Current Affairs

by H.J. Mai on May 9, 2021 at 11:40 pm
Colonial Pipeline has not set a timetable for restoring full service. If the shutdown continues several days, it could affect gas prices in the Southeast, experts say.

by Eric McDaniel on May 9, 2021 at 10:50 pm
Maryland is the first state to issue a comprehensive set of pardons to the victims of lynching. Across the U.S., more than 4,000 Black people were lynched in acts of racial terror.

by The Associated Press on May 9, 2021 at 9:35 pm
Police on Sunday hadn’t released the identities of the shooter or victims. Children at the Colorado Springs attack weren’t hurt and were placed with relatives.

by H.J. Mai on May 9, 2021 at 5:53 pm
Archeologists unearthed the remains of nine Neanderthals, dating from 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, in a discovery the Italian culture minister said will be “the talk of the world.”

by The Associated Press on May 9, 2021 at 5:19 pm
The singer-songwriter, an early rock ‘n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” has died.