By Melanie Zanona and Paul LeBlanc, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has vowed to remove three Democratic lawmakers from key committee assignments if Republicans win back the chamber in the upcoming midterm elections. Citing a “new standard” that Democrats had created last year by removing GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul
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By Theresa Waldrop and Julia Jones, CNN As the Omicron variant sweeps the nation, it’s disrupting everything from garbage collection and emergency services, schools and travel as employees are out sick or in quarantine. In New York, trash is going uncollected and three subway lines are closed because so many workers are out sick. Schools
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop and Julia Jones, CNN As the Omicron variant sweeps the nation, it’s disrupting everything from garbage collection and emergency services, schools and travel as employees are out sick or in quarantine. In New York, trash is going uncollected and three subway lines are closed because so many workers are out sick. Schools
Continue Reading By WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story BAY MINETTE, Alabama (WALA) — The Bay Minette Police Department has a message for drivers after a crash that occurred Monday morning. The message, posted on social media: “If you cannot move over, then SLOW DOWN!!” The police department posted that on Monday morning Bay
Continue Reading By Evan Sobol Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Police in Milford are investigating a home invasion Monday afternoon, officials said. According to the Milford Detective Bureau, they are investigating a home invasion that occurred on 494 Naugatuck Avenue. According to the victim, the suspects were armed and wearing an
Continue Reading By WLOS Staff Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — For the second year in a row, COVID-19 deaths have led to an unfortunate statistic in Buncombe County. In 2021, the number of people who died in Buncombe County exceeded the number of people who were born, Register of Deeds
Continue Reading By WLOS Staff Click here for updates on this story OLD FORT, North Carolina (WLOS) — A McDowell County cycling company is now employee-owned. Kitsbow was purchased by its employees, with help from a group of private investors. The business has also stopped selling any clothing made offshore. Officials with Kitsbow said they want to
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN A coalition of voting rights groups in Georgia announced Monday that they will not attend events surrounding President Joe Biden‘s expected visit to Atlanta, urging for concrete action instead of what they called a “photo op.” Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, and representatives of several voting rights groups urged
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By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh say he’s so broke he can’t pay a phone bill — much less $7 million in bail. Meanwhile, a court-appointed overseer said during a virtual court hearing Monday that Murdaugh needs to use whatever money he
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Photographs by Timothy Fadek for CNN Nfamara Kebe tears up as he describes the deadly fire in the Bronx apartment building where several of his family members lived. At least one of his relatives was killed in Sunday’s blaze, Kebe says. And his nephew’s 2-year-old son is
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By Amir Vera and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Family, friends and community activists gathered in southern California on Monday for the funeral of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, the 14-year-old fatally shot by a Los Angeles police officer while Christmas shopping with her mother. Valentina was struck by a stray bullet December 23 in the dressing room of a
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Parks, who spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, has died. He was 78. His son says Parks died of kidney failure and a heart attack at a Pasadena, California hospital late Saturday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou guard Kobe Brown is the SEC Player of the Week. The junior standout had a career-high 30 points in the Tigers win over No. 15 Alabama on Saturday. He also brought down 13 rebounds. It was his fifth double-double of the season. Brown is averaging 15.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per
Continue Reading By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and Japan say North Korea has fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into its eastern sea.. The launch comes as North Korea continues to demonstrate its military might amid a self-imposed pandemic lockdown and deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States.
Continue Reading HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — An 18-year-old New Mexico woman is facing charges after police say she abandoned her newborn baby in a dumpster. Authorities said during a news conference Monday that four people who were looking through a dumpster heard the baby cry and found it inside a trash bag, wrapped in a dirty towel
Continue Reading By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The standoff between Chicago school leaders and the teachers’ union over COVID-19 safety protocols stretched into a second week. rhetoric between the two sides became nastier, schools began notifying families of more class cancellations and families’ frustrations grew. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey
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By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The standoff between Chicago school leaders and the teachers’ union over COVID-19 safety protocols stretched into a second week. rhetoric between the two sides became nastier, schools began notifying families of more class cancellations and families’ frustrations grew. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has announced he has come down with COVID-19 a second time, as coronavirus infections spike in Mexico and virus tests become scarce. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wote Monday that he tested positive, after he sounded hoarse at a morning news briefing. Earlier in the day, the president told
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmó este lunes que está contagiado de covid-19 en un mensaje a través de sus redes sociales. “Informo a ustedes que estoy contagiado de #COVID19 y aunque los síntomas son leves, permaneceré en aislamiento y solo realizaré trabajo de oficina y me
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