Click here for updates on this story Chapel Hill, North Carolina (WRAL) — A retired mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill died on Monday. Rameses XXI passed away around 2 p.m., according to Don Basnight, one of his handlers. “We’re all saddened by the loss of this nice and beautiful animal.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Orange County, California (KABC) — An Orange County park has been closed after a family hiking in the area said they spotted a mountain lion stalking a young girl in the group. Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County will be closed until further notice, an OC Parks
Continue ReadingAre Covid-19 vaccines safe for cancer patients? It’s a question that has been on the minds of researchers and oncologists long before the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine rollouts began. Although there is a consensus that the vaccines are safe for most cancer patients, according to the American Cancer Society and others in the medical community,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, NC (WLOS) — The body of a woman was found inside a suitcase near the shore of a North Carolina river Monday morning, authorities said. Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker said a witness contacted Raleigh police Monday and reported seeing a body along a section of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Kansas City, Missouri (KCTV) — On the Missouri side of the metro alone, there were more than 200 wrecks in just the first half of the day Monday. MODOT and Kansas City Police said the frigid temperatures had a lot to do with that, and that cold won’t
Continue Reading The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars will arrive at the red planet on Tuesday and will attempt a tricky maneuver to place it in orbit. The Emirates Mars Mission is known as the Hope Probe, and it is expected to arrive at Mars and send back a signal confirming it’s in orbit. “The
Continue ReadingMajority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday afternoon that Senate leaders had reached an agreement for an organizing resolution to set the rules for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which begins Tuesday. The organizing resolution sets the schedule for the trial. The chamber was initially going to recess for Shabbat on Friday evening, but Trump’s
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The Biden administration is considering a rule that would require negative Covid-19 test results for domestic air travel, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg mentioned the possible testing requirement for air travelers within the United States in an interview Sunday with “Axios on HBO.” “There’s an active conversation with the CDC right now,” Buttigieg
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lancaster, Pennsylvania (WPMT ) — The mother of Ricardo Muñoz, a Lancaster County man who was shot and killed by police after running at an officer with a knife, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit and named the Lancaster City Police Department, the city, and Lancaster County as
Continue ReadingBoeing delivered 26 jets in January, logging one of its best months since the grounding of the 737 Max in March 2019. The 737 Max helped boost those figures, with 21 delivered in the month. The company has been working through a backlog of more than 400 737 Max jets that were built during the
Continue Reading Details of a “very special” haul of 651 Roman coins found in the ancient city of Aizanoi in Turkey have been released by researchers behind the discovery. The silver coins were found in a jug during archeological excavations led by researchers from Pamukkale University, according to a press release from the university. The ruins of
Continue ReadingThough it started as a way to provide relief to middle class families, the child tax credit has also evolved into a bipartisan tool for lifting kids out of poverty. Now, President Joe Biden and congressional Democratic leaders want to overhaul the credit, turning it into a guaranteed income stream worth hundreds of dollars a
Continue ReadingAmazon is once again on the back foot in its legal battle over the vast Indian retail market. An Indian court on Monday overturned an order that would have prevented Reliance Industries — a major Amazon rival — from buying Future Retail. The Delhi High Court had ruled only last week that the $3.3 billion
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Here’s where we are: A president who survived impeachment for trying to stack the deck against his most-feared election opponent is now facing impeachment again for inciting his supporters to attack Capitol Hill to challenge that same opponent’s victory. When they write about the epic power-corrupting tragedy of these past few years, it’ll all seem
Continue ReadingSuzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News whose future at the network had been questioned both internally and externally amid ratings woes and in the wake of a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit tied to the channel’s election coverage, has signed a new multi-year deal with the company. Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox
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Hong Kong (CNN) — La cantidad de recién nacidos registrados con el gobierno de China cayó casi un 15% el año pasado, en medio de una preocupación generalizada por la caÃda de las tasas de natalidad en el paÃs más poblado del mundo. Según las cifras publicadas por el Ministerio de Seguridad Pública esta semana,
Continue Reading Anyone who has ever had a blood transfusion owes a debt to Charles Richard Drew, whose immense contributions to the medical field made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. Drew helped develop America’s first large-scale blood banking program in the 1940s, earning him accolades as “the father of the blood
Continue ReadingHouse Democrats have rejected a Republican proposal to significantly narrow eligibility for further stimulus payments and are moving forward with legislation that would provide $1,400 stimulus payments per person. But the payments would phase out faster than earlier rounds and completely cut off individuals earning more than $100,000 and couples earning more than $200,000, according
Continue Reading (CNN) — Más de 4,6 millones de adultos estadounidenses tienen alergia al cacahuate, y muchos de ellos desarrollaron la alergia en la edad adulta, encontró un nuevo estudio. Más de 800.000 de esos adultos, más del 17%, desarrollaron alergia después de cumplir los 18 años, según un estudio publicado el martes en The Journal of
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The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins in the Senate on Tuesday, where senators will be confronted with the violent events of the January 6 riots and whether Trump is culpable for inciting the insurrectionists that attacked the Capitol and placed their lives in danger. The historic trial has a number of
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