By John Le Click here for updates on this story SWANNANOA, North Carolina (WLOS) — Under Emma Buchanan’s tutelage, first-graders at W.D. Williams Elementary learn how to slice and dice the building blocks of everyday conversations. “This time I’m giving you the whole word. You’re going to chop it!” she explained to her kids this
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Personal property recovered from the destroyed units of a South Florida condo building that collapsed will be divided into two categories: soft items and hard items. Only the hard items collected at the site where the Champlain Towers South building once stood will be returned to survivors and family members
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — Durante décadas, las autoridades en China impusieron estrictos límites a la cantidad de hijos que las familias podían tener, obligando a millones de mujeres a abortar embarazos considerados ilegales por el Estado. Esa dura práctica se ha vuelto menos común desde que China relajó su política de hijo único en 2015.
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BELLA VISTA, Ark. (AP) — The Bella Vista Bypass has opened to drivers, marking the end to a decades-long plan to link sections of an interstate in northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson marked the occasion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday. The new roadway opened to
Continue Reading LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The governments of 15 countries in the Northeast Atlantic have created a new protected area of the sea they say is bigger than the combined area of Germany and the United Kingdom. The countries designated a marine protected area for seabirds covering nearly 600,000 sq. km.. It is part of their
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Good morning, Lenny! Lenny Kravitz, clad in an unbuttoned leopard shirt and sunglasses, treated fans to a sexy selfie in his kitchen where he was making coffee. It was actually afternoon, although Kravitz slept in, writing, “2:37pm. Good morning. All nighter in the studio last night. 3 albums on the horizon.
Continue Reading WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) — Pottawatomie County officials say computers systems are being restored after the county was hit by a ransomware attack. The county said in a news release Friday that hackers launched the cyberattack against several servers on Sept. 17. County Administrator Chad Kinsley said the county resolved the attack by paying less than
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — A former ally of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s leader ousted in a February military takeover, has testified at her corruption trial that he had handed to her large amounts of cash and gold in proceedings supporters say are meant to discredit her. A special court is hearing four corruption cases against
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By Kristin Fisher, CNN The United States is aiming to launch a group of small satellites to fill a critical gap in the ability to foresee precipitation dangers, like the deluge that overwhelmed Northeastern cities at the start of September. The US Air Force announced Thursday a nearly $20 million contract with Tomorrow.io to develop
Continue Reading PAUL DAVENPORT CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Officials in Arizona say two people are dead after their helicopter crashed following a mid-air collision with a single-engine plane outside a suburban Phoenix airport. Chandler police say the collision happened Friday morning near Chandler Municipal Airport. The plane was able to land safely, and the flight instructor and
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To find the top 10 countries where U.S. pet food comes from, Ollie analyzed import data from the U.S. Census Bureau from 2010 through June 2021.
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Stacker looks back at old-school games for both kids and adults that anyone can play with nothing more than their bodies and imaginations.
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Stacker looks at 50 classics from (almost) everyone’s high school’s required reading list.
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Below is a list of five scientifically proven ways people can improve their sleep, citing peer-reviewed studies such as Mount Sinai’s recent REVOLV Study, which was sponsored by View Inc.
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Thistle compiled data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to identify the fruits and vegetables grown the most around the world.
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (KHN) — El condado de San Juan, en Colorado, puede presumir de que el 99,9% de su población elegible ha recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna contra el covid-19, lo que lo sitúa entre los 10 mejores condados del país, según datos de los Centros para el Control y la
Continue Reading KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says Taliban fighters have raided a hideout of the Islamic State group north of the capital, Kabul, killing and arresting an unspecified number of militants. The spokesman says the raid took place in the city of Charikar in Parwan province on Friday. Her didn’t provide more details and
Continue Reading By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon during the month of September dropped to the lowest in two decades. September is historically Brazil’s worst month for forest fires and, while the data is positive, environmental experts question whether the trend will be confirmed by coming
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By Sean Lyngaas The White House will convene a 30-country meeting this month to try to ramp up global efforts to address the threat of ransomware to economic and national security, President Joe Biden said in a statement shared exclusively with CNN. “Cyber threats affect the lives and livelihoods of American families and businesses,” national
Continue Reading By DANIEL ROCA and BARRY HATTON Associated Press LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — An erupting volcano on a Spanish island off northwest Africa has blown open two more fissures on its cone, as authorities report “intense” activity in the area. The new fissures, about 15 meters (50 feet) apart, sent streaks of
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