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The bowling ball on my chest is always heaviest at 3 a.m. Its steady pressure pushes me out of sleep most mornings before the sun rises on either coast. I could set my alarm by it, but I don’t need to. Wherever I wake up—in hotel rooms, at friends’ houses, or in the home I share with my husband—the bowling ball is there, in the pocket right between my ribs and a little bit north of my stomach. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] When the weight wakes me up in the morning, it’s never for a good reason.

A Hanoi court sentenced the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology’s former chief accountant to death after Nguyen Hoang was convicted of embezzling more than 152 billion dong ($6.2 million), according to a posting on the Vietnam government’s website. Hoang was found guilty of committing theft between March 2009 and February 2023, the statement said.

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2024. There are 98 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 24, 2017, more than 200 NFL players kneeled or sat during the national anthem after President Donald Trump criticized the players’ protests in a speech and a series of tweets. Also on this date: In 1789, President George Washington signed a Judiciary Act establishing America’s federal court system and creating the post of attorney general. Related Articles Today in History: September 23, Tiger Woods wins 80th PGA Tour victory after back surgeries Today in History: September 22, Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Today in History: September 21, Sandra Day O’Connor becomes first female Supreme Court justice Today in History: September 20, Billie Jean King wins “Battle of the Sexes” Today in History: September 19, state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II In 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established Devil’s Tower as the first U.

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 7:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. EDT today (4:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Gemini into Cancer. Happy Birthday for Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024: You are charming, attractive and as restless as a nomad. You like to discover new things, new places and new people.

Few celebrities have quite as much experience with crisis PR as Ellen DeGeneres. As anyone who was sentient in 1997 will recall, she confirmed years’ worth of rumors about her sexual orientation on the cover of a certain magazine: “Yep, I’m Gay.” It was a transitional moment for LGBTQ people in mainstream American culture, and DeGeneres’ coming out still, unfortunately, qualified as a controversy.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U. S. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] If carried out as planned, the executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years—since July 2003—that five were held in seven days, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, which takes no position on capital punishment but has criticized the way states carry out executions. Read More: These 3 Countries Are Responsible for 90% of Global Executions The first execution was carried out on Friday in South Carolina, and if the other four scheduled this week proceed, the United States will have reached 1,600 executions since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.