LA medical examiner reports Ransone, who played Chester ‘Ziggy’ Sobotka in the HBO crime drama, died by suicide James Ransone, the American actor best known for his work in 12 episodes of The Wire, has died in Los Angeles. Information from the Los Angeles medical examiner indicated Ransone, 46, died on Friday from suicide. Continue … Read more
Huge archive – set to shed fresh light on Epstein’s misdeeds – legally obliged to be released before midnight deadline Speculation surrounding the affairs of Jeffrey Epstein is expected to reach a defining moment of revelation on Friday with the much-anticipated publication of files relating to the disgraced late financier and sex trafficker. After months … Read more
Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday. The Instituto … Read more
Arnett won 1966 Pulitzer prize for international reporting for his Vietnam war coverage for the Associated Press Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. Arnett, who … Read more
The announcement from Pete Hegseth comes a day after Trump issued a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela The US military carried out a lethal strike on a vessel it said was engaged in drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific, according to defense secretary Pete Hegseth, as Trump further ratcheted up … Read more
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai say rates of heart attack and respiratory illness ‘matched worst years of Covid’ In the first 90 days after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires that destroyed entire Los Angeles neighborhoods, there was a 46% increase in ER visits for heart attack symptoms at LA’s Cedars-Sinai hospital, according to a newly released … Read more
Move comes amid escalating campaign against Maduro as Venezuelan government condemns ‘grotesque threat’. Plus, how to plan a polyamorous wedding Good morning. Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro. What has Trump said? In … Read more
JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. “We almost had … Read more
Officials refuse to share name of person or details of arrest; Donald Trump says ‘Things can happen’ in comments shared by White House Person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that left two dead What we know so far Brown University students were told that all remaining classes and exams for the semester would … Read more
Burrowing owls, who boarded cruise ship in Miami, to be returned to US next month after long spell in quarantine Two burrowing owls stowed away on a cruise ship out of Miami, and are now living the high life at a Spanish resort before returning to the US next month. Biologists from the Florida Fish … Read more