Click here for updates on this story RAYTOWN, Missouri (KCTV) — A woman pleaded guilty to property damage for slashing tires on Raytown police vehicles preventing those patrol cars from being used to respond to emergencies until they could be repaired. In 2019, Fisher was charged with property damage for slashing a total of 18
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About half of Americans who watched President Joe Biden’s address to Congress had a very positive reaction to the speech, and 71% said they walked away feeling more optimistic about the country’s direction, according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. By a wide margin, speech-watchers said that Biden’s policy proposals would move the country
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — John and Carol Hemkens met 45 years ago at DePaul Hospital. She was a nurse and he was a respiratory therapist. “We met in a dark room on the night shift at the hospital,” said Carol Hemkens. They were married just a few years
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Shake Shack has emerged as one of the most diverse employers in America after hiring more than 1,000 people in 2020. But the premium burger chain’s executive management team is also one of the least diverse in the fast food industry, which for years has been criticized for pervasive racial disparities between its disproportionately Black
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President Joe Biden laid out a far-reaching agenda to Congress on Wednesday night, one that implored his former Senate colleagues and the House of Representatives to get to work and close out nearly a dozen issues that he has worked on for most of his career. But the wish list faces a harsh reality in
Continue Reading Germany’s intelligence service is putting some anti-lockdown activists under surveillance because of concerns they are attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the federal state. The country’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) announced on Wednesday that the new surveillance would focus on some members of the ‘Querdenker’ group. The movement has been
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Highway Patrol Troop B arrested a man on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and being a minor in possession of alcohol after crash reports say he veered off a road and hit a tree.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of loss for nearly everyone in the world, whether losing a loved one, a job, or a sense of normalcy, there’s a collective grieving across the globe. In Canada, as of April 28, more than 24,000
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Summer camps across Canada are gearing up to welcome back campers this summer with modifications to prevent COVID-19 transmission, while preparing contingency measures in case provinces once again impose restrictions on camps. New Brunswick-based camp consultant Stéphane Richard, who serves as the president
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Federal prosecutors unveiled new charges on Wednesday against three men who have been accused in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Adam Fox, 40, Barry Croft, 45, and Daniel Joseph Harris, 23, were charged with knowingly conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction,
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In the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s joint address to Congress, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said Biden and Democrats were “pulling” the US apart and took time to praise former President Donald Trump. Scott’s nearly 15-minute rebuttal to Biden’s hour-long speech was largely accurate, but some of his claims could have benefited
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Brendan Hunt — whose father is a retired judge and who allegedly threatened the lives of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — was found guilty of one count of threatening to assault or murder US officials by a jury in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday, according to
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White House aides were prepping President Joe Biden to virtually tour an electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant last week when the President suddenly shifted the conversation to something else entirely: China and the fate of democracy. Sitting in the Oval Office, one of Biden’s economic advisers had just pointed out that China was dominating the
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Even America’s biggest company can’t save itself from a global shortage of crucial computer chips. What’s happening: Apple just had a massive quarter thanks to sales of new iPhones, iPads and MacBooks, with revenue nearly hitting $90 billion. Sales of iPhones reached nearly $48 billion, a 65% increase over the same quarter last year, as
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As President Joe Biden used the grand Washington stage to bemoan the Capitol insurrection as the worst attack on US democracy since the Civil War, a flurry of Trump-era flashbacks underscored the depth of the still unvanquished threat. Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night was a ritual rooted in tradition
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Turkey is bracing itself for its first national coronavirus lockdown as infection rates continue to climb in the country, now the highest in Europe. The lockdown will begin on Thursday at 7 p.m. local time (12 p.m. ET) and will last through the remainder of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and over the Eid
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A judge in Moscow upheld a defamation conviction Thursday against jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who joined a court hearing via videolink, in his first public appearance since he went on hunger strike. The visibly gaunt Navalny used the platform to launch a broadside against President Vladimir Putin and his government, likening him to the
Continue Reading The pandemic occupied a major part of US President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress on Wednesday, as he made a sweeping case for big government that would transform and vastly expand its role in Americans’ lives. “Now, after just 100 days, I can report to the nation, America is on the move again. Turning peril into possibility,
Continue Reading After an Idaho officer posted a TikTok video mocking NBA star LeBron James’ comments about the use of force by police, his employer, the Bellevue Marshal’s Office, said it was addressing the issue internally. In a statement posted on Facebook, it said: “The statements made do NOT represent the Bellevue Marshal’s Office.” The post added:
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After several hours of contentious debate, the Republican-controlled Florida House passed its version of a controversial bill that would add new restrictions to the voting process. The bill, SB 90, passed on a party-line vote of 77-40 on Wednesday. The bill now goes back to the Senate with a slew of changes, after the House
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