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Business Good Morning America
Men arrested at Starbucks were there for business meeting hoping to change 'our lives’
The two black men who were arrested at a Starbucks in downtown Philadelphia last week and accused of trespassing say they were there for a business meeting that they had hoped would change their lives. Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson came forward this morning on ABC News' "Good Morning America" to publicly share their story for the first time. The 23-year-old entrepreneurs and longtime friends said they were waiting to meet a potential business partner at the Starbucks in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood April 12 when a barista asked them whether they wanted to order anything.
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U.S. Newsweek
'Sully' Responds to Southwest Airlines Pilot Tammie Jo Shults Landing Plane, Recounts Processing Trauma
Tammie Jo Shults, the level-headed pilot praised as a hero for steering the Southwest Flight 1380 to safety after it suffered an engine blowout, has received additional praise from one of the few people on earth who knows what must have been going through her mind at the time. Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger was the captain who managed to land US Airways Flight 1549 safely onto the Hudson River in Manhattan in 2009 when the plane suffered engine failure after hitting a flock of geese while flying over New York, saving all 155 people on board. Southwest Airlines pilot Tammie Jo Shults poses at MidAmerica Nazarene University in this handout photo received April 18, 2018.
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U.S. thinkprogress.org
Trump-appointed judge uses his very first opinion to showcase his political hackery
Judge James Ho has been a federal judge for only a few months. Until Wednesday, he had never handed down a judicial opinion in his life. But the Trump appointee’s very first opinion, a dissent calling for a sweeping assault on campaign contribution limits, is a doozy. More than just an ideologically radical opinion, Judge Ho’s dissent from the full United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision not to rehear Zimmerman v. City of Austin is a monument to conservative political rhetoric and right-wing historical myths. It’s the sort of commentary one would expect to find in an especially strident political magazine - perhaps one of the publications one of Ho’s current law clerks
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U.S. ABC News
3-year-old girl accidentally shoots pregnant mother from backseat of car: Police
A 3-year-old girl accidentally shot her pregnant mother from the backseat of car Tuesday after the woman's boyfriend allegedly left the loaded gun there, according to police in northwest Indiana. The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon in Merrillville when the boyfriend walked into a store and left the loaded gun in the car between the console and the seat, Merrillville police chief Joseph Petruch told ABC News. The gun owner's pregnant girlfriend, whom police did not name, sat in the driver's seat in the parking lot with her children, ages 3 and 1, in the backseat, Petruch said. The 3-year-old girl got hold of the 9mm Glock 19 pistol while she was in the back, and the weapon discharged, hitting
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Science New York Post
‘Ghost net’ full of tangled sharks is a giant marine graveyard
Hundreds of sharks and other fish have been discovered dead after getting tangled in floating a “ghost net” in the Caribbean. British fisherman Dominick Martin-Mayes made the horrifying discovery off the Cayman Islands, where he and his friends found the “solid net of decomposing fish and sharks” on Monday afternoon. Heartbreaking photos show an Oceanic whitetip shark trapped in the outer web - one of up to 30 sharks believed to be floating in the vast weighted net measuring 40ft deep and 40ft wide. Martin-Mayes, also a diving instructor, told The Independent: “At first we thought it was a log, but as we got closer we could see it was a net with floats. “I jumped in the water first and was shocked
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U.S. Good Morning America
Family welcomes 14th son: 'I can't imagine not doing this'
Jay and Kateri Schwandt welcomed a son -- their 14th -- to their family on Wednesday. The family, with boys ranging in age from 25 years to 2 days, did not know the baby's gender prior to the birth, In fact, Jay Schwandt said, the couple has never known ahead of time.
