Two women recently filed a lawsuit claiming they were sexually abused for years by their ice skating coach, a former Olympic figure skater, in misconduct the lawsuit says should’ve been obvious to other adults around them. The plaintiffs were listed as “Jane Doe 1” and “Jane Doe 2” and defendants were also given similarly anonymous … Read more
Dartmouth College will again require prospective students to submit standardized test scores beginning with the undergraduate class of 2029, resuming a policy halted for years because of the pandemic, the university announced Monday. Officials at the Ivy League institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, said in a statement it became a “test-optional” school in June 2020, … Read more
Up to 37 million people were at risk of possibly life-threatening flooding in California overnight and into Sunday, forecasters warned, as an “atmospheric river” brought heavy rain, snow and strong winds with the potential to down trees and power lines across the state. The National Weather Service Bay Area warned of “widespread” tree and power … Read more
He cites Christmas Eve 2022 as a “wake-up call.” Plunging temperatures led to high demand for heat and electricity from Con Ed’s customers. Con Ed both provides electricity to 3.6 million customers and makes steam in a Manhattan steam and power plant to heat office and apartment buildings directly via a network of underground pipes, a … Read more
It wasn’t the first tiny device to be implanted in a human brain. Still, Elon Musk’s announcement on Monday turned heads in the small community of scientists who have spent decades working to treat certain disabilities and conditions by tapping directly into the body’s nervous system. “Getting a device into a person is no small … Read more
UC Santa Barbara, Cal State campuses in Northridge, Fullerton shutter in-person classes Some California universities are telling students to stay home tomorrow as they expect the effects of the storm to make it difficult, if not perilous, to make it to class. Among them are the University of California, Santa Barbara, which serves a community … Read more
QUEMADO, Texas — Trump 2024 flags flew alongside Christian flags as a throng of people converged on a rural Texas ranch to denounce the president and the people who have crossed into the United States from the nearby Rio Grande. Many of those who arrived at the border town of Quemado on Friday for the … Read more
A dead goose was found in part of the flight control system of a medical helicopter that crashed in western Oklahoma, killing all three people on board, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. The report does not cite a suspected cause of the crash, but noted one goose was found … Read more
Mike Gill, the former Trump administration official who was shot during a Washington, D.C., carjacking spree on Monday, died Saturday, his wife said in a statement. Gill, who previously worked at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission under former President Donald Trump, was shot Monday in violence related to a carjacking spree that also claimed … Read more
Studio 8H at New York City’s Rockefeller Center may be as close as Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is going to get to a debate venue for a bout with former President Donald Trump. The former South Carolina governor, who pulled out of a scheduled Republican candidate debate in New Hampshire last month after it … Read more