Day: March 27, 2024

Deciphering Disaster: The Key Bridge Catastrophe and the Five Minutes That Shook the City

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[ad_1] “Hold all traffic on the Key Bridge.” The terse command from an officer in Baltimore’s busy commercial shipping port was one of the first warnings of a disaster that experts now predict will transform shipping on the Eastern Seaboard and change how ships and Key  bridges function around the world. But after the cargo ship Dali lost power early Tuesday, there were precious few minutes to act. In those minutes, many people — from the ship’s crew, who sent out a mayday signal, to the transportation authority police officers,…

A Powerful Departure: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Passing Leaves a Void in Politics at 82

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[ad_1] Senator Joe Lieberman posing for a portrait in Beijing on October 15th 2023. Gilles Sabrié | The Washington Post | Getty Images Former Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman has died, his family announced in a statement Wednesday. He was 82. Joe  Lieberman died Wednesday afternoon in New York with his wife Hadassah and loved ones at his side after he suffered complications from a fall, his family said in the statement. “Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest,” his…

Bodies of two people recovered in vehicle from Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site

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[ad_1] BALTIMORE — The bodies of two people were recovered in a red pickup truck Wednesday morning from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site. Maryland State Police Colonel Roland Butler said divers located two men around 10 a.m. in about 25 feet of water at the middle span of the Francis Scott Key bridge.  BREAKING from @baltimorebanner: The bodies of two people have been recovered from the Key Bridge site; were found inside of a vehicle that tumbled during the collapse https://t.co/ZMMVSEovka — Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) March 27, 2024…

Close to half of Americans back a ban or sale of TikTok, survey found

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[ad_1] Nearly half of Americans are concerned enough about TikTok being a threat to national security that they support banning the social media service or forcing a sale to a non-Chinese company, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey. But the poll also found substantial differences of opinion on the issue based on politics, age and those who use the app versus those who don’t. The nationwide survey of 1,001 Americans(half of Americans) revealed that 20% of participants said TikTok should be banned no matter what. Another 27% said…

What We Know About the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse in Baltimore

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[ad_1] Follow our live coverage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. A giant container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore at about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Most of the bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River. Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland declared a state of emergency shortly after the ship hit the Francis Scott Key bridge, a part of Interstate 695 and a critical transportation link on the Eastern Seaboard to one of the largest ports in the country. Vessel traffic has since been stopped.…

Ahmaud Arbery’s killers ask appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions

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[ad_1] Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions of three White men who used pickup trucks to chase Ahmaud Arbery through the streets of a Georgia subdivision before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun. A panel of judges from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta was scheduled to hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over Ahmaud  Arbery’s death. The men’s lawyers argue that evidence of past racist comments they…