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A granddaughter came to her grandmother’s apartment bearing a unique gift — it was a prescription for a hug. It had been a year since Evelyn Shaw had hugged anyone, let alone granddaughter Ateret Frank. Yet, Shaw said she wasn’t going to let her granddaughter into her Bronx apartment, even though both had been fully

Bloodshed continues in Myanmar after another violent day Thursday saw at least 12 people killed by the ruling junta, according to a watchdog group, prompting a top UN official to say the crackdown on peaceful protests is “likely meeting the legal threshold for crimes against humanity.” In the small, central town of Myaing, police shot

It’s been a gut-wrenching week for Black Britons. First came the interview where what many Black Britons believed in their hearts to be true was confirmed — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Britain’s first member of the modern British royal family to identify as a woman of color, said she was forced to leave the monarchy

At least 30 students are missing after gunmen attacked a college in Kaduna state northwest Nigeria Thursday night, according to authorities. 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 this year. In a statement, Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner

Click here for updates on this story     LODI, California (KCRA) — There was another step forward in the effort to reopen California as the state announced updates to its Blueprint for a Safer Economy on Thursday. Starting this Saturday, breweries, wineries and distilleries that don’t serve meals may now open outdoors even in the purple

The global rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has encountered another hurdle as a handful of countries paused their use of the shot following reports it could be connected to blood clots, despite no clear evidence of a link. AstraZeneca has robustly defended its vaccine, saying Friday there was “no evidence of an increased risk”

A Michigan man was recently exonerated of murder, a charge for which he spent nearly five years in prison. Now, he’s suing a rental car company for not providing records that, his lawyers say, would’ve exonerated him earlier. Herbert Alford was wrongfully convicted of second-degree murder in 2016 and freed in 2020 after the Hertz

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.

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

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

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