For thousands of years, we’ve used one vegetable as a spice to flavor our toast, treat ear infections and ward off vampires: garlic. Garlic is the edible bulb of a plant in the lily family, native to central Asia. In addition to making food taste better, it has traditionally been used for health purposes by
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Almost five months into her new job, Jill Biden is still revealing what kind of first lady she wants to be, but one thing is already clear: you can call her “Jill.” Biden has insisted at just about every turn that people address her by her first name. She means it — people actually call
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Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Atlanta police are investigating a double shooting that left a woman dead. The shooting happened just after 3 a.m. on Joseph E. Boone near West Lake Drive in northwest Atlanta. According to an Atlanta police spokesperson, officers responded to a person shot call at the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A teen was shot in the stomach Thursday after trying to steal a tip jar and assaulting a customer at a south St. Louis City restaurant. Officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said a customer intervened when the teen was stealing Utah
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President Joe Biden’s first trip abroad since taking office includes a G7 summit where he’ll look to reestablish US leadership on the world stage. But what is the G7, and what power does it hold? Here’s what you need to know: What is the G7? The G7 is shorthand for Group of Seven, an organization
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (WSMV) — “I always thought about being different ever since I was born,” said JaQuan LeGrand. JaQuan LeGrand is the first of eight siblings to graduate from high school. But getting to this point wasn’t that simple. He moved from Florida to escape a bad environment.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Photos obtained by News4 Investigates show two massive fires, nine years apartment, at the Brentwood Oaks apartments show both buildings had a sprinkler system that did not prevent it from burning to the ground. Additional documents obtained by News4 Investigates show that firefighters also
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We’ve all faced disagreements at work, or been trapped in an uncomfortable stand-off after getting in someone’s bad books. Luckily for most of us, our workplace squabbles aren’t usually broadcast live to a viewing nation or seen by millions of internet users worldwide. Two presenters on Namibia’s flagship broadcaster have gone viral after their excruciatingly
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The Oregon state representative who faced backlash after a video surfaced of him appearing to tell protesters how to get access to the closed state Capitol has been expelled from the Oregon House of Representatives. Rep. Mike Nearman, a Republican, was expelled from the legislative body on Thursday night with a bipartisan vote of 59-1
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McDonald’s is the latest high-profile company to be affected by a data breach, leading to the exposure of private information of customers and employees in South Korea and Taiwan. The burger chain said in a statement Friday that an investigation revealed a “small number of files were accessed,” some of which had personal data. McDonald’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROBBINSVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Kyle Fink has loved wrestling since he was four years old. That’s when his mother told him they were going to a wrestling camp down the street from the house. “I had no idea what I was doing,” laughed Fink. “I was just
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — In an effort to boost Oregon’s first-dose vaccination rate for adults, the three Portland metro area mass COVID-19 vaccination sites will be giving away $100 gift cards to two grocery store chains over the next few days while supplies last. All4Oregon announced the incentive
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Check back here for updates on the COVID-19 pandemic in Missouri.
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Government data help policymakers find and fix problems for people in need. But that’s tricky if some groups aren’t represented in the stats. This is the case for the LGBTQ+ community, and it’s a huge problem. Here’s an example: The government’s monthly jobs report shows how many men and women, Black, White, Asian and Hispanic
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First lady Jill Biden met Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge on Friday, touring a school in Cornwall, England, near the G7 summit where President Joe Biden is making his first international trip abroad. Jill Biden and the Duchess focused their meeting on children and education during their first-ever meeting, which took place at Conor Downs
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Lorde is out here aiming for the song of the summer. The video for her new single “Solar Power” has dropped and it has everything you need to make it a warm weather jam, from the singer frolicking dressed in yellow on the beach with others to the lyrics that reference a hot time. “Can’t
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If you were speculating that there was a big thing behind the split of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, you were wrong. Turns out it was the little things, like Kardashian not having someone to work out with. That’s just one of the things we learned from the final episode of “Keeping Up With the
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The theater industry has gotten help from a lot of sources so far this year. First, it was a radioactive lizard fighting a giant ape, then it was Emily Blunt quietly outrunning monsters. Now it’s Lin-Manuel Miranda’s turn to save the box office. “In the Heights,” a film based on Miranda’s Tony Award-winning 2008 musical
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Blake Lively has shared a touching tribute to her father, the actor Ernie Lively, following his death aged 74. Lively died of cardiac complications in Los Angeles on June 3, his representative, Julie Smith, confirmed to USA Today. The actress has since shared in her Instagram stories a picture of herself snuggling up to her
Continue Reading An Iranian navy destroyer ship has reached the Atlantic Ocean, Iran’s deputy army commander, Admiral Habibullah Sayyari said, according to official news agency IRNA. Accompanied by a logistical vessel, the ship’s voyage marks the first time Iran has been able to reach the Atlantic using naval vessels without docking in any international ports, Sayyari said.
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