President Joe Biden will sign several executive actions related to the climate crisis on Wednesday, including one directing the secretary of the interior to pause on entering into new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or offshore waters. The executive order directs the interior secretary to launch a “rigorous review” of the existing
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Boeing closed the books on its worst year ever, posting record losses and plunging sales on the backs of combined crises: the Covid-19 pandemic and the problems getting the 737 Max back in the air. The company’s loss from operations climbed to $12.8 billion, up from nearly $2 billion a year ago, which was Boeing’s
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Click here for updates on this story HALETHORPE, Maryland (WBAL) — Some Marylanders have expressed anger and frustration over packages that were damaged or left sitting on the side of the road. A doorbell camera captured video of a delivery driver toss a package and the sound when the package landed. “The driver walked up
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Ben & Jerry’s two co-founders want to make it easier for Americans to sue police officers who abuse their authority, a move that reform advocates say is a key step towards substantive police reform. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield made their views clear during a virtual press conference Tuesday announcing a new campaign to end
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New Year, the old you. That’s the case for Christina Anstead, who has changed her name amid her divorce from Ant Anstead. She will now go by her maiden name, Christina Haack, according to her Instagram bio. Haack, who has risen to fame on HGTV, married Anstead in 2018, and together they have one child.
Continue Reading New galleries due to open in London’s Imperial War Museum later this year will challenge commonly held views about the Holocaust, with a focus on the “ordinary” people who carried out the atrocity. The Second World War and Holocaust Galleries will explore themes of persecution, escalation, the development of violence toward Jewish people, and the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BARDSTOWN, Kentucky (WLKY) — While the process has been marked by some setbacks and challenges, Kentucky is making progress in getting COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable of our population. At the onset of the distribution process, high-risk individuals were selected to begin receiving the first doses in
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Surprise! Halsey is pregnant. The singer, who is active on social media, took to her verified Instagram account Wednesday to share the news that she is expecting her first child. Halsey posted a series of photos with her showing her baby bump. “Surprise!,” the caption read along with emojis of a baby bottle, a rainbow
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Former first lady Melania Trump is establishing a post-White House office in Palm Beach, Florida, according to two sources familiar with her plans. Her intention is to “maintain ‘Be Best,’ ” said one of the sources, Trump’s loosely defined initiative that looks to help children. During her time in the White House, “Be Best” existed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOORE, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Kellee Bouchard was 2,100 miles away on vacation for a scuba diving trip when she made a discovery that led to an unbelievable reunion. “It’s not a real deep dive, about 45 (feet) to 50 feet,” the Moore woman said. But while down there,
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I am a survivor of the Holocaust and a proud American. I first landed on the shores of this country in Baltimore Harbor on December 25, 1945, under a brittle blue, clear sky. My lifeboat was lowered from a Liberty ship into the watery space between ice floes and I stepped onto the land that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOND COUNTY, IL (KMOV) — COVID-19 restrictions are keeping a young family from forcing a sex offender out of their mobile home. It’s resulted in a difficult living arrangement for Libby Denson, her husband and two children. Libby Denson told News 4 she is currently living in an
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Krishna Kumar had long dreamed of watching the Indian cricket team play in Australia. But when that dream materialized at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) earlier this month, the experience, he says, was belittling. A well-traveled sports fan, Kumar has attended Cricket World Cup games in India, Australia and Sri Lanka and has also supported
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHAWNEE, Kansas (KMBC) — Officials in Johnson County, Kansas, apologized and pledged to improve logistics for its Phase 2 COVID-19 vaccine rollout after many older residents had to wait in line outside on a cold day. “We apologize for the situation today where residents, especially senior citizens, had
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Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and his predecessor Janet Yellen, now the first woman to serve as Treasury secretary, are both known for their dovish stances on inflation. That suggests they are unlikely to be in any particular hurry to push for higher interest rates. And with the economy still struggling due to Covid-19, neither
Continue Reading A woman is suing the city of Aurora, Colorado, after police officers drew guns on her and four minors last year after mistaking her car for one that had been stolen. Brittney Gilliam was taking her 6-year-old daughter, 17-year-old sister and 14- and 12-year-old nieces to get their nails done last August and were in
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TikTok has been forced to lay off some of its workers in India as the country doubles down on what was already a monthslong ban on the app in the country. The popular short video app announced Wednesday that it will cut workers in India after it had “not been given a clear direction on
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Colombia’s FARC political party, formed after the guerilla group with the same acronym was disbanded, has announced that it is is changing its name to “Comunes,” or “Commons” in English. “I want to inform Colombia and the international community that from today we will bear the name #Comunes, because we are a party of common
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A war of words between the European Union and AstraZeneca escalated on Wednesday as the two sides argued in public over coronavirus vaccine delays that threaten the bloc’s fragile recovery from the pandemic. The dispute began on Monday when EU officials said they had been told by AstraZeneca that the company intended to supply “considerably
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In the effort to balance health, jobs and quality education, the nation’s biggest school districts are divided on how to teach students this semester. Of the 20 largest school districts: — 9 are teaching entirely online. — 8 offer fully in-person learning and a choice of fully online learning. (Several of these districts are in
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