SAN FRANCISCO – For many Palestinian Americans in the Bay Area, seeing the rise in civilian deaths from the war in Gaza is deeply personal, and especially difficult as Wednesday marks the 76th anniversary of the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, which forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee from their homes in what they call […]
Jessica Morris‘ knee started buckling back in March 2022 while she played with her daughter at the park. “Well, that’s kind of odd,” she thought. Maybe she needed to up her exercise routine. But when her symptoms intensified, the day she dreaded arrived: A visit to her family’s neurologist at Northwestern University. A genetic test […]
Ghost Bots In China, the AI cloning of dead relatives has become a thriving cottage industry, driving down prices and spurring technological advances in the years since these kinds of services have been offered. In an interview with NPR, MIT Tech Review reporter Zeyi Yang discussed the fascinating, if not macabre, industry he covered for a […]
BALTIMORE — Seven weeks after Maynor Suazo Sandoval died when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, his family in Honduras met his body at the San Pedro Sula airport and prepared to bury him. A commercial flight bearing the remains of the 38-year-old worker arrived at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Ramón Villeda Morales Airport. At […]
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday acknowledged endorsements from more than a dozen of his relatives who are backing Democratic President Joe Biden, noting that he feels no ill will over the family political divide. “Some of them don’t like the fact that I’m running,” Kennedy said of […]
Apr. 9—Two Dayton men indicted Friday are accused of following family members leaving a funeral for a 14-year-old homicide victim and then shooting at them. Daviontay Maurice Travis Hunter, 20, and Thomas Michael Peck Jr., 19, are each charged with one count of felonious assault in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. Dayton police were dispatched […]
Pope Francis on Monday met relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, marking the six-month anniversary of the attack in southern Israel with an hour-long audience. The Vatican released photos of the encounter, showing relatives of several of the hostages sitting in a semicircle in front of Francis in his private library in […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis met Monday with relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, marking the six-month anniversary of the attack in southern Israel with an hour-long audience. The Vatican released photos of the encounter, showing relatives of several of the hostages sitting in a semicircle in front of Francis in […]
The relatives of hostages abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip are urging Germany to do more to secure their release with a demonstration in Berlin, six months after the attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas. As part of their campaign they dropped hundreds of pictures of the hostages from a balloon […]
Louis Gossett Jr., an actor who died March 28, had family ties to Oconee County, Ga. Louis Gossett Jr., the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor who died March 28, was known for his numerous film roles, but many people in the Athens area probably don’t realize that in his youth he spent time on a relative’s […]
Relatives of the victims of Brazil’s brutal two-decade dictatorship have voiced anger and dismay over President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reported decision to block official remembrance events marking the 60th anniversary of the 1964 military coup d’état. Activists had hoped the leftist’s government would mark the 31 March 2024 anniversary of that power-grab with […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Relatives of the family of four killed in a horrific crash on Saturday in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood have released their first statement about their loss. Meanwhile, the driver who struck the family has been released from the hospital. The father, Diego Cardoso de Oliveira and their toddler son, Joaquim, were […]