The federal government can take “immediate possession” of a Texas family’s land along the US-Mexico border after a years-long court battle, a federal judge has ruled — a move at odds with President Joe Biden’s pledge to halt wall construction. Tuesday’s ruling from Judge Micaela Alvarez of the Texas Southern District Court was a blow
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Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — An Auburn woman has quite the delivery story after she gave birth in a hospital parking garage. There have been plenty of parents-to-be who have pulled into the UC Davis Medical Center’s parking garage. One of them being Madison Fritter on St. Patrick’s Day. “It
Continue Reading(CNN) — En el norte de China inauguraron lo que es, según las autoridades, la primera señal de tráfico para camellos en todo el mundo. La señal comenzó a funcionar el domingo en un área popular para los turistas cerca de la ciudad de Dunhuang, en la provincia de Gansu, informó el medio estatal chino
Continue ReadingAs offices reopen, Uber says its employees can work from home if they choose — but only for two days a week. Starting in September, the ride-hailing company will shift to a “hybrid model” for its employees “with a clear expectation that they also come into the office 3 days a week,” Nikki Krishnamurthy, the
Continue ReadingKimberly Godwin is about to make history — as the incoming president of ABC News, she’ll be the first Black executive to run one of America’s major broadcast network newsrooms. ABC’s parent company, Disney, announced Godwin’s appointment on Wednesday. She will take over in May. Godwin is currently an executive vice president at CBS News,
Continue ReadingScientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music — creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the arachnids spin their complex creations and even how they communicate. The MIT team worked with Berlin-based artist Tomás Saraceno to take two-dimensional laser scans of a spider web, which
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A 16-year-old, armed with a knife and what turned out to be an airsoft gun, was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon by a Maryland state trooper, a state police official said. The shooting is the latest incident of police killing or wounding teenagers who were found with or near nonlethal guns, including recent cases in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story 4/14/2021 (OutSmart Magazine) — Dear Colton, Welcome to the family. I saw that interview where you came out as gay to Robin Roberts on Good Morning America, and it took me back to when I was coming out of the closet. It was tough. But I promise you,
Continue ReadingKimberly Godwin is about to make history — as the incoming president of ABC News, she’ll be the first Black executive to run one of America’s major broadcast network newsrooms. ABC’s parent company, Disney, announced Godwin’s appointment on Wednesday. She will take over in May. Godwin is currently an executive vice president at CBS News,
Continue ReadingMcDonald’s is requiring anti-harassment training across all 39,000 of its restaurants, the company said Wednesday. The trainings, among other measures, are designed to hold up a new set of brand standards, which focus on preventing harassment, discrimination and retaliation, preventing violence in the workplace, collecting feedback from employees and health and safety more broadly. “There
Continue ReadingEditor’s note: This story was originally published on December 11, 2013, and has been updated. Bernard Madoff, the man behind the most notorious Ponzi scheme in history, died at age 82 while serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison. He was arrested on December 11, 2008, for bilking thousands of investors out of billions of
Continue ReadingJustice Sonia Sotomayor emerged from pandemic-inspired unofficial quarantine on Wednesday to talk about turbulent times in the country. “This is the scariest of times, and the most exciting times,” she said. The liberal justice appeared with her conservative colleague, Justice Neil Gorsuch, in a rare Zoom event to promote civic education and stress respect for
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Click here for updates on this story STANDISH, Maine (WBZ) — A Maine college is cracking down on students not wearing masks on campus. Saint Joseph’s College in Standish is giving $50 tickets to students who violate the school’s face mask requirement. In the past two weeks, 21 tickets have been written. The school said
Continue Reading A former student athletic trainer at the University of Evansville filed a lawsuit against the Indiana school, alleging sexual assault and a pattern of sexual harassment by former basketball head coach, Walter McCarty, according to the suit. The suit alleges that McCarty, a former NBA player, pressured the unnamed plaintiff, dubbed Jane Doe, into visiting
Continue ReadingAdvisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were meeting Wednesday to review blood clot cases among people who received the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. The CDC and the US Food and Drug Administration a day earlier recommended the US pause the use of the single-shot J&J vaccine after “six reported US cases
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NEW CASES Riverside County reported 107 new coronavirus cases since Tuesday, bringing the total up to 296,908 cases. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Riverside County Moves to Orange Tier, California could to lift all COVID 19 restrictions on June 15th Riverside County moved to the orange tier,
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global finally went public Wednesday afternoon at a valuation of nearly $100 billion, as the company takes advantage of surging demand (and prices) for bitcoin, ethereum and other digital currencies. Coinbase shares began trading at $381 a share, a more than 50% jump from the reference price for its stock of $250
Continue Reading Speaking at a rally, Minnesota state Rep. John Thompson offered a warning about violence against Black men in the state. Thompson was a friend of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, outside Minneapolis, in July 2016. “Somebody tell Al Sharpton and Ben Crump to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARDIN COUNTY, Kentucky (WLKY) — A disabled raccoon, affectionately known as “Boone the Raccoon,” is able to walk for the first time thanks to a group of engineering students at Central Hardin High School. The orphaned raccoon first arrived at Nolin River Wildlife Sanctuary in Glendale at just
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WCVB) — A Boston bishop facing several counts of child rape is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. George Swain, 71, the bishop of Greater Victory Temple in Mattapan, faces arraignment on seven counts of rape of a child and five counts of indecent assault and battery
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