Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A 17-year-old boy is dead following a shooting in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park Thursday, April 22. According to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office, nine teens have been shot and killed in Milwaukee County this year. Family identified Roy Thomas Jr. as the victim in the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A war is heating up among businesses in a southwestern Virginia town. For the past week and a half, businesses in the town of Christiansburg, Va. have engaged in a friendly “sign war,” poking light-hearted fun at each other through puns. It all
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Five Canadians have been charged by a U.S. grand jury for allegedly running a massive scheme to acquire personal protective equipment (PPE) and event tickets to resell at a higher cost during the pandemic. According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office
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The Desert Sands Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved a proposal to bring all students back to campus four days per week instead of two. This will go into effect on May 3. This would not impact students who have elected to stay on distance learning completely. There was plenty of input of
Continue Reading An Iranian court has handed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe a new one-year jail sentence and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, her husband said on Monday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and accused of working with organizations allegedly attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime. She
Continue Reading The Biden administration said it will deploy additional supplies and support to India in response to mounting pressure to help the Covid-19 stricken nation. India, which is second only to the United States in total case count, broke global records for the fifth straight day Monday with 352,991 new coronavirus infections. The country’s brutal second wave of
Continue ReadingOne of the hottest corners of financial markets is getting slightly less manic. What’s happening: Billionaires, celebrities and athletes have raced to create special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, over the past six months. These “blank check” firms, which raise money from investors and then go hunting for takeover targets, have been flagged as a sign
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According to Sir Anthony Hopkins, people on the internet were not the only ones surprised by his historic Oscar win for best actor Sunday night. The 83-year-old thespian became the oldest winner in the acting category for his performance as a man grappling with dementia in “The Father,” which was considered a bit of an
Continue ReadingTwitter has removed several tweets about Covid-19 at the request of the Indian government, including some that were critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of a brutal second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement Sunday, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said it had asked Twitter, Facebook and others to remove
Continue ReadingShe laced up her boots and sped on to the skating rink. A seemingly innocuous act, except in 1952 during a time of racial segregation in the US, this young Black woman departed the rink with a broken arm, her actions having infuriated White men intent on her exclusion. Over a half a century before
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The increasingly radical presidency of Joe Biden was built on a straightforward foundation: putting Covid-19 shots in arms and stimulus checks in the bank. “When I took office, I decided that — it was a fairly basic, simple proposition, and that is I got elected to solve problems,” Biden said at his first official news
Continue ReadingThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in newly updated guidance for summer camps that people who can get vaccinated against Covid-19 should do so, but everyone should wear masks, distance is still necessary and staying outdoors is best. In guidance posted on Saturday, the CDC notes that vaccines are not yet authorized
Continue Reading Moscow’s chief prosecutor froze the political movement of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny on Monday by suspending activities at his offices across the country, while petitioning a court to do the same for the Anti-Corruption Foundation that he founded. The decision comes against the backdrop of a pending court decision on whether to designate both
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(CNN) — La luna llena de abril es la luna «rosa» y además es una superluna. MÃrala en el cielo nocturno este lunes. Esta luna alcanzará su máxima plenitud el lunes a las 11:32 pm ET, según la NASA. Las superlunas parecen más grandes y brillantes en el cielo porque están un poco más cerca
Continue ReadingGoogle’s Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella are rushing aid to India as the country battles an onslaught of coronavirus cases. The Indian-born CEOs pledged in statements Monday to help tackle a critical shortage of medical oxygen, provide technical expertise and deploy corporate resources as the country continues to set world records for daily infections.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Este domingo, el presidente de Chile, Sebastián Piñera, anunció en un discurso que su gobierno enviará este lunes al Congreso su propio proyecto de «retiro y recuperación de ahorros previsionales» debido a la crisis económica y social provocada por el coronavirus. La decisión se da luego de que el Congreso aprobara –con
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Ecuador auditará a partir de este lunes el registro de personas vacunadas contra el covid-19, según informó este domingo en Twitter el secretario general de Gabinete de la Presidencia de Ecuador, Jorge Wated.El anuncio llegó horas después de que el ministro de Salud, Camilo Salinas, anunciara que está investigando un video que parece
Continue Reading Celebrated fashion designer Alber Elbaz, perhaps best known for his work at Yves Saint Laurent and Lanvin, has died of Covid-19 at the age of 59, luxury fashion company Richemont said Sunday. Elbaz was the creative director of Paris-based Richemont’s AZ Factory, for which he designed “beautiful, practical, and solutions-driven fashion that works for everyone,”
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Colombia alcanzó un nuevo récord de muertes por covid-19 y Bogotá declaró alerta roja. En Chile detuvieron al menos 158 personas en Santiago por «infringir las normas sanitarias vigentes». Las muertes de pacientes entre los 20 y los 29 años aumentaron entre enero y abril un 1.081% en Brasil. Asà comienza la
Continue Reading The producers of this year’s Academy Awards promised that it would be like a movie. They may want to consider a reshoot of the ending. Chadwick Boseman had been heavily favored to win in the best actor category for his role as a troubled trumpet player in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The actor died last
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