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Continue Reading Serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III, who was facing execution after being convicted for the 2005 kidnapping and killing of Dylan Groene, a 9-year-old Idaho boy, died Sunday morning, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho. Duncan, 58, had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer before
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The attempted evacuation of people trapped during an attack in northern Mozambique by Islamist militants has led to multiple casualties, with dozens of people still unaccounted for, according to reports, in what the US embassy in Maputo is calling a “horrific situation.” The town of Palma in Cabo Delgado province was attacked by Islamist insurgents
Continue Reading The wildlife trade in China is the most likely pathway through which Covid-19 was able to spread from the original animal source, possibly bats, to humans, according to one of the authors of a long-awaited World Health Organization report on the origin of the virus. The report, expected to be released on Tuesday after repeated
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The Ever Given container ship has been partially dislodged after blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week, authorities say, but efforts to fully refloat it are likely to continue for some time. There were promising signs early Monday when the rear of the vessel was freed from one of the canal’s banks, but the
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The Ever Given container ship has been successfully refloated after being stranded in the Suez Canal for almost a week, authorities say, following an around-the-clock international effort to dislodge the massive vessel and reopen the global shipping lane. “The container ship began to float successfully after responding to the pulling maneuvers,” said Osama Rabie, head
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The city of Columbia on Friday warned residents against illegal dumping at the city’s residential recycling drop-off sites. The city said in a news release that it’s seeing more illegal dumping at the sites and that anyone caught will be prosecuted. The dumping also threatens the relationship between the city and the businesses that offer
Continue Reading The Ever Given container ship has been successfully refloated after being stranded in the Suez Canal for almost a week, the former head of the canal has claimed, following an around-the-clock international effort to dislodge the massive vessel and reopen the global shipping lane. Mohab Mamish, the former head of the Suez Canal and Egyptian
Continue Reading Video footage from the Suez Canal shows the back of the Ever Given container ship, which has been stuck for almost a week, dislodged from the canal bank as salvage crews work to refloat the vessel. However, it remains unclear if the front has been freed from its original stranded position. The video was sent
Continue Reading Salvage crews are attempting to refloat the Ever Given container ship, which has been stuck for almost a week in the Egyptian canal, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said in a statement Monday. Ten tug boats are being used to pull the Ever Given from the front and back to try to dislodge it, said
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on MLB.com Royals beat writer Anne Rogers in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full conversation in the video player above.
Continue Reading Millions of people in the Philippines won’t be celebrating Easter as normal this year after the majority Catholic country imposed a strict lockdown in the capital and nearby provinces. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced the lockdown Saturday after the country reported 9,838 new Covid-19 cases — the country’s highest single day increase, according to official
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 18 Mizzou softball team lost the series finale against No. 24 Auburn on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers went down 3-0. Despite the loss, Mizzou still won its first SEC series of the season. https://youtu.be/h1tP9fcpUzo It was a scoreless game up until the 6th inning. Auburn was able to score three
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No longer working under the Trump administration, six leading US health officials now reveal to CNN the real challenges they faced during the nation’s fight against Covid-19 over the past year: death threats, mixed messages and in some cases, being kept from sharing information with national audiences. The nation’s doctors — Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr.
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The US may face another Covid-19 surge soon — one that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief says “truly is avoidable.” “We have seen cases and hospital admissions move from historic declines to stagnations, to increases,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House Covid-19 briefing on Friday. “And we know
Continue Reading Eric Talley, the first police officer to arrive at the scene of the Boulder supermarket shooting last week, was the last of the gunman’s 10 victims. To honor his bravery, the non-profit Tunnel to Towers Foundation, set up to support the families of fallen first responders and service members, announced Saturday it will pay off
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Deshayla Harris, one of the stars of season 17 of “Bad Girls Club” on the Oxygen network, was one of the victims in Friday night’s shootings in Virginia Beach, Virginia, according to a spokesperson for NBCUniversal. Harris, 28, had been identified by Virginia Beach police as one of two people who was killed in one
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We have a jury in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with the May 2020 killing of George Floyd. Now we stand on the precipice of one of the most important trials this country has ever seen. Anybody who tells you they know for sure what any jury will do has
Continue Reading A UPS employee had quite the birthday celebration this week — but he almost didn’t live to see it. William Torres battled Covid-19 in a Texas hospital for 64 days, partially in the ICU, before he was released. This week, his friends and co-workers at UPS celebrated his birthday with a parade, CNN affiliate KOSA
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