NYPD custodian Dennis Dickson was assigned the first floor of headquarters, which includes the memorial wall that lists the names of the officers who died in the line of duty. With the arrival of the pandemic, Dickson showed his own kind of courage simply by continuing to come to work. His bravery was in that sense akin to that of transit workers and delivery people and […]
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The family of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent and CIA contractor who vanished in Iran over 10 years ago, said on Wednesday that they believe he is dead based on “information from U.S. officials.” “We recently received information from U.S. officials that has led both them and us to conclude that our wonderful husband and father died while in Iranian custody,” a statement from the […]
Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, The information that I am about to share with you is quite disturbing, and it has some very alarming implications. One of the great mysteries of this coronavirus pandemic has been the widely varying death rates that we have been witnessing all over the world. For example, South Korea has had 8,981 confirmed cases so far. Of those cases that […]
NBC News staffer Larry Edgeworth died on Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus, chairman Andy Lack told employees in a company-wide memo Friday morning. According to NBC News, the staffer suffered from other health issues that led to him succumbing to Covid-19. Edgeworth had been with NBC for 25 years, working as an audio technician, where he was beloved by his colleagues. From NBC: “Many of you […]
NBC News said early Friday that a staffer who tested positive for the coronavirus has died. In a memo to staff, NBC Chairman Andy Lack told network staff that “longtime member of our NBC News family” Larry Edgeworth had died after testing positive for the coronavirus. The NBC and MSNBC chief said that Edgeworth, an audio technician for the network, had “suffered from other health issues […]
Here is one for the record books… Six weeks after the death of Dr Li Wenliang – the Chinese doctor who tried to raise the alarm about the new coronavirus before it was even identified – Wuhan police have withdrawn their charges and apologized to his family. As a reminder, Dr Li – who warned the public of a potential “SARS-like” disease in December 2019 – […]
St Corona was killed by the Romans alongside Saint Victor for being Christians March 18, 2020 at 4:39 pm Read: The coronavirus fashion trends Related Source
The latest alarming twist in the ‘Grand Princess’ saga is that the 71-year-old former passenger who died in California’s Placer County may have already been infected with the virus when he boarded, meaning that the virus may have been circulating in northern California as early as late January. It’s certainly a disturbing discovery as officials in California and Washington State have stumbled upon an alarming rash […]
Coal Country (running to April 5) is a beautiful piece of theater about a terrible event. In 2010, 29 miners died after an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, owned by Massey Energy. Dotted throughout the Public Theater’s Anspacher space are 29 bulbs to signify every life lost (the lighting designer is David Lander). As each name is read out, a bulb […]
The tyrant Hosni Mubarak may have stopped breathing on 26 February, but he actually “died” on 11 February, 2011 when the Egyptian people overthrew him in the great 25 January Revolution. He was buried nine years later, during which time he experienced a small dose of the humiliation and disgrace that he imposed on his people for 30 years. Nevertheless, they quickly forgot his fascist tyranny […]
Twenty years after heroic but vastly outnumbered Pskov paratroopers bravely battled jihadist forces in the Russian republic of Chechnya, President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu have honored the fallen. “Today… we commemorate the brave paratroopers, pay honors to their courage and their heroic deed,” Putin said as he reviewed the troops of the Pskov Airborne Division. He and Shoigu arrived in the northwestern Russian city […]
Heading into yet another week where headlines across the world are dominated by the coronavirus outbreak, it looks like the market has finally accepted the fact that this virus isn’t ‘just the flu’ as US stocks look headed for a sharp drop at the open, set to build on their losses from last week. Following the release of the latest batch of infection numbers from China […]
Russia 02:29 GMT 13.02.2020Get short URL https://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/107830/07/1078300709.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202002131078300667-eight-people-died-in-car-accident-in-russias-pskov-region–emergencies-ministry/ ST. PETERSBURG / MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Eight people died on Thursday in Russia’s Pskov Region in a major road accident, which involved a minibus and a truck, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said in a statement. “At 00:29 [21:29 GMT on Wednesday], a car accident involving a Mercedes minibus and a Volvo truck occurred […]