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Florida Nursing Home Negligence Update: Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal quashes denial of motion to dismiss nursing home negligence complaint that did not comply with section 400.023, Florida Statutes.
On August 9, 2023, in Preston v. The Estate of Romanoff, No. 4D23-282 (Fla. 4th DCA August 9, 2023), Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal granted a petition for writ of certiorari and quashed the trial court’s order denying dismissal of plaintiff’s claims of negligence and wrongful death for plaintiff’s failure to comply with the…
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Russia-Ukraine War: Prigozhin Listed as Passenger on Plane That Crashed, Killing All Aboard
The authorities did not confirm whether the Wagner mercenary leader, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, was on board when a private jet crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, killing 10 people.
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‘Aren’t You a Man?’: How Russia Goads Citizens Into the Army
The Times tracked several months of Russian state messaging in the Kremlin’s effort to recruit soldiers.
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BRICS May Add More Countries to the Group. Here’s What to Know.
Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Indonesia and Egypt are among the potential candidates to expand the five-nation bloc, many of them seeking stronger ties with non-Western powers. Iran is also interested.
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In Photos: Greece’s Catastrophic Wildfires
Firefighters are struggling to quell deadly flames, part of a crisis of wildfires in the nation this summer. Here are photos from the latest blazes.
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What to Know About Zimbabwe’s Presidential Election
The country needs a free and fair election to escape Western sanctions. But voting got off to a rough start, with late openings at polling places and fliers spreading misinformation.
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Marcel Breuer’s Wellfleet Home Needs Rescuing
Marcel Breuer’s summer home in Wellfleet, Mass., a time capsule of architectural history hidden in the wilderness, has fallen into disrepair.
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Piaffe
This movie’s title describes a particular kind of equine gait in dressage. We get to see a version of this in a kind of film-within-a-film in this intriguing picture directed by Ann Oren (who co-wrote the script with Thais Guisasola). The work is a commercial, actually, for an anti-depressant. Which at first depicts a horse…
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Celebrating a New Narrative: Director Guy Nattiv on Golda
Israeli director Guy Nattiv says that people today either have no idea who Golda Meir is or think her career as Israel’s fourth Prime Minister ended in disgrace following the Yom Kippur War of 1973. His film, “Golda,” with Dame Helen Mirren in the title role, does not try to follow her entire life from…
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Using WinRAR? Be sure to patch against these code execution bugs…
Imagine if you clicked on a harmless-looking image, but an unknown application fired up instead…