A body was found in a 55-gallon drum Monday near Malibu’s famous Surfrider State Beach, authorities said. A report was called in around 10:30 a.m. about a body in a barrel that had washed up on the beach. Details about the cause of death or the identity of the person in the barrel were not…
Year: 2023
Drones target Russian capital on eve of military parade attended by Putin
Russian officials say they shot down three Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow early Sunday, hours before the start of a major military parade attended by President Vladimir Putin. Images from a crash site in Moscow showed the façade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor, with glass shattered and structural beams snapped and deformed. One person…
The curse of great expectations
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: A $100 piece of a $55 million painting A 1963 portrait by British artist Francis Bacon is about to make its stock market debut, said Carol Ryan in The Wall Street Journal. Next month, “a company named Artex is…
Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in…