A Chinese truck driver was praised in local media Saturday for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country’s mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people. Wang Xiangnan was driving Wednesday along the highway in Guangdong province, a vital economic hub in southern China. At around 2 a.m., Wang saw several vehicles moving in the opposite direction of the four-lane highway and a fellow driver soon informed him about the collapse, local media reported.
A new law in Georgia expands the use of cash bail and attacks charitable bail funds, one of the only lifelines that low-income residents who are arrested have.
Pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses are a far cry from the Vietnam War protests we saw in 1968. There was a draft to protest then.