Day: April 3, 2023

Distraction, speeding, alcohol drive up 2021 traffic deaths

6:08 pm April 3, 2023

Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, with deaths due to speeding and impaired or distracted driving on the rise. The 2021 final numbers, released Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, confirmed earlier estimates by the agency showing a 10.5% increase in deaths over 2020. That’s the highest number in […]

Flooded pits in Burundi kill at least 13 gold miners

6:07 pm April 3, 2023

An official in Burundi says the bodies of 13 gold miners have been recovered from two pits in which they were trapped by flood water. Nicodème Ndahabonyimana, a district administrator in the northwestern province of Cibitoke, said the miners could not be saved after the pits collapsed Friday night amid torrential rainfall. The bodies of […]

Lawyers for Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old file $40M suit detailing how school allegedly ignored warnings

6:05 pm April 3, 2023

The lawyers representing Virginia first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner, who was shot by her 6-year-old student in their classroom earlier this year, filed a $40 million lawsuit on Monday. The complaint, filed in Newport News Circuit Court, contends that the district and school administrators shrugged off multiple warning signs, including from other staffers who told Richneck […]

Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief condemns reporter’s arrest in Russia: ‘Total outrage’

12:18 pm April 3, 2023

The Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief spoke out against American reporter Evan Gershkovich’s detainment in Russia, Monday, calling the arrest “completely unacceptable.” Top U.S. officials are facing growing calls to secure the release of the journalist after the longtime reporter was detained and accused of foreign espionage. According to Russian state news agency TASS, Gershkovich will […]

Marjorie Taylor Greene stuns ’60 Minutes’ host Lesley Stahl with ‘pedophiles’ attack on Democrats: ‘Wow’

12:03 pm April 3, 2023

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., shocked”60 Minutes” host Lesley Stahl into momentary silence in an interview Sunday after she doubled down on calling Democrats the party of “pedophiles.” “The Democrats are a party of pedophiles,” Stahl said, repeating one of many claims that Greene has made against them in her career. “I would definitely say […]