A fire has swept through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, destroying shelters and endangering the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, the UN refugee agency UNHCR reported Monday. Fire services, Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, and rescue and response teams remained at the scene on Monday evening, where they
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Click here for updates on this story POCOLA, Oklahoma (KFSM) — A man accused of killing his girlfriend with a lawnmower blade in eastern Oklahoma has pleaded guilty to the crime and will spend life in prison. In August of 2018, Steven Asher of Hackett, Arkansas, was charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing death
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Click here for updates on this story CENTERVILLE, Utah (KSL) — A woman is safe Sunday after she was trapped overnight on the Parrish Creek Trail with two dogs. The woman was extracted from the mountain about 10:25 a.m. by a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter, a live Facebook video shows. A Davis County
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a lower court opinion that wiped away the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three spectators and injured hundreds. Last July, a federal appeals court said that Tsarnaev will remain in prison for the rest
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Health officials are working to combat coronavirus vaccine hesitancy as Missouri prepares to greatly expand eligibility in the coming weeks. Sara Humm from the Columbia/Boone County Health Department said the department is working with Bucket Media on a vaccine education campaign. The education campaign takes on extra importance with millions of more
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LEHIGH ACRES, Florida (WBBH) — A baby was killed in a Lehigh Acres neighborhood in September 2020, officials said. Deputies with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a home on Homer Avenue South in Lehigh Acres on September 17, 2020, and found a 1-year-old boy
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Boone County officials have removed occupancy limits for gatherings and group sizes will no longer be limited at bars and restaurants under a new health order that takes effect Wednesday.
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As the number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the US-Mexico border continues to rise, hundreds have been kept in US Border Patrol facilities not meant for minors. The Biden administration has not allowed journalists to independently visit the facilities, but several lawmakers have visited sites. Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar provided these photos revealing the conditions
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Click here for updates on this story COMPTON, California (KABC) — A family is looking for answers after a 27-year-old mother was gunned down in Compton. Sia Marie Xiong was fatally shot shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of East Kay Street, according to authorities. She was rushed to the hospital with
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Melatonin is a popular over-the-counter sleeping aid, touted as a natural way for adults to fall asleep and used by millions around the world. So why wouldn’t it be good for children, too? “There is a view that if it’s natural, then it can’t hurt,” said Rebecca Robbins, an associate scientist at Brigham and Women’s
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Kylie Jenner seeking support for a GoFundMe effort aimed at helping pay medical bills for makeup artist Samuel Rauda did not go over well. Jenner recently shared an Instagram story seeking prayers for Rauda and directing her 222 million followers to a GoFundMe started to help pay his medical bills. According to the GoFundMe, Rauda
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Kylie Jenner seeking support for a GoFundMe effort aimed at helping pay medical bills for makeup artist Samuel Rauda did not go over well. Jenner recently shared an Instagram story seeking prayers for Rauda and directing her 222 million followers to a GoFundMe started to help pay his medical bills. According to the GoFundMe, Rauda
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The NCAA basketball tournament, aka March Madness, is nirvana for sports bettors. But it’s March Madness on Wall Street too, as the blue-chip S&P 500 index is wagering that legal gambling is a growing trend that’s here to stay. Casino companies Penn National Gaming, which has a big stake in Dave Portnoy’s Bartsool Sports, and
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Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explained his support for the legislative filibuster’s 60-vote threshold, making the case in an op-ed in his home state paper, the Courier-Journal, published Monday that the filibuster is actually “Kentucky’s veto” to prevent “radical” changes that would hurt the state. The piece comes a week after a stark warning to Democrats
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Turkey could be on the cusp of another currency crisis after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan abruptly fired the head of the country’s central bank, putting the lira on track for its worst single day decline against the US dollar in nearly three years. The move will knock investor confidence at a crucial moment for Turkey’s
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A zoo in central France has announced that two of its giant pandas mated “multiple times” on Saturday. Huan Huan, a female, and Yuan Zi, a male, were put in contact eight times, at regular intervals, according to a press release from ZooParc de Beauval, published Sunday. Giant pandas have a very short window for
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Click here for updates on this story SUNBURY, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Thanks to some young volunteers, a once-forgotten space buried by tons of trees in Sunbury is being cleaned up, making way for a new ecological and educational park. Sunbury Wetland Ecological and Educational Park will be located on the corner of Race and North
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Senior Biden administration officials are traveling to Mexico on Monday to discuss managing migration with government officials amid a surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border. Roberta Jacobson, the Biden administration’s coordinator for the southern border, and Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, will be making the trip,
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Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat announced on Monday a proposal to end the six-year conflict in Yemen, including an offer of a ceasefire and political agreement with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels who control strategic parts of the country. The kingdom said it would adhere to a UN-monitored country-wide ceasefire with Houthi rebels if the group agreed
Continue Reading Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela of Texas, who is serving his fifth term in Congress, confirmed to CNN Monday he will not run for reelection for his House seat in 2022. “It has been an honor to represent the citizens of the 34th District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives for the last
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