Thirty years on: Guilty, twice guilty #OTD in 1995, a jury in Union, South Carolina, found Susan Smith, 23, guilty of first-degree murder in the deliberate drowning of her two sons, both toddlers. A few days later, Smith was sentenced to life in prison; she was denied parole

Was just reading the chapter in Graydon Carter’s #memoir about VANITY FAIR’s article in 2005 confirming Mark Felt was #Watergate’s secret #DeepThroat source. Carter writes he worried about getting the ID wrong. “A mistake of such magnitude becomes the stuff of legend,” he says.

Thirty years on: Buying #CapCities #OTD in 1995, The Walt Disney Company announced it was acquiring Capital Cities-ABC Inc. in a $19 billion deal. The acquisition included @ESPN sports cable network. The deal, according to The New York Times, was "the second-largest corporate takeover ever," to

Thirty years on: This time, CBS #OTD in 1995: In the second major TV network deal in as many days, Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced it was acquiring CBS for $5.4 billion. A day before, The Walt Disney Company said it was acquiring Capital Cities-ABC Inc. in a $19 billion deal

Bon premier août 🇨🇭 Fête nationale #Suisse

Profanity on the cover: "L'Impossible 'fuck you' à l'Amérique" reads the headline over a page-one editorial in today's ArcInfo.ch ("Arc Info"), a French-language newspaper in Neuchatel, #Switzerland. The editorial was a response to #Trump's imposing a 39 percent #tariff on most

Thirty years on: The #internet's big bang #OTD in 1995, #Netscape Communications, maker of the then-popular Navigator web browser, lit up the digital world with its stunning #IPO. It was an inflection moment for the early #web, as I discuss in my latest for The Hill

Nixon quits in the #Watergate scandal, #OTD in 1974. Flashback: Five #mediamyths of Watergate bbc.com/news/magazine-…

Remembering #Netscape, 30 years to the day since its #IPO illuminated the early web thehill.com/opinion/techno…

#Netscape W. JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Remembering the Internet’s Big Bang, 30 years on instapundit.com/737319/ The Hill TheHillOpinion

Thirty years on: McDougals #accused #OTD in 1995, President Clinton’s former business partners, James B. McDougal and Susan H. McDougal, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Arkansas investigating the many-tentacled #Whitewater scandal. Indicted with them was Arkansas

Memorable year, 1995

Trump's hang-up about small countries: the case of Switzerland. My latest. realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/… RCP 🇨🇭

Thirty years on: ABC News apology #OTD in 1995, ABC News settled a $10 billion libel suit by apologizing on prime-time television to #PhilipMorris (and covering its legal expenses) for having reported that the tobacco giant added extra nicotine to its cigarettes. Philip Morris soon

What's with Trump and small nations? The case of Switzerland and the 39 percent tariff. My latest realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/… RCP Carl Cannon Karin Keller-Sutter 24 heures

Trump, small countries, and the 39 percent #tariff on Switzerland Suisse