Two men were killed and eight other people were injured in a shooting early Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, police said. Seven of the victims were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries and one man was in critical condition, according to the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). Jawan Contrail Carroll, 23, was arrested in Bloomington, Minnesota, on
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Protesters rallied in cities across the United States on Saturday in support of Palestinians, days after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire ending the latest round of violence and bloodshed in a decades-long conflict. More than 90 events were planned for the weekend, including rallies in New York, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Portland. Protesters
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Emmanuel Kelly Cooper was resurrected last year. After spending 27 years behind bars for a murder he says he did not commit, Cooper was released in January 2020, just before the coronavirus began wreaking havoc across America. The pandemic has not been easy for the world, but he remains unfazed. “I’ve been incarcerated a long
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The eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo seems to have subsided late Saturday, according to the Goma Volcano Observatory, which monitors the volcano. Still, authorities have activated an evacuation plan for the nearby city of Goma. The volcano’s last major eruption in 2002 killed 250 people and displaced
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A Maryland candy company is selling chocolate covered cicadas to celebrate the emergence of the noisy insects that have spent the last 17 years underground. Chouquette Chocolates is selling the cicadas — dipped in either milk or dark chocolate — online, but it also posted the recipe on its Facebook page for brave chefs looking
Continue Reading When Dai Xiao Lei arrived at her Beijing apartment with her husband and son, after a long flight back from Canada, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were already waiting inside. They wanted to take her 16-month-old to their family home in Gaoyang, several hours’ drive away, Dai said. Her then-husband seemed unsurprised and told her he
Continue Reading A 2-year-old girl is in an “exceptionally critical condition” after being shot by her 3-year-old brother late Friday when he found a handgun that had been hidden in a couch, according to a Florida sheriff’s office. The shooting took place at a residence in West Lakeland where three men had met to watch an NBA
Continue Reading An image that appears to show Dubai’s “missing” Princess Latifa has been posted on a social media account. If legitimate, the photo would signify the first time Princess Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum has been seen in public since she claimed in video messages obtained by the BBC and shared with CNN that she was
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Lava from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is flowing away from the nearby city of Goma, according to the United Nations peacekeeping force in the country. A reconnaissance flight by a UN helicopter appeared to show the lava was not flowing toward Goma or any major population centers, the
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The Mount Nyiragongo volcano outside Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo started to erupt on Saturday, according to the DRC government and the Goma Volcano Observatory. The volcano’s last major eruption in 2002 killed 250 people in Goma. There’s no indication yet of the scale of this eruption and no one has been
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ont. (CTV Network) — Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella marked her last day on the bench on Friday, a day she says was filled with emotion and reflection of the long and decorated career path that got her to this point. In an exclusive interview on CTV’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — More than half of Canada’s population has been vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to CTVNews.ca’s vaccine tracker. On Saturday morning, the percentage of the Canadian population that has received at least one dose of vaccine tipped over
Continue Reading Two Bureau of Prisons guards who were on duty at the Metropolitan Correctional Center when Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide have entered into agreements with Manhattan prosecutors that could end the criminal case against them if they cooperate with an ongoing Department of Justice Inspector General review, authorities said Friday. In November 2019, the guards,
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The National Basketball Association will no longer require head coaches who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to wear masks during games, according to a memo obtained by CNN. The memo, sent to all teams on Saturday, says coaches don’t have to wear masks to “facilitate in-game coaching duties, and in light of vaccination rates among
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When he gives a speech, Ben Crump often springs an uncomfortable question on his audience. The man who has been called “Black America’s attorney general” asks listeners if they can name five Black people who have been killed by excessive police force. Audience members rattle off names like George Floyd, Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — With pandemic upending everyone’s lives last year, many high schoolers missed out on their senior prom and other memories that came with those cherished years. But after missing out on last year’s prom, one school district made sure none of their students missed out
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 342 new cases of COVID-19 in the state on Saturday, bringing the total to 509,301 throughout the pandemic. The state also reported 168 new probable cases through antigen testing. That total now sits at 86,659 cases. One new death was reported on Saturday, bring the statewide
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CARO, Michigan (WNEM) — A 36-year-old from Caro was rescued by boat and brought back to shore unharmed after their canoe was being overcome by wind according to the Huron County Sheriff’s Office. Around 11:45 a.m. on Saturday Huron Central Dispatch received a call about an individual in
Continue Reading Yoga classes will return to Alabama public schools after a nearly 30-year hiatus but the traditional “namaste” greeting as well as chanting remain forbidden. Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed legislation this week that reversed a longtime ban on yoga instruction in classrooms amid claims that the practice would introduce Hinduism into public schools. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story THEODORE, Alabama (WALA) — A suspected prowler — caught on camera in Theodore — trying to make a fast one with some coolers. Investigators say it happened Monday, May 10th around 10:30 p.m. on Brantley Drive. The homeowner’s motion sensor going off alerting them of activity in their
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