Misconceptions About 9 Major Holidays
New Year’s resolutions aren’t doomed to fail, Halloween isn’t about devil worship, and Christmas isn’t celebrated on December 25 because Jesus was born that day.
2023-09-07 02:46
WeWork, shortly after warning about its future, seeks to renegotiate nearly all of its leases
WeWork says it will renegotiate nearly all of its leases, an announcement coming just weeks after the workspace-sharing provder sounded the alarm on its future ability to stay in business
2023-09-07 02:19
Georgia prosecutors predict four-month trial and 150 witnesses for Trump’s election interference case
Georgia prosecutors estimate a four-month trial with more than 150 witnesses for the 19 defendants in a sweeping racketeering indictment targeting an alleged criminal enterprise to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state. Prosecutors offered an early glimpse of the courtroom arguments against Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants during the first-ever televised hearing connected to the case on 6 September. Fulton County prosecutors shot down arguments from attorneys for Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, who have sought to be tried separately from the 16 others wrapped up in the indictment, which charges the defendants under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO statute, alleging 40 separate crimes and 161 different acts connected to an alleged criminal conspiracy to unlawfully reject election results. That four-month timeline does not include jury selection, prosecutors said. Attorneys for Mr Chesebro, among the chief architects of an allegedly fraudulent scheme to enlist Trump loyalists as presidential electors for the state won by Joe Biden, and Ms Powell, who is accused of leading an effort to unlawfully breach voting machines, have alleged that the allegations against them have nothing to do with dozens of other acts involved in the case. By comparison, in 2014, Ms Willis served as the chief prosecutor in a similarly sweeping RICO case targeting corruption within the Atlanta Public Schools system. Eleven of the 12 defendants were convicted in April 2015, roughly seven months after the beginning of the trial. One of the defendants died before the end of the trial. In arguments before Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Wednesday, attorneys for Mr Chesebro and Ms Powell argued that their clients would be wrapped up in hours, days or weeks of testimony and evidence presentation that would unfairly wrap them up with crimes they had nothing to do with. But Fulton County prosecutor Will Wooten argued that their involvement in those incidents showed that the criminal enterprise “existed, and “that the enterprise was working.” This is a developing story Read More Trump hearing underway in Georgia election case as lawsuit seeks to bar him from 2024 race - live
2023-09-07 02:18
Kamala Harris breaks from White House's silence Trump's legal issues in interview
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday called for "accountability" for the events of January 6, 2021, marking a notable departure from the White House's policy of silence on former President Donald Trump's legal issues.
2023-09-07 02:17
Watch an Early Silent Film About the Theory of Relativity
In 1923, filmmakers attempted to demonstrate Einstein's theory of relativity with pistols.
2023-09-07 02:15
Bedroom sharing and the buddy system. How a Pennsylvania community is coping during a manhunt for an escaped killer
Heavily wooded neighborhoods, curvy roads lined with lush trees, and homes that sit on large plots of land -- that's what authorities in eastern Pennsylvania are competing with as the search for an escaped convicted murderer enters its seventh day.
2023-09-07 01:58
Washington ethics watchdog files suit to try to block Trump from ballot
A Washington-based ethics watchdog filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to try to block Donald Trump from appearing on
2023-09-07 01:57
Romania hosts summit to boost ties between 12 EU countries and partners
A two-day summit in Romania has started in the country's capital bringing together 12 European Union member states situated between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas
2023-09-07 01:54
'This is a united decision': Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner break silence on their divorce
Despite Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas claiming the decision was united, sources close to the couple shared that the actress was a partier
2023-09-07 01:52
Atlanta ‘Cop City’: Dozens face racketeering charges for protests
Atlanta officials claim that "anarchists" conspired to illegally occupy a planned police training site.
2023-09-07 01:47
Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday
WASHINGTON U.S. President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
2023-09-07 01:46
Google reaches tentative settlement with 36 states and DC over alleged app store monopoly
Thirty-six states and the District of Colombia have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant’s alleged monopolistic control of the distribution of apps for the software that runs most of the world’s cellphones
2023-09-07 01:30
