The BBC apologized to Donald Trump after splicing two separate soundbites from his Jan. 6, 2021, speech, making them sound like one continuous statement. Editing is a common and necessary practice in journalism, but it can distort the truth when used to change the original meaning or intent of a statement. Following the incident, the…
Rogue Ales & Spirits closed its operations in Newport and all its restaurants — including the recently opened Rogue Salem Public House — suddenly on Nov. 14. The Lincoln Chronicle reported that the 37-year-old business owed $545,000 in back rent to the Port of Newport and up to $30,000 in taxes to Lincoln County. The…
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after being stranded for nine days on the Tiangong space station. Their original return vehicle, the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, was damaged by space debris, rendering it unsafe. The crew used the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft, which had brought their replacements, to land safely in northern China. Three Chinese astronauts have returned to…
New Jersey Gov.-Elect Mikie Sherrill used the U.S. House of Representatives’ first session since the government shutdown on Oct. 1 to announce her resignation as the representative to New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District. “This will be my last speech in this chamber,” she said Wednesday evening as the House debated in advance of a vote…
More than 20 people, including teenagers, returning from a church camp were injured when a bus overturned in the Southern California mountains, authorities said Nov. 10. The bus had been traveling downhill when it rolled over at a curve on State Route 330 near Running Springs, a community about 80 miles east of Los Angeles,…
Prosecutors say a 32-year-old Milwaukee woman grew paranoid after smoking marijuana and shot a Concordia pharmacy student and herself on Nov. 4. Jamica Simone Mills, who was 31 at the time of the shooting, is charged with first-degree reckless homicide by use of a dangerous weapon in the shooting that killed 26-year-old Ariel Spillner, who…
Editor’s Note: IndyStar used a translator application to transcribe Spanish into English for this story. An 8-year-old stared at her mother’s body in a casket, while sitting on her father’s lap with dried tears staining her face. She held her 10-year-old sister’s hand as their 17-year-old big sister sat shaking nearby, with her head in her…
LONDON — The BBC’s boss and its head of news quit on Sunday, Nov. 9, following criticism over bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by President Donald Trump. The BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former standards adviser was leaked to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which cited failings…
Rockets launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, have been seen as far as Myrtle Beach or Philadelphia. People in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama may see New Glenn rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. Billionaire Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin. The New Glenn rocket stands at 322 feet tall. Godspeed,…
A Louisville resident and two local business owners have sued UPS, General Electric and Boeing, three days after a UPS cargo plane bound for Honolulu crashed south of Louisville’s airport. The federal lawsuit alleges the companies were negligent and share responsibility for the Nov. 4 crash, which killed at least 13 people, including a young…