NEW YORK (AP) — A Ukranian journalist imprisoned in Crimea will be honored next month at the PEN America gala. Vladyslav Yesypenko, arrested last year and sentenced recently to six years in a Russian labor camp for alleged possession and transport of explosives, is this year’s recipient of the PEN/ Barbey Freedom to Write Award.
With the beginning of spring also comes the arrival of tornado and storm season in Oklahoma. And in some areas of our state, we have already seen the destruction caused by tornadoes. While Oklahomans are no strangers to severe weather, it is no less imperative to be ready and know what to do when weather conditions begin to escalate.
DEAR ABBY: I had weight-loss surgery three years ago and lost 134 pounds. Two years later, I traded addictions and became a problem drinker. During this time I met a man, but my drinking came between us and we broke up. I stopped drinking three months ago. He contacted me and, when he found out I had quit drinking, we had lunch and talked and we are now dating again.
PHOENIX (AP) — Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor and author who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death this month. Klein died April 3 in Phoenix, where she had lived since 1985. She was 97. Klein was born May 8, 1924, in Bielsko, Poland, and was a teenager when the Nazis invaded the country. Her future husband was among American soldiers who liberated the factory where she was held. They settled in Buffalo, New York, where she wrote her autobiography, ‘All But My Life.”
Today is the 110th day of 2022 and the 32nd day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium for the first time. In 1946, the League of Nations officially dissolved. In 1999, two gun-wielding students killed 12 fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
As governments and social media companies have moved to suppress Russia’s state media and the disinformation it spreads about the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s diplomats are stepping up to do the dirty work.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday offered what he said was a ”wholehearted” apology for attending an illegal party during lockdown — but insisted he didn’t knowingly break rules or mislead Parliament, and brushed off calls to resign.
Soprano Anna Netrebko has been hired by the Monte Carlo Opera to sing this month following the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to drop her for failing to repudiate Russia President Vladimir Putin. The Monte Carlo Opera said Thursday that Netrebko will sing the title role in Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” in performances on April 22, 24, 27 and 30.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Credit must be given to NASCAR for at long last shaking up the status quo and trying new things, no matter how outlandish the idea.
NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Rose, whose career as a journalist imploded in 2017 due to sexual misconduct allegations, emerged Thursday by posting online a lengthy interview he conducted with investor Warren Buffett.