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Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WNEM) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced two men accused of intimidating minority voters in Detroit and other cities through a robocall meant to suppress turnout in the 2020 presidential election will go to trial after a failed dismissal attempt. Last October, Arlington, Virginia residents
Continue ReadingBad economic news was once again greeted with cheers on Wall Street. Investors brushed off Friday’s surprisingly weak jobs report, which showed far fewer jobs were added last month than expected. The Dow and the S&P 500 both rose to new all-time highs Friday, and the Nasdaq was up nearly 1% as big tech stocks
Continue ReadingYou would think that federal safety regulators would have broad powers to order the recall of products they find dangerous or even deadly. You would be wrong. Agencies such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration typically can only request — not demand — that companies order a recall
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story INDIANAPOIS (WISH) — As Nurse’s Week is underway, News 8 is getting to know one of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health’s oldest newest nurses. Jeff Bick spent more than 30 years at Eli Lilly and Company before he was offered retirement at 58 years old. He
Continue Reading A suspect who held five people captive during an eight-hour standoff at a Wells Fargo bank in St. Cloud, Minnesota, has been arrested and will be charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping and second-degree assault., authorities said. It was a “peaceful resolution, the best possible outcome we could have had,” said St. Cloud Police Chief Blair
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GRANGER, Indiana (WBND) — A new 20-megawatt solar farm, the size of 30 football fields, was unveiled in Granger Thursday. The “St. Joseph Solar Farm,” completed in March of this year, is so big, it can power close to 3,000 homes every year. State and local officials were
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story South Bend, Indiana (WBND) — Downtown South Bend and the Civic Theatre are hosting the first-ever ‘Fringe Festival’ over the weekend. More than two dozen acts will be performing over the course of the next three days. “Fringe is a very exciting, worldwide movement that started in Edenborough,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — Judges with the Texas Court of Appeals sided with Houston firefighters in a decision that could cost city taxpayers millions. In a long-running battle over Houston firefighters’ salaries, the city of Houston tried to have their collective bargaining rights declared unconstitutional. It would have been
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — A man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly talking to an undercover Harris County Precinct 1 constable deputy and crossing state lines with the intention of meeting a minor for sex. Deputies say a U.S. Air Force veteran from Lake Charles, Louisiana came to Houston thinking
Continue Reading A urologic surgery resident in Pennsylvania is raising money to help India as it battles a horrific Covid-19 outbreak. Ruchika Talwar, a 28-year-old resident at the University of Pennsylvania, said she and a group of area physicians have raised almost $500,000 in one week to help send supplies directly to state-run hospitals in India that
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DECATUR, Georgia (WGCL) — A nearly 100-year-old man was found shot to death inside his Decatur home, and now two people are behind bars. On Tuesday, DeKalb County police responded to a home on the 800 block of Wintergreen Lane after receiving a person shot call around 10:20
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SANDY SPRINGS, Georgia (WGCL) — A Sandy Springs mother woke up Thursday morning to find her four-year-old son and dog falling through the floor of her apartment. The 10-foot hole is now fixed but the renter says it took four months too many. “So I jumped up, my
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(CNN) — La pandemia continúa sacudiendo la economía de Estados Unidos, poniendo al mercado laboral de cabeza. Los empleadores que buscan trabajadores tienen problemas para encontrarlos, mientras que muchos estadounidenses despedidos permanecen al margen esperando que vuelva a la normalidad. Es un lío que confunde tanto a los empresarios como a los economistas. La economía
Continue Reading Halima Cisse, a 25-year-old Malian woman who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco on Tuesday, is in good health. Her nonuplets, five girls and four boys, have a way to go, according to Youssef Alaoui, the medical director of Casablanca’s Ain Borja clinic, where the babies were born. “There is still work to do
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden on Friday argued the US needs the kind of large-scale investments his economic proposals call for in the wake of a disappointing Friday jobs report that fell well below expectations. “We can’t let up, this jobs report makes that clear. We’ve got too much work to do,” Biden said, speaking from the
Continue ReadingUS Capitol Police said Friday that there has been a 107% increase in threats against members of Congress this year compared to 2020 and the department is “confident” the number of cases will continue to increase. “As the Department has previously reported, the number of threats made against Congress has increased significantly. This year alone,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS , Idaho (East Idaho News) — An Idaho Falls woman will spend time confined to her house and on probation after stealing a relative’s identity and racking up thousands of dollars in dental bills. Toni Jo Lepper, 50, received the sentence of 60 days of house
Continue Reading It’s the little chopper that could. After four historic flights, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter is ready to fly to a new destination. The 4-pound chopper will make a one-way flight to its next airfield on Friday. As with previous flights, Ingenuity will take off from Wright Brothers Field, but it’s not coming back. This time,
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There will be no Fourth of July fireworks this year in Palm Springs after a city council vote Thursday night. The decision is sparking controversy within the community as it did between members of the council. The reason for cancelling the fireworks this year was to avoid causing additional trauma to veterans dealing with post
Continue ReadingThe Texas House of Representatives is expected to pass an election overhaul bill Friday that would add new voting restrictions and penalties, the latest effort in a slew of Republican-pushed initiatives nationwide that seek to curtail voting access. The GOP-led Texas House early Friday morning advanced Senate Bill 7 on an 81-64 party-line vote to
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