F-16 fighter jet crashes into warehouse in California:
The pilot ejected before impact just off the end of the runway, Maj. Perry Covington said. The pilot was taken to a hospital to be checked out but has no major injuries, said base spokesman Reggie Varner.
Varner said the
F-16 had a hydraulic failure which led to the crash. Authorities were investigating whether anyone on the ground was hurt.
The base’s fire department responded to the crash along with the Riverside police and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
Trump unveils new (likely doomed) immigration plan:
Yet even as Trump cast the measure as a consensus plan that would finally solve one of Washington’s most intractable challenges, there were signs the proposal faces an uphill battle for consensus even among the Republican Party’s own ranks. And Democrats are all but certain to oppose it, deeming its reforms drastic and inhumane.
She let a student take lunchroom food without paying. Then she was fired:
She told the student to make sure to pay the next day. She wasn’t worried as she had known the boy’s parents since they were children, and had no doubt that the $8 lunch tab would soon be taken care of. And the next morning, she told CNN, that’s exactly what happened.
About a week later though, she was fired by the district manager of Café Services, the food services company that employed her.
“‘Do you understand what you did was wrong? That was theft,'” Kimball says she was told
‘The Big Bang Theory’ finale closes with a big dose of heart:
“The Big Bang Theory” finale showed off the program’s big heart, celebrating the friendship — quirky as it was — that has been the backbone of the CBS sitcom over 12 seasons.
In that respect, the one-hour finish felt satisfying and appropriate, if somewhat low-key, eschewing huge fireworks that which would have likely felt like something of an overreach, to simply echo what has made the show so popular over the course of its run.
The central plot, teased out over multiple episodes, culminated in Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) winning the Nobel Prize in physics, offering the gang a chance to go on a trip to commemorate their triumphant moment.
As it turned out, though, the episode (rather sweetly credited to a dozen writers, including co-creators Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady) served as a conduit to showcase the way in which the show itself has changed — adding key female characters, marrying off the guys and graduating to more grown-up problems and issues, without giving up their passion for things like comic books and “Star Wars” movies.
Judge rips insurance company for ‘immoral, barbaric’ cancer denials:
At issue is a treatment known as proton beam therapy, an expensive alternative to standard radiation that proponents say is a more precise form of treatment with fewer side effects. Opponents have questioned whether proton therapy is worth the high cost to fight some forms of cancer, and insurance companies have often denied coverage for the treatment, calling it “experimental.”
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