Author: Robert Kinney

Liv Perrotto was 15 years old, fighting cancer, and running out of time. Her biggest dream was to speak with Elon Musk — and she almost made it. Days before she died, Musk called. She was too weak to come to the phone. She asked him to call back later. He never got the chance. But before she passed, Liv did something that would ultimately connect the two of them anyway. She picked up a notepad and wrote down eight questions — everything she wanted to ask the billionaire entrepreneur if she ever got the chance. She left the list…

Gemma Monk had waited more than two decades to marry her childhood sweetheart. She had survived a cancer scare, raised two children, and arrived at her May 2024 wedding in Maidstone, England ready to walk down a cream-colored carpet toward the beginning of the rest of her life. She was walking with her father when someone called her name. She turned. A second later, black paint hit her — face, dress, everything. The person holding the bucket was her sister-in-law. Nearly two years later, Monk is still living with what happened next. The attack did not come from nowhere. The…

The immediate catalyst for the heightened security response took place on April 4, when an unpermitted, pop-up gathering drew hundreds of people to the area surrounding the Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion — one of the island’s most recognizable and heavily trafficked spots. Officers responded at approximately 6:30 p.m. as the crowd swelled. During the course of the event, a single gunshot rang out. What followed was immediate chaos. Video released by the Tybee Island Police Department captured the scene: hundreds of people running in multiple directions, scrambling away from the pier as panic spread through the crowd. Visitors who…

For thousands of visitors arriving in Hawaii during one of the year’s busiest travel periods, the picture-perfect beach vacation they planned looks considerably different right now. Hawaii health officials have issued brown water advisories covering beaches across multiple islands in the wake of a powerful Kona Low storm that pushed through the state earlier last week. The warning is straightforward, and the Hawaii Department of Health Clean Water Branch has condensed it into six words: “If the water is brown, turn around.” The timing could hardly be worse for the spring travel season. The Kona Low system that triggered the…

He was there at the very beginning — playing drums when Bruce Springsteen was still building something from scratch on the Jersey Shore. Now, more than five decades later, Vini Lopez is offering a public disagreement with the man he helped launch. In a recent interview with the California Post, Lopez — Springsteen’s original E Street Band drummer and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer — pushed back on the political direction his former bandleader has taken on his current concert tour. The message was brief, direct, and notably free of personal animosity. “You gotta have respect for the…

The Indiana Fever came agonizingly close last season. They advanced deep into the playoffs without their biggest star, lost an overtime semifinal in five games, and watched the Las Vegas Aces move on to the Finals without them. That near-miss, the team’s leadership has made clear, is not going to happen again without a fight. On Saturday, the Fever announced a series of offseason moves designed to give Caitlin Clark — set to return from the injury that cost her the entire 2025 postseason — the best possible supporting cast for a legitimate championship run in 2026. The headline signings…

On April 10, at 5:07 p.m. Pacific time, four astronauts descended through Earth’s atmosphere at nearly 25,000 miles per hour and splashed into the Pacific Ocean roughly 60 miles off the coast of San Diego. The mission was over. The record books had already been rewritten. Artemis II — NASA’s first crewed lunar mission since the Apollo era — carried its four-person crew farther from Earth than any human beings have traveled in 56 years, surpassing a distance record that had stood since 1970. It launched on April 1 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Ten days later, it…

What was presented to the world as a birthday getaway became, prosecutors argued, the culmination of months of obsession, planning, and rage. On March 24, 2025, Gerhardt Konig — a Hawaii anesthesiologist — and his wife Arielle traveled from Maui to Oahu. They set out on a hike along the Pali Puka Trail. By the time two passing hikers heard screaming and called 911, Arielle Konig was bloodied, clinging to consciousness, and her husband was gone. On Tuesday, a jury delivered its verdict: Konig was convicted of attempted manslaughter based upon extreme mental or emotional disturbance. The case had laid…

In a Tarrant County courthouse on Tuesday, prosecutors released a photograph that is as heartbreaking as it is chilling. The black-and-white image shows 7-year-old Athena Strand standing in a FedEx delivery van behind the driver, Tanner Horner. In the photo, Athena appears visibly uncomfortable. Horner faces forward, focused on the road. Within a short time after that moment was captured, prosecutors say, Athena would be dead. It was November 2022. Horner had been delivering her Christmas present. Tuesday’s proceedings in Tarrant County began with the expectation of a trial. A jury had been selected. Judge George Gallagher was presiding. Then,…

On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a promise: within 100 days, he would release a citywide racial equity plan. On Monday, he delivered it — and within hours, the federal government was already signaling it had questions. The “Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan” is an expansive policy framework addressing racial disparities across housing, education, income, health, and public safety. Its release fulfilled a campaign commitment. It also reignited one of the most contested policy debates in American civic life: whether government initiatives explicitly designed around race are a necessary corrective to systemic inequality…