By Tania Rogers Click here for updates on this story WELLINGTON, Florida (WPTV) — A Palm Beach County boy recently saved a man’s life after he said he learned CPR watching the hit Netflix show “Stranger Things.” Austen MacMillan, 12, of Wellington is being hailed a hero after coming to the aid of behavioral therapist
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By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva put inequality and the climate crisis at the center of a speech Tuesday that opened the annual UN General Debate in New York, lamenting that the international community has “numbed” to its responsibility to care for the world’s poor. “We must overcome
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have missed out on $12.6 billion in funding over the last three decades, according to the Biden administration. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack sent letters to the governors of each state asking them to increase
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have missed out on $12.6 billion in funding over the last three decades, according to the Biden administration. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack sent letters to the governors of each state asking them to increase
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By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US military aid and training for Ukrainian forces could be disrupted in the event of a US government shutdown, a Pentagon spokesperson warned on Tuesday. The Pentagon will still be able to access equipment from its own stockpiles, which is where the majority of equipment sent
Continue ReadingBy SHAUN BOYD Click here for updates on this story DENVER, Colorado (KCNC) — After putting her life at risk to work during the pandemic, Kit Miller may now pay the price. As a former employee of Little Sisters of the Poor Nursing Home, she received a bill from Discover Labs last month for $22,735.
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE, California (KPIX) — Police in San Jose announced Monday the arrests of three people who allegedly stole a French bulldog during an armed robbery earlier this year. According to officers, the victim was robbed along the 2000 block of Southwest Expressway on the
Continue ReadingBy SHARDAA GRAY, MARYBEL GONZALEZ, ELYSSA KAUFMAN, DARIUS JOHNSON Click here for updates on this story ROMEOVILLE, Illinois (WBBM) — Four people, including two adults and two children, were found dead inside a home in the 500 block of Concord Avenue in Romeoville on Sunday night. Three deceased dogs were also recovered from inside the
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By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The UK government has moved to take control of the country’s second biggest city, Birmingham, after the local council effectively declared itself bankrupt earlier this month. In a letter to the council Tuesday, the government proposed appointing commissioners to take charge of the daily running of the local
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN MITCHELL Click here for updates on this story BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota (WCCO) — On average, nearly 60,000 dogs are used in experiments each year in the United States, according to the Humane Society. Most are euthanized after experiments, but a group of 10 beagles are getting their second chance at life after being rescued
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By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Apoorva Ramaswamy, wife of Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, said she does not regret taking the Covid-19 vaccine, breaking with her husband on a central issue of the biotech entrepreneur’s outsider campaign thus far. Ramaswamy, a throat cancer surgeon at Ohio State University, told NBC News that said she
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA HAGER Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The field at Flats Mentor Farm in Lancaster was soggy, muddy, and partially underwater, as more rain cascaded over the property Monday. That was an improvement from a week earlier, when the nearby Nashua River overflowed, submerging the farm completely. The
Continue ReadingOpinion by Patrick T. Brown (CNN) — Glenn Youngkin won Virginia’s gubernatorial election in 2021 in large part due to education policy. Parents fed up with how public schools handled Covid-19, the Black Lives Matter movement and increasingly salient LGBT issues were open to conservative critiques of the K-12 education system. Youngkin’s general election opponent, former
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An art professor can proceed with her lawsuit against a private Minnesota university that fired her for showing early Islamic art to at least one Muslim student in a class. A federal judge ruled that Erika López Prater’s lawsuit against Hamline University can proceed, but solely on the basis of
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s main opposition candidates in this year’s presidential election appealed a ruling that upheld President Bola Tinubu’s victory and asked the nation’s Supreme Court in separate applications to declare them the winner instead. According to documents seen by The Associated Press Tuesday, the Peoples Democratic Party’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia approved the Fiscal Year 2024 budget Monday night, which includes the creation of a new Housing and Neighborhood Services department. City documents show the department will house two divisions, including the Office of Neighborhood Services and Volunteer Programs. The Community Development Block Grant will also report to the
Continue ReadingBy BRIANNA PEREZ Click here for updates on this story EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In recent weeks the borderland has seen a new surge of migrants entering our region and across the nation’s borders. According to a spokesperson with the City, over the last seven days the region has seen a spike in encounters
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Watch Tuesday’s press conference at noon. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football head coach Eli Drinkwitz is set to take questions from reporters at noon Tuesday ahead of this week’s game against Memphis in St. Louis. The Tigers (3-0) will take on Memphis (3-0) at The Dome at America’s Center. It’ll be Mizzou’s first game in
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general is suggesting conservative politics played a role in the acquittal of three men in the final trial related to a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Like Whitmer, Dana Nessel is a Democrat. She told a liberal group Monday that the trial was held
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By Melanie Zanona, Lauren Fox, Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans are still struggling to reach consensus on a plan to fund the government, with lawmakers going back-and-forth over the issue and leadership forced to delay a planned procedural vote as they work to find agreement within their ranks. GOP leaders
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