern at a newspaper. Fishman was not far from his destination and sticking out his thumb when a man pulled over in a green Buick sedan, said his name was “Red,” and told him to hop in. The man appeared friendly and had a balding head with wispy patches of red hair, likely the reason…
Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Trader Joe’s has a lot of great, nutritious products. Jasmine Westbrooks Trader Joe’s may seem like a kitschy neighborhood grocery store, but it’s actually a multi-billion dollar chain with more than 500 stores across the United States.Luckily, despite its business success, it’s still a great place to buy organic, nutritious staples at affordable prices.As a nutritionist married to a personal trainer, here are some of my favorite things to buy at Trader Joe’s this summer. I love Asian stir fried vegetables. Simply add the prepared vegetables to the skillet…
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to usher in a new era of cooperation between Pakistan and China in the information technology, communications, mining and energy sectors, heralding economic development and deepening of long-standing bilateral ties. According to Pakistani media reports, Foreign Minister Sharif made these remarks on Saturday in Islamabad while chairing a review meeting focused on the implementation of agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) reached during his recent visit to China. Radio Pakistan reported that Sharif stressed that enhanced cooperation between Pakistan and China in these areas will boost economic development, strengthen regional ties…
SAN FRANCISCO — Cyclist Reed Martin was happy to share the roads with self-driving cars in this densely populated, hilly city. But last summer, he and his 5-year-old daughter were riding their bikes across a crosswalk when a self-driving car came hurtling toward him at high speed.”We jumped out of the way, but the car continued on as if we weren’t there,” Martin, 42, wrote in a complaint filed with the California Department of Transportation. “Our family was scared. It felt like the car didn’t even notice us, and there was nothing we could do.”In San Francisco, where cyclists already…
England have suffered a history of penalty defeats at major tournaments but overcame that to reach the semi-finals of Euro 2024 with a win over Switzerland.The Three Lions converted all five of their penalties in Düsseldorf, with goalkeeper Jordan Pickford continuing his excellent penalty record by saving a penalty from Manuel Akanji.It was a stark contrast to the heartbreak of three years ago when Gareth Southgate’s England side lost the Euro 2020 final on home soil on penalties.As a player, Southgate knew more than anyone the humiliation that came with missing a penalty during the Euro 96 semi-final defeat to…
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — In 2014, Angelica “Angie” Nwandu felt as if the world was closing in on her.Broke, unemployed and facing eviction, the aspiring screenwriter and grad-school reject needed a quick hustle to keep the lights on. That’s when the Shade Room (TSR) flickered to life.From her cramped apartment in South L.A., Nwandu launched the page on Instagram and began serving up biting commentary on celebrity gossip spanning the Black Hollywood hierarchy: Atlanta reality TV star Phaedra Parks’s messy divorce, Chris Brown’s ongoing legal struggles, Jay-Z and Solange’s infamous elevator fight.Now, 10 years and more than 150,000 posts later,…
If you were to write the history of modern American conservatism, where would you start? Maybe somewhere in the 1930s just before WW2? Or maybe you begin with the Cold War and anti-communism? Cases can be made for both of those entry points, but the early 1990s offer another fascinating moment in this history. While this wasn’t the beginning of any grand conservative movement, the period is, in retrospect, a revealing flashpoint. And if you’re looking for a precursor to the weird, scrambled politics of the present, it’s an excellent candidate. John Ganz is the writer of the newsletter Unpopular…
The company blamed the accident on a “structural fault,” and state media reported no casualties. Since then, despite Chinese censorship, a growing number of videos have been posted on social media showing burning rocket parts, debris from the country’s aggressive launch programme, falling dangerously close to civilian infrastructure.”Launch failures are nothing new,” said Chris Quilty, founder of space-research firm Quilty Analytics. A quick YouTube search turns up videos of locals standing around charred rocket parts in rice fields and near villages.He added: “The scary thing is that they use dangerous solid fuel, and they launch them inland, not from the…
Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Screenshot from the video. Mykola Oleschuk/Telegram Ukraine claims that Russian forces were tricked into attacking replicas of military targets. Air Force Commander Mykola Oreshchuk said Russia had attacked the models with Iskander-M missiles.The Iskander-M is a short-range ballistic missile with a range of 500 km (about 310 miles). The Ukrainian military claims it tricked Russia into attacking mock aircraft and air defense systems with Iskander-M missiles.Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk described the subtle tactic in a Telegram post.He released footage showing recent enemy attacks on mock-up Iskander-M aircraft…
Russian authorities said a village in the western border region had been evacuated following a series of explosions after a Ukrainian drone crashed and its debris set a nearby warehouse on fire.by Samya Club Associated PressJuly 7, 2024 5:30 AM EST• 4 min readKYIV, Ukraine — Residents of a village in Russia’s western border region were evacuated Sunday after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set a nearby warehouse on fire and triggered a series of explosions, local authorities said.Footage on social media showed plumes of black smoke rising from the Voronezh region and a series of loud explosions being…