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Click here for updates on this story     LEE’S SUMMIT, Missouri (KCTV) — Emotional reunions are on the horizon for people in senior homes who’ve been isolated from family for so long. The change comes with new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services suggesting nursing homes and long-term

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — People around the world have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and those negative impacts may have altered their cognitive abilities, risk avoidance and civic-mindedness for the worse, new research suggests. A peer-reviewed study published in Scientific Reports analyzed questionnaires from 4,890

Click here for updates on this story     OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — A patient who has been battling COVID-19 for months finally went home Friday. The applause and cheers are well deserved for Sarah Drummond as she walks out of the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Omaha. “I woke up today with a sheer determination that I’m

The green river wasn’t supposed to flow for St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago this year, but the city surprised its residents by carrying on the tradition unannounced. To help curb crowds again due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Chicago officials canceled the annual dying of the Chicago River event — a longstanding St. Patrick’s Day tradition.

Click here for updates on this story     FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Fast acting neighbors are being credited for saving several people from a burning home overnight. The fire broke out at a home on Ruane Street in Fairfield, around midnight. Neighbors called 9-1-1 and alerted the sleeping residents that their home was on fire. More

Click here for updates on this story     HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — 65-year-old Kenneth Hartenstine described it as a ‘vicious cycle’ when he first spoke to FOX43 back in January about the trouble he was experiencing getting him and his wife a COVID-19 vaccine. By February he said he had lost count of how many places

Click here for updates on this story     BATTLE GROUND, Washington (KPTV) — Firefighters say a charcoal grill is the likely cause of a fire that engulfed a house on Friday night. Clark County Fire District 3 was called to a working structure fire in northwest Battle Ground. Crews faced difficult conditions because of limited access

Around 200 opposition activists were detained in Moscow on Saturday, according to a statement from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. The detentions are the latest in a series of crackdowns sustained by members of the opposition following Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny’s arrest and imprisonment. Navalny was detained in January on his arrival from Germany, where

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — This Saturday night, most Canadians will be setting their clocks an hour ahead for daylight time. But one expert says the practice of changing the clocks can have negative health impacts and staying on daylight time permanently, as some provinces have proposed, could

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — New research suggests that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, had already evolved to be able to infect humans prior to the first reported case, making the initial transmission from bats to humans an easy one. The peer-reviewed research, published Friday in PLOS

Chris Harrison’s journey with “The Bachelorette” is over, at least for now, after a controversy over racially insensitive comments. The longtime host of “The Bachelor” reality franchise will not be back to guide the next “Bachelorette” on her search for love, producers announced on Twitter late Friday. Former “Bachelorette” stars Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe