COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Aflac Inc. said Monday it has fired Gilbert Gottfried, the abrasive voice of the insurer's quacking duck in the U.S., after the comedian posted a string of mocking jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on Twitter over the weekend. The tasteless tweets are particularly problematic for Aflac because it does 75 percent of its business in Japan.
Two gunmen attacked a Hannukah celebration on a Sydney beach Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitism and terrorism.
Police in Rhode Island said early Sunday that they had a person of interest in custody after a shooting on the Brown University campus, leaving two people dead and nine others wounded.
A shooting in the engineering building at Brown University left at least two people dead and eight critically injured Saturday, Providence’s mayor said, as authorities searched for a suspect.
The attack on U.S. troops in Syria is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of President Bashar Assad a year ago.
He became one of the biggest actors of his era with “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” which ran from 1961-66 on CBS.
Judges with the highest numbers of peremptory challenges hear only civil cases, meaning they have more cases in which attorneys can file such challenges.
The first year of President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by loyalty, stability and far less personnel drama around the Cabinet. That’s good.
Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s parachute becoming entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at 15,000 feet.
The 19 photos were a small part of more than 95,000 they received from the estate of Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.
The state engineer holds the highest authority on water in the nation’s driest state.
