Army Sgt. 1st Class Earl D. Plumlee had just taken a photograph with other members of his unit when an enormous explosion shook his base in Afghanistan. The elite Special Forces soldiers didn’t know it yet, but the Taliban had detonated a 400-pound car bomb and were about to start pouring through a hole in the installation’s exterior wall.
The ensuing battle Aug. 28, 2013, caused the death of Army Staff Sgt. Read More...
AFPTikTok is introducing a new "family safety mode" designed to give parents tighter control over teens' mobile phone habits.
It will let parents link their own TikTok accounts to their child's - and turn features on and off remotely.
That includes a "restricted mode" that tries to filter out inappropriate content, and turning off messaging.
TikTok has an age limit of 13, but many pre-teens still use the Chinese-owned app. Read More...
King George III has been portrayed as the ailing yet dashing monarch on Netflix’s Bridgerton spinoff “Queen Charlotte,” a comic fop in the Broadway hit “Hamilton” and dramatized in Alan Bennett’s 1991 play and 1995 film “The Madness of King George.” Though he had a long reign of almost 60 years, he is remembered now for being the monarch who lost America, and for suffering periodic bouts of serious illness and erratic behavior, leaving him unable to rule for his last decade. Read More...