A P&O cruise packed full of British people has crashed into an oil tanker, leaving passengers “in tears” as they fear for their own lives. The cruise ship snapped its moorings off the coast of Palma in Mallorca after ferocious gale-force winds “suddenly hit” the Britannia, sending it hurtling into the tanker in the Belarics,…
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Prigozhin plane crash a Putin signal to Russia’s elite
It was both shocking and predictable. Two months to the day after Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a brief armed rebellion that threatened the Kremlin’s authority, the mercenary chief and some of his top lieutenants were listed aboard a plane that crashed with no survivors. The truth of Wednesday’s incident may never be widely known. But the…
10 things you need to know today: August 6, 2023
1 Shelling kills at least 3 across Ukraine during overnight airstrikes Overnight shelling throughout Ukraine killed at least three people on Sunday, officials said. Two of these people were killed and four more injured following a Russian airstrike in the Kharkiv region. One of the attacks, via a Russian-led guided bomb, had landed on a…
10 things you need to know today: August 6, 2023
1 Shelling kills at least 3 across Ukraine during overnight airstrikes Overnight shelling throughout Ukraine killed at least three people on Sunday, officials said. Two of these people were killed and four more injured following a Russian airstrike in the Kharkiv region. One of the attacks, via a Russian-led guided bomb, had landed on a…
Mystery shrouds deaths of 3 people as woman who served meal denies wrongdoing
The death of three people who may have eaten poisonous mushrooms continues to be shrouded in mystery. Erin Patterson, the woman who served four family members the meal thought to contain the fungi in late July, has tearfully denied any wrongdoing while police carry on with their investigation. On July 29, the woman invited over…
Delays in federal workers’ comp can stall medical care, turning injuries into disabilities
Injured federal employees say their treatable injuries are at risk of progressing into lifelong disabilities because the workers’ compensation program that covers their medical costs and procedures is clogged by low staffing, convoluted processes and an increase in claims. Workers and their advocates say filing a claim is a knotty experience of complicated paperwork and…
10 last-minute Father’s Day gifts for procrastinators
We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. If you click on Amazon links we provide, we may receive compensation. We’ve all been there — it’s days before what you just realized was Father’s Day and you’re without a gift for your old man. Rather than allow you to suffer the telling embarrassment of a Home…