Three people were killed and 10 more were injured after a tornado ripped through Brunswick County, North Carolina, late Monday night, officials said. The tornado tore through a residential community and left several homes destroyed or severely damaged, Ed Conrow, Brunswick County Emergency Services Director, said during a press conference early Tuesday morning. Most of
Continue Reading Elementary schools in Los Angeles County will be allowed to reopen for in-person learning starting Tuesday, after county health officials announced they expect to reach the state’s Covid-19 case threshold for reopening those campuses. “The state permits elementary schools to reopen as soon as we reach an adjusted case rate of 25 per 100,000,” the
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Former Australian swimming star Scott Miller was arrested on drugs charges in a dawn raid at his home Tuesday, with Sydney police alleging the Olympic medalist heads a gang supplying methamphetamine across New South Wales state, CNN affiliate Nine News reported. A police statement on the arrests, which did not name Miller, 45, said detectives
Continue Reading Search and rescue teams are heading to Brunswick County, North Carolina, to help find missing people after a tornado ripped through the area, leaving a trail of damage early Tuesday morning. The Wilmington Fire Department said teams requested by the state emergency management are deploying to locate the missing people. Earlier, the National Weather Service
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Adella Bond fired her revolver outside her window into the South Philadelphia air, hoping to attract police as a mob of Irish American people gathered around her home to tell her she wasn’t welcome. Bond, a Black woman who was a municipal court probation officer, knew that racial conflicts unfolded in neighborhoods that had once
Continue Reading The Perseverance rover is the fifth robotic explorer sent by NASA to journey across the Martian surface, but it’s going to land in a spot that has never been attempted by the agency: Jezero Crater. The crater is incredibly intriguing to scientists because it’s possible that life may have existed in an ancient lake that
Continue Reading An elementary school principal was killed by an avalanche while splitboarding in Montana on Valentine’s Day. Craig Kitto, 45, of Bozeman died Sunday evening after being injured in an avalanche earlier that day, according to the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office. Kitto was with another splitboarder when the avalanche was triggered in Beehive Basin, according to
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Vaccine distribution in states and cities across the US are slowing down because of winter storms that have left more than a third of the continental US with below-zero temperatures Monday. The severe winter weather sparked emergency declarations in at least seven states, including Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas. Here are the
Continue Reading Search and rescue teams are heading Brunswick County, North Carolina to help find missing people after a tornado ripped through the area, leaving a trail of damage early Tuesday morning. “As of about 1 am, our Regional Response Team (RRT-2) was requested by state EM to respond to Brunswick County to assist with locating missing
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Kudos to everyone who has been doubling down on mask wearing and social distancing. Health experts say your efforts are paying off. But with only 4% of the US population fully vaccinated, experts say Americans must continue safety precautions at full force to prevent highly contagious variants from undoing all the progress. Researchers reported Sunday
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The bitter Cardiff cold, the dawn half-light, and the radio-static pulse of callouts are the same as every shift over the past year, but as paramedic Angie Dymott and her colleague Lynda Stephens climb into their ambulance one recent morning, something small, but vital has changed. There have been very few Covid-19 emergency calls in
Continue Reading A decade ago, the Dalai Lama set himself a significant deadline. The best-known living Buddhist figure in the world said that when he turned 90 years old, he would decide whether he should be reincarnated — potentially ending a role that has been key to Tibetan Buddhism for more than 600 years, but in recent
Continue Reading Two people died in separate avalanches in Colorado on Sunday, the latest in a series of deadly avalanches that have already claimed the lives of 17 others across seven states this year. The fatalities mark the fifth and sixth avalanche deaths in the state in 2021, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) A
Continue Reading Is it possible to make bars safe in a pandemic? One experiment in Scotland last summer went flat, according to new research published Monday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Despite guidance from the government and efforts on the part of bar owners to implement safety measures, customers and staff alike failed
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The FBI is investigating some of his followers. Others are already in custody and facing decades in prison if convicted of federal charges connected to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. But the national leader of the extremist Oath Keepers group is carrying on as before. He might even be emboldened. “You gotta declare this regime to be
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. “We’re back,” Mark Preston said on the phone from Wisconsin Monday night. “The CNN town halls are back.” President Biden will be fielding questions from Wisconsinites at a CNN town hall Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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A Republican donor who gave $2.5 million for a voter fraud investigation by a conservative nonprofit has come to regret his decision and doubt the conspiracy theories that fueled the effort, The Washington Post reported Monday. Court records and interviews conducted by the Post show donor Fred Eshelman has worked to get his millions back
Continue Reading Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is at the center of an escalating controversy over deaths in nursing homes, how they were counted and how they handled requests for that data. Cuomo was lauded early in the outbreak for his forthright news conferences and passionate pleas for more medical equipment from the federal government. He
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A weekend shooting between U.S. Marshals and 2 armed suspects ended with one man dead and a dangerous fugitive in jail.
Continue Reading Vaccine distribution in states and cities across the US are slowing down because of winter storms that have left more than a third of the continental US with below-zero temperatures Monday. The severe winter weather sparked emergency declarations in at least seven states, including Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas. Here are the
Continue Reading Immediately following his impeachment acquittal, former President Donald Trump issued a statement saying his movement “has only just begun.” He is right about one thing: Something has only just begun, but it’s not another chapter of the conspiracies and lies to which Trump clings. The movement that just got kicked into high gear is an
Continue Reading The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether employees were involved in sharing or creating an offensive Valentine’s Day-themed image making light of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year. The post in question was described to CNN by an LAPD official as using an image of Floyd with the
Continue Reading Some of the warmest places in Texas, where rolling power outages are occurring across the chilly state, are inside cars and trucks parked in the driveway of a home without electricity. Chey Louis of Irving told CNN his family in Grand Prairie had planned a small socially distanced gathering to celebrate his younger brother’s birthday.
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Neighbors are being called good Samaritans for their efforts in trying to rescue a man trapped in a burning home before first responders were able to arrive.
Continue Reading Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday rebuked Donald Trump‘s incitement of the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol while doubling down on his vote to acquit the former President of the charge. “There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility,” McConnell wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal of
Continue Reading State Republican parties are taking action against GOP lawmakers who have reprimanded former President Donald Trump. Some of the senators and representatives who voted in favor of Trump’s impeachment or conviction have been or are facing censure from their state party, underscoring the hold Trump continues to have over the Republican base. Pennsylvania Sen. Pat
Continue Reading The Senate’s impeachment proceedings just put a big spotlight on the 2022 North Carolina US Senate race. GOP Sen. Richard Burr’s surprise vote to convict former President Donald Trump isn’t sitting well with the Republicans in his home state. Burr’s state party voted to censure him, but that’s less of an issue — after all,
Continue Reading Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate’s impeachment trial — and the backlash now facing Republicans who voted to convict him — have exposed the deepening rift within the GOP over whether to continue to fully embrace the former President or seek to move past his divisive brand of politics. The immediate aftermath of Trump’s trial
Continue Reading NBA legend Michael Jordan is donating $10 million to open two new medical clinics in his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina. The clinics, slated to open in 2022, will serve the uninsured or underinsured residents of New Hanover County, according to a news release from Novant Health, a regional health care system. “Everyone should have
Continue Reading The Utah Republican Party released a statement Monday accepting the different votes of the state’s Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee in last week’s impeachment trial, marking a stark contrast with how some other state and county GOP party operations have pursued censure against Republicans who voted to impeach or convict former President Donald Trump.
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Our northwest flow will continue with mountain snow showers and dropping temps for Tuesday and Wednesday. We’ll have a few isolated snow showers for the Snake River Plain for Tuesday with mostly cloudy skies. Highs into the mid 30’s for the Snake River Plain. Look for winds around 10-20 MPH, for Tuesday and Wednesday. Overnight
Continue Reading A bipartisan group of governors expressed concern Monday at the Biden administration’s vaccine rollout, writing in a letter to the White House that better coordination is needed between the federal government and states on distributing doses to prevent confusion and duplicative efforts. The executive committee of the National Governors Association, comprised of Democrats and Republicans,
Continue Reading A civilian contractor was killed and a US service member was injured along with five other contractors when rocket fire landed on coalition forces near Erbil International Airport in Iraq, said Col. Wayne Marotto, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve. “Initial reports that Indirect Fire landed on Coalition Forces in Erbil tonight. There was 1
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Lawyers have filed a flurry of briefs ahead of a “motion to compel” hearing scheduled Wednesday in the cases of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow-Daybell in St. Anthony.
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Nearly 170 million people were under winter weather advisories Monday, with icy roads, power outages and dangerously low temperatures threatening to snarl traffic and paralyze cities from coast to coast.
Continue Reading New police radio dispatches and security footage from the January 6 US Capitol riot paint an even sharper picture of how the insurrectionists at times showed little fear of the police as they launched a large and coordinated attack. CNN reviewed more than 800 videos and audio files, including radio dispatches and security footage, that
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What do you get when you put a former opera singer, two ex-boyfriends, her French mother, an adopted Scottish brother, a Dutch tango instructor, a Norwegian flower designer and a cheery Argentine house manager together into a sprawling 40-room French chateau? Well, you get “The Chateau Diaries,” the unlikely YouTube quarantine hit that has made
Continue Reading New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday defended his administration’s decision to delay releasing data on Covid-19 deaths in long-term care facilities as state lawmakers say they are considering repealing the governor’s emergency powers. Cuomo said the Department of Health had “paused” the state lawmakers’ request for the data because they prioritized a related inquiry
Continue Reading Armored vehicles on the streets of major Myanmar cities, an internet blackout and nighttime raids on prominent critics on Sunday, did not stop protesters taking to the streets for a tenth consecutive day on Monday to oppose the recent military coup. In some instances, authorities appeared to respond with force. A protester from the city
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ARDEN, NC (WLOS) — An Avery’s Creek Elementary School teacher is using virtual science lessons to take her students back in time. Linda McDonald is teaching her students about a time when dinosaurs walked the earth 230 million years ago. The giant creatures dominated the land for 160
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Elon Musk wants to have a conversation with Vladimir Putin on his new favorite social media app: Clubhouse. On Saturday, the Tesla CEO tagged the Kremlin’s official account to ask if the Russian president would like to join him in a conversation on the audio-only app. “Would you like join me for a conversation on
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Idaho National Laboratory manager, Battelle Energy Alliance, has announced a new partnership with the Department of Energy and NASA to design a “Dynamic Radioisotope Power System (RPS)” for a potential lunar demonstration mission.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story YORK COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — In time for Valentine’s Day during American Heart Month, we have a story about the heart. A medical procedure involving the organ is giving a York County woman a new lease on life and some much anticipated time with her daughter. “I would
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a letter to House Democrats on Monday plans for the creation of a “9/11-type commission” to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. “To protect our security, our security, our security, our next step will be to establish an outside, independent 9/11-type Commission to ‘investigate and report
Continue Reading Texas is colder than it’s been in decades, one of at least 25 states under a winter weather advisory during this week’s historic cold outbreak. But as Texans scramble to stay warm, rolling power outages have begun across the state following high demand. Millions of customers across the US have lost power, with much of
Continue Reading Rolling power blackouts were ordered across Texas on Monday as a winter storm and frigid temperatures gripped the state and knocked out service to more than 3.4 million customers. The rotating outages could continue until the state’s weather emergency ends, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), a major grid operator that controls
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CARLISLE, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — A pet food pantry in Cumberland County is offering some relief to pet owners during the pandemic. Volunteers with the Cumberland Valley Animal Assistance Program gave away pet food in Carlisle on Sunday. The organization started doing these types of food drives in North
Continue Reading The accidental discovery of strange life forms on a boulder beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic has confounded scientists. Researchers were drilling through 900 meters of ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, situated on the southeastern Weddell Sea, when they stumbled upon unexpected creatures “firmly attached to a rock,” living in the darkness and
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Search and Rescue teams were called out at 1:05 p.m. Sunday when West Yellowstone dispatch was received an emergency call from a snowmobiler on the Madison Arm Trail, about 6 miles northwest of West Yellowstone.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (Wisconsin State Journal ) — As the boat appeared to the east through the rising steam on an Arctic-like morning, the freighter was just a bump on the Lake Michigan horizon. A sliver of the moon hung to the south as day began to break. The Allen
Continue Reading New York’s Democratic leaders are in active discussions to draft a bill to repeal Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s expanded executive powers after a top aide’s damaging admission about Covid-19 nursing home deaths. “There’s momentum moving in the direction of removing his powers,” a source told CNN. The source said there was support for the removal of
Continue Reading Birmingham jailhouse logbook pages, signed multiple times by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., are up for auction for the first time. The logbook shows the entries dated between March 4, 1963, and November 27, 1963, which corresponds to the time when King wrote his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” The logbook is said to
Continue Reading HBO Max will feature many big movies this year — all of Warner Bros.’ 2021 film slate, in fact. However, one of the biggest movies hitting the new service isn’t from 2021. It’s not even new; it’s a fresh take on a film from four years ago. On Sunday, the service released the latest trailer
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHFORD, CT (WFSB) — Travelers and the Travelers Championship announced on Monday a joint commitment to match up to $1 million in donations to the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. This comes after a significant fire destroyed a number of buildings on the camp grounds on Friday
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, TX (KTRK) — For over six hours, a long line of people in search of shelter stood huddled together waiting for the doors of the George R. Brown convention center to open. Many said because of COVID-19 there was no room in other shelters and that this
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CYPRESS, TX (KTRK) — On this icy Valentine’s Day, Zoe Schmidt has a lot of love to spread. The Cypress nurse and young mother survived a dangerous crash on icy roads, thanks to three other drivers who stopped to help her. “I try not to play the ‘what
Continue Reading Oil is back, thanks to a strange brew of vaccines, economic optimism and a wintry mix in the Deep South. A rare bout of winter weather in Texas helped catapult US oil above $60 a barrel for the first time since January 2020. Snow fell as far south as Brownsville, Texas, where measurable snow has
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (CTV News) — A family cat in Australia is being heralded as a “four-legged hero” after he died fighting off a venomous snake that slithered close to two young children. The harrowing tale of the shorthair cat named Arthur was recounted in a Facebook post by
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Chris Harrison’s announcement that he would step aside as the host of “The Bachelor” for an undetermined length of time following controversial remarks he made has reignited conversation about the reality franchise’s problematic history regarding issues of race and diversity. Harrison was being interviewed by Rachel Lindsay, a current Extra host and former star of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV News) — The Liberal government is expected to announce this week an ambitious program to buy back legally owned firearms that it last year deemed to be assault rifles. Legislation implementing the buy-back program would make good on a commitment the government made in May
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the life of Democratic US Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. Personal Birth date: February 26, 1958 Birth place: St. Paul, Minnesota Birth name: Timothy Michael Kaine Father: Albert Alexander Kaine Jr., ironworker Mother: Mary Kathleen (Burns) Kaine, teacher Marriage: Anne Holton (1984-present) Children: Nat, Woody and Annella Education: University of Missouri,
Continue Reading The accidental discovery of strange life forms on a boulder beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic has confounded scientists. Researchers were drilling through 900 meters of ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, situated on the southeastern Weddell Sea, when they stumbled upon unexpected creatures “firmly attached to a rock,” living in the darkness and
Continue Reading Here’s a look at Mardi Gras, a celebration held the day before the fasting season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. February 16, 2021 – Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday). January 6 – Carnival season celebrations begin on this date each year, continuing through midnight on Fat Tuesday. Facts Mardi Gras, French for Fat Tuesday, is
Continue Reading Here’s some background information about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also called North Korea. It borders China, Russia and South Korea. About North Korea (from the CIA World Factbook)Area: 120,538 sq km, slightly smaller than Mississippi Population: 25,831,360 (July 2021 est.) Median age: 34.6 years Capital: Pyongyang Ethnic Groups: Racially homogenous, with a
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Idaho Falls has enacted snow removal parking restrictions to allow plows a clear run at clearing streets.
Continue Reading Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin has helped legitimize the cryptocurrency as an investment, leading analysts and traders to ask which blue chip company will be the next to take the plunge, buying bitcoin for its corporate balance sheet. Wall Street analysts have peppered executives at other high-profile companies about possible bitcoin forays during recent
Continue Reading Former President Donald Trump’s second acquittal by the US Senate proved the enduring power he holds over the Republican Party, with the results Saturday setting the dangerous precedent that even an autocratic leader who violates his oath of office can escape punishment if he bullies enough senators into standing by him. His win came after
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PEORIA, AZ (KTVK/KPHO) — As friends and family gathered for a Wednesday afternoon vigil to remember Brittany Walker, the mother who was killed while trying to protect her baby from being kidnapped by his father, her 11-year-old daughter, Prudence, sobbed into a new teddy bear. “I love her
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX, AZ (KTVK/KPHO) — Some kids and parents in a north Phoenix neighborhood say they are heartbroken after a playground was torn down this week. It was located at a park near Tatum Boulevard and Union Hills Drive for more than a decade. Neighbors say they are frustrated
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There is a new face at the East Idaho Aquarium in Idaho Falls., but only a few visitors were able to see him.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX, AZ (KTVK/KPHO) — The wife of ‘Lemonade Guy’ Derrick Moore, known for his shouts of “Lemonade, lemonade, like grandma made,” at Valley sporting events, says the beloved vendor is suffering from an unknown medical condition. “It’s really hard,” said Renita Sanders-Moore. “You know he was paying for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAVEEN, AZ (KTVK/KPHO) — Who knew that dipping broccoli into a packet of ranch dressing that fits in your pocket would be so popular? A Laveen farmer is garnering millions of views on TikTok. Eric Amadio, the owner of Amadio Ranch, is using his newfound fame to show
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORTH STONINGTON, CT (WTIC ) — A father and singing and piano teacher from North Stonington recorded a special Valentine’s Day message for a four-year-old in South Carolina who is battling stage 4 cancer. Justin Gigliello read about Riley Faith Steep’s story on a Disney site and reached
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Kudos to all the Americans who’ve been responsible about mask wearing and social distancing. Health experts say your efforts are paying off. After an abysmal start to winter, some Covid-19 numbers have been falling for weeks. But it’s not just due to vaccines. More than 14 million Americans have been fully vaccinated with both doses
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, CT (WTIC ) — On Valentine’s Day we find couples spending time together doing the things that they love. In New Haven at the Floyd Little Athletic Center vaccination clinic two doctors married for 29 years decided to spend their Valentine’s Day making a difference. “She
Continue Reading Perseverance, NASA’s most sophisticated rover to date, is expected to land on the surface of Mars on Thursday, February 18, around 3:55 p.m. ET. The rover has been traveling through space since launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at the end of July. When it reaches Mars, Perseverance will have traveled 292.5 million miles on its
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND. Oregon (KPTV) — Portland Fire and Rescue reported a car somehow traveled off the side the Glenn Jackson Bridge on Sunday night and went into the the Columbia River. Crews said they found the vehicle around 8:30 p.m., but no one has been found. As of Sunday,
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Your Health Idaho is joining all other state-based health insurance market places in offering a Special Enrollment Period from March 1 to March 31.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV KSMO) — A one of a kind of classic car that couples all over the metro have memories in is now missing. The 1954 Bentley was stolen from Pech Limousine Service in Kansas City, right after giving one couple some magical Valentine’s memories. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RAYTOWN, Missouri (KCTV KSMO) — A water line break forced dozens of seniors to evacuate their apartments Monday morning and seek refuge at a nearby church. The Raytown Deputy Fire Chief Mike Hunley says they are trying to get a mobile boiler so residents at Temple Heights Manor
Continue Reading Many French workers can now eat at their desks without breaking the law. To help curb the spread of Covid-19, the country has suspended a longstanding prohibition on desk lunches, according to a government decree published Sunday. The lunch break, or “la pause déjeuner,” has long been considered sacrosanct in France. Until now, French labor
Continue Reading People are obsessed lately with trying to find a way to get rich quick through short-term trades. Just look at bitcoin, GameStop or cannabis stocks. Sure, traders can make a fast profit. But many people following the money on Reddit with their Robinhood accounts are engaging in speculative, risky behavior. This isn’t long-term investing a
Continue Reading Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was confirmed as director-general of the World Trade Organization on Monday, becoming the first woman and the first African to lead the global trade body. Okonjo-Iweala was appointed by the WTO after the last remaining rival candidate, South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee, withdrew from the race. She will take up her post
Continue Reading Mario Draghi, Italy’s new prime minister, is no stranger to high-stakes jobs. In 2012, the former European Central Bank chief won international acclaim after pledging to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro from collapse, a promise that served as a turning point in the continent’s sovereign debt crisis. Now, Draghi faces a different,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Since 1967 people across Mobile have paid tribute to Joe Cain, the man credited as the founder of modern day Mardi Gras. “Happy Joe Cain Day we love it down here.” Decades later and in the midst of a pandemic, that tradition is still
Continue Reading Japan’s main stock index soared to its highest level in more than three decades on Monday as investors cheered signs of a rebound for the world’s third largest economy. The Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.9%, crossing the 30,000-point threshold for the first time since August 1990, according to data provider Refinitiv Eikon. Stocks soared after
Continue Reading The United States Coast Guard has called off the search for six people off the Florida coast while continuing to look for 10 people that went missing in a separate incident near Key West. The Coast Guard was searching for six people that were in a boat that capsized on February 10 before calling the
Continue Reading China banned BBC World News from airing in the country, according to a statement China’s National Radio and Television Administration released last week. The BBC says China is doing a disservice to its citizens. “China is taking its place on a very short list of countries alongside North Korea and Iran that explicitly and totally
Continue Reading “American Idol” returned Sunday night, with Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie behind the judges table once again. Season 19 kicked off with Bryan growing emotional over a performance by contestant Grace Kinstler, who performed Gladys Knight & the Pips’ “Midnight Train to Georgia” and Aretha Franklin’s “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural
Continue Reading Volkswagen’s CEO Herbert Diess isn’t intimidated by Apple, even though the tech company potentially has an electric car on the way. “The car industry is not a typical tech sector that you could take over at a single stroke,” Diess said in an interview with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Apple will not manage that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — No one should be outside for any length of time right now and that means homeless people need places to go. Shelters are working nonstop but it’s especially difficult when it’s been so cold for so long and we’re in the middle of a pandemic.
Continue Reading After a long day of working from home, Hadly Clark spends her evening hours mindlessly swiping through her phone. She powers through her usual scheduled 9:30 p.m. bedtime in favor of online shopping and social media scrolling. Before Clark knows it, the clock reads 1 a.m. She eventually dozes off and wakes up the next
Continue Reading When the coronavirus pandemic erupted in early 2020, the ensuing border closures and stay-at-home orders brought travel and tourism to its knees. One year on, governments are using the same playbook, inflicting more pain on a sector that accounts for 10% of global GDP and a similar share of jobs. What’s happening: While some countries such
Continue Reading President Joe Biden should follow his own sage advice from the statement he released hours after the “not guilty” vote by 43 Republican senators in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial led to his acquittal. Biden implored us to be vigilant in protecting our “fragile” democracy and noted that “each of us has a duty and responsibility
Continue Reading Burger King is the latest fast-food chain to establish a rewards program aimed at expanding its customer base and enticing existing patrons to be more loyal. It joins a growing number of restaurants embracing digital payments and rewards incentives during the pandemic. Beginning this week, Burger King is rolling out its new Royal Perks program
Continue Reading Like most Canadian seniors, David and Carol Green have been patient and even good humored about the pandemic waves that have kept them house-bound for nearly a year. But their patience, if not their sense of humor, is running thin. They say they still have no idea when they will get that all important “shot
Continue Reading Supporters of a young climate activist arrested in India over a farmers’ protest “toolkit,” later shared by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, have called for her release. Delhi police confirmed the arrest of Disha Ravi, who is in her early 20s, in a tweet on Sunday that accused her of being a “key conspirator in
Continue Reading Unemployment benefits will begin to lapse for millions of American In less than a month, putting the pressure squarely on Congress — and Democratic leaders — to usher through a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill. The next four weeks will test Democratic unity and require the party’s progressives and moderates to put aside clear philosophical
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story UNION GROVE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A 30-year-old man was arrested for stalking after following a female driver for 16 miles from Racine to Union Grove Sunday night, Feb. 14. Police say around 9:30 p.m., Racine County Deputies responded to the area of 15th and Main in Union Grove
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