By Audrina Sinclair Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A local mentoring program shows what can happen when communities invest in a young girl by mentoring and supporting her. The program is on a mission to inspire girls to do great things. Teja Syers got the job as a sales manager
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director. Personal Birth date: April 25, 1949 Birth place: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Birth name: Dominique Gaston Andre Strauss-Kahn Father: Gilbert Strauss-Kahn, a legal and tax advisor Mother: Jacqueline Fellus, a journalist Marriages: Myriam L’Aouffir (October 2017-present);
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The icy plains of Antarctica are a magnet for meteorite hunters such as Maria Valdes, a research scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago. Some 1,000 space rocks are found in the region each year. Their dark hue is easy to spot in the
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Melania Trump, wife of 45th US President Donald Trump. Personal Birth date: April 26, 1970 Birth place: Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) Birth name: Melanija Knavs Father: Viktor Knavs Mother: Amalija (Ulcnik) Knavs Marriage: Donald Trump (January 22, 2005-present) Children: Barron Education:
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president’s lawyers, who argued
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Madonna is honoring the survivors and victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida. The music icon paused her “Celebration” tour concert in Miami on Tuesday night to call attention to the over 100 survivors and victims’ family members that she invited to the show, making a powerful
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French authorities say an explosion and fire hit a French factory that treats dangerous substances. One person was critically injured. The cause of the explosion is being investigated. Firefighters brought the blaze under control soon after the explosion at the Saipol oil products factory in the port of Sete, on the Mediterranean
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La escalada de los precios de la gasolina y el encarecimiento de las hipotecas y los alquileres dispararon la inflación más de lo esperado en marzo, lo que se suma a la prolongada y dolorosa batalla de los estadounidenses contra los altos costos. Esto podría obligar a la Reserva Federal a
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a man they said placed a homemade explosive device outside the Alabama attorney general’s office in February. The U.S. Justice Department said 26-year-old Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert of Irondale was arrested Wednesday on charges of malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing American classified documents. For years, Australia has called on the U.S. to drop its prosecution against Assange, an Australian citizen who has fought U.S. extradition efforts from prison
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Cinco personas están bajo custodia después de que dos grupos intercambiaran disparos en un parque en el oeste de Filadelfia durante una celebración de Eid al-Fitr la tarde de este miércoles, dijo la Policía. Se realizaron unos 30 disparos, según Kevin Bethel, comisionado de policía de Filadelfia. Entre los arrestados hay tres
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PERRYVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) An Amber Alert that issued on Wednesday afternoon for a missing 3-year-old boy out of Perryville, Missouri, has been canceled after the boy and suspect were found. The alert – which was sent at 1:48 p.m. – stated Aziah Laurent was abducted around noon on March 19. He has brown hair and
Continue ReadingBy Nadeem Muaddi, Christina Maxouris, John Miller and Danny Freeman, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — Five people have been arrested – four of whom are juveniles – after a Wednesday afternoon shooting that unfolded in a West Philadelphia park during a large Muslim religious celebration filled with families and children, police say. The shooting took place
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Toronto’s Jontay Porter could face expulsion from the league if the gambling-related accusations against him are found to be true, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday. Silver, speaking after a two-day meeting of the league’s Board of Governors, did not reveal any specifics about the
Continue Reading By Dhruv Tikekar, CNN (CNN) — For the past quarter century, a remote corner of southwest New Zealand has provided a predator-free sanctuary for threatened species, including the world’s only flightless parrot and a lizard that’s found nowhere else on Earth. Chalky Island, a rugged yet lush 2-square-mile outcrop in the Pacific nation’s Fiordland, is
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former high-ranking Democratic legislator in New Mexico has pleaded not guilty to numerous federal charges stemming from a corruption investigation. Sheryl Williams Stapleton entered her plea Tuesday during an initial court appearance in Albuquerque. She is accused of diverting millions of dollars meant for vocational education in the state’s largest
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Woodford Reserve undermined unionization efforts at its Kentucky distillery by awarding pay raises, relaxing its vacation policy and handing out bottles of whiskey to workers before a vote on whether to unionize, a federal judge ruled. The sweeteners the prominent bourbon maker offered to workers were timed to influence the
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump has stirred religious controversy again in his presidential comeback bid, lashing out at Jewish voters who back President Joe Biden and framing Election Day as a referendum on Christianity’s strength in America. Jews who support Biden “should have their head examined,” he said. Trump made
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By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Abortion politics have been thrust into the spotlight in Arizona, where the state Supreme Court’s decision this week to revive a Civil War-era total abortion ban has sent Republicans scrambling to distance themselves and given Democrats new hope they can make gains in the battleground state. The court’s long-awaited
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — A 22-year-old French woman whose blood-drained body was found in an abandoned church in northern Italy’s Aosta Valley over the weekend had been looking for a haunted house believed to contain ghosts, according to police. She told family members about her plans before leaving the village
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