Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who starred Waitress, A Tale of the Bronx and Bullets on Broadway, died in Los Angeles after a multi-month battle with the coronavirus. He was 41 years old. The announcement was made Sunday by Cordero’s wife, Amanda Kloots, who has been documenting her fight with the …
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U.S! U.S! C8 Corvette Drag-Races a Dodge Demon
There are many ways to judge the speed and performance of a car: lap times, horsepower numbers, a quarter mile, gram-cash. But a good general metric has always been the power / weight ratio. That’s why underpowered race cars are faster than their street counterparts, and that’s why a 495-hp …
Read More »A new type of SEC-regulated crypto fund has just launched
A Los Angeles cryptocurrency investment fund announced today that its SEC-registered fund is open for business. Arca US Treasury Fund is the first SEC-registered product to offer shares in the form of digital securities under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The shares take the form of the fund’s Ethereum-based …
Read More »Hisham al-Hashimi, investigator of jihadist groups, shot to death in Baghdad
Hisham al-Hashimi, 47, appeared frequently in local and foreign media as an analyst, especially during the Iraq battle against ISIS. He was also an expert voice on Iraqi politics and extremist Shiite groups and had been an adviser to previous Iraqi governments. Al-Hashimi died at Ibn Al-Nafees Hospital in Baghdad …
Read More »Amy Cooper will be prosecuted for making a false report on Black Bird Watcher
Amy Cooper makes a phone call in Central Park Christian Cooper | Facebook A white woman who was filmed in May reporting that “an African-American man” was threatening her life in Central Park after he asked her to lead her dog, will be prosecuted for making a false report, the …
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