A man suspected of killing three police officers in central France has been found dead, the country’s Interior Minister has said. Three gendarmes were shot dead and a fourth injured after they responded to a domestic violence incident in Puy-de-Dôme, west of Lyon, in the early hours of Wednesday. The alleged shooter left the scene,
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At his confirmation hearing nearly two years ago, Attorney General William Barr boasted that there was an advantage to putting him in charge of the Justice Department — he could afford not to care about the consequences of his decisions. Mostly retired and 68 years old at the time, Barr’s pitch to senators in January
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Columbia police officers responded to a trailer park on the south side of the city on a report of a barricaded subject.
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President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team on Wednesday disputed suggestions from Pentagon officials who questioned the accuracy of Biden’s assertion a day earlier that the Department of Defense has refused to brief his team on the massive cyberattack on government agencies and major American technology and accounting companies. “As the President-elect noted yesterday, the Department of
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Officials in Oregon say a “superspreader action” is likely behind two recent Covid-19 outbreaks in the state. The action in question: A person knowingly went to work while sick and later tested positive for the virus, Douglas County officials said last week. Two separate Covid-19 outbreaks have now been traced back to that person, officials
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Pedro Martinez has a simple message for Congress: “HELP US!” The military veteran and father of four said the $600 payments passed this week as part of a second coronavirus relief package are far too little to undo the financial damage his family has suffered as the pandemic has surged again — a message also
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — In 2012, Jason and Liz Derkosh suffered an unimaginable loss when their 2-year-old son Maddox fell into the African painted dog exhibit at The Pittsburgh Zoo and died. “He’s with us. We think about him every day”, said Liz Derkosh. Since then, they’ve been channeling
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A local 8-year-old girl is making sure that little girls in Philadelphia have a special present to open on Christmas morning. Through the nonprofit group Sisterhood Inc., third grader London Jones held a donation drive called “Dolls for Daughters” to provide baby dolls for children
Continue Reading Sen. Kamala Harris broke barriers as America’s first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect. But after her exit in January to join the Biden administration, there will be no Black women in the Senate. Harris’s departure left lawmakers and advocates urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to choose a Black woman to replace her due to a lack of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — This holiday season, a Queens man says he is lucky enough to have two jobs he loves. He is a teacher by day, and sells Christmas trees by night. As CBS2’s Kiran Dhillon reported Tuesday, he’s spreading joy in both occupations. Greg Walsh is
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Early Tuesday morning, hundreds of Miami residents lined up and awaited their turn to receive a $250 grocery gift card. The City of Miami handed them out to those in need at Jose Marti Park. It couldn’t come soon enough for Maria Gomez. She got
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, California (KABC) — Those who have been hospitalized before know that comes with usually wearing a plain gown paired up with some non-slip socks. A local man took the initiative to brighten up the lives of young cancer patients by creating adorable prints designed by other
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — Dean Katica woke up early last Thursday during the snowstorm so he’d have enough time to make it to work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “I couldn’t get my car out,” said Katica. The COVID unit nurse was shocked to find a huge snow pile
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Nikola Motor Company’s plans to mass produce garbage trucks for Republic Services, one of the nation’s largest waste management service providers, were canceled Wednesday morning, the latest in a string of bad news for the electric truck and hydrogen cell maker. In August, the company had announced plans to produce as many as 5,000 trucks
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — Robert Harrington and Dan Brett have known the headaches that come along with picking out and setting up a Christmas tree. “We’ve lugged Christmas trees to our house and thought there must be a better way,” Harrington said. So, the former Boston College roommates decided
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The Trump administration will purchase an additional 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday. Pfizer will deliver at least 70 million doses by June 30, and the rest will be delivered no later than July 31, according to a news release. With this agreement,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s 8 o’clock on a Tuesday night and a beat can be heard coming from inside the green recording studio at the Maryland Art Place. Baltimore teenagers are learning how rap can teach life skills and lessons in a relatively new program teaching “rap education.”
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TONIGHT: Partly cloudy and windy with gusts up to 30 mph from the west. Temperatures in the upper teens to around 20, with wind chills in the single digits. TOMORROW: Temperatures remain in the upper 20s on Christmas Eve, with sunshine and wind chills around 10-15 degrees. Expect sunshine and breezy northwest winds. EXTENDED: Christmas
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday introduced Miguel Cardona as his nominee for education secretary, calling the Connecticut education commissioner “brilliant” and saying he will play a key role in his administration’s efforts to reopen schools forced online amid the coronavirus pandemic Cardona, whose parents moved from Puerto Rico to Connecticut, would be another high-profile Latino
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President Donald Trump announced a wave of pardons on Tuesday for people ranging from Republican allies to two men who pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Meanwhile, speculation grows about whether President Trump will pardon three of his adult children, his son-in-law, or even himself before his term ends on January 20. But what
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