Petrified Forest National Park may not ring a bell, even though more than half a million people visited last year, according to National Park Service data. “People come to Petrified Forest unintentionally, often. They’re on their way, typically, to or from the Grand Canyon or during spring break, they’re headed to spring training,” said park […]
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday. A jury found Bankman-Fried, 32, guilty in November on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. Federal prosecutors in […]
First-term Republican Senator Katie Britt’s critical response to President Joe Biden’s handling of the southern border should get an Oscar award for “Best Female” entertainer. The Alabama senator’s dire description of a woman who was raped thousands of times by a drug cartel in the United States actually happened in Mexico many years earlier when […]
Opinion. Fourteen years ago this month, the South Dakota legislature passed an eleventh-hour proposal to change the state’s statute of limitations on child sex offenses. The legislation made it impossible for any victim aged 40 or above to bring civil damages against people or institutions — including churches and schools — that should have known of the […]
A massive market cap alone doesn’t qualify a stock for inclusion in the so-called “Magnificent Seven.” But that’s pretty much how it’s worked out. Because these seven tickers have performed so well of late, they’ve become some of the market’s biggest companies as well. But a check of market caps shows there is one curious […]
A new stadium at Casement Park “needs to be built” and “should be supported as other stadia were”, Alliance leader Naomi Long has said. Ms Long was speaking amid uncertainty around the project after reports that the cost of the development of the west Belfast site could top £300 million, and that the UK government […]
Looking at a map, it’s easy to understand why the National Park of American Samoa gets relatively few visitors, but seeing images, it no longer makes sense. How could this breathtaking place not top more bucket lists? With 12,134 visitors, the National Park of American Samoa was the second-least visited national park last year. Only […]
Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) stock has been on a tear in the last 12 months, up almost 192%. Still, Palantir stock deserves more love as the company’s AI business continues to gain traction amid favorable macroeconomic trends. The company’s aggressive expansion into commercial capabilities is likely to accelerate revenue growth, paving the way for robust earnings […]
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (WFLA) — Police documents revealed new details about a double murder investigation in Pinellas Park. Austin Skonecki, 30, was accused of shooting two men – John Luke, Jr. and Brian Mikell – on Feb. 10. A search warrant executed on Feb. 14 gives insight to the Pinellas Park Police Department’s (PPPD) investigation. […]
Sitting in a hundred-year-old restaurant booth that was once a fixture in the historic Lamb’s Grill Restaurant in Salt Lake City, Jim Leany is explaining why he, A) went to the trouble of transplanting landmark decor from Salt Lake’s Main Street to State Street in Orem, and B) decided to give his restaurant the curious […]
The Tennessean recently published stories about the impact of The Covenant School murders. It was a painful, powerful and heartbreaking account shared by those involved. Our hearts go out to the victims of such trauma. Now that we have a public recounting of the emotional carnage and the dialogue of loss, grief and trauma in the […]
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., acknowledged one of his biggest financial blunders in buying Dexter Shoe Co. in 1993. Dexter, a Maine-based shoemaker, was initially perceived as a thriving business. Buffett remarked in his 2014 letter to shareholders that he had made many mistakes but one stood out as […]