President Joe Biden is expected to scale up his administration’s investment in extreme weather preparation when he makes a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters on Monday afternoon. Biden is set to announce a doubling of US investment in extreme weather preparation to $1 billion, a White House official confirmed. The announcement was
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The Fed is getting serious about the digital US dollar. Lael Brainard, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, laid out a case for a secure, central bank-backed digital currency that could create a more efficient payment system and expand financial services to Americans who have been underserved by traditional banks. “Today, the
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Click here for updates on this story LEE COUNTY, Florida (WBBH) — When a convicted felon out of Ohio tried to ditch Lee County deputies during a traffic stop over the weekend, he ended up in one instead. Corey Price, 36, crashed his moped into a drainage ditch near Island Vista Drive when deputies tried
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FORT MYERS, Florida (WBBH) — Water officials are tackling toxic blue-green algae coming down the Caloosahatchee River. Several health alerts have been put in place due to the green gunk making a mess of some canals. The area near the Franklin Lock in Alva is one of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO KTVK) — A 3-year-old boy who was pulled from a Phoenix canal early Sunday evening has died, police say. At around 5:30 p.m., Phoenix police say someone passing by called them after he thought he had seen a small child floating in the Grand Canal near
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The Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau is set to discuss the 2021 Roots & Blues festival on Monday, as Columbia works to bring back larger events to the city.
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MONDAY: We’ll wake up to some sunshine but more clouds are on the way this afternoon. We might be able to squeeze a sprinkle out of one or two of those clouds, but most of us will stay dry. Highs look to make it into the middle 80’s. TONIGHT: A few more showers will be possible after
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — A Harris County Precinct 1 sergeant made a ‘dying declaration’ of child sex assault and implicated two co-workers before taking his own life. The complicated web of allegations started unraveling a week ago when officials with the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office said they
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For most passengers on board Ryanair flight 4978 from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday, the news that the plane would instead touch down in the capital of Belarus represented an inconvenience. For one passenger, however, the diversion was far more ominous. Roman Protasevich, a young Belarusian dissident, scrambled to grab his luggage and is said
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New York City schools will fully return to in-person learning in September with no remote option, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday on MSNBC. De Blasio said that the increase in vaccinations, decrease in cases and layering of health measures will make the move possible. New York City has the biggest school district in the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — The coins in your pocket could be worth big bucks. One hopeful collector thought she had something of value but wasn’t sure. Margaret Matt asked ABC13, but this was job for an expert. To the untrained eye, a penny is not worth much, but when
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More than a year after the pandemic began, the US economy is on the cusp of a full recovery. But reaching that milestone still won’t be easy. CNN Business’ Back-to-Normal Index, developed in partnership with Moody’s Analytics last year, shows the US economy is 90% of the way back to where it was before the
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Yet another ballot audit is set to move ahead in Georgia’s most populous county after a judge ruled Friday that absentee ballots could be unsealed for parties looking to examine them for evidence of fraud. The review of Fulton County’s absentee ballots, which is not set to begin until the judge reviews the terms of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (East Idaho News) — It’s always a teacher’s goal to find a way to get the student’s attention, but Thunder Ridge High School chemistry teacher Dennis Hummer had no idea that he would grab the attention of millions of people around the world through Tik
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WARE, Massachussets (WSHM) — Ware Police are looking for a suspect in a reported larceny accident at the Dollar Tree Sunday. According to the Ware Police Department Facebook page, officers were dispatched to the Ware Police Department were dispatched to the store, where an 11-year-old girl left her
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (WSHM) — One man is dead after a house fire in Springfield overnight Sunday. Western Mass News spoke exclusively with the residents of that house. The victim’s name has not been released yet, but residents told Western Mass News he was a friend of more than
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The Biden administration announced on Monday it is allocating $200 million from the American Rescue Plan to support services for survivors of domestic violence following a rise in cases during pandemic lockdowns. “As we all know, the pandemic and its economic impact significantly increased the risks of abuse for victims of domestic violence and made
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It’s not just tourists who invade Florida in the summer. The colorfully named, obnoxious — and sometimes deadly — microorganisms known as red tide and blue green algae also take advantage of the change in temperature to proliferate. And it causes major problems. Both types of algae bloom are starting to make their presence known
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MORGAN, UTAH (KSL) — A 7-year-old boy from Morgan has returned home to recover following a traumatic injury. Isaac Evans fell on a pencil that punctured just above his eye and went into his brain. Caid and Alicia Evans, Isaac’s parents, sat down with KSL-TV to talk about
Continue Reading Florida will stop paying jobless residents the $300-a-week federal boost to unemployment benefits on June 26, the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity said Monday. The announcement brings the number of GOP-led states that are terminating the special pandemic supplement early to 23 — all citing labor shortages as the reason. A total of 4 million
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