By REBEKKA SCHRAMM Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, GA (WGCL) — At the end of the last school year, after the pandemic forced schools to go virtual, Jeana Buckner looked for a summer program for her 5-year-old autistic daughter Jordyn to help make up some of the learning she had lost.
Continue ReadingBy FOX 12 STAFF Click here for updates on this story TROUTDALE, OR (KPTV) — One person is dead following an explosion at a home in Troutdale early Monday morning, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said it is investigating what led up to the explosion in the 600 block of
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY WEIL Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Police found more than 100 shell casings after a shooting in Northeast Portland around 4:20 Sunday morning. It happened near Northeast 95th Avenue and Northeast Prescott Street near I-205. Four homes and five cars there are riddled with bullet holes. Neighbors
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By Ishtiaq Mahsud and Rob Picheta, CNN In rural Paktika province — at a border crossing with Pakistan, nearly 200 miles south of Kabul — a Taliban commander surveys the crowds. “I have been assigned as the caretaker of the border crossing here,” he says. “The puppet government is now gone, without any resistance —
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By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer Detroit Lions cornerback Jeff Okudah has a season-ending Achilles tendon injury. The team made the announcement Monday. Okudah was hurt in the fourth quarter Sunday as the San Francisco 49ers held on to win 41-33 against the Lions. Detroit drafted the Ohio State star with the No. 3 overall
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By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A hospital in upstate New York is “pausing” deliveries of babies because of the number of maternity unit employee resignations over the state’s Covid-19 vaccination requirements, health officials say. Lewis County General Hospital in Lowville, about 60 miles northeast of Syracuse, will stop deliveries after September 24, said Gerald Cayer, chief
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A hospital in upstate New York is “pausing” deliveries of babies because of the number of maternity unit employee resignations over the state’s Covid-19 vaccination requirements, health officials say. Lewis County General Hospital in Lowville, about 60 miles northeast of Syracuse, will stop deliveries after September 24, said Gerald Cayer, chief
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By Liam Reilly, CNN After a perilous 14-hour drive from Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, to the capital of Kabul, a flight to Qatar, another to Washington, DC, and a week in Fort Lee, Virginia, AA and his family finally made it to New Haven, Connecticut, their new home. AA worked as a contractor and translator
Continue Reading By Liam Reilly, CNN After a perilous 14-hour drive from Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, to the capital of Kabul, a flight to Qatar, another to Washington, DC, and a week in Fort Lee, Virginia, AA and his family finally made it to New Haven, Connecticut, their new home. AA worked as a contractor and translator
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Skating Union is seeking a replacement host for the 2022 Four Continents event after Tianjin, China bowed out. The ISU said Monday that it is conducting a search for a new site for the Jan. 17-22 event for skaters from the Americas, Asia, Australia and Africa. Organizers from
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By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief says a highly awaited joint investigation into abuses in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict was unable to deploy to the site of one of its deadliest attacks, the alleged massacre of several hundred people in the holy city of Axum. Michelle Bachelet
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By Sophia Saifi and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane from Islamabad touched down in Kabul on Monday morning, according to an airline spokesman. This marks the first flight to land in Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan since the chaotic final withdrawal of US troops last month. PIA spokesman Abdullah Khan said
Continue Reading By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The new exhibit at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to start a new conversation about American fashion, says its curator, Andrew Bolton. “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” part one of a larger “In America” show, opens to the public
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Londres (CNN) — Si a los aliados de Australia les preocupaba que el país pudiera causarles problemas en las próximas conversaciones sobre el clima en Glasgow, los eventos de la semana pasada deberían dejar pocas dudas en sus mentes. Eso va a pasar. El primer ministro de Australia, Scott Morrison, casi confirmó
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By David McKenzie, CNN South Africa will start to ease several Covid-19 restrictions as infection rates decrease in the country, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday. Amongst other measures, the nationwide curfew will be reduced to 11pm until 4am, the size of gatherings can increase to 250 people indoors and 500 outdoors, and restrictions on
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Lentes Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — The nation’s oldest World War II veteran celebrated his 112th birthday on Sunday. Lawrence Brooks served in the U.S. Army after being drafted in 1940. He was born in Norwood, Louisiana in 1909, but moved to New Orleans in 1929, where
Continue Readingmerinojavier73 (CNN Español) — Madonna fue la encargada de dar la bienvenida oficial de la entrega 40 de los VMA de la cadena MTV, que se llevaron a cabo el domingo desde Nueva York. “Hace 40 años dijeron que no duraría, y aquí estoy”, dijo la chica material. Bajo la conducción de la cantante Doja
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By Jack Guy, CNN The organizers of a marathon in southern England have apologized after the course for Sunday’s race was more than 500 meters (1,640 feet) too long. The Brighton Marathon returned to the streets of the coastal city after a pandemic-enforced break, but participants were forced to run further than the regulation 26.2
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A day after being spurned by Kansas City Southern, Canadian National Railway is facing additional pressure from a major investor who wants CN to abandon its effort to buy the U.S. railroad. The London-based investment firm TCI Fund said Monday it’s calling for a special
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A day after being spurned by Kansas City Southern, Canadian National Railway is facing additional pressure from a major investor who wants CN to abandon its effort to buy the U.S. railroad. The London-based investment firm TCI Fund said Monday it’s calling for a special
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