By CNN staff President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address on Tuesday. Here is a fact check of some of the claims from Biden and the Republican response by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Cutting the deficit Biden claimed his administration cut the federal deficit by “more than $1.7 trillion.” Facts
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By Kim Dacey Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WBAL) — Magnet fishing is a new craze that’s quickly catching on in Baltimore and helping to clean up the waters of the Inner Harbor. Evan Woodard formed a magnet-fishing group in Baltimore that’s growing by the week. He started the group about a
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing away from using an eligibility form that requires female athletes to disclose their menstrual history in order to compete. Instead, the executive director of the Florida High School Athletic Association is recommending that
Continue ReadingBy Jere Gish Click here for updates on this story LEWISTOWN, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — Firefighters in Mifflin County got a very unusual call: A mom needed help because her daughter’s head was stuck in a cake pan. Erin Meixel was forced to call 911 on Monday when 2-year-old Quinnley got her head stuck while playing
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By Kiely Westhoff and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in the shooting death of off-duty New York Police Department officer Adeed Fayaz has been charged with murder, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Randy Jones, 38, was arraigned Wednesday and did not enter a plea. He was remanded to police custody, according to the
Continue Reading By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — After cutting ties with Josef Martinez, Atlanta United has bolstered its front line by signing Greek forward Giorgos Giakoumakis. The 28-year-old Giakoumakis comes to Major League Soccer from Celtic F.C., where he led the Scottish Premiership in goals and helped the team win both the league
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided again with North Carolina’s attorney general in a lawsuit involving a libel law that a district attorney sought to use to attempt to prosecute Josh Stein over a 2020 campaign commercial. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit
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By Nadia Kounang, Ben Morse and John Sinnott, CNN Just over a month after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after making a tackle in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals, the Buffalo Bills safety has received an optimistic prognosis on his playing future from the NFL players union doctor. “I guarantee
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lower house of parliament has given final approval to a new law on judicial accountability that the government believes will meet European Union expectations and help unfreeze billions of euros in pandemic recovery funds. Brussels has not released the funds amid a dragging dispute over Poland’s regulations that give the
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — La muy publicitada nueva herramienta de chatbot de IA de Google, Bard, que aún no se ha lanzado al público, ya está siendo criticada por dar una respuesta inexacta durante una demostración esta semana. En la demostración, que fue publicada por Google en Twitter, un usuario le pregunta a Bard: “¿Qué
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Derek Zoolander is back and, yes, he remains “really, really, really ridiculously good looking.” Ben Stiller — who first appeared as the vapid supermodel character in the 2001 movie “Zoolander” and the 2016 sequel — is blue steeling once again, this time for Pepsi’s new Super Bowl LVII ad, which was
Continue Reading ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — All-Star outfielder Kyle Tucker went to salary arbitration with the World Series champion Houston Astros, asking for $7.5 million rather than the team’s $5 million offer. The $2.5 million gap matched the largest among 33 players who exchanged proposed salaries with their teams last month. The case was heard by
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS and SILVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought Western support for his country in surprise visits to Britain and France on Wednesday, pushing for fighter jets to battle Russian invaders in a dramatic speech to the U.K. Parliament, and then flying to Paris to meet the French
Continue Reading OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The aid group Doctors Without Borders says two of its employees have been killed in an attack on their vehicle in northwestern Burkina Faso. The organization, which is also known by its French acronym MSF, said gunmen fired on an MSF vehicle as it was traveling between  Dedougou and Touga.
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES Associated Press A city bus crashed into a day care center north of Montreal on Wednesday, killing two children and injuring six, authorities said. The driver was arrested and charged with first degree murder. A neighbor who ran to the center in Laval, Quebec, said she saw children screaming and crying and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia’s Citizens Police Review Board held its second training session on Wednesday. The CPRB held its first training session Feb. 1. The training sessions come months after the board was temporarily suspended in August. The first training session focused on discussions on the form of government, Sunshine Law, conflicts
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Irvin has been pulled from the remainder of NFL Network’s Super Bowl week coverage after a complaint about Irvin’s behavior in a hotel Sunday night. The Hall of Fame wide receiver went on a Dallas radio station Wednesday and said he was asked by network officials to move to another hotel
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TONIGHT: Steady rainfall with a few rumbles of thunder. Lows in the mid-30s with wind gusts increasing to 35-40 mph. TOMORROW: Chance of rain and snow early, mostly cloudy with gusty winds between 35-40 mph. Highs in the upper 40s. EXTENDED: Showers spread north overnight, becoming heavy at times. As temperatures drop to near freezing
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy will undergo surgery on his injured elbow later this month and should be fully recovered by training camp. A person familiar with the decision said Purdy will undergo the surgery on Feb. 22 to repair the torn ligament in his right elbow.
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– La defensa de Genaro GarcÃa Luna debe decidir si el exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de México testificará en el juicio que enfrenta en Nueva York. Durante la audiencia de este miércoles, el juez Brian M. Cogan dio plazo hasta el lunes para que los abogados del exfuncionario definan si prestará testimonio
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