By Maria Cid Medina Click here for updates on this story DALY CITY, California (KPIX) — From the Peninsula to Daly City, residents were on high alert after scores of mountain lion sightings near homes in the last couple of months. On Monday morning, Laurie Golub came face-to-face with a cougar in her backyard. She
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By Lauren Fox, CNN House Democrats are in limbo. Members say they need moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia to make it clear what he actually stands for before they can begin retooling their Build Back Better plan in a way that would actually have a chance of getting through the US Senate.
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Magawa, the “hero rat” whose work sniffing out landmines in Cambodia won him a medal for life-saving bravery, has died at the age of 8. The African giant pouched rat found more than 100 landmines and other explosives during his service, according to APOPO, the mine-clearing non-governmental organization that trained him.
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By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kirby Smart learned from his former boss that the time for celebrating is short in college football. Even while he reveled in the hangover from Georgia’s first national title since 1980, the coach was already thinking about what comes next. As he put it, “The wind
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By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials are sounding the alarm about a looming surge of coronavirus infections due to the highly contagious omicron variant. But they stopped short Tuesday of announcing any new restrictions in a hard-hit country where very few limits are in place. Russia already has Europe’s worst pandemic
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The PGA Tour stays in Hawaii for the second straight week. The field is not nearly as strong. It features only one player from the top 10 in the world. That would be Cameron Smith, who reached No. 10 by winning at Kapalua with the lowest score to par in PGA
Continue Reading BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left her home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group. Hoda Muthana surrendered as Islamic State fighters fell to U.S.-backed forces in Syria, and said she wanted to come home to the United States with the
Continue ReadingBy Courtney Fischer Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Charges have been dropped against a 17-year-old girl after she was shot by a Harris County Precinct 1 deputy constable near NRG Stadium. Charisma Hannibal was still being held in jail Tuesday morning on an unrelated warrant, but the charges against
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Stacker takes a ride back in time to the beginning of the trucking industry. You’ll learn about the evolution of not only trucks, drivers, and the roads they traveled, but the laws, unions, politics, and social upheaval that changed the course of history along the way.
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Sifting through the annals of world literature, Stacker put together a list of 100 monumental novels spanning literary history.
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Sidecar Health used news sources and research reports to compile a list of how the changing workplace in the United States could impact the health care system.
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Fund That Flip analyzed data from Zillow and the Bureau of Labor Statistics to determine 10 metros where real estate markets have been growing.
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s leader has criticized Europe’s handling of the migration crisis and its refusal to receive refugees arriving at its borders, saying his own country has taken in millions of people who left their home countries. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said Egypt hosts at least 6
Continue ReadingBy Shelley Childers and Pooja Lodhia Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A grandmother is dead after a shooting during an apparent home invasion in southeast Houston. The shooting happened just before 7 p.m. Monday in the 11700 block of Segrest Drive. Police said 69-year-old Maria Garrett, her adult son
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JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Police say that a Joplin man charged in the death of his 17-year-old daughter shot her after she threw a bottle at him during an argument. The Joplin Globe reports that 59-year-old Todd Mayes was charged Monday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Prayer Nickelsen. No
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer After a couple dismal years, Boeing is getting more orders and delivering more airline planes. The company said Tuesday that it delivered 38 commercial planes in December and 340 for all of 2021. That’s nearly double the deliveries it made in 2020. But Airbus says it made 611 deliveries
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Allegations that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s staff held a “bring your own booze” garden party while Britain was in lockdown are just the latest claims of wrongdoing to rattle the leader. Cases of rule-bending and dishonesty have followed Johnson through his twin careers as journalist and politician.
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) — Police are searching for the man behind a racist attack on a subway train in Brooklyn. Investigators say the 14-year-old victim was on board a northbound 4 train with his 11-year-old brother and mother on Monday at 7:15 a.m. They
Continue ReadingBy Jim Dolan Click here for updates on this story BRONX, New York (WABC) — One of the emergency room doctors who treated the wounded and injured after the tragic Bronx fire is speaking out. At least 17 people were killed, including eight children, and more than a dozen others remain critically injured and fighting
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El Senado de Estados Unidos debatirá este martes una legislación sobre el derecho al voto, a pesar de los grandes obstáculos que parecen haber cerrado el camino a los demócratas para lograr los cambios que impulsan. En el marco de esta discusión, se ha hablado de usar un proceso conocido como la
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