Click here for updates on this story HARRISONVILLE, Missouri (KCTV) — The Harrisonville School District’s Board of Education adjourned early Tuesday morning after an 11-hour hearing. It’s regarding a teacher accused of using racial and homophobic slurs in the classroom. The school board ended their special session to decide the fate of high school science
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The study of Jane Austen’s novels, many of them about 200 years old, is never complete. And neither is the excavation of the beloved author’s personal life. Austen’s personal values — namely, whether she supported slavery — have been debated by literary enthusiasts and experts who read her work like a cipher. A new discovery
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Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo’s new podcast “The Handoff” explores their unlikely friendship off-camera, along with their unfiltered takes on the week’s news. Below, the hosts talk about the origin of the nightly “handoff” between their shows and how it put their friendship in front of the camera. Edited for clarity Don Lemon: Our new
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Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo’s new podcast “The Handoff” explores their unlikely friendship off-camera, along with their unfiltered takes on the week’s news. Below, the hosts talk about the origin of the nightly “handoff” between their shows and how it put their friendship in front of the camera. Edited for clarity Don Lemon: Our new
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It’s late afternoon in Santa Elena Canyon — a 19-mile gorge that separates Big Bend National Park in West Texas and three national parks in Mexico — and we’re setting up camp along a remote stretch of the Rio Grande. We came across two other canoe groups this morning, but they were day trippers. The
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A rocket carrying three veteran astronauts bound for China’s orbiting space station module will launch from the Gobi Desert in the country’s north in just over 24 hours, China’s space agency announced Wednesday. The three men, Nie Haisheng, 56, Liu Boming, 54, and Tang Hongbo, 45, will become the first Chinese astronauts to land on
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China is sending three veteran astronauts to work on the country’s orbiting space station. A rocket will launch from the Gobi Desert in just over 24 hours, according to China’s space agency. CNN’s Steven Jiang reports.
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Dunkin’ has a fitting new treat for people breaking out of their personal bubbles after a long 15 months. It’s appropriately called “Popping Bubbles,” which are boba-like bubbles that pop in people’s mouths and taste like strawberry. The bubbles can be added to any of Dunkin’s iced or frozen drinks — notably its line of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The Oregon Zoo welcomed 10 California condor chicks to the Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation – the largest batch in the zoo’s 18-year effort to save the endangered species. The zoo said the final chick hatched on May 22 to an “experienced condor mom”
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — The family of a co-pilot involved in a deadly WWII aircraft crash is suing the owner of the plane. According to the family of Michael Foster, Foster was serving as a volunteer co-pilot on the B-17 that crashed at Bradley International Airport on Oct.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BUNCOMBE COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A Candler man has been arrested and charged with numerous counts in connection with a child pornography investigation. Detectives with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office have charged Michael Gauge Smith of Candler with 38 counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor
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The highest-stakes talks of President Joe Biden’s long career began Wednesday in Geneva, where he and Russia’s Vladimir Putin shook hands and immediately began a summit set to test his decades of experience on the world stage and lay down an early marker of his diplomatic skills. Inside a book-lined study with a large globe
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Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, known for her outspoken right-wing views, tweeted last week: “The same liberals that legalized knowingly spreading HIV are now pushing Americans to take COVID tests or show proof of vaccination to enter restaurants. No. We’re not playing your games.” Facts First: Boebert’s claim about liberals legalizing knowingly spreading HIV is
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MARION COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — As communities rebuild from the ashes of the devastating wildfires that destroyed Oregon cities last summer, there’s stories of giving coming out of the arduous processes to reconstruct towns and cities. The beginning stages of rebuilding Mt. Horeb Baptist Church are taking shape
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The scene that unfolded in a northeast Portland neighborhood Tuesday afternoon sounds like it belongs in an action movie. Neighbors saw what appeared to be a car chase, followed by several gunshots and an SUV crashing through the corner of a home’s garage, leaving
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — A child is recovering after nearly drowning at an apartment complex pool in Madison on Monday. Nashville Fire tell us crews responded to Amalie Apartments on Kate Street around 9 p.m. after calls came in about a child who fell into a swimming pool. Officials
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — It’s blight and a safety hazard St. Louis City residents say needs to be towed away. Anita White Tramble says the deteriorating conditions of two vehicles on her street are indicators that the cars were intentionally dumped and left in front of her home
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SpaceX has been targeting July for the first orbital flight of its gargantuan Starship system, which will be the most powerful launch vehicle ever created — and, the company hopes, will eventually take humans to Mars. But the company is not likely to hit that goal, CNN Business has learned. SpaceX’s Starship launch operations are
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Newly-released video shows a corrections officer at the St. Louis City Jail opening an inmate’s cell to allow two other men to attack him. The four-minute jailhouse footage shows two male inmates walking up to talk to corrections officer Demeria Thomas at the podium
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Members of the House Intelligence Committee will receive a classified briefing on Wednesday morning on one of the most controversial topics circulating in Washington today: UFOs. The briefing, which was confirmed to CNN by two sources familiar with the committee’s plans, comes just weeks before the US intelligence community is scheduled to deliver an unclassified
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