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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
Police beat up anti-ICE protesters at rallies for detained children's hospital chaplain escalate. (Video)
Ice secretly deported a Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost green card
Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital, a country to which he has no connection.
Naturalized citizens are scared. To become Americans, they promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts their status at risk?
Atlanta journalist fights deportation from Ice jail despite dropped charges: ‘I’m seeing what absolute power can do.’
Heat, floods, and fires threaten multiple US regions while fossil fuel industry seeks legal immunity.
A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared. “How do you plan for the worst thing you’ve never seen?”
Uranus really is hotter than it has any right to be.
American father and vlogger tricked into front line combat by Russia. The Texas man is the latest in a string of Americans lured to Russia by propaganda, yet confronting a reality that is altogether different than the utopia they were sold.
Snack Wrap frenzy briefly leaves McDonald's short on lettuce.
Solar storms are stealthily knocking out Musk’s satellites and disrupting global coverage.
‘Elon is gambling’ — How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale.
Trust in the US is eroding. The question isn’t if the dollar will lose supremacy – it’s when.
Fireflies (lightning bugs) are back!
Ground squirrels are taking over a North Dakota city and officials are not amused.
Quote of the Day:
Reality: what a concept!
--Robin Williams (Wikipedia link)
(More Robin Williams quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Global Hug Your Kids Day, Invite an Alien to Live with You Day, Legal Drinking Age Day, National Be Someone Day, National Get Out of the Doghouse Day, National Junk Food Day, National Lamington Day, National Tug-Of-War Tournament Day, No Pet Store Puppies Day, and Take a Monkey to Lunch Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2024 – US President Joe Biden announced he would no longer seek a second term and withdraws from the 2024 election.
2011 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ended with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
2010 – President Barack Obama signed the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
2007 – The seventh and final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released, with an initial print run of 12 million copies in the United States alone.
1996 – "The Daily Show", a late-night talk and satirical news program hosted by Craig Kilborn, premiered on Comedy Central.
1983 – The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location was recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
1979 – Jay Silverheels (birth name Harold Jay Smith), a Mohawk actor, became the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonated 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
1972 – Comedian George Carlin was arrested for his infamous "seven dirty words" routine. Charges were dropped, but a later complaint about a broadcast of his act would propel the issue of indecent speech to the Supreme Court.
1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed.
1969 – Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon, followed 19 minutes later by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 became the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
1959 – Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green became the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate.
1949 – The United States Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
1925 – Malcolm Campbell became the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.
1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, became the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land.
1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pulled off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shot and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
1861 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war began and ended in a victory for the Confederate army.
356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was destroyed by arson.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1987 – Peter Doocy, American journalist
1968 – Brandi Chastain, American soccer player and sportscaster
1957 – Jon Lovitz, American comedian, actor, and producer
1955 – Taco, Indonesian-born Dutch singer and entertainer (Video)
1951 – Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (died 2014) (Video)
1948 – Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
1948 – Cat Stevens, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Video)
1946 – Kenneth Starr, American lawyer and judge, 39th Solicitor General of the United States (died 2022)
1944 – Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (died 2002)
1943 – Edward Herrmann, American actor (died 2014)
1938 – Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General (died 2016)
1931 – Plas Johnson, American saxophonist (“The Pink Panther Theme”) (Video)
1926 – Norman Jewison, Canadian actor, director, and producer (died 2024) (Video)
1924 – Don Knotts, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (died 2006) (Video)
1920 – Isaac Stern, Russian-American violinist and conductor (died 2001)
1911 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist (died 1980)
1899 – Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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