The Votes Are In: National Zoo’s First Elephant Calf In Decades Now Has Her Name
She had a tiny trunk and a very big debut. Now, DC’s newest elephant finally has a name.
For the first time in nearly 25 years, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute welcomed an Asian elephant calf at 1:15 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 2, inside the Elephant Barn in Washington, DC.
Nearly two weeks later, zoo officials announced the 308-pound female now answers to Linh Mai.
The name, chosen by the public through a fundraising vote, means “spirit blossom.”
Linh means “spirit” or “soul,” and Mai refers to the apricot blossom, a flower associated with Tết, the …
Trump Now Says There Will Be 'No Exceptions' On Tariffs For iPhones, Other Chinese Electronics
Not so fast.
Just days after new guidance was released by the government stated that machines used to make semiconductors, flat-screen TVs, tablets, and desktop computers are excluded from President Trump’s 125 percent tariff on Chinese goods, the administration is now saying those exemptions are only temporary.
In a social media post on Truth Social on Sunday, April 13, Trump said there are “no exceptions,” and tariffs will apply to those items, apparently clarifying the US Customs and Border Protection bulletin issued Friday, April 11.
“NOBODY is getting ‘off the hook,' ” Trump wrot…
Desperate Search For Survivors: 1,600 Now Reported Dead In Myanmar, Thailand Quake
This story has been updated.
The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that jolted Southeast Asia has rapidly risen to more than 1,600 amid a desperate search for survivors.
The 7.7-magnitude quake struck central Myanmar on Friday, March 28, unleashing shock waves felt across Thailand and China, resulting in catastrophic, widespread destruction.
Over 3,400 injuries are now being reported by the country’s military government on Saturday, March 29, an increase of over one thousand from earlier in the day. During that update, 1,000 deaths were reported.
The number of deaths and injuries…
Former Investment Banker Brings Popular Arlington Ice Cream Shop To Maryland
When it comes to making ice cream, sherbert, and sorbets, Rollin Amore has a very simple strategy: To make good flavors. He makes unique ones, too.
“I come up with each flavor,” said Amore, “and if it doesn’t pass my test, I throw it out.”
The method to Amore's madness seems to work, as the 70-year-old owner will soon be bringing his Arlington ice cream shop Mimi's Handmade—named after one of his daughters—to Rockville, MD.
By late July or early August, Amore plans to have at least two more Mimi’s Handmade shops open—the one in Rockville, MD and another in Fairfax. By the end of the year,…
'Murder Hornets': Media-Created Panic Scaring Some Into Killing Essential Insects, Experts Warn
Continuing media reports about “murder hornets” have panicked an ignorant public into needlessly killing already-endangered bees and wasps, experts warn.
Native bees, for instance, pollinate 75% of fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports.
Yet even government beekeepers have announced plans to set traps that will kill some of these extremely essential insects, Doug Yanega, senior museum scientist for the Department of Entomology at UC Riverside, told the Los Angeles Times.
SEE: Traps will be set out soon, KY officials say
SEE: Ten…
‘American Gangster’ Frank Lucas, Onetime Drug Kingpin, Dead At 88: Report
Frank Lucas, a notorious drug dealer who became something of a folk hero after he was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the blockbuster mob movie “American Gangster,” died Thursday, TMZ reported.
Lucas, 88, passed away while being transported to a medical facility in New Jersey, where he lived, TMZ also reported.
Lucas rose to underworld fame in the late 1960s after spending years as a protege to Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, an African-American gangster based in Harlem.
Lucas soon began importing pure heroin from Southeast Asia in the caskets of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. He was a…
