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Niall Ferguson, a Harvard history professor and author, apologized on Saturday for saying economist John Maynard Keynes was less invested in the future because he was gay and had no children.Ferguson said his remarks at an earlier conference were "as stupid as they were insensitive." During a question-and-answer session after a prepared speech at the Altegris Strategic Investment conference i...
In a fiery speech Saturday before cheering supporters, the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre took on advocates for new gun laws and said a national background check bill “got the defeat that it deserved."“We will never surrender our guns, never,” LaPierre, the organization's executive vice president, said on the second day of the gun-rights group’s convention in Houston, Texas.He argued ...
A pit bull saved a woman from a fire in her Long Island, New York home on Friday, barking to alert her as the flames began to spread from the front to the back of the house.Jackie Bonasera said she was drying her hair in an upstairs bathroom of the home on Gabriele Drive in East Norwich when she heard the dog barking. She ran downstairs and saw the flames on the side of her garage. She was ab...
Record-setting temperatures, erratic winds, and a parched landscape spell a dangerous fire season for California, experts said on Friday as firefighters fought to control several large-scale blazes of a kind that usually would not raise thick plumes of smoke over the horizon until late fall.“This is definitely a preview of a long, hot, incendiary summer,” said William Patzert, a climatologist at t...
A man who has threatened young children and is obsessed by the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School escaped from a mental health facility in Orange County, Calif. on Friday, and police were warning the public to be on the lookout for him.Garden Grove police said Norris Phuoc Nguyen, 23, poses a danger to the community.Garden Grove Police Chief Kevin Raney said Nguyen walked away at 4:45 p....
