US Customs and Border Protection encountered 171,700 migrants in March, including a record number of unaccompanied minors, far exceeding the prior month’s totals and continuing an upward trend dating back to last year, according to preliminary data obtained by CNN. The data underscores the ongoing challenge facing the Biden administration as officials scramble to set
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FORT WORTH, Tx. Columbia-native J’den Cox will not compete in the 2020 Olympic Trials, after missing weight on Friday morning. USA Wrestling removed him from the 97 kg bracket following Friday morning’s weigh-in. Cox had earned a spot in the semifinals after he won a medal at the 2019 Worlds competition. Cox is on a
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Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A driver was ejected and died Thursday night in a major rollover crash on I-435 near Interstate 70 in Kansas City, according to police. The gold-colored Nissan was traveling quickly northbound on Interstate 435 around 10:25 p.m., when the driver lost control and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, Pitt County, North Carolina (WLOS) — A child is dead after investigators said he found a gun in a family member’s parked car Wednesday evening. Greenville Police said the gun discharged while the child, age 8, was handling the weapon and he was shot in the abdomen.
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In an attempt to halt a New York art collective from using their signature “swoosh,” Nike has obtained a temporary restraining order against the makers of “Satan Shoes,” a pair of modified Nikes decorated with symbols of the occult and a drop of human blood. A US District Court in New York granted Nike’s request
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After a decade of anticipation among viewers, Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson and Christopher Meloni’s Elliot Stabler reunited Thursday night. No spoilers here, but the “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” former detective partners and beloved platonic pair came together to kick off a spinoff for Meloni titled “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” The three-hour crossover
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Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, is urging America to admit it has a racism problem. “This unconscious bias and racism is pervasive. It’s almost inherent, sadly, in the historic fabric of this country,” Soon-Shiong, the founder and executive chairman of biotech company ImmunityBio, told CNN Business in his first public
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Chief executives and other high-ranking leaders from more than 100 companies including Target, Snapchat and Uber issued a public statement Friday opposing any measures that deny eligible voters the right to cast ballots. “We believe every American should have a voice in our democracy and that voting should be safe and accessible to all voters,”
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The members of the Iran nuclear deal and the United States will visit Vienna next week in the first effort to kickstart face-to-face negotiations to salvage the pact since the Biden administration came into office, a senior administration official said. Senior officials from the governments of Iran, France, the UK, Germany, Russia, China, the US
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KIHEI, Hawaii (KITV) — An an age when some people are becoming grandparents, or even great-grandparents, a Maui man became a father for the first time. Shep Gordon is 75 and his son is eight-months-old. Meet the Gordon family: Dad Shep, 42-year-old mom Katie, and little Benjamin Robert
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PEACHTREE CITY, Georgia (WGCL) — Thursday, bin trolleys showed up and rolled in to save Andreas Flaten from a slippery pile of headaches. “Finally getting all this taken care of, I was dreading, thinking I was going to have to go through hours and hours of cleaning this
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story IRVINGTON, Alabama (WALA) — On the same day authorities say James Carl Caballero nabbed his kids on Thursday, his estranged wife asked a judge for a protection-from-abuse order. The woman, who is the mother of the two young children, said in her handwritten court petition that Cabarello, 27
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There are a lot of misleading claims being made about Georgia’s controversial elections law. And some of them are coming from the top. Both President Joe Biden, a Democrat who opposes the law, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the Republican who signed it last week, misleadingly described the text of the law in interviews this
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Even taking acknowledged creative liberties, the true story at the core of “The Serpent” sinks its teeth into you, chronicling a murder spree by a slick con man, and the unlikely diplomat whose determined efforts helped apprehend him. Anchored by Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”), the eight-part series drags in places, but gradually becomes the kind
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — The Final Four is this weekend for both the men and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments. And a Vancouver based business is filling the stands with fans, cardboard fans that is! “We are filling the entire lower bowl here,” Joe DiPietro is in San Antonio
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New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang was hospitalized after being diagnosed with what appears to be a kidney stone, his campaign said. Yang visited an emergency room Friday morning after experiencing abdominal pain and remains at the hospital with his wife, Evelyn, his campaign said in a statement. His public events for Friday are
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WOODBURN, Oregon (KPTV) — One person was killed and two others were injured Thursday afternoon in a crash near the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm. At about 12:30 p.m., emergency crews were called out to a two-vehicle crash on Highway 211 at South Meridian Road, about four miles east
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BALDWIN COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — Baldwin County and its municipalities said they’re still owed more than $100-million-dollars from FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. County and city leaders met Thursday morning, April 1, 2021 to discuss the problem and decide what the next step is. “They are
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Hungary has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, struggling to contain the latest surge of new coronavirus cases even as its vaccine rollout speeds up. The government announced Wednesday that 302 people died in a single day, bringing the country’s total death toll to 20,737. The government said in a statement that
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Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — There is a coordinated effort underway to help a vessel in distress after a number of its crew members tested positive for COVID-19. The rush is on the find appropriate quarantine quarters for seven crew members still out on the water. The Port Milwaukee took
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