Month: March 2021

Two teenage girls have been charged in the carjacking death of a man this week in Washington, DC, police say. Mohammad Anwar, 66, of Springfield, Virginia, was killed Tuesday afternoon near Nationals Park, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement. Anwar was working as an Uber Eats driver, says a GoFundMe page set up

A Russian socialite and TV personality is under fire for interviewing a convicted rapist following his release from prison. Ksenia Sobchak interviewed 70-year-old Viktor Mokhov who was sentenced in 2005 to 17 years in prison for the kidnap and rape of two teenage girls, whom he kept in a basement for almost four years. Mokhov

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A study led by Boston University and in co-operation with the government of the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati has discovered new deep-sea microbes so foreign that human cells cannot recognize them or register that they exist. The study, published March 12

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — New insights into the history of a remote Welsh island have emerged thanks to some rabbits who kicked up 9,000-year-old artifacts as they were burrowing. Richard Brown and Giselle Eagle, two nature wardens who are in lockdown on Skokholm Island off the coast

You know how they say that anything worth doing is worth doing twice? Well, a man in South Carolina must have taken it to heart — and now he has $200,000 to show for it. The man went to a package store in the town of Summerville and bought two tickets with the same number:

Iron age warriors were laid to rest in an ancient burial ground complete with feather-stuffed bedding from an array of birds, new research has shown. The Valsgärde burial ground, near Uppsala in central Sweden is renowned for its 600 and 700 CE boat graves, and home to some 90 burial sites from the Merovingian period,

Meimei Xu grew up in Illinois, Florida and Georgia. But that didn’t stop people from asking her, “Where are you from?” The 19-year-old says growing up Asian American hasn’t been easy. When she was in grade school there were classmates who made hurtful comments. They told her Chinese food was strange and one of them

You’ve been binge-watching television and movies the whole pandemic. Might as well get paid for it. In yet another job that encourages you to essentially do nothing, the website Nerd Bear wants to pay someone $1,000 to watch all 24 James Bond movies in 30 days. The website says it hopes the gig will keep

The Library of Congress has added Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” and Kermit the Frog’s “The Rainbow Connection” to its National Recording Registry. The songs are among 25 “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” the Library of Congress said