Search and rescue teams are heading to Brunswick County, North Carolina, to help find missing people after a tornado ripped through the area, leaving a trail of damage early Tuesday morning. The Wilmington Fire Department said teams requested by the state emergency management are deploying to locate the missing people. Earlier, the National Weather Service
Continue ReadingAdella Bond fired her revolver outside her window into the South Philadelphia air, hoping to attract police as a mob of Irish American people gathered around her home to tell her she wasn’t welcome. Bond, a Black woman who was a municipal court probation officer, knew that racial conflicts unfolded in neighborhoods that had once
Continue Reading The Perseverance rover is the fifth robotic explorer sent by NASA to journey across the Martian surface, but it’s going to land in a spot that has never been attempted by the agency: Jezero Crater. The crater is incredibly intriguing to scientists because it’s possible that life may have existed in an ancient lake that
Continue Reading An elementary school principal was killed by an avalanche while splitboarding in Montana on Valentine’s Day. Craig Kitto, 45, of Bozeman died Sunday evening after being injured in an avalanche earlier that day, according to the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office. Kitto was with another splitboarder when the avalanche was triggered in Beehive Basin, according to
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Vaccine distribution in states and cities across the US are slowing down because of winter storms that have left more than a third of the continental US with below-zero temperatures Monday. The severe winter weather sparked emergency declarations in at least seven states, including Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas. Here are the
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Search and rescue teams are heading Brunswick County, North Carolina to help find missing people after a tornado ripped through the area, leaving a trail of damage early Tuesday morning. “As of about 1 am, our Regional Response Team (RRT-2) was requested by state EM to respond to Brunswick County to assist with locating missing
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(CNN) — En Texas, el gobernador pidió ayuda a la Guardia Nacional. En Kansas, el gobernador pidió a los residentes que hicieran todo lo posible para conservar energÃa. En Kentucky, funcionarios estatales dijeron que la gente debe ser cautelosa ya que se acerca un clima invernal más gélido. Casi 154 millones de personas en Estados
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Kudos to everyone who has been doubling down on mask wearing and social distancing. Health experts say your efforts are paying off. But with only 4% of the US population fully vaccinated, experts say Americans must continue safety precautions at full force to prevent highly contagious variants from undoing all the progress. Researchers reported Sunday
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The bitter Cardiff cold, the dawn half-light, and the radio-static pulse of callouts are the same as every shift over the past year, but as paramedic Angie Dymott and her colleague Lynda Stephens climb into their ambulance one recent morning, something small, but vital has changed. There have been very few Covid-19 emergency calls in
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Familias del valle de Coachella que necesitaban pañales para sus pequeños pasaron por el Centro de Convenciones de Palm Springs el lunes por la tarde para recoger un cajas gratis. La ciudad de Palm Springs se asoció con FIND Food Bank, con sede en Indio, para organizar el evento drive-thru. Los pañales estaban disponibles para
Continue Reading A decade ago, the Dalai Lama set himself a significant deadline. The best-known living Buddhist figure in the world said that when he turned 90 years old, he would decide whether he should be reincarnated — potentially ending a role that has been key to Tibetan Buddhism for more than 600 years, but in recent
Continue Reading Sao Paulo (CNN) — El presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, ha sido durante mucho tiempo un defensor de los medicamentos cloroquina e hidroxicloroquina para curar el covid-19, a pesar de múltiples estudios que muestran que no son efectivos. Ahora, los documentos muestran que su gobierno gastó fondos de emergencia en los medicamentos y continuó produciéndolos
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The 21st Prestige, one of the top college golf tournaments in the country, teed off on Monday at the Greg Norman Course at PGA WEST. A record 24 teams this year, all of them competing over three days in La Quinta, in quest of winning one of the most coveted prizes in NCAA men’s golf.
Continue Reading Two people died in separate avalanches in Colorado on Sunday, the latest in a series of deadly avalanches that have already claimed the lives of 17 others across seven states this year. The fatalities mark the fifth and sixth avalanche deaths in the state in 2021, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) A
Continue ReadingIs it possible to make bars safe in a pandemic? One experiment in Scotland last summer went flat, according to new research published Monday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Despite guidance from the government and efforts on the part of bar owners to implement safety measures, customers and staff alike failed
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Coachella Valley parents in need of diapers for their little ones stopped by the Palm Springs Convention Center Monday afternoon to pick up a free batch. The city of Palm Springs partnered with Indio-based FIND Food Bank to host the drive-thru event. Â Â Diapers were available for pickup from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in
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The FBI is investigating some of his followers. Others are already in custody and facing decades in prison if convicted of federal charges connected to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. But the national leader of the extremist Oath Keepers group is carrying on as before. He might even be emboldened. “You gotta declare this regime to be
Continue ReadingA version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. “We’re back,” Mark Preston said on the phone from Wisconsin Monday night. “The CNN town halls are back.” President Biden will be fielding questions from Wisconsinites at a CNN town hall Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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