Armed men stormed a college in northwest Nigeria in the early hours of Friday morning, opened fire and kidnapped an unknown number of students, a police spokesman told CNN. The students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Mando, Kaduna. It is the third mass kidnapping from a school in northern Nigeria this
Continue Reading It’s been one year since millions of students last stepped inside a classroom. One year since schools started shuttering to help get Covid-19 under control. But just as the pandemic has fluctuated across the United States, so have the debates about when and how to bring students back into schools. With vague national guidelines about
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TikTok has been banned in Pakistan for a second time. The popular short-form video app is no longer available on mobile devices in the country after regulators issued an order late Thursday to “immediately” block access to it. Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority said it banned TikTok after a provincial court in Peshawar called for the platform
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Matthew McConaughey says he is seriously considering a run for Texas governor. The “True Detective” star, whose home state is Texas, says he is thinking it over and it may be what he wants to do with the next chapter of his life. On a recent episode of Crime Stoppers of Houston’s “The Balanced Voice”
Continue Reading A keeper at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is recovering after being attacked by a cheetah on Thursday, according to a statement from the zoo given to affiliate WSYX and shared with CNN. Two staff members were walking the 4-year-old cheetah named Isabelle from the cheetah facility in the Heart of Africa section to a
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FRIDAY: We’ll start off the day dry but that changes by midday. More showers will push in and look like they’ll be for pretty much all of us. With plenty of moisture present, some of these will be on the moderate to heavy side at times throughout the day. Highs will only top out in
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A police officer in Rochester, New York, is on administrative leave and an investigation has been launched after he shot and killed a man who charged at officers while holding at least one knife that he grabbed from inside a homeless shelter, police said. According to police, the man was threatening to harm himself, local
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The massive American Rescue Plan will cost $1.9 trillion and includes $1,400 payments to many Americans along with an expanded child tax credit.
Continue Reading After a recent outbreak of Covid-19 infections at the largest correctional facility in San Diego County, a class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and a community advocacy group against San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, demanding he protect local incarcerated people from further infections. The lawsuit calls for Gore to
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Covid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. But with tens of thousands of deaths expected over the next few months, experts are warning Americans not to drop their guard just yet. “I think we are going to get fooled,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the
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Exactly one year after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic and about three months since the first Americans outside of clinical trials got shots, one in 10 people in the US are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on its website that at least
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The light at the end of the tunnel may be the fireworks bursting in air on the Fourth of July. President Joe Biden on Thursday offered Americans the tantalizing hope of a return to an all but forgotten pre-pandemic normalcy within months, escalating the “war footing” on which he has placed the nation to beat
Continue Reading China successfully launched its new-generation Long March 7A rocket early Friday morning on its second attempt, sending an experimental satellite into orbit. The rocket launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, in China’s southern Hainan province. Photos from the scene show crowds gathered with tents at a distance, waiting to witness the liftoff. The rocket
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, have tested positive for Covid-19, the president’s office said in a statement Monday. The Assads were in “stable condition” and planned to self-isolate for two or three weeks, the statement said. Syria has recorded at least 45,879 positive Covid-19 cases and 2,023 total deaths based on cumulative
Continue Reading A Saudi court has rejected an appeal by prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul that would have allowed her to travel freely, her family and supporters said. The 31-year-old was sentenced in December to five years and eight months in prison on what critics have described as politically motivated charges, but was released in February
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In an extraordinary rebuke, the Pentagon and several senior members of the US military called out Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday for a sexist segment in which he mocked women serving in the armed forces. Carlson, who is effectively the face of Fox and hosts the top show on the right-wing channel, ridiculed
Continue Reading A keeper at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is recovering after being attacked by a cheetah on Thursday, according to a statement from the zoo given to affiliate WSYX and shared with CNN. Two staff members were walking the 4-year-old cheetah named Isabelle from the cheetah facility in the Heart of Africa section to a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police are investigating an incident at an apartment on the 1300 block of Paris road. According to a sergeant on scene, it is a special victims investigation. After a warrant was served, detectives have been gathering evidence. Columbia police reported a suspect was arrested but would not comment if the victim
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Coupang, South Korea’s biggest e-commerce company, has pulled off the largest US initial public offering so far this year. Shares of the SoftBank-backed firm ended their first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $49.25 on Thursday, a 41% jump over the $35 IPO price. The offering raised nearly $4.6 billion. The
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These finalists include Dr. Harold Brian Yearwood (Manor, Texas), Dr. Chace Ramey (Iowa City, Iowa), and Dr. Erick Pruitt (Chicago, Illinois).
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