Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tour boat captain sentenced to 4 years for fiery deaths of 34 people

A balding man with a grey beard is seen wearing a blue checkered shirt as he walks toward court.

A U.S. federal judge on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jerry-boylan-scuba-boat-fire-conception-sentence-1.7192463?cmp=rss

Republicans go all-in on U.S. campus protests as potential election winner

Three cops, holding person off the ground, in front of trash and barricades and spray-painted signs on an old brick wall that say: "Free Gaza"

It doesn't take a college degree to figure out Republicans see the protests on U.S. college campuses as a winning election-year issue for them. The proof is in their plans for a half-dozen congressional hearings, new campaign ads and choreographed confrontations with student protesters.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gop-college-encampment-strategy-1.7191884?cmp=rss

Police move in to break up pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA

Several helmeted police officers are shown near a canvas enclosure, with large amounts of smoke shown in the background.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-campus-protests-ucla-incident-1.7191441?cmp=rss

Honeybees invaded a reporter's home, and upended everything she thought she knew about them

Three bees on a piece of honeycomb

When honeybees invaded Sarah Kliff's house, nobody wanted to help her get rid of them. And she, too, wanted to save the bees. But when she started digging into it, she discovered something that shocked her — honeybees don’t need our protection.



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/honeybees-invaded-home-1.7190755?cmp=rss