A murder charge is being sought for Carolyn Donham, who made accusations that led to Till’s death 66 years ago Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old Chicago boy, who was brutally murdered near Money, Mississippi, Aug. 31, 1955. (Associated Press) Family members of Emmett Till met at the Mississippi State Capitol on Friday to speak on their…Continue Reading
Musician and singer-songwriter Colin Hay joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about his Beatles influences, new album “Now and the Evermore” (on which Ringo Starr plays drums for the title track) and much more on “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for…Continue Reading
New York City’s restaurants remain starved for diners following the end of the vaccine mandate Monday, the last of the pandemic restrictions that decimated Gotham’s world-famous dining scene. Citywide table reservations were down 53.2 percent on Monday, the first day since August they were open to all diners, compared with the same date in 2020,…Continue Reading
Janice Chen (C) and her Mammoth Biosciences co-founders Trevor Martin (L) and Lucas Harrington (R). CRISPR gene editing pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna is also a co-founder.Along Highway 101 north of the San Francisco Airport, a break-out biotech start-up named Mammoth Biosciences co-founded by Nathan Chen’s sister Janice in 2018 is fast emerging…Continue Reading
Much like the intricate relationship between the gut and brain, diet and mental health are inextricably linked — and the connection between them goes both ways: a lack of good dietary choices leads to an increase in mental health issues, and mental health issues in turn lead to poor eating habits.When people learn that I…Continue Reading
Empty spaces in the shelves of a vodka section of a Pennsylvania liquor store after Russian labels were removed.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesThe spirit of choice for James Bond to characters on “Mad Men” and “Sex and the City,” vodka has long held the dominant position in the U.S. liquor market.The top-selling spirit…Continue Reading
Attendees during the 2022 CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, March 9, 2022.F. Carter Smith | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe annual CERAWeek by S&P Global energy conference in Houston, which wrapped up Friday, could not have come at a better — or more fraught — time. Energy executives, policymakers and…Continue Reading
A Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive pulls a train in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Monday, March 22, 2021.Alex Ramadan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCompany: Canadian Pacific (CP)Business: Canadian Pacific owns and operates a transcontinental freight railway in Canada and the United States. The company transports bulk commodities, including grain, coal, potash, fertilizers, and sulfur. It also…Continue Reading
The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee is trying to underplay the issue of missing Saroops of Guru Granth Sahib Ji. It is trying to project an issue related to beadbi of Guru Sahib as an issue of corruption. SGPC is consistently changing its stances and statements, which points that it is trying to hide real culprits…Continue Reading
Sikh Political Prisoner Bhai Lal Singh Akalgarh spent 28 years behind the bars in India. Arrested in 1992, Bhai Lal Singh was sentenced to imprisonment for life by a TADA Court in 1997. In India persons sentenced to imprisonment for life are released after spending 10 to 14 years in jail but Bhai Lal Singh…Continue Reading