Today, we are highlighting one of the most critically acclaimed pieces currently discounted on Amazon. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) is a compelling blend of history, fiction, and magical realism that leaves readers compelled and inspired. Since its first publication in 1967, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's literary masterpiece has become a cornerstone of modern literature. Brimming with a melting pot of themes, from history to magic to the cyclical nature of...
How many of you had “sequel to a game from 1982” on your Nintendo Indie World Showcase bingo card? If so, you just won big. Yars Rising is a modern metroidvania take on the Atari 2600 classic Yars’ Revenge, and all it took was 42 short years to reach fruition. By my math, this is the longest break between sequels in gaming history, and it's not even close. That’s not the only interesting tidbit about this game. As previously mentioned, it’s a metroidvania, but this one is made by WayForward....
Despite recent drops, new-vehicle prices are still up 15.5 percent versus March 2021
In a sweeping win for climate and environmental advocates, the Biden administration on Friday finalized a rule to ban fossil fuel drilling on nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, alongside other major conservation actions. The Interior Department will block oil drilling on over 13 million acres in the Western Arctic, including about 40% of the land of the NPR-A – a remote area that is home to protected animal species including polar bears and caribou. The reserve is more than...
A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's about 76,000 fewer than the year before and the lowest one-year tally since 1979.
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President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Abigail Edan, an American toddler abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and released in the first round of hostage exchanges between Israel and the terrorist group last year. Both of Edan’s parents were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks, and she was the youngest American citizen held hostage […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. >> A California man was sentenced today to 40 years to life for the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother’s car on the freeway, prosecutors said.
Marcus Eriz, the Costa Mesa man who claimed not to understand why he fired the bullet from his car that killed a 6-year-old boy in 2021, received a sentence of 40 years to life in prison on Friday. Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard King rejected a defense attorney's plea for leniency on the basis of Eriz's age — he was 24 at the time of the shooting — as well as the argument that Eriz had suffered childhood trauma. King said he could find no connection between the defendant's alleged...
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to 40 years to life for the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother’s car on the freeway. Orange County prosecutors say Marcus Eriz was sentenced Friday after he was convicted in January of the May
A California man has been sentenced to 40 years to life for the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother's car on the freeway
A Lake in the Hills man who drove 124 mph seconds before a DUI rollover crash that left his 19-year-old passenger dead near Huntley has been sentenced to five years in prison. Anthony S. Curtin, 21, of Lake in the Hills, was charged in November 2022 with five counts of aggravated driving under the influence […]