It's been dubbed the nuclear option because it threatens to further erode one of the defining institutional quirks of the Senate â the filibuster â as well as the culture of the chamber that sees itself as more bipartisan and statesmanlike than the House of Representatives.
A+E Networks. On this day in 1997, comedian and TV star Bill Cosbyâs 27-year-old son Ennis Cosby is murdered after he stops to fix a flat tire along Californiaâs Interstate 405 in Los Angeles. The 405, which runs some 70 miles from Irvine to San Fernando, is known as one of the planetâs busiest and most congested roadways.
These were among the characters that Mr. Cosby played on âFat Albert and the Cosby Kids,â the animated series he created based on his own upbringing in the housing projects of Philadelphia, and which ran on CBS and in syndication from 1972 through 1985.