AUGUST 31, 2022
Late Tuesday night, federal prosecutors filed their latest motion in the ongoing legal saga surrounding the criminal investigation into former president Donald Trump and his handling of classified information after he left office.
The searing, 36-page court filing provides the most detailed account of the monthslong interactions between Trump representatives and officials investigating how the top-secret documents came...
AUGUST 31, 2022
Former president Barack Obama, pictured with his first lady Michelle Obama in 2016, often finds himself on the receiving end of a Donald Trump broadside. - Photo: Drew Angerer
Former US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will finally unveil their official portraits at the White House next week after being denied the honor by...
AUGUST 31, 2022
Traffic moves along Highway 101 on August 24, 2022 in Mill Valley, California. - Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Californians may need to take measures to conserve energy, including by avoiding charging electric vehicles, to prevent strain to the state's power grid over the Labor Day weekend, officials said—a week after state regulators voted on a plan to ban the...
AUGUST 31, 2022
An array of highly classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. (Photo: Department of Justice / FBI)
Former President Donald Trump continued raging on his social media platform Wednesday, the morning after a Department of Justice court filing offered the most detailed look yet at the timeline leading up to the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago.
His latest rants follow a day...
AUGUST 31, 2022
Pilots know that a long cross-country solo flight is a requirement for obtaining a coveted FAA pilot’s certificate. But, with a recent delivery flight of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk nonstop from California to Hawaii, the term “long cross country” has new meaning. This one was “mammoth.”
The distance covered 2,190 nm in a tad over 18 hours. I’ll...
AUGUST 31, 2022
GANESH CHATURTHI 2022: Celebrations for Ganesh Chaturthi for the next 10 days have begun with great zeal and joy. The preparations for the grand celebration have been in full swing. Throughout Ganesh Chaturthi, devotees dress up in new clothes, throng pandals and Lord Ganesha’s temples to offer prayers and relish delicious foods. The Ganeshotsav usually falls in...
AUGUST 30, 2022
The work from home environment, forced on us by the pandemic, has made the barriers to switching jobs much easier.
I have a friend in the US who served that country’s armed forces. Being a retired serviceman, he is interested in firearms and uses them for sporting activities. He often travels to a firing range near his house...
AUGUST 30, 2022
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who avoided bloodshed to end the Cold War but was unable to save the fall of the Soviet Union, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92, according to hospital sources quoted by Russian news agencies.
The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, worked to bring about the reunification of Germany by...
AUGUST 30, 2022
Einstein Ring galaxy effect, Photo: BGR
NASA released the first full-color images of our universe from James Webb in July. Since then, the space telescope has captured evidence of a supernova, carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere, and now James Webb has captured an image of a beautiful Einstein Ring.
NASA’s James Webb telescope captured this image of a...
AUGUST 30, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden will travel to the key swing state of Pennsylvania Tuesday where he plans to contrast his administration's efforts to strengthen law enforcement with the GOP's and argue that congressional Republicans' "extreme MAGA agenda is a threat to the rule of law," a White House official said.
In afternoon remarks in Wilkes Barre,...
