Hundreds show up in Nebraska for fight over name Josh Follow Us
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By - Associated Press - Saturday, April 24, 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A fight over the name of Josh drew a crowd from around the country to a Nebraska park Saturday for a heated pool-noodle brawl.
It all started a year ago when pandemic boredom set in and Josh Swain, a 22-year-old college student from Tucson, Arizona, messaged others who shared his name on social media and challenged them to a duel.
Hundreds showed up at Air Park in Lincoln - a location chosen at random - to participate in the silliness.
Man arrested on firearm charge after trying to kill woman Follow Us
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By - Associated Press - Friday, April 23, 2021
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina man has been arrested on a charge of possession of a firearm as a convicted felon after attempting to kill a woman, according to a federal prosecutor.
G. Norman Acker III, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, said in a news release Thursday that Errol Rahnell Taheim Baston, 36, of Winterville was arrested by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agents.
The news release said the charges stem from a domestic incident in which Baston reportedly held a woman against her will, repeatedly assaulted and choked her and attempted to drown her in a bathtub.
U.S. Central Command oversees American military operations in the region. A U.S. official told The Washington Times Thursday that the footage is authentic but was not taken recently.
“We assess this is old footage and likely taken by an Iranian drone flying in international air space,” the official said, declining to identify the aircraft carrier in question or exactly when the footage was taken.
“The IRGC released the footage on Wednesday as means of vividly portraying its state-of-the-art advancements in the field of drone technology,” reads a story posted on the website of Iran‘s state-run Fars News Agency website. “The video recorded by an apparently four-strong drone squadron, provides real-time and remarkably close details of every warplane as well as other military aircraft and equipment deployed on the carrier.”
This Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows construction at the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near the city of Dimona, Israel. A long-secretive Israeli nuclear facility that gave birth to its undeclared atomic weapons . more > By - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 21, 2021
JERUSALEM The Israeli military says that a missile was fired into Israel from neighboring Syria early Thursday and that it has struck targets in Syria in response.
There were no immediate details on whether the missile landed in Israel or was intercepted.
Earlier, air raid sirens sounded in Dimona, home to Israel‘s secretive nuclear reactor, indicating a possible incoming attack.
A Sri Lankan Catholic archbishop appealed to the country's Muslims on Wednesday to reject extremism and join Catholics in determining the truth behind Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 people.