Ralph Santillan, a merchant seaman from the Philippines, hasn’t had shore leave in half a year. It has been 18 months since he reported for duty on his ship, which hauls corn, barley and other commodities around the world. It has been even longer since he saw his wife and son. “There’s nothing ...

A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard’s finger during an altercation, an Italian news report said on Tuesday. Guiseppe Fanara, 60, who was serving a life sentence at Rome’s Rebibbia prison, attacked seven guards in June when they came to ...

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden (D) has abandoned the campaign trail once again, with the election just 55 days away. “Hi from Wilmington, where there’s nothing to report but a lid. 🙂 Have a great day!” read an update from the Boston Globe’s Jazmine Ulloa: A lid from Biden land today, ...

One of the great grifter movies, aside from the Clinton and Obama presidencies, is The Sting. Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) and Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford} team up, “to pull off a complicated scheme known simple as the Big Con,” a racket to crush Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) and his empire. ...

President Trump commented that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his reelection bid in November. As expected, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) denied it. The spokesperson of its foreign ministry replied that “we have said many times that the US election is an internal matter ...

Remember when the debate over public places, flags, monuments, and the like was supposedly about Confederate generals? Then it morphed to anyone who ever owned slaves, which swiftly devolved to any statue of anyone who appeared to have been white and lived a long time ago. Now it’s…Elvis? Elvis ...

Introduction and Summary Fraud in the sale of online pets is on the rise, with scammers victimizing American consumers at an alarming rate. In recent years, Americans have filed tens of thousands of complaints with law enforcement, consumer organizations and online websites. And while the ages ...

On a personal basis, a family member and spouse just moved out of New York.  He works in the theater, and there is not much work these days in the Big Apple.  As they told me on the phone, the place is deader than a doornail.  By the way, they also told me that you have to wait weeks […]

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s arrival in Iceland with military jets and armed personnel set eyes popping Wednesday in a nation consistently ranked as the world’s most peaceful. The size and standards of the vice president’s security detail also required adjustments. The guards protecting ...

Mount Sinai Health System researchers said on Monday that they have identified cytokine protein inflammation markers that predict the severity of COVID-19 and the likelihood that a coronavirus patient will survive. The findings provide a foundation for a diagnostic platform and therapeutic ...