The New York Police Department says a helicopter with five people aboard has crashed into the East River. The pilot and three others were pulled from the water by rescue crews shortly after it went down. Authorities are searching for one other person, but the helicopter was fully submerged.
Continue reading …A touching but little-known Holocaust story: Paris’ Grand Mosque rescued Jews from the Nazis by providing them with Muslim identities. It wasn’t a straightforward movement, the New York Times reports. Instead, Jews were helped case by case, and no one knows for sure how many were saved—figures range from…
Continue reading …If you need an antidote to the hype over Apple’s new iPhone , Sam Graham-Felsen provides just the thing at Good . He used to be an iPhone fanatic, but no more, and he swears he’s not going back. But this isn’t an Android-is-better screed. His phone of a choice is now…
Continue reading …Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today that the US economic recovery “is close to faltering” and that the central bank is prepared to take further steps to support it. The economy is growing more slowly than the Federal Reserve had expected, Bernanke told the congressional Joint Economic Committee. The…
Continue reading …Mitt Romney is running a great campaign—he’s been good in debates, stayed on message, and “taken Rick Perry apart with a cold ruthlessness that is a wonder to behold”—yet the Republican base hasn’t warmed to him, observes David Brooks in the New York Times . Romney just isn’t the…
Continue reading …Apple announced the iPhone 4S at today’s highly anticipated launch . It will be available Oct. 14, with the 16GB version at $199, the 32GB at $299, and the 64GB at $399. As expected, it will be up to twice as fast, featuring the same A5 chip the iPad 2 offers;…
Continue reading …A rash of power line thefts is dogging Britain. An entire English village lost electricity for several hours on Friday after thieves stole some 3,000 feet of cable—and it’s the second such theft in that county alone since August, This Is Lincolnshire reports. It’s a running problem on…
Continue reading …The good news for California is that its state prison system has a lot fewer prisoners and parolees to deal with. The bad news, according to the mayor and police chief of Los Angeles, is that crime on the streets is going to rise. The state last weekend shifted responsibility…
Continue reading …Amgen didn’t do terribly well under CEO Kevin Sharer last year—it eliminated some 2,700 jobs and its stock fell 3%. Yet Sharer pocketed a 37% raise, bringing his compensation to $21 million. Why? Because the board decided he should be paid “closer to the 75th percentile of the…
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