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Hundreds of buses stretched over miles of winding road were ferrying thousands of worshipers off Mount Meron in northern Israel on Friday after 45 people were killed and some 150 others injured in a crush at a mass Jewish gathering overnight. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident a “huge disaster,” while paramedics described

Click here for updates on this story     SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Sioux City Journal) — Don’t let anyone tell you that these NAIA championship tournaments Sioux City hosts are just another event, not all that important in the grand scheme of things. For Gary and Tyler Steinke, the NAIA tournaments are not just a father-son bonding

When US President Joe Biden urged Americans to “win the 21st century” in his joint address to Congress, he painted a picture of a new great power competition with China and repeatedly name checked its leader, Xi Jinping. “He’s deadly earnest on (China) becoming the most significant, consequential nation in the world,” Biden said of

Click here for updates on this story     FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — First, it was lead, now Flint residents may be facing new health concerns about how they were tested for it. “Kinda worried it harmed my child,” said Amber Stebbins, who is 28 weeks pregnant. Stebbins already had to live through the Flint water crisis,

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — One man’s cross-country bike ride brings him to St. Louis for a stop in what he calls “The Organ Trail” to visit the man who inspired him to donate his kidney. From Madison, Wisconsin to here in St. Louis all the way to Louisiana,

Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar has been banned from Major League Baseball following an independent investigation into an allegation of sexual misconduct in 2014, the league announced Friday. Alomar, who retired before the 2005 season, has also been terminated from his job as a consultant to Major League Baseball. Commissioner Robert Manfred said his office

Once there was a bustling construction zone here. Now it’s like a ghost town, frozen in time. Heavy machinery is parked and motionless. Stacks of steel bollards stretch as far as the eye can see. The Trump administration built more than 450 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border — including hundreds of miles of

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A group of St. Paul high school students walked out of class Thursday to address the issues of social justice and racism. More than 100 Cretin-Derham Hall students dressed in black walked in solidarity to express their feelings about what some students have had to

Three Colorado officers who laughed at body camera footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia are “no longer employed” by the department, Loveland Police Chief Robert Ticer said Friday. Karen Garner was arrested in June for walking out of a Walmart with $13.88 worth of items, according to a federal lawsuit

Ma’Khia Bryant loved styling her curly hair in front of her camera phone and posting about it on TikTok. “This was a child that had so much love in her heart,” her cousin Don Bryant said at her funeral on Friday. “A smart girl, capable, and deserving of fulfilling all her hopes and dreams in

Click here for updates on this story     AUSTIN, Texas (KTVT) — It sounds like science fiction but “ghost voting” is a real, if little-known legal practice at the Texas state capitol. And it happens thousands of times during the legislative session. During most votes in the House, members use buttons to vote from their desks

Click here for updates on this story     BETHEL PARK, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Three plumbers rescued a man after he fell into a creek next to a T stop in Bethel Park. John Oakes’ is the owner of All Pro Plumbing, which is located near The T stop on Logan Road. On Thursday morning, Oakes was