Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A food festival in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood was canceled Sunday after controversy erupted over the inclusion of an Israeli-owned food service. The “Taste of Home” festival was supposed to be hosted by event partner Eat Up the Borders and nonprofit Sunflower Philly at North 5th
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SOUTH BALDWIN, Alabama (WALA) — Crews out first thing this morning along our Baldwin beaches cleaning up what Claudette left behind. Folks in South Baldwin are not seeing any major damage. Public works was out before the sun sweeping up parking lots covered in sand. Red flags are
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The Racine County Sheriff’s Office identified Eisha N. Figuereo as the 10-year-old girl girl who fatally drowned in Lake Michigan near Zoo Beach on Saturday, June19. Officials say she went by the name, Naomi. Updated: 06/20/2021 09:37 AM RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) — A
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLLEGEVILLE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — With a mix of the summer solstice and Father’s Day, senior residents at The Landing of Collegeville cooked up the perfect recipe for celebration. “At the Landing of Collegeville, we love to bake,” said its general manager Monica Paulino. “So, we decided to do
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GARNER, North Carolina (WTVD) — A 17-year-old basketball player at Wakefield High School was shot and killed at a graduation party Saturday morning. The shooting happened in the early hours of Saturday morning on Claymore Drive. Garner Police Department later identified the victim was identified as Messiah Pitt.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Nearly one year ago on Juneteenth 2020 a large group toppled the statue of Francis Scott Key that stood in Golden Gate Park for more than a century. The monument to the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” a known slave owner, came down with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — After four months of training, the inaugural class of the City EMT pilot program graduated. The first class started with 15 students and 13 completed the intensive training program, preparing youth of color for careers in the paramedic or fire service. “We just want
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Some states are making great strides in vaccinating their residents against Covid-19, but the ones that are not may soon be contending with a more transmissible variant, experts say. About 45.1% of the US population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, CDC data showed, and in 16 states and Washington, DC, that proportion is up to
Continue Reading The murder trial of a woman who killed her abusive husband got underway in the French city of Burgundy on Monday.​ In her bestselling book Tout Le Monde Savait (Everyone Knew) published in May, Valerie Bacot, 40, admitted to shooting Daniel Polette dead in self-defense in 2016. She faces a life sentence for murder.​ “It’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Firefighters rescued a woman stuck in her car underneath a fallen tree Sunday morning. It happened in the morning during the wind and rain off Hollowell Parkway near Eugenia Place. “I was laying in my bed,” said Sherard Simmons who lives in front of where
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CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen speaks with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, International Affairs Expert to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, about what President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi’s foreign policy will be like.
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Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi on Monday ruled out a meeting with President Joe Biden and in response to CNN called on the United States to return to the nuclear deal, in his first international news conference since he won Iran’s election over the weekend. Raisi said he would not meet with Biden, even if both
Continue Reading Iranian President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi said in his first news conference that the United States violated the 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, and called on President Joe Biden to return to the agreement. Answering a question by CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen in Tehran, Raisi called on Biden to lift all sanctions before adding that Iran’s ballistic missile program “is not up for negotiation.”
Continue Reading CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen speaks with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, International Affairs Expert to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, about what President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi’s foreign policy will be like.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, California (KABC) — An Orange County man is marking his first Father’s Day since his wife was killed by a suspected drunk driver, leaving him to raise his newborn daughter on his own. The nonprofit MOMS Orange County hosted an event for James Alvarez, whose wife
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A nude homeless man was taken into custody after being captured on home surveillance video breaking into a Bel Air home, and allegedly killing the family’s pet birds. The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Paul Kiyan, was arrested around 2:40 p.m. Thursday in the 1000
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Monday is International Yoga Day, and Edge Fitness Clubs helped members get a little extra Zen by bringing yoga classes to some local beaches. The gym said its goal was to help loosen up and destress people. “Yoga brings me to a place where
Continue Reading Iran is a republic in Asia, sharing a border with seven countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey and Turkmenistan. It has been officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran since the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. About Iran (from the CIA World Factbook)Area: 1,648,195 sq km, slightly smaller than Alaska Population: 85,888,910
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A Tennessee father and his infant daughter were among 10 people — nine of whom were children — killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on an Alabama highway this weekend. Cody Fox, 29, of New Hope, Tennessee, and his 9-month-old daughter were identified in a press release issued by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency on
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Joel Gilmore is wise beyond his years. When the salutatorian for the Lower Richland High School Class of 2021 took the stage before his classmates and family, he spoke with the confidence of a man who has been through a lot. “This graduating class is very special and very remarkable,” he said, his words echoing
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