Day: April 1, 2023
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Queens, New York City One of the most famous jazz musicians in the world, Louis Armstrong, along with his wife, Lucille, moved into a modest home in Corona, Queens, in New York City, in 1943. Armstrong lived there until his death in 1971. In 1983, Lucille Armstrong willed the home and its contents to the […]
A powerful storm system barreled across the central U.S. Friday, killing at least 13 people and unleashing reports of at least 60 tornadoes recorded across six states. Fueled by a series of so-called supercells, the rotating thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes, the system battered homes, downed trees and power lines and flipped cars and RV […]
Nine soldiers were killed on Wednesday night when two Army HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed in Kentucky, said Lt. Col. Anthony Hoefler, a spokesman for the division. Based out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the two helicopters crashed just after 10 p.m. local time on Wednesday near Highway 68, per local […]
On Friday, March 31, Georgia baseball lost game one of a three-game series with No. 4 Vanderbilt 9-2. Left-hander Jaden Woods started on the mound for the Bulldogs. Despite losing by seven runs, their No. 1 pitcher kept the game far closer than the final score would lead one to believe. That was until the […]
Feeling safe is crucial for relaxation and sleep, even if you are alone in your own bed at home. I entered a sleep room one day and immediately heard the voice of a child in my ear. The kid, who had a robot avatar, tried and failed to engage me and a medieval knight in […]
“There’s a hole in the world / Like a great black pit / And the vermin of the world / Inhabit it,” a stone-faced Sweeney Todd snarls, after the enthusiastic sailor Anthony burbles at him about coming home to London. Their conversation is the first in the much anticipated Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber […]
U.S. Black women are over three times more likely to die in pregnancy or postpartum than white women. In the United States, non-Hispanic Black women were 3.5 times more likely to die during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth than non-Hispanic white women in 2016 and 2017. Ending Black maternal mortality in America involves . . […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Three current and former former executives of a shipbuilder that constructs vessels for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard have been indicted on accounting fraud charges accusing them of falsely inflating the company’s reported earnings, federal prosecutors said. Craig Perciavalle, 52, Joseph Runkel, 54, and . . .
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused Ukraine of seeking nuclear weapons, according to state media. Kim Yo Jong said a pro-nuclear Ukrainian petition – which has received just 611 signatures – was a political plot by Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, reported KCNA. Ms Kim, herself a senior North Korean official, provided […]
Listen to this article here Bryant Gumbel will be the first Black journalist to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s annual Sports Emmy Awards in New York. Gumbel, 74, has been the host of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” on HBO since 1995. However, his career as a sports journalist has spanned more […]