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7 hours ago · Crifasi pointed to the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida — which left 17 dead and 17 injured — as a turning point. Students and their parents took “a page out of Mothers Against Drunk Driving — showing up, testifying, being in the gallery where laws are made,” she said.
7 hours ago · Looking at mortality rates over a decade, gun violence killed about as many people as sepsis, the data showed. If funded at the same rate, gun violence would have been expected to receive $1.4 ...
20 hours ago · History Founding (1960–1968) Professional baseball in Montreal dates back to 1890 when teams briefly played in the International Association. A second attempt at hosting a pro team failed in 1895. The Montreal Royals of the Eastern League were subsequently founded in 1897 and played 20 seasons. The Royals were revived in 1928 and were purchased by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1939 to serve as one of their Triple-A affiliates. Under Dodgers' management, the Royals won seven International League ...
6 hours ago · When President Ronald Reagan, then 73, was reminded at a 1984 debate that he was the oldest American president, he said he did not want to make age an issue of his campaign — jokingly adding, ...
20 hours ago · Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor, the disgraced investigator whose crude texts took center stage in Karen Read ’s murder trial, has been suspended without pay following a ...
20 hours ago · Early life Leonard Norman Cohen was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the wealthy Montreal enclave of Westmount, Quebec, on September 21, 1934. His Lithuanian Jewish mother, Marsha ("Masha") Klonitsky (1905–1978), emigrated to Canada in 1927 and was the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline. His paternal grandfather, who had emigrated from Suwałki, in Congress Poland, to Canada, was Canadian Jewish Congress founding president Lyon Cohen. His parents gave him ...
20 hours ago · The 1912 Summer Olympics ( Swedish: Olympiska sommarspelen 1912 ), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( Swedish: Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 22 July 1912. Opening ceremony was held on 6 July 1912.
