METAIRIE, LA (WVUE) - Left disabled by a drunk driver eight years ago, Ashlee Stokes is ready to forgive as he driver is about to go before a parole board. Stokes and her family say the driver, should go free. "Ashlee had dreams and ambitions to go out there and do something with her life. She was a model student," said Karen Stokes, Ashlee's mother. Stokes, who in 2008 was a 15-year-old cheerleader for Northshore High, was hit by a drunk driver and almost killed.

ANALYSIS — President Joe Biden, a black mask covering his face to guard against COVID-19, shared a moment on stage with also-masked Vice President Kamala Harris at a Monday White House event commemorating Black History Month. He leaned in to say something to America’s first female and Black and AAPI VP, and the pair appeared to smile — their faces crinkling over the tops and straps of their face coverings. Just over 24 hours later, however, their grins were on full display in a striking policy change.

Sublimate An abandoned architectural gem speaks to us even today. Built in one of the most inhospitable places in the deep south of Louisiana, the American equivalent of the Eiffel Tower, is a geodesic dome the size of a football stadium and capable of holding up to 36 train cars within it at one time. Inaugurated by its developers, Buckminster Fuller and a civil engineer named Dick Lehr, they planned the dome not only as a train yard but a symbol of the future rising some 120 feet to a height that seemed much more.

Does moonbeam deal damage when you cast it? What about when its effect moves onto a creature? The answer to both questions is no. Here’s some elaboration on that answer. Some spells and other game features create an area of effect that does something when a creature enters that area for the first time on a turn or when a creature starts its turn in that area. The turn you cast such a spell, you’re primarily setting up hurt for your foes on later turns.

In the history of warfare, it has sometimes been the practice of armies to dress themselves in the uniforms of their adversaries and then commit atrocities in order to discredit the other side. Alternatively, such falsely uniformed war criminals have placed themselves among opposing forces, so that, posing as friends, they could misdirect them to their doom. It is in this tradition that O. Glenn Smith and Paul Spudis, two die-hard opponents of Mars exploration, recently chose to costume themselves as advocates in their Commentary “Mars for Only $1.