Trump on the roof; Epstein planning meeting; "Speedway Slammer"; lunar nukes; ChatGPT and teens; Big Apple quake estimate
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Trump wanders on White House roof and rants about CA water; Dems fight TX map rigging: A Closer Look (Video)
Vance's Epstein dinner | ICE's age cap | RFK Jr. attacks vaccines | Trump burns our tax dollars (Video)
Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read this article. The president keeps trying to change the subject from Jeffrey Epstein, but his tactics are only making it worse.
A new immigrant detention partnership nicknamed after Indiana’s iconic racetrack inspires backlash. Top Trump administration officials boast that a new state partnership to expand immigrant detention in Indiana will be referred to as the “Speedway Slammer.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on plans for a moon-based nuclear reactor. (Video)
New study sheds light on ChatGPT’s alarming interactions with teens. ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according to new research from a watchdog group.
New York City could face $4.7B in damage if rocked by earthquake similar to recent temblors. That analysis was based on a quake of the same magnitude that shook the city on Aug. 10, 1884, which sent chimneys toppling and brick walls shattering.
What Trump doesn’t understand about nuclear war. The contours of World War III are visible in numerous conflicts. The president of the United States is not ready.
Grand Canyon ‘Megafire’ explodes in size and is now creating its own weather. The Dragon Bravo wildfire has been burning for over a month, and U.S. firefighting agencies are too understaffed to stop it.
Quote of the Day:
Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through Lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
--Garrison Keillor (Wikipedia link)
(More Garrison Keillor quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Beach Party Day, National IPA Day, National Lighthouse Day, National Purple Heart Day, National Sea Serpent Day, Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day, Professional Speakers Day, Raspberries 'n Cream Day, and World PVNH Disorder Awareness Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2023 – Died: William Friedkin, American film director (born 1935)
2022 – Died: David McCullough, American historian and author (born 1933)
2021 – Died: Markie Post, American actress (born 1950)
2012 – Died: Judith Crist, American critic and academic (born 1922)
2008 – Died: Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (born 1931)
2007 – At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hit his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
2005 – Died: Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (born 1938)
2004 – Died: Red Adair, American firefighter (born 1915)
1995 – The Chilean government declared a state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake.
1990 – First American soldiers arrived in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others died in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1987 – Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
1985 – Died: Grayson Hall, American actress (born 1922)
1981 – The Washington Star ceased all operations after 128 years of publication.
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
1976 – Viking 2 entered orbit around Mars.
1974 – French highwire artist Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. (Video)
1972 – Died: Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (born 1929)
1964 – The U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey was awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
1959 – The satellite Explorer 6 was launched from Cape Canaveral; first satellite to take photos of the Earth.
1957 – Died: Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (born 1892)
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1944 – IBM dedicated the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1930 – The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, were killed.
1927 – The Peace Bridge opened between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends became the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1789 – The United States Department of War was established.
1786 – The first federal Indian Reservation was created by the United States.
1782 – George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It was later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1987 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Cirroc Lofton, American actor
1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress (Video)
1974 – Michael Shannon, American actor
1960 – David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 – Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
1950 – Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat
1944 – Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer
1944 – John Glover, American actor
1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer (died 2021)
1942 – Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, writer, and radio host
1933 – Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and author (died 2017)
1928 – James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and author (died 2020)
1926 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (died 2015)
1884 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer (died 1970)
1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (died 1917)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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