By SAKURA GRAY Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A local high schooler is chalking up his pool cue to represent our country on the world stage. He’s a high schooler by day and a pool-playing prodigy by night. At Hard Times Billiards in Sacramento, this 15-year-old is a killer
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal officials say two newly established national wildlife refuges in Tennessee and Montana will help protect habitats for threatened and endangered species such as toads, bats, shrimp and salamanders. The U.S. Department of Interior said Tuesday that the Wyoming Toad Conservation Area and the Paint Rock
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Wednesday is International Day of the Girl and celebrations are being held across the country. First Lady, Jill Biden tweeted a photo of 15 young women who were honored at the White House. They include 17-year-old Anya Hermann, a senior at Oak
Continue ReadingBy AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Hamas-run Gaza Strip is a tiny enclave, measuring 25 miles long and no more than 7 miles wide. It is surveilled continually by Israel, and surrounded by its guns. But locating and rescuing dozens of hostages seized by Palestinian miltiants who infiltrated Israel will be a
Continue ReadingBy JERAMIE BIZZLE Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Inmates at Cook County jail are flexing their strategy skills during the jail’s third virtual international chess competition. It’s part of a partnership with the International Chess Federation. Created in 2012, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office says the program is widely regarded
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By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday said that he would not dine with White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes as former President Donald Trump did last year, but avoided directly criticizing his GOP rival for doing so. When asked how he feels about Republicans associating with Fuentes, DeSantis
Continue ReadingBy Brooke Taylor Click here for updates on this story HUMBLE, Texas (KTRK) — A kindergarten teacher at Pine Forest Elementary in Humble ISD was caught slipping melatonin gummies to students in a special education class. A parent of one of the students who was given melatonin told ABC13 the principal called her to tell
Continue ReadingKTRK By Brooke Taylor Click here for updates on this story HUMBLE, Texas (KTRK) — A kindergarten teacher at Pine Forest Elementary in Humble ISD was caught slipping melatonin gummies to students in a special education class. A parent of one of the students who was given melatonin told ABC13 the principal called her to
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — Former Olympian Kim Glass is still shaken after she was brutally attacked on the streets of downtown Los Angeles in 2022. Months later, her attacker was finally sentenced on Tuesday, a term which she says is not nearly enough time. “Who
Continue ReadingBy WABC Staff Click here for updates on this story SOUTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (WABC) — Two dozen first responders helped rescue a cemetery worker who became trapped in a grave on Tuesday afternoon. The incident happened at the Holy Cross Cemetery on Cranbury Road around 1 p.m. Officials said a funeral service had just
Continue ReadingLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — China has lost its place in team eventing at next year’s Paris Olympics because the horse of a three-time Olympian was found to have a “controlled medication” in its system. Japan will replace China for the equestrian competition at the Palace of Versailles. The International Equestrian Federation says the Chinese team
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer While Twitter has always struggled with combating misinformation about major news events, it was still the go-to place to find out what’s happening in the world. But the Israel-Hamas war has underscored how the platform now transformed into X has become not only unreliable but is actively promoting falsehoods.
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — La política israelí de las últimas décadas no puede ser entendida sin la figura de Benjamin Netanyahu, el líder del partido Likud que ha ocupado el puesto de primer ministro durante un total de 15 años –y contando– en tres períodos distintos. Netanyahu, representante de la derecha nacionalista en Israel,
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It’s already beginning to feel more like fall outside, which will soon turn into winter, which will cause a hike in most people’s utility bills.
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — Finnish police say they have launched a criminal investigation into possible sabotage of an undersea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia that was shut down over the weekend following a leak. Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation, or NBI, says it has started gathering evidence at the location of the leak, which was
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Finalmente la Nasa reveló una muestra prístina de asteroide que podría servir como cápsula del tiempo de los primeros días de nuestro sistema solar. Las rocas y el polvo contienen agua y una gran cantidad de carbono, dijo el administrador de la NASA, Bill Nelson, lo que sugiere que asteroides como
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Missouri’s U.S. senators’ offices are offering resources and help to any Missourians stuck in war-torn Israel and Gaza.
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned the weekend attack by Hamas militants on Israel as the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust as the number of U.S. citizens killed in the fighting ticked up to at least 22. “This attack was a campaign
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A court in Slovakia found former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and gave him a two-year suspended sentence. The county court in the city of Poprad also handed him on Wednesday a fine of about $16,000. The verdict is not final and his legal team says he plans to
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By MIKE TOOLE Click here for updates on this story HOLYOKE, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Kermith Alvarez was identified Wednesday as the third suspect wanted for a shooting last week that wounded a pregnant woman and killed her baby in Holyoke. Alvarez, 28, of Holyoke, is the only suspect not in custody following the shooting on
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