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What significant event did Akilah Sherrill recall from 1992?
Akilah Sherrill's remembers the day in 1992 when the Bloods and Crips gangs in his Watts neighborhood agreed to a ceasefire.
We had a barbecue. It was like it became a family reunion. I mean, we had a three-decade war, you know, so the release was just extraordinary.
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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. An anti-trafficking advocate and survivor of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein says the arrest of the former Prince Andrew by British police is monumental. And Liz Stein told NPR that the British government is giving survivors more confidence in the justice system than in the United States.
And so I think that when we see the British Prime Minister saying that nobody is above the law when he's referring to Andrew And we're seeing King Charles say things like the law must take its course and victims come first. I think that we have, we definitely have faith.
Andrew, Mountbatten-Windsor was released after about 11 hours. British police have said they are investigating a complaint that alleges Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential government documents with Epstein when he worked as a trade envoy. The Attorney General's Office in New Mexico says it's reopening an investigation into allegations of criminal activity at Jeffrey Epstein's former ranch outside of Santa Fe. Special agents and prosecutors will seek immediate access to the full unredacted federal files on Epstein. Daniel Montano, Member Station KUNM reports.
Although the U.S. Department of Justice originally closed the state's investigation into Epstein's former Zorro Ranch in 2019, a New Mexico Department of Justice official says revelations in the latest public release of the files, quote, warrant further examination. New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says she's proud of the state stepping up.
If the FBI and the DOJ won't do it, we'll do it. and we will be transparent.
The NMDOJ plans to work in concert with the state legislature's Epstein Truth Commission, which was established just days before the AG's announcement. For NPR News, I'm Daniel Montano in Albuquerque.
Actor Eric Dane has died. Dane's family says he died Thursday at age 53, less than a year after revealing his ALS diagnosis.
Why is the arrest of Prince Andrew considered monumental?
For 15 years, Dane played a plastic surgeon nicknamed McSteamy on Grey's Anatomy. At the Winter Olympics, Alyssa Liu won gold in the women's figure skating competition, ending the U.S. two-decade drought in that event. And Pierre's Rachel Treisman reports from Milan.
Liu entered the night in third place and finished at the top of the podium, thanks to a buoyant free skate to Donna Summer's MacArthur Park suite. Lou and her striped ponytail soared across the ice and got the Milan crowd on its feet. She's the first U.S. woman to win individual skating gold since Sarah Hughes in 2002. Her teammate Amber Glenn also delivered a triumphant skate, which moved her from 13th to 5th place. Both Lou and Glenn are leaving these Olympics with a gold medal from the team event. Rachel Triesman, NPR News, Milan.
Also at the Winter Olympics, the U.S. won its third gold medal in women's ice hockey, beating rival Canada two goals to one in the final. This is NPR News. Authorities in Northern California say it will be at least another day before crews can attempt to recover the bodies of the eight backcountry skiers who were killed in Tuesday's avalanche and resume the search for a ninth person still missing and presumed dead. Six other survivors were rescued. The Nevada County Sheriff's Office says it's too early to determine if any charges are warranted, but investigators are working to determine if criminal negligence played a role. Some of the earliest writings contain instructions for making medicines.
Physical proof of such recipes, rare, but science reporter Ari Daniel says research has found evidence for one recipe's surprising ingredients.
Rana Celebi, a medical historian at Istanbul Metropol University, and her colleagues analyzed the residues of a set of ancient Roman bottles.
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