by ABC News Writers President-elect Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent Friday’s sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case. In a filing Wednesday morning, defense lawyers argued that sentencing Trump — who has attempted to halt the case based on a claim of presidential immunity — would damage “the institutionContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Trump asks Supreme Court to block his criminal hush money sentencing”
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History Lesson Tuesdays: A Quarry Worker Felt Strange Bumps While Digging. They Turned Out to Be the Largest Dinosaur Trackway in the U.K.
About 166 million years ago, dinosaurs ambled across a shallow lagoon in modern-day Britain. Some of the Jurassic giants took their sweet time, moving in fits and starts; others might have skulked more urgently. All made the mud squelch beneath their toes as they tromped here. At the time, such an occurrence was just aContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: A Quarry Worker Felt Strange Bumps While Digging. They Turned Out to Be the Largest Dinosaur Trackway in the U.K.”
History Lesson Tuesdays: Steve Jobs debuts the iPhone – 2007
On January 9, 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features—at the Macworld convention in San Francisco. Jobs, dressed in his customary jeans and black mock turtleneck, called the iPhone a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any otherContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Steve Jobs debuts the iPhone – 2007”
Opioid Crisis Fridays: True Stories from Missouri- Shawn Dewey, II, 25
Wyandotte County Died: September 7, 2022 She lost her son. Now she works to educate others For most of his childhood, Shawn Dewey II lived in a home with a single mother and three sisters. The girls would tease that he was a “mama’s boy.” But mom Shannon Earnshaw says he was spoiled just asContinue reading “Opioid Crisis Fridays: True Stories from Missouri- Shawn Dewey, II, 25”
Opioid Crisis Fridays: True Stories from Missouri – David Hill, 29
Leavenworth County Died: May 30, 2018 The night David Hill died in 2018, he bought heroin. But what he got was laced with fentanyl, his brother said. A former Western Illinois University baseball player who once aspired to be in the big leagues, David Hill was 29 years old when he died. “My brother neverContinue reading “Opioid Crisis Fridays: True Stories from Missouri – David Hill, 29”
History Lesson Tuesdays: Sam Houston Elected as President of Texas in 1836
On September 5, 1836, Sam Houston is elected as president of the Republic of Texas, which earned its independence from Mexico in a successful military rebellion. Born in Virginia in 1793, Houston moved with his family to rural Tennessee after his father’s death; as a teenager, he ran away and lived for several years with the Cherokee tribe. Houston servedContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Sam Houston Elected as President of Texas in 1836”
Opioid Crisis Fridays: Idaho U.S. Attorney targets fentanyl trafficking in North Idaho and beyond
by Jordan Smith COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Idaho has a lot on its plate, battling multiple issues threatening public safety statewide. At the top of the list: cracking down on fentanyl. “Unfortunately we’ve seen large amounts of fentanyl in North Idaho,” said U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit, who represents the DistrictContinue reading “Opioid Crisis Fridays: Idaho U.S. Attorney targets fentanyl trafficking in North Idaho and beyond”
History Lesson Tuesdays: Krakatoa explodes with massive force – 1883
One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history occurs on Krakatoa (also called Krakatau), a small, uninhabited volcanic island east of Sumatra and west of Java, on August 27, 1883. Heard 3,000 miles away—and believed to have produced the loudest sounds in human history—the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air,Continue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Krakatoa explodes with massive force – 1883”
Opioid Crisis Fridays: True Stories from Missouri – Nicholas “Cruz” Burris, 15
Died: Jan. 18, 2023 Leavenworth, County A late night deal over Snapchat. In the morning, he was dead. It was a typical Tuesday night early this year when Andy Burris stopped to talk to his son before heading to bed. After asking Cruz — a freshman at Lansing High School — if he wanted toContinue reading “Opioid Crisis Fridays: True Stories from Missouri – Nicholas “Cruz” Burris, 15″
Opioid Crisis Fridays: A mother turns grief over her daughter’s overdose death into a movement to save others struggling with addiction
by Meg Dunn Johnson, Vermont — For so many Americans, Jenna Rae Tatro’s story is one that’s all too familiar. After a visit to the emergency room in 2012, she received her first prescription for OxyContin. That 30-day opioid prescription changed the course of her life. The once joyful 20-year-old who loved horseback riding and animals becameContinue reading “Opioid Crisis Fridays: A mother turns grief over her daughter’s overdose death into a movement to save others struggling with addiction”
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