Explore More The man who was arrested last week near former president Barack Obama’s Washington, DC home with a slew of weapons and ammunition had threatened to blow up a government building that houses a nuclear reactor the day before, prosecutors said. Taylor Taranto, 37, who’s also facing charges over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, had been live streaming on his public YouTube Channel last Wednesday discussing his plans to destroy the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), federal prosecutors alleged in a court filing Wednesday.

Darren CaseyLauren Child said children's books were seen as "a poor relation" to adult literatureBoys don't like reading books that have girls as the main characters - and that "makes it harder for girls to be equal", says the new Children's Laureate Lauren Child. Child, who wrote the Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean series, was speaking after her appointment was announced in Hull. She is the 10th person to be the official champion of children's books.

By Will GrantBBC Central America correspondent ReutersDaniel Ortega was first elected president of Nicaragua in 1984Before he was murdered in 1978, journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro wrote an open letter to Nicaragua's dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In it, he told the reviled military leader how much the people on the streets despised him and that his iron rule resembled "that of a king in children's stories". Three years later, Chamorro was dead, forced off the road and gunned down by Somoza's henchmen.

C. Michael Lewis Portland, Maine "Eracer" Electrathon Racecar My car of the future is an electric racecar. I built it in my basement to inspire kids, promote an ethic of efficiency, and see how far I could go with one kilowatt/hour (1.3 hp) of lead-acid battery. So far it's 53 miles in one hour, an Electrathon National Record. Electrathon America [www.electrathonamerica.org] is an organization aiming to improve understanding of electric vehicles through the development of a unique sport.

#Fact1His third wife, Sherry Nelson, was a former ballerina, before becoming Rod's secretary. Her marriage to him was her second.2His paternal grandfather, Frederick Steiger, was German, and his paternal grandmother, Anna A. Libschick, was Austrian. Rod's maternal grandparents, Frank Driver and Amelia Fesler, were of German origin.3When polled by the AFI Steiger named "The Good Earth" as his favorite film.4Had appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: On the Waterfront (1954) and In the Heat of the Night (1967).