The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and an activist icon who twice ran for president. Born on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson experienced Jim Crow segregation on public buses and at school firsthand. It would shape the rest of his life. His fight for
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Elon Musk is reviving one of his famed hiring tactics as he recruits skilled trades workers for the AI data center buildout by his rocket company, SpaceX. Musk, in an X post last week, said SpaceX is hiring “exceptional engineering & skilled trades talent to build & operate the most powerful AI supercomputer clusters on
New Bell, a famous prison in Douala, Cameroon, is a city within a city. The facility has its own “taxis” (inmates who walk through congested yards to hand-deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help uptight guards keep an eye on the facility), and market (a series of stalls where convicts sell and
One of the most notorious figures in Mexico’s drug cartels, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, will spend the rest of his life in prison, a U.S. judge has ruled, two years after Zambada was lured to the United States in an elaborate sting operation. The 76-year-old, who founded the violent Sinaloa Cartel with Joaquín “El Chapo”
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hidden within one of the most intensively studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy. The nearby young star Beta Pictoris was already known to host two giant planets: Beta Pictoris b, one of the first
