Mariana Toro (CNN) — Un hombre que perdió a su familia en un incendio hace 20 años está siendo aclamado como un héroe por salvar a una mujer de las llamas que arrasaron con su casa. Mark Collum, un pescador comercial en Rowley, Massachusetts, se puso en acción este domingo cuando escuchó el llamado de
Continue ReadingBy Russell Kinsaul Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Serving to make the community a safer place is the norm in the Hendel household. Sean Hendel has worked as a police officer for nine years and is a K-9 officer at a police department in St. Louis County. Jessica Hendel
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By ALEXANDRA OLSON and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The early months of the coronavirus pandemic shined a spotlight on essential workers. Strict shutdowns left the hardest-hit U.S. cities desolate, except for those fulfilling society’s basic needs. The virus has since spread, evolved and unleashed new challenges. The arrival of vaccines
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By ALEXANDRA OLSON and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The early months of the coronavirus pandemic shined a spotlight on essential workers. Strict shutdowns left the hardest-hit U.S. cities desolate, except for those fulfilling society’s basic needs. The virus has since spread, evolved and unleashed new challenges. The arrival of vaccines
Continue Reading By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ-rights organization, has fired its president because of developments related to the sexual harassment case that prompted Andrew Cuomo’s resignation as governor of New York. The ousted president, Alphonso David, responded with an
Continue Reading By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ-rights organization, has fired its president because of developments related to the sexual harassment case that prompted Andrew Cuomo’s resignation as governor of New York. The ousted president, Alphonso David, responded with an
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN While we were enjoying the weekend, the Perseverance rover was hard at work making history on Mars. New images with better lighting reveal that the rover did, in fact, successfully collect a Martian rock sample last week. After processing and sealing, it’s the first Mars rock core sample to be stowed
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By DOUG FERGGUSON AP Golf Writer The LPGA Tour is headed back to Cincinnati next year. The tour is announcing a deal with two Cincinnati companies for the Kroger Queen City Championship to be played at Kenwood Country Club on Sept. 8-11 in a three-year deal that starts in 2022. It’s the first new tournament
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una endeble cortina gris divide un aula universitaria en Kabul, Afganistán, en dos: en un lado se sientan los estudiantes hombres y en el otro las mujeres, cubiertas con hiyab. Es un vistazo de cómo podrÃa ser la educación en Afganistán bajo el gobierno de los talibanes, ya que algunos
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese judge has summoned North Korea’s leader to face demands for compensation by several ethnic Korean residents of Japan who say they suffered human rights abuses in North Korea after joining a resettlement program there. A lawyer and a plaintiff say North Korean leader Kim Jong
Continue Reading By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent lawyer who represented both a former Russian journalist accused of treason and the team of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has left Russia after authorities launched a criminal probe against him. A rights group he headed has also shut down under government pressure. In a
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tigray forces in Ethiopia say at least 150 people starved to death last month in the Tigray region amid a near-complete blockade of food aid by federal and allied authorities. Close to half a million people face famine conditions there after 10 months of war. The
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Rae Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KCTV) — News 4 is learning Missourians are being hospitalized for taking a livestock drug to prevent, and in some cases cure, COVID-19. News 4 reported on experts warning the public against taking Ivermectin in late August, when the state’s poison control center
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Europa experimentó este año su verano más caluroso registrado y las temperaturas en el Mediterráneo rompieron récords por grandes márgenes, dijo este martes el Servicio de Cambio Climático Copérnico de la Unión Europea. Como gran parte del hemisferio norte, Europa fue golpeada por eventos climáticos extremos durante el verano, incluidos niveles
Continue ReadingBy Nick Sloan, Taylor Johnson and Shain Bergan Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (KCTV) — Three teenagers and one adult were shot late Sunday evening at the SantaCaliGon Days festival in Independence. All of the victims were treated at local hospitals and released by Monday morning, police said. Shortly after 11
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Police have arrested a St. Charles County woman accused of cutting the throat of a 6-year-old boy late last month. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 46-year-old Natalia Jacquemin, of St. Peters, has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the Aug. 27 attack. Authorities say Jacquemin
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has opened a public inquiry into plans for the country’s first new deep coal mine in three decades amid complaints that permitting the project would send the wrong message as the government seeks to persuade other countries to give up coal. Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has opened a public inquiry into plans for the country’s first new deep coal mine in three decades amid complaints that permitting the project would send the wrong message as the government seeks to persuade other countries to give up coal. Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick
Continue Reading Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s junior coalition partner USR-Plus has resigned from government following a week of political turmoil that has gripped the country’s governing center-right coalition. The crisis erupted last week after Prime Minister Florin Citu fired justice minister and USR-Plus member Stelian Ion for not signing off on a 10 billion
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Chrissy Teigen compartió un logro durante el fin de semana. “¡Hoy es mi racha de 50 dÃas de sobriedad!”, escribió en el pie de foto de un video de sus hijos interrumpiendo su entrenamiento, el cual compartió en su cuenta verificada de Instagram. “DeberÃa ser casi un año, pero he tenido algunos
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