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Arlington, Virginia — Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s Old Guard are taking on intensive drills as they prepare to resume next month their sacred and solemn duty of using horse-drawn caissons, or carriages, for servicemembers being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. These horse-drawn funerals were suspended by the Army in May 2023 following the deaths of two of the horses within a 96-hour period back in February 2022, prompting an Army investigation. As CBS News previously reported, other horses pulling the caissons were also suffering painful muscle and tendon injuries. At the time, the Army said that 27 Arlington horses…
Being green’s not easy, nor is the path to a diploma.Kermit the Frog, slated to speak at the University of Maryland’s commencement ceremony Thursday evening, joined “CBS Mornings” to preview his address with alum Gayle King.”I’m excited to finally get up there and start speaking, but until that happens, I’ll probably have some jitters,” Kermit said. “I like to take some calming breaths, maybe some word exercises, like ‘loads of locusts lounging on Lanai,’ stuff like that.”Kermit told King, who delivered her alma mater’s 2023 commencement address, that he hopes graduates walk away “feeling a little inspired.””If my speech can…
Genaro Garcia Luna, formerly a high-ranking government official, is serving a 38-year sentence for accepting bribes.A Florida court has ordered Mexico’s former head of public security to pay more than $748m to his home country for his alleged involvement in government corruption. Thursday’s ruling brought to a close a civil case first filed in September 2021 by the Mexican government. The case centred on Genaro Garcia Luna, who served as Mexico’s security chief from 2006 to 2012. Garcia Luna is currently serving more than 38 years in a United States prison for allegedly accepting millions of dollars in bribes from…
WASHINGTON: A national security panel was divided in its recommendation to President Donald Trump on Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel, but most panel members believe any security risks posed by the deal can be addressed, a White House official said. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US on Wednesday (May 21) submitted a recommendation to Trump about the national security implications of the merger, Reuters reported, as directed by Trump in an executive order signed last month. But key details had not emerged until now about the contents of the document, submitted after Japan’s Nippon Steel supercharged its pledged…
Newcastle’s “over-reliance” on Kalyn Ponga will be tested as the club attempt to kickstart their season in the Origin period, a time that has proven a bugbear.
First Nations communities in the Interlake, Man., region are hoping that new designs for a long-delayed flood mitigation project for Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin will address their concerns over its impact on Indigenous people in the area. “We’re old timers, we like the land the way nature made it,” Lake Manitoba First Nation councillor Dwight Paul said while walking along the shores of Watchorn Bay on Lake Manitoba, where a proposed flood outlet channel is slated to go.“But progress and life is progress and life, I guess.” Lake Manitoba First Nation Councillor Dwight Paul stands along the shores…
Amanda Johnson, a Marine spouse and homeschooling mother of five with two sets of twins and a newborn, is speaking out after months of what she calls stonewalling by the U.S. military medical establishment.Her family’s upcoming move abroad has been put on hold because their children have not received all the recommended vaccinations despite the Navy’s policy stating they’re not required. The Marine Corps is interdependent with the Navy for logistical support and medical services through Navy Medical, a sister service in the military.In an Instagram post by Johnson to her nearly 15,000 followers, one popular commentator summarized the family’s…
Scientists have created night-vision contact lenses that they claim can grant people “super-vision.”The lenses — which use nanoparticles to absorb low-frequency light before emitting it in the visible spectrum — enable wearers to see infrared wavelengths that are otherwise invisible to the human eye.And unlike traditional night-vision goggles, these lenses don’t require a power source. The researchers described the new lenses May 22 in the journal Cell Press. You may like “Our research opens up the potential for non-invasive wearable devices to give people super-vision,” senior author Tian Xue, a neuroscientist at the University of Science and Technology of China,…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An ex-Major League Baseball player is blaming a former opponent for his career-ending injury.Darin Ruf played first base for the Milwaukee Brewers June 2, 2023, in a game against the NL Central rival Cincinnati Reds. Little did he know it would be the final game of his career.In the third inning, Ruf was chasing a pop-up in foul territory when his knee crashed into the end of the field tarp roller. Ruf badly cut his knee and limped off the field with the help of a trainer. Milwaukee Brewers designated hitter Darin…
Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a man suspected of fatally shooting two Israeli embassy staff workers in the United States capital of Washington, DC. In a federal court on Thursday, Elias Rodriguez was accused of two counts of first-degree murder, as well as charges of murdering foreign officials, causing death with a firearm and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence. In a news conference afterwards, interim US Attorney Jeanine Pirro warned that those charges were only the beginning — and that her prosecutors were combing through evidence for other crimes. “This is a horrific crime, and these…
