Aung San Suu Kyi Fast Facts
Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1945 Birth place:…
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‘Funky pickles’ seized by Border Patrol turn out to be $4 million worth of meth
Customs and Border Protection officers recently seized more than $4 million worth of suspected methamphetamine at the Pharr-Reynosa International…
Continue Reading Prescribed brittle fire burns over 6K acres
Click here for updates on this story Iosco County, MI (WNEM) — A prescribed brittle fire yesterday afternoon quickly…
Continue Reading Two college students chatting on a bus discovered they lived in same Chinese orphanage 15 years ago
When Ally Cole, a sophomore at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, sat next to freshman Ruby Wierzbicki on a bus on April 14, she struck up a…
Continue Reading Gov. Lamont plans to extend state’s eviction moratorium
Click here for updates on this story Connecticut, USA (WFSB) — Good news for Connecticut renters. Gov. Ned Lamont…
Continue Reading Mars helicopter achieves fastest, furthest flight yet
The Ingenuity helicopter has successfully flown for the third time on Mars in a week. This time, the helicopter logged a flight that was faster,…
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Yellowstone park hazes wolves that get used to people
Park workers were instructed to fire on the wolves only during “teachable moments,” when they’d associate the pain with their nearness to…
Continue Reading Woman sentenced to 28 years for role in 2019 fatal shooting outside Central High School
Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — A woman has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for…
Continue Reading Armenian American family reflects on Biden’s recognition of genocide
Click here for updates on this story BLUE SPRINGS, MO. (KCTV) — Saturday was a proud but emotional day for Armenian…
Continue Reading Sen. Jeff Jackson stops in Asheville on 100-county campaign trail for U.S. Senator
Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A politician from the Queen City made a stop in the…
Continue Reading Police looking for man who allegedly stole city of Atlanta work truck
Click here for updates on this story Atlanta, GA (WGCL) — Atlanta police are searching for a man who they said jumped…
Continue Reading Walking tour shares Mobile’s rich Mardi Gras history
Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, AL (WALA) — Craig Roberts has stories — lots of them. You could call…
Continue Reading 53 crew of lost naval submarine declared dead as Indonesia finds wreckage
The wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine missing since Wednesday has been found on the sea floor and all its 53 crew are confirmed dead,…
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Here is a list of incidents of elementary, middle and high school violence with at least one fatality, from 1927 to the present. Suicides,…
Continue Reading Police officer thanked for kind gesture toward man with special needs
Click here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV) — You’re running to the store when that addictive…
Continue Reading At least 82 killed in massive Baghdad hospital fire, ministry says
At least 82 people died in a huge hospital fire Saturday night in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday.…
Continue Reading 10-year-old boy dies in house fire
Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WDJT) — A 10-year-old male died in a house fire that happened near…
Continue Reading CIA Leak Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the 2003 CIA leak involving then-operative Valerie Plame and senior members of the George W. Bush administration. After a…
Continue Reading Elected leaders tour St. Louis jails, Mayor Jones reaffirms plan to close the Workhouse
Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — Newly elected St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones led a group of…
Continue Reading Local seniors prepare for makeshift proms a year after COVID-19 cancelations
Click here for updates on this story St. Louis, MO (KMOV) — Proms across the country were canceled last year because of…
Continue Reading Loved ones hold vigil for Roy Thomas Jr, local community activists pleading for peace
Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WDJT) — A vigil took place Saturday, April 24, for the 17-year-old…
Continue Reading Trial for former officer charged in connection with Breonna Taylor’s shooting pushed to 2022
The trial for a former Louisville police officer charged in connection with Breonna Taylor’s shooting has been pushed back to February 1, 2022,…
Continue Reading Derek Chauvin’s conviction is progress but not ‘true justice’ for people of color facing police violence, activists say
While the family of George Floyd, supporters and civil rights activists celebrated a Minneapolis jury’s decision to convict Derek Chauvin of…
Continue Reading At least 24 killed in massive Baghdad hospital fire
At least 24 people died in a hospital fire in Baghdad Saturday night after oxygen tanks exploded, two health officials at the hospital told CNN. At…
Continue Reading New Milky Way map reveals a wave of stars in our galaxy’s outer reaches
A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own.…
Continue Reading At least 19 killed in massive Baghdad hospital fire
At least 19 people died in a hospital fire in Baghdad Saturday night after oxygen tanks exploded, two health officials at the hospital told CNN.…
Continue Reading Missing Indonesian submarine believed sunk as debris is found, Navy says
Indonesia’s Navy changed the status of its missing submarine from “sub miss” to “sub sank” on Saturday, as a naval…
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ISU holds in-person ceremony for spring 2021 commencement
On Saturday, a total of 2,111 spring and summer 2021 graduates received 2,250 degrees and certificates during Idaho State University spring…
Continue Reading Andrew Brown Jr.’s family met with the sheriff, but were not shown bodycam footage of his death
The family of Andrew Brown Jr. said they met with the Pasquotank County sheriff on Friday but were not shown the body camera footage of his death…
Continue Reading 18-year-old faces murder charge in connection with shooting death of 7-year-old Chicago girl
Chicago police on Saturday announced the filing of than a dozen criminal charges, including first-degree murder, against an 18-year-old in connection…
Continue Reading Brothers rescue 8-year-old’s cat from tree
Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A family cat in north St. Louis nearly burned one of her nine…
Continue Reading The Los Angeles Dodgers, other California teams debut fully vaccinated seating section for home games
Fully vaccinated baseball fans won’t have to maintain social distancing this weekend at Dodger Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers, reigning World…
Continue Reading An unarmed man was shot by a Virginia deputy while on the phone with 911
An unarmed man was shot by a Virginia sheriff’s deputy while on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, according to authorities and 911 audio…
Continue Reading Tanker leaked hazardous materials
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Continue Reading What to know about the mass killings of Armenians a century ago
The massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman forces during World War I — and the question of whether it should be called a…
Continue Reading Local family shares experience with pediatric transplant waiting list
Click here for updates on this story GRANBY, Connecticut (WFSB) — April 18 to the 24 is National Pediatric Transplant…
Continue Reading Three face charges related to effort to smuggle cell phone equipment into jail
Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A now-fired Mobile County corrections deputy, a convicted…
Continue Reading A man won $2 million from a scratch off lottery ticket after losing everything in a flood
A year after losing everything in a flood, a Michigan man won $2 million from a scratch off lottery ticket, according to lottery officials. The…
Continue Reading “We want justice” niece of missing woman found dead asks for answers
Click here for updates on this story CONECUH COUNTY, Alabam (WALA) — Human remains found in Conecuh County were…
Continue Reading Beautiful, emotional tribute for mother and infant son killed in crash last week
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Continue Reading Police: Woman arrested for hitting 3 Zaxby’s teen employees with her vehicle
Click here for updates on this story CLAYTON COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Clayton County police said they arrested a woman…
Continue Reading Hospital seeks help identifying patient who has been in their care for months
Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — The Emory University Hospital in midtown Atlanta is seeking the…
Continue Reading Man arrested in Mallorca town on suspicion of infecting 22 people with Covid-19
A man in the town of Manacor on the Spanish island of Mallorca has been arrested on suspicion of infecting 22 people with Covid-19, according to the…
Continue Reading Librarian sues police for pulling her out of car by her hair during traffic stop
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Continue Reading Police and dispatchers help wrong way driver during medical emergency who drove down train tracks
Click here for updates on this story OLATHE, Kansas (KCTV) — Olathe police and Johnson County dispatchers had to act…
Continue Reading Marine overcomes illness, brain surgery to compete in regional athletic trials
Click here for updates on this story CAMP LEJEUNE (WLOS) — The regional Marine Corps trials aboard Camp Lejeune are…
Continue Reading Turtle crashes through a car’s windshield, sending a woman to the hospital
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Continue Reading Car crashes into downtown restaurant
Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Emergency crews are working an accident after a driver crashed…
Continue Reading Grand jury finds officer was justified in using deadly force
Click here for updates on this story MARION COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — On Friday a Marion County grand jury found that the…
Continue Reading Local community helps young boy after snacks stolen from lemonade stand
Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — A local community helped a young boy who had…
Continue Reading Doctor helps free woman from endometriosis pain, infertility diagnosis
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Montana governor signs bill allowing payment to wolf hunters
The bill is similar to a program in Idaho, where a private group pays its members up to $1,000 for costs incurred while scouting, hunting or trapping…
Continue Reading So you raised money for others during the pandemic. Here’s how to handle the tax bill you’re about to get
Louis Goffinet never imagined that raising tens of thousands of dollars to help his community through the Covid-19 pandemic could cost him…
Continue Reading NYPD investigates attack on 61-year-old Asian man as possible hate crime
An assault that left a 61-year-old Asian man in critical but stable condition Friday night is being investigated by New York police as a possible…
Continue Reading Mars first flight unlocked and 5 other top space and science stories this week
Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon’s surface in 1969, it became a defining…
Continue Reading Canadians aged 30 and older can be offered AstraZeneca vaccine, national vaccine panel says
Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization…
Continue Reading Canadian-made COVID-19 antibody treatment sitting on shelves due to lack of administration plan
Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A Canadian-made COVID-19 antibody treatment is…
Continue Reading Three students killed in Nigeria after kidnapping at Greenfield University — local official
Three students kidnapped by armed bandits from Greenfield University in northern Nigeria on Tuesday have been killed, a local official said in a…
Continue Reading 5 injured in shooting on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, police say
Five people were injured early Saturday in a shooting on New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street, and no arrests had been made as of a few hours…
Continue Reading Debris from missing Indonesian submarine found, Navy says
Debris believed to be from the missing Indonesian navy submarine has been found, Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff Yudo Margono told a news conference…
Continue Reading Daunte Wright’s family has received threats following his death, attorney says
Following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, his family has received death threats, an attorney for the mother…
Continue Reading Dispatch audio from emergency responders says Andrew Brown Jr. was shot in the back
In the moments following the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., first responders can be heard on dispatch audio saying a man has been hit and has gunshot…
Continue Reading Michigan police officer punches suspect during traffic stop arrest. Department chief defends actions
A Grand Rapids, Michigan, officer who is seen on bodycam footage punching a man during a March traffic stop initiated for littering has been defended…
Continue Reading The problem with the big climate pledges we’ve heard this week
It’s been a big week for climate. US President Joe Biden’s new emission cutting target has sparked a game of climate one-upmanship among…
Continue Reading School bullies could face suspension or expulsion under a bill
Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — Some state lawmakers say it’s time school bullies faced real…
Continue Reading Hate crime charges filed against Michael Vivona in attack on elderly Korean couple
Click here for updates on this story SANTA ANA, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A 26-year-old man was charged with multiple…
Continue Reading Sacramento neighbors fed up after wayward golf balls keep hitting homes, cars
Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A nice swing on the green, but if that golf ball doesn’t end…
Continue Reading Residents warned about triple threat of drought, fire danger, air quality
Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE, California (KPIX) — Santa Clara County fire officials are putting out a…
Continue Reading ‘Cryptic writing’ was found by police in the home of an ex-NFL player who fatally shot 6 in South Carolina
Nine firearms were found by officers at the home of Phillip Adams, the man police say shot and killed six people at the home of a doctor in Rock…
Continue Reading Louisville woman says she was rear-ended, carjacked
Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — A Louisville woman’s life was turned upside…
Continue Reading Family searches for answers in 13-year-old’s stabbing death
Click here for updates on this story CINCINNATI (WLWT) — “I held her. I watched her as she died. I watched her,…
Continue Reading Retired officer walking across Iowa for charity
Click here for updates on this story WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) — Jeff Miller is a retired police officer from West…
Continue Reading ‘Godzilla Shark’ found in New Mexico mountains gets an official name
Click here for updates on this story TORRANCE COUNTY, New Hampshire (KOAT) — When you think of New Mexico wildlife,…
Continue Reading Retired Marine rescues raccoon stuck on bridge
Click here for updates on this story PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (WMUR) — The owner of a Portsmouth fitness center had a…
Continue Reading Vaccine hesitancy in Hinds County, Mississippi, is a story shared elsewhere
Dr. Nelson Atehortua, an assistant professor at Jackson State University’s school of public health, drove two hours to get a coveted shot of…
Continue Reading Additional reckless murder charge filed against officer in Andre Hill shooting
Prosecutors filed an additional reckless murder charge against former Columbus, Ohio, police officer Adam Coy, on Friday for the shooting death of…
Continue Reading UPS driver sprints across busy street to rescue a young boy pinned under a heavy package
Max Pratt likes to help his mom and dad by bringing in the packages delivered to their Oak Park, Illinois, home. It’s kind of his thing. But…
Continue Reading Columbus shooting illustrates how police grapple with politics of releasing body camera footage
The police department in Ohio’s largest city is under national scrutiny after an officer fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant —…
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Egin Lakes Campground opens April 28
The Egin Lakes Campground will open for the 2021 season at 8 a.m. on April…
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Snake River Animal Shelter receives grant from Petco Love
Snake River Animal Shelter announced a $6,000 grant investment from the newly named, Petco Love, to support their lifesaving work for animals in…
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Pocatello water line installation begins Monday
City of Pocatello Water Department crews will begin the process of replacing water main lines Monday on North Lincoln Avenue, North Buchanan Avenue…
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1st Street detour on Sunday
On Sunday, April 25 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 1st Street from Yellowstone to Lee will be detoured due to work on the water line…
Continue Reading Indonesian navy detects object, narrows search area for missing submarine
Indonesian search teams believe they have identified an area where a missing naval submarine with 53 people on board could be located, as authorities…
Continue Reading Ma’Khia Bryant should be remembered as a loving teenager, her mother says
Ma’Khia Bryant’s mother doesn’t want her daughter to be remembered by the incident that ended her life. “I want the world to…
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Vallow-Daybell legal arguments continue
Attorneys for Lori Vallow-Daybell and Chad Daybell continue to argue with Special Prosecutor Rob Wood over their ability to secure evidence in the…
Continue Reading Tiger Woods on crutches in first Instagram photo of himself since his car accident
Tiger Woods has posted his first photo of himself since his car accident earlier this year, showing him on a golf course in crutches with his dog.…
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National drug take-back day Saturday
If you have old prescription medicine lying around, you’ll have an opportunity to safely dispose of them…
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More than 2,100 ISU graduates to be recognized Saturday
A total of 2,111 spring and summer 2021 graduates will receive 2,250 degrees and certificates during Idaho State University spring commencement…
Continue Reading Montana governor signs bill allowing payment to wolf hunters
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill Friday allowing the use of private funds to reimburse wolf hunters or trappers for their expenses -…
Continue Reading Students hope vaccine mandate will bring life back to college
Warm spring days usually bring students out to the sprawling grass-filled quad at Rutgers University in New Jersey. But on a recent visit, CNN found…
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190 new Idaho COVID-19 cases, 3 new deaths
Idaho officials reported 190 new COVID-19 cases and three new deaths…
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CEI volunteers join Earth Day cleanup
A team of about 25 College of Eastern Idaho students volunteered for an Earth Day clean up project in Idaho Falls.…
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Food vlogger visiting all 50 states comes to Idaho
A food vlogger from Baltimore is racking up views and followers on social media sites, as he travels to all 50 states.…
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Derek Chauvin, convicted in the murder of George Floyd, to be sentenced June 16
Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted this week in the murder of George Floyd last May, will be sentenced June 16, according to…
Continue Reading SF Giants fans ‘feel safer’ in new vaccinated-only sections at Oracle Park
Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCICSO (KGO) — Proof of vaccination can now get you a designated seat, in a…
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LDS Church encourages missionary vaccinations around globe
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is encouraging missionaries across the globe to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, but not…
Continue Reading Seven North Carolina deputies placed on leave after the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr.
Seven deputies involved in serving the warrant on Andrew Brown Jr., who was killed when deputies fired at him as he drove his car away, have been…
Continue Reading Fetal tissue research carries on after Biden team reverses Trump limits
Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — he Biden…
Continue Reading ‘Cold-blooded’ — Animal Control investigates goose shooting
Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — When a pair of geese made their home…
Continue Reading Ghislaine Maxwell pleads not guilty to new sex trafficking charges
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the late Jeffrey Epstein, pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges Friday in her first court…
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