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Father, daughter rescued from submerged car

Click here for updates on this story     MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (WSMV) — Rutherford County Fire Rescue responded to two water rescue calls Sunday night, both involving submerged vehicles. The first call was on Central Valley Road just before 8 p.m. A father and his teenage daughter were inside their vehicle. As crews approached, screaming could be

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A sense of ‘impending doom’

Much of America’s recent progress against Covid-19 is being erased as infections, deaths and hospitalizations multiply nationwide. On Monday US President Joe Biden implored state and local officials to reinstate mask mandates, after Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shared her feelings of “impending doom” at a White House

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World leaders unite to call for pandemic treaty, saying: ‘No one is safe until we are all safe’

Global leaders have called for a new treaty to help the world prepare for future pandemics, in a warning against rising vaccine nationalism. More than 20 national leaders, including France’s Emmanuel Macron, Britain’s Boris Johnson and Germany’s Angela Merkel, wrote a piece published in several media outlets on Tuesday warning that it is a question

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Former officer knelt on George Floyd for 9 minutes and 29 seconds — not the infamous 8:46

Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, prosecutors said Monday, correcting the 8:46 timing that has become a symbol of police brutality. In opening statements of Chauvin’s criminal trial, prosecuting attorney Jerry Blackwell repeatedly emphasized the new 9:29 timing, telling jurors they were the “three most

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Beijing passes new ‘patriot’ election law for Hong Kong that restricts opposition

China’s government has passed a new law that will drastically restrict the right of Hong Kongers to stand for election and reshape the city’s parliament, further entrenching Beijing’s power over the supposedly semi-autonomous territory. In a unanimous and unsurprising decision Tuesday, the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp parliament, endorsed proposed changes

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Central Tennessee braces for more weather misery after weekend flooding killed 7 people and caused widespread damage

After enduring widespread flooding — that killed seven people, knocked out power to thousands and damaged homes and businesses — Central Tennessee is bracing for more potentially devastating rainfall. Over 2.5 million people across the region are under flood warnings through Thursday evening, according to CNN Meteorologist Michael Guy. Nashville and most of Central Tennessee

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CDC chief says latest Covid-19 numbers scare her. Here’s what could be ahead and how to change the country’s course

New Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are beginning to rise in the US again, one of the country’s top health leaders said Monday. The latest findings, shared by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, may just be the start of what experts have for weeks warned about: another surge. A surge

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Authorities are searching for three teens who escaped from an Oregon correctional facility

Authorities are searching for three teens who escaped from a youth correctional facility in Oregon on Sunday. The teens assaulted a staff member and took their keys before leaving through a hole in the fence surrounding MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, Oregon Youth Authority spokesperson Sarah Evans told CNN. The teens, identified as Preston Andrizzi, 19,

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Federal appeals court rules in favor of Ohio professor who refused to use student’s preferred pronouns

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that an Ohio professor can sue a university for violating his constitutional rights after he was disciplined for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio, filed a lawsuit in 2018 after the school formally

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Federal prosecutors add sex trafficking charges against Ghislaine Maxwell

Federal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, alleging she recruited and groomed a 14-year-old girl to engage in sex acts with Epstein as recently as 2004. Prosecutors allege Maxwell and Epstein recruited the underage girl to perform massages that turned sexual at Epstein’s Palm Beach residence. In

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