In the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois KEVIN McCALLISTER, Plaintiff -v.- PETER McCALLISTER and KATHERINE McCALLISTER, Defendants Opening statement of Mr. Kenneth Brogan, attorney for plaintiff: My client, Mr. Kevin McCallister, a ten-year-old minor, has been subjected to years of physical and mental abuse by his parents, Peter and Katherine McCallister, whose…Continue Reading
Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton in Reds. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) Forty years ago this month, Warren Beatty’s Reds exposed Communism through a self-destructively naïve American Bolshevik. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W arren Beatty makes you wait so long for it that it feels like a cloud of emotion opening after a drought. We’re three…Continue Reading
One day, humans will explore space en masse and live scattered across the solar system on planets like Mars and beyond. Inspired by his time as artist-in-residence at the European Space Agency, TED Fellow Jorge Mañes Rubio wants to rethink what we need to bring on this grand journey — and more importantly…Continue Reading
When Vice President Kamala HarrisKamala Harris Harris tests negative for COVID-19 after close contact with aide Asylum isn’t the solution for Haitians’ plight Staffer who had contact with Harris tests positive for COVID-19 MORE appeared on Comedy Central’s “Tha God’s Honest Truth” earlier this month, some Democrats were happy to see a glimpse of the…Continue Reading
France reported more than 100,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, setting a new record as the highly contagious omicron variant rips across Europe.Saturday marked the first time the country recorded six figures in a single day, with 104,611 cases.The country logged 94,124 new infections on Friday, according to France’s public health agency.The omicron variant has quickly become the dominant…Continue Reading
Florida broke its single-day record for new COVID-19 cases on Thursday as the omicron variant continues to drive a surge in infections.The state reported 31,758 cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention database on Thursday. The previous high was 27,669 in August when the delta variant swept the state.The statewide positivity rate rose to 13.8 percent for…Continue Reading
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President BidenJoe Biden Harris tests negative for COVID-19 after close contact with aide Standing with Joe Manchin Holiday caller to Biden: ‘Merry Christmas and let’s go Brandon’ MORE has largely managed to avoid the fray of the Supreme Court reform debate in his first year in office by outsourcing the issue to an expert study…Continue Reading
LONDON — British police on Saturday said that an armed intruder was arrested on Christmas morning on the grounds of Windsor Castle, the main residence of Queen Elizabeth II, where the British monarch was celebrating Christmas.“The man has been arrested on suspicion of breach or trespass of a protected site and possession of an offensive…Continue Reading
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — President Nayib Bukele’s government has freed three Salvadoran women who were sentenced to 30 years in prison under the nation’s strict anti-abortion laws after suffering obstetric emergencies, according to abortion rights groups.Morena Herrera of the Citizen’s Group for the Depenalization of Abortion said late Friday that the group was told…Continue Reading