People only say "please" 7% of the times when asking for something — and half of those are intended to put pressure on others, rather than to be polite, a new study finds.
The trial of Sen. Bob Menendez grinded to a weeklong break on Tuesday after federal court jurors who were treated to a brick-by-brick build of the prosecution's bribery case got stuck in an elevator a day after they were forced from their usual assembly room because of flooding. Judge Sidney H. Stein said jurors were trapped in an elevator for several minutes during what was supposed to be a 10-minute late-afternoon break that lasted almost a half hour. The elevator breakdown came as jurors were shuttled between floors to an assembly room because carpeting in their usual assembly room just outside the courtroom was found to be soaked on Monday after somebody left sink faucets on over the weekend.
After one year at USC, the son of NBA all-time leading scorer LeBron James is entering the NBA Draft. Here's where experts think he'll go.