The four firemen of Engine Crew 57 died Thursday morning as they fought to save a house from onrushing fires near Twin Pines, Calif. Engine Capt. Mark Loutzenhiser, 44, left five children. Also killed were Jess McLean and Jason McKay, both 27, and Daniel Hoover-Najera, 23. Pablo Cerda, 23, lay in critical condition in a local hospital with burns over 90 percent of his body. Doctors called his prognosis poor....
According to the Burning Man official website, Burning Man started in 1986, when friends Larry Harvey and Jerry James made an improvised wooden figure and took it down to Baker Beach, San Francisco, on the Summer Solstice. They lit it up and a crowd gathered to watch it burn. This was the first man to burn. Since then, Burning has become not only an annual event but also a community and way of life....
The $1.5 million mansion in Franklin, Tennessee, was built in 1997 and recently renovated by owner and seller Danny Duvall. But just before the renovations were complete, tragedy struck. “On September 10, 2022, about 2:30 p.m., my painters were finishing up painting our library. The painters were spraying lacquer paint in that room when a tiny spark from the paint sprayer ignited the fumes from the paint and the entire room, and home, quickly went up in flames,” Duvall told Newsweek....
Two goals from Jesse Lingard saved a point for Jose Mourinho’s side on Boxing Day, but United will be hoping for an improved performance when they take on the Clarets again. With Manchester City losing last weekend, their local rivals closed the gap at the top of the table to 12 points and will be looking to reduce that further with City not playing until Saturday evening. TV CHANNEL & LIVE STREAM In the United States (US), the game can be watched live and on-demand with fuboTV (7-day free trial)....
The bill represents a role reversal for Republicans and Democrats in the Legislature. Republicans typically resist government involvement in the affairs of private businesses but are now pushing to restrict a reason—no vaccination—for letting employees go. “I ask that the business community stand with [the Democrats] as we fight against an unprecedented effort by Republicans to dictate how you run your business. Their crusade against public health is an attack on job creators in South Carolina,” House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford of Columbia tweeted Wednesday night....
Mark Allen, PhD, a Faculty member at Pepperdine and author of several business books, reports that he has yet to question a business owner who states they have no bad managers. Your employees know that and even some of your customers have figured it out. It is not a secret. Most businesses and organizations do a fair amount of work to hire the right leader for their operations, and according to Gallup, 82% of the time, companies analyzed fail to select the right person for the position....
Michelle Mone, a millionaire baroness well known for founding the popular lingerie brand Ultimo and MGM International with her husband, was named in a complaint filed by Richard Lynton-Jones. Lynton-Jones, who is of Indian heritage, filed the 10-page writ against Mone in London’s High Court. In the complaint, Lynton-Jones claimed Mone sent him a message saying he was a “waste of a white man’s skin.” Lynton-Jones said Mone also referred to his partner as a “nut case bird” and “a mental loony,” The Guardian reported....
The Stoke City goalkeeper had been widely tipped to start the game against the world champions at Wembley but now adds to a lengthy injury list for boss Gareth Southgate. England 12/5 to draw with Germany Tottenham trio Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Harry Winks, Manchester City duo Raheem Sterling and Fabian Delph and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson have all withdrawn from the squad through injury since being selected....
The most important practitioners of this new and hasty art, in fact, aren’t the journalists, but rather the government memoirists, who tend to render their accounts more or less in the same fiscal quarter that they have resigned or been ejected from office. Things weren’t always like this. A little distance from events and a little deference to those still in office or merely still alive used to be thought in order....
Soccer leagues are plentiful, and you see men in fluorescent uniform tops scrambling for the ball across bare dirt fields. You’re close enough to see a few families still strolling around one of the capital’s dilapidated amusement parks. The roads are busy, though not clogged, with motorists heading home at dinnertime. You can see green sewage covering some streets and trash and damaged buildings are apparent but the city–a great metropolis of millions of people and resplendent turquoise mosque domes–looks haggard but alive....
Trent is amidst the hottest stretch of his career, eclipsing the 30-point mark for the fifth consecutive game as the Raptors have won four of their last five. That streak of 30-point games has placed Trent alongside some great company in the NBA this season, in Raptors franchise history and in NBA history, as a whole. For more on Trent’s blazing hot streak, take a look at some stats to know below....
The self-declared autonomous zone was established by racial justice protesters in the summer and has been at the center of an ongoing dispute between residents, businesses, police and Seattle lawmakers. Photos shared on social media on Thursday showed the block surrounded by wooden pallets forming a makeshift wall. CHOP residents were also appealing to members of the public to donate food and other supplies. It comes after a judge denied a request from resident Ada Yeager—who had been living at Cal Anderson Park—to halt a clear-out by Seattle police and park workers of the encampment, located in the city’s Capitol Hill district....
The Met Office space weather forecasting center in the United Kingdom said the aurora over the Northern Hemisphere at high attitudes could be enhanced on December 23 going into Christmas Eve. The European Space Agency (ESA) Space Weather Twitter account told followers that the sun had been “busy” with active regions across its surface keeping monitoring networks on their toes over the holiday season. The increase in solar activity is the result of nine sunspot groups across the sun’s surface....
Even so, executives at ABC weren’t prepared for the firestorm that ensued when he disputed that the 9-11 hijackers were “cowards,” then famously added, “We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away.” Maher’s show was canceled. Back on the air with a new HBO program, Maher spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Suzanne Smalley last week about the political climate in America and the shrinking tolerance for voices of dissent....
The Real Time with Bill Maher host ripped Democrats on Friday for saying “we need to do everything we can to defeat Trump,” arguing that Republicans “want for us to go down the rabbit hole” of Reade’s 1993 accusations against presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden. Maher said Democrats should have never ousted former Minnesota Senator Al Franken over claims of sexual misconduct that led to his resignation in January 2018....
The Maryland mountains are just an hour northwest of Washington, but they remain remarkably wild. Mason and Dixon explored them centuries ago, leaving stone survey posts that still stand in forests teeming with deer and game birds. It’s not the natural habitat of a gregarious human being like Bill Clinton. Yet there he was on Thanksgiving, hunkered down at Camp David. He was out of the papers. Congress was gone....
During a Friday mailbag on The Ringer, Simmons was asked whether it bothered him that, while he was suspended by ESPN president John Skipper for calling NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “liar,” Hill escaped with a slap on the wrist for describing Trump and his supporters as racists. Simmons said he wasn’t bothered. In fact, he admires the way Hill “checkmated” her bosses. MORE: Kaepernick tweets support for Hill...
The “Bad Guy” singer recently turned 21 just weeks after making her red carpet debut with the 31-year-old lead singer of The Neighbourhood. The new couple have come under fire for their age gap with her brother and long-time collaborator stepping in to the debate. “I want my sister to be happy and safe and she is a 21 year old adult perfectly entitled to make her own life decisions,” he commented on a TikTok by “gaybutboring”....
