Pro-Palestinian demonstrators attempted to drown out a pro-Israel march on Thursday near the New York City Ivy League campus of Columbia University.Student protesters have been holding a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia for over a week, inspiring a wave of other similar rallies at college campuses across the country and repeated accusations of antisemitism.The pro-Israel demonstration, dubbed "United For Israel March," was organized by the newly formed Columbia Jewish Alumni Association...
Lavinia Alison Murray’s few minutes of inattention while bathing seven-month-old Trinity have resulted in ‘devastating consequences’, court hearsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA mother’s few minutes of inattention while giving her baby daughter a bath have resulted in “devastating consequences”, a court has heard.The grandmother of a baby who drowned in an accident has described to a sentencing...
A man seen attempting to swim across an East Bay creek has drowned, authorities say. At around 5 p.m. Tuesday, a 911 caller reported that an adult male was seen swimming across Alameda Creek in the Niles District of Fremont, near Third and I streets. The caller said the man struggled before going under the water and never resurfaced. A multi-agency response, including the East Bay Regional Parks District, Fremont police and multiple fire departments searched the creek, lowering the water level...
Nine people rescued from boat sailing perilous Atlantic route that reportedly left Senegal with 60 people onboard nine days agoAt least 50 people are feared to have drowned after a boat sailing the perilous Atlantic route from west Africa to Europe began to sink 60 miles south of the Canary island of El Hierro.Nine people were rescued from the craft early on Monday after a passing bulk carrier alerted Spain’s Salvamento Marítimo rescue service, which dispatched a fast boat and a helicopter from...
The five people are reported to have died in a crush on the overcrowded boat.
Longtime neighbors like Alicia Pelletier are in disbelief after a teenage boy drowned in Swift Creek Sunday afternoon.
A group of students at Ole' Miss belted out “The Star-Spangled Banner,”
A Madison man was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced in connection to the drowning death of a toddler in 2022.
A 10-year-old Alabama boy "played dead" to survive after his mom allegedly attempted to drown him in a bathtub. According to Colbert County Circuit Court, per PEOPLE, the mother, Ashley Elizabeth Jones, 34, was arrested on Tuesday, and charged with aggravated child abuse. As shown in an affidavit, obtained by the outlet, Jones' son told authorities that his mom struck and bit him, before allegedly throwing bleach on him after he said he wanted to live with his father, who shares...
Speaker Johnson called on Columbia University's president to resign amid ongoing controversial student protests over the war in Gaza.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said his sons almost drowned after he had dinner with former President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida last fall, according to a new profile on Johnson by The Atlantic. The Speaker visited Palm Beach, Fla., the week of Thanksgiving for a fundraiser, and he and his sons had
At 404 Media, Jason Koebler reports that AI images of suffering children, some depicting them mutilated or dying, are appearing in Facebook users feeds. It's the latest and most alarming example of AI-generated garbage filling the platform, complete with inane replies from bots, from "boomers", and from unambigious humans helping spread the posts by angrily calling them out, a classic Facebook engagement success model. — Read the rest