Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of the wooden schooner remains intact, including the pen that was used to imprison African captives during the brutal journey across the Atlantic Ocean. While the […]
A monument at the University of Hong Kong which marks the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed. Depicting a heap of anguished human torsos, the famous statue commemorated pro-democracy protesters killed during a crackdown by Chinese authorities – and stood for more than two decades. In a statement, the Council of the University of […]
A rust-colored 1875 almanac, a cloth envelope and a silver coin were found Wednesday in a time capsule that lay hidden beneath a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Virginia for more than 130 years. As intriguing as the water-damaged items were, they’re not what many were expecting to see after state conservators spent […]
The parents of a teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school didn’t anticipate that he would commit violence and are “devastated” like others in the community, a lawyer said Wednesday in requesting that they be granted a lower bond. James and Jennifer Crumbley are charged with involuntary manslaughter and have been jailed on $500,000 bond […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has tested negative for the coronavirus after she was a “close contact” with a staffer who later tested positive for Covid, her office said Wednesday night. The announcement comes two days after the White House said President Joe Biden had been a close contact with another staffer who later tested positive for the […]
A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen massacre was boarded up by workers late Wednesday, prompting fears over the future of the monument as the city’s authorities crack down on dissent. The 26-foot tall Pillar of Shame, which depicts 50 torn and twisted bodies piled on top of each other, was […]
Man whose wife’s Facebook posts tipped off FBI to Capitol riot involvement is sentenced to probation
A Pennsylvania man whose involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was inadvertently uncovered through his wife’s Facebook posts has been sentenced to a year of probation. The man, Gary Edwards, 68, of Southampton, pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement to demonstrating in the Capitol and was sentenced Monday in […]
Actor James Franco has broken his silence about sexual misconduct allegations months after he paid $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by former acting students who accused him in 2019 of sexual harassment at his former acting school, Studio 4. In an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Podcast,” which is scheduled to be released in its entirety […]
A former US senator and his wife have been taken to hospital after their $5.5m mansion was destroyed in a fire. Charles ‘Chuck’ Robb, 82, and Lynda Robb, 77, were injured when the blaze engulfed the luxury property in northern Virginia. Dramatic pictures showed firefighters battling to extinguish the inferno as it ripped through the […]
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., was carjacked at gunpoint in a park in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon, her spokesperson said in a statement. The incident occurred around 2:45 p.m. ET FDR Park in South Philadelphia, where Scanlon had been attending a meeting earlier in the afternoon, the spokeswoman, Lauren Cox, said. The congresswoman was unharmed, […]