From Francis Scott Key’s pen in 1814 through war, peace and even Jimi Hendrix’s screeching electric guitar at Woodstock, the Star Spangled Banner has lasted as an American icon — and an anthem that’s nearly impossible to sing. But as Joe Janes of the University of Washington Information Schooldiscovered when studying Key’s rockets’-red-glare-lit inspiration for his Documents that Changed the […]
Two F-15s were scrambled by NORAD at 11:30 am this morning when an aircraft, identified as a single engine Socata TBM-700, stopped communicating with air traffic controller shortly after 10 am Eastern Time on Friday. The aircraft is confirmed to belong to Buckingham Properties and the pilot has been identified as Larry Glazer, a developer […]
Lincoln, Neb., September 3rd, 2014 —A Latino defendant convicted of murder who is poor is more likely to be sentenced to death by white jurors, a new study shows. The study was conducted by UNL psychology and ethnic studies professor Cynthia Willis-Esqueda and her colleague, Russ K.E. Espinoza of California State University, Fullerton, who earned […]
Once again, the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released a video showing the beheading of another American. This time the video shows the beheading of freelance American journalist 31-year-old Steven Sotloff. The video begins with Sotloff identifying himself in the footage titled, “A Second Message to America.” In the […]