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A Michigan man was arrested Monday on a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of two people, including his roommate, in a dormitory on the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, police said.The man arrested, Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, was also a student at the university. He faces first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of a fellow student, Samuel Knopp, 24, of Parker, Colo., and a campus visitor, Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, of Pueblo, Colo., the police department said Colorado Springs. Monday in one series of statements on social media.On Tuesday the authorities confirmed that…
“It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms.Lyn Slater will be the first to tell you that her life has been a series of happy accidents and intentional transformations.“Because I am constantly reinventing myself, my life is always a surprise. I’m an improvisational person. I don’t plan. I’m very much in the moment,” said Ms. Slater, 70, a former professor of social work at Fordham University in New York. “That thought has served me well. It has created endless adventures, surprises, incredible friendships and deep…
Probably only Americans of a certain age remember when the Volkswagen Beetle was the best-selling imported car in the United States and the hippest ride to a Grateful Dead concert was a Volkswagen Microbus.Volkswagen is trying to capitalize on some of that nostalgia in its latest push to recapture the position and sales it enjoyed in the United States during the heyday of the Beetle and Microbus in the 1960s. But this time it hopes the flagship its models will be electric.The German automaker is second only to Toyota globally, but is a niche player in the United States. Part…
The Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen test-tube embryos must be considered children has sent shockwaves through the world of reproductive medicine, casting doubt on fertility care for would-be parents in the state and raising complex legal questions with far-reaching consequences. from Alabama.On Tuesday, Karine Jean-Pierre, a White House press secretary, said the decision would cause “exactly the kind of chaos we expected when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the way for politicians to dictate some of the most personal decisions that families can make.”Speaking to reporters on Air Force One as President Biden traveled to…
I waited months when I finally got the call from Alaska last March: The wild ice was on.A high-pressure window of about two weeks of cold, clear weather had frozen Portage Lake, the terminus of the Portage Glacier, about 50 miles southeast of Anchorage, solid enough to skate on its wild — or natural — ice.”Skating on Class A ice under a glacier is really a ‘take off work now and just go for it’ treat, even for us Alaskans,” said Paxson Woelber, who owns skate manufacturer Ermine Skate with based in Anchorage.A few months earlier, I had purchased a…
Within weeks of President Biden imposing financial sanctions on Israelis accused of violent attacks in the occupied West Bank, crowdfunding campaigns on behalf of two of the men had raised the equivalent of more than $170,000.Far-right Israelis pledged the funds in a show of support for the settlers, whose efforts to exert Israeli control over land in the West Bank have often included maintaining illegal outposts and attacking and intimidating Palestinians. However, the donations have become the focus of a legal battle after an Israeli credit card company disputed the transfer of the funds.Cal, the credit card company that processes…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge to new admissions criteria at an elite public high school in Virginia that eliminated standardized tests, paving the way for the use of a policy aimed at diversifying the school’s student body.As usual, the court did not give reasons for dismissing the case. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. issued a dissent, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, that harshly criticized the appeals court’s decision in the case upholding the new criteria and rejecting the challengers’ argument that they illegally disadvantaged Asian Americans.”The willingness of the Supreme Court to swallow the dissenting…
The numbersWalmart said its comparable-store sales rose 4 percent in the three months ended in late January compared with a year earlier. The number of transactions at Walmart rose 4.3 percent, but the average ticket price fell slightly by 0.3 percent, a sign that shoppers spent a little less on shopping. The retailer’s U.S. online sales rose 17 percent, and its global online sales rose 23 percent, topping $100 billion. Losses for the e-commerce business were slowing as the company spent less on fulfillment costs, John David Rainey, Walmart’s chief financial officer, said in an interview. He added that more…
Last May, Anthropic, one of the world’s hottest AI startups, raised $450 million from investors including Google and Salesforce. It was the start of an amazing funding spree.By August, Anthropic had raised $100 million from two Asian telcos. Amazon then poured $4 billion into it, followed by another $2 billion from Google.This month, venture capital firm Menlo Ventures closed a deal to invest $750 million in Anthropic.In total, the AI startup raised $7.3 billion in one year. The five financing deals stood out not only for their speed and size, but also for their unusual structures.In one of those deals,…
Tesla’s massive assembly plant outside Berlin, which opened two years ago in a community known for its forests and lakes, still rubs many residents the wrong way. They worry it threatens their water and air quality and has disrupted the tranquility that drew them to the area.Steffen Schorcht, 63, who lives across the highway from the plant, said the light pollution alone meant he could no longer see the stars when he looked up at night.Now Tesla wants to clear an additional 250 acres of forest near the factory for warehouses and a rail yard, as well as a day…