Multiple NY congressional members call on Cuomo to resign
Multiple members of New York’s congressional delegation are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign.
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Multiple members of New York’s congressional delegation are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign.
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Click here for updates on this story WAYNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — You may remember the Walck family from Lake Ariel. Scott Walck, his wife, and two sons battled the virus when it first appeared in Wayne County in March of last year. Scott’s son Bailey recalls the toll the virus took on his family.
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Click here for updates on this story CHESANING, Michigan (WNEM) — COVID-19 sent nearly two million working moms out of the workforce. For Danielle Devota it changed her career entirely. “I just think COVID-19 was the push that I needed. Because if anything it showed me that life is short,” Devota said. The working mother
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Nearly one year after the death of Breonna Taylor, the anniversary of which is Saturday, the family and attorney said, “there’s still not been justice for Breonna.” Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother, told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on New Day that justice for her daughter would mean the “officers arrested, and charged, and convicted.” Lonita Baker, the
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Armed men stormed a college in northwest Nigeria in the early hours of Friday morning, opened fire and kidnapped an unknown number of students, a police spokesman told CNN. The students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Mando, Kaduna. It is the third mass kidnapping from an academic institution in northern Nigeria
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NASA is naming landmarks and geological features on Mars in the Navajo language. The Perseverance rover’s team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, has been naming features of scientific interest with words in the language, according to NASA. And it includes a rock named “Máaz,” the Navajo word for “Mars.” It is common for NASA
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Atlanta Public Schools are hoping to mitigate spring break spikes of Covid-19 by temporarily returning to online learning. In light of anticipated travel by many students and staff, the district will return to remote learning April 12-16, the week after their spring break, Superintendent Lisa Herring said in a memo to families Thursday. Federal and
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In a small nursing home by the southern English seaside, David Alexander, 89, walks into his wife’s bedroom for the first time since October. “Hello my darling,” he says. “Do you know who I am? I’m David.” Before even putting down his bags, David sits on Sheila’s bed, next to her armchair, and holds her
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Armed men stormed a college in northwest Nigeria in the early hours of Friday morning, opened fire and kidnapped an unknown number of students, a police spokesman told CNN. The students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Mando, Kaduna. It is the third mass kidnapping from a school in northern Nigeria this
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It’s been one year since millions of students last stepped inside a classroom. One year since schools started shuttering to help get Covid-19 under control. But just as the pandemic has fluctuated across the United States, so have the debates about when and how to bring students back into schools. With vague national guidelines about
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A keeper at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is recovering after being attacked by a cheetah on Thursday, according to a statement from the zoo given to affiliate WSYX and shared with CNN. Two staff members were walking the 4-year-old cheetah named Isabelle from the cheetah facility in the Heart of Africa section to a
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A police officer in Rochester, New York, is on administrative leave and an investigation has been launched after he shot and killed a man who charged at officers while holding at least one knife that he grabbed from inside a homeless shelter, police said. According to police, the man was threatening to harm himself, local
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After a recent outbreak of Covid-19 infections at the largest correctional facility in San Diego County, a class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and a community advocacy group against San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, demanding he protect local incarcerated people from further infections. The lawsuit calls for Gore to
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China successfully launched its new-generation Long March 7A rocket early Friday morning on its second attempt, sending an experimental satellite into orbit. The rocket launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, in China’s southern Hainan province. Photos from the scene show crowds gathered with tents at a distance, waiting to witness the liftoff. The rocket
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, have tested positive for Covid-19, the president’s office said in a statement Monday. The Assads were in “stable condition” and planned to self-isolate for two or three weeks, the statement said. Syria has recorded at least 45,879 positive Covid-19 cases and 2,023 total deaths based on cumulative
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A Saudi court has rejected an appeal by prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul that would have allowed her to travel freely, her family and supporters said. The 31-year-old was sentenced in December to five years and eight months in prison on what critics have described as politically motivated charges, but was released in February
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A keeper at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is recovering after being attacked by a cheetah on Thursday, according to a statement from the zoo given to affiliate WSYX and shared with CNN. Two staff members were walking the 4-year-old cheetah named Isabelle from the cheetah facility in the Heart of Africa section to a
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Now more than ever, teachers across the country are stretched thin. After a year of online or hybrid learning, educators continue to juggle a variety of roles — including providing tech support to some students — all while trying to keep safe from coronavirus. Meanwhile, on the other side of the screen, some students and
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Two Canadian citizens charged with espionage in China could go on trial “soon,” according to the state-run Global Times newspaper. Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been detained since December 2018 and were charged in June last year with spying. In an article published late Thursday, the Global Times said that their cases had previously
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Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin now faces an additional murder charge in the death of George Floyd after a Hennepin County judge reinstated a count of third-degree murder on Thursday. Chauvin already faced charges of second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter. He has pleaded not guilty to all three charges. The added charge provides
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