Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Amtrak employees on Facebook are rallying around the engineer who was at the wheel during this week’s fatal train crash. “Praying for you, my friend! And everyone else onboard,” one conductor wrote on Brandon Bostian’s Facebookwall. Another person, an Amtrak engineer in California, wrote: “Hold your head up. What you know about yourself and those of us that know you…
At least six people were killed and 140 injured after an Amtrak train bound for New York City derailed near Philadelphia on Tuesday night. Rescue workers on the scene early Wednesday morning told NBC News the death toll could rise higher as they struggled to access people who might be under toppled cars. “It is an…
A Bolt bus traveling from NYC to Boston caught fire on the Massachusetts Turnpike, near West Newton. A video shows a startling explosion and windows blasting out—and amazingly no injuries have been reported yet: Bolt bus explodes on the Mass Pike eastbound in the West Newton section of Newton #wcvb pic.twitter.com/oRXWcRjgZG — russnelligan (@russnelligan)…
Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of US Navy SEALs was nothing at all like the official accounts given by the United States government and military, according to a controversial article in the London Review of Books by veteran investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh: Rather than hiding in Pakistan, bin Laden was a prisoner…
George Zimmerman was wounded Monday afternoon during a shooting in Florida. Police said Zimmerman recieved minor facial injuries, reported WFTV-TV, and was taken to a local hospital in Sanford. Zimmerman was not shot. His lawyer told the Associated Press that he was hit with shards of glass from his vehicle’s windshield. He has been released…
Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg, reportedly died in a Mexican hospital this weekend after falling off a hotel gym treadmill and hitting his head. According to the New York Times, Goldberg was on vacation with Sandberg and his brother at a Four Seasons in Punta Mita, Mexico, where he was discovered collapsed on…
Many years ago I pitched a magazine editor on a story about Bernie Sanders, then a congressman from Vermont, who’d agreed to something extraordinary – he agreed to let me, a reporter, stick next to him without restrictions over the course of a month in congress. Sidebar Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton’s Fake Populism Is…
SALT LAKE CITY — Efforts by a former member of Warren Jeffs’ sect to retrieve her four children from a polygamous community led to a lengthy standoff after dozens of followers surrounded the woman’s van and some allegedly threw chickens at it. Deputies were in Colorado City, Arizona, for seven hours Friday until they received…
WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting in the back and killing an apparently unarmed black man while the man ran away. The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had…
Photo Gov. Mike Pence held a news conference to discuss the Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis on Tuesday. “We want to make it clear that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan but a way of life,” he said. Credit Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana said Tuesday…