close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 5 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The body of 42-year-old Iowa resident Branden Colvin Sr. has been found days after an apartment building collapsed in Davenport, Iowa. Colvin Sr. was one of the three bodies that remained unaccounted for following the tragedy. Ryan Hitchcock, 51, and Daniel Prien, 60, remain unaccounted. Colvin Sr. is the first person to be confirmed dead following the collapse. The body of one of three men who had been missing after the partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa , has been found, a city official confirmed Sunday. Branden Colvin Sr.'s body was recovered Saturday, city spokeswoman Sarah Ott said. Two other men — 51-year-old Ryan Hitchcock and 60-year-old Daniel Prien — are still unaccounted for. Colvin, 42, is the first person confirmed to have died in the collapse. No other … [Read more...] about Missing body recovered from scene of Iowa apartment building collapse, 2 still unaccounted
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When the National Bird Is a Burden
T he bald eagle, a bird that lives only in North America, is sometimes mistaken for an idea. Take the Great Seal of the United States: The eagle clutches an olive branch in one claw, a set of 13 arrows in the other. His wings stretch out tall and wide from behind a shield, and his fulsome beak holds a ribbon inscribed with Latin: “ E pluribus unum .” That is a collage of symbols about peace and war and history and unity, not a bird. A real bald eagle is made of flesh and feathers and talons — a thing of nature, not a pastiche of concepts. Noble virtues do not map neatly onto apex predators, a fact that troubled Benjamin Franklin as early as 1784. In a letter to his daughter, he wrote: “I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly.” But the first time Will Harris saw a bald eagle on his farm, six years ago, Franklin’s lesson was one he had not yet learned. Harris, the owner … [Read more...] about When the National Bird Is a Burden
Bombay Journal; In Death, the Unlovely Vulture Is Sorely Missed
See the article in its original context from March 1, 2001 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Up on Malabar Hill, in the midst of this teeming, polyglot metropolis, breezes off the Arabian Sea caress the bungalows of the rich and rustle into a 50-acre forest that has for centuries been the place where Parsis, followers of the ancient prophet Zoroaster, brought their dead to be devoured by vultures. Since the 17th century, Parsi descendants of the Persians who found religious freedom in India a millennium ago have carried their dead up Malabar Hill. And until a few years ago, more than 100 of the shambling, unkempt birds would watch from the treetops to see whether pallbearers forked left or right. Then the vultures would soar over the dense, tangled greenery to the walls of the chosen Tower of Silence, a stone amphitheater where the corpse was to be laid. The ''jostling, … [Read more...] about Bombay Journal; In Death, the Unlovely Vulture Is Sorely Missed
The GOP’s Authoritarian Acceleration
Illustration: Alicia Tatone In May 2017, Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey , crashing through the first of many important democratic norms. While FBI directors technically can be fired, they generally serve ten-year terms for the express purpose of ensuring their political independence and to ward off the inherent danger of an unscrupulous president turning the bureau into a partisan weapon to protect his friends and harass his enemies. There were banner headlines and special reports invoking Nixon’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre . Conservatives uneasily justified the extraordinary maneuver as a necessary onetime response to Comey’s messy involvement in the 2016 election . “Given the recent controversies surrounding the director, I believe a fresh start will serve the FBI and the nation well,” said Senator Lindsey Graham . Comey had “made himself eminently fireable,” explained National Review . For a while, the national emergency was averted. The … [Read more...] about The GOP’s Authoritarian Acceleration
Man Brings Gun Into Elmhurst Bank: Cops
3 Crime & Safety The man is accused of impersonating a bank customer and trying to withdraw $10,000, police said. David Giuliani , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Replies ELMHURST, IL – A man who impersonated someone else to withdraw money at an Elmhurst bank was armed with a loaded semiautomatic handgun, police said. About 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Saifullah Diab, 33, of Norridge, presented forged documents at Fifth Third Bank, 990 N. York St., to withdraw $10,000 from a bank customer's account, Elmhurst police said in a news release. Two police officers were called to the bank to investigate, with one speaking to Diab and the other to a bank employee. Diab provided a false name to the officer and tried to leave, police said. When the officer detained Diab, he found the gun tucked into the man's pants, police said. It was reported as stolen. Officers also said they found ecstasy and cocaine on Diab. Diab … [Read more...] about Man Brings Gun Into Elmhurst Bank: Cops
Nightmare Inning Ends Evanston’s Dream Season
0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Sports New Trier Tops Kits In Sectional Finals Dennis Mahoney , Community Contributor Posted Reply Four walks. Two fly balls that should have been caught. One actual error. One hit batter. It all added up to a 9-run 4th inning for a gritty New Trier team and sent Evanston to a premature exit from the Illinois High School Association state baseball tournament series Saturday in front of a standing-room-only crowd at ETHS Stadium. A Wildkit team with designs on the first Final Four appearance in program history suffered its worst inning in an otherwise record-setting season and bowed out with an 11-0 slaughter rule loss to the Trevians in the Class 4A sectional championship game. Already trailing 2-0, the wheels came completely off for the Kits in the 4th as Evanston ended with a 31-8 record. New Trier, which lost to … [Read more...] about Nightmare Inning Ends Evanston’s Dream Season