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By CBSMiami.com Team Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital is worried about the increase in pediatric COVID cases. CBS4’s Joel Waldman visited the hospital, where one young girl was too young to fully understand the serious threat of virus, but definitely old enough to know she’s
Continue ReadingBy CBS Baltimore Staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, MD (WJZ) — Staff at the Maryland Zoo have been making some Zoom calls recently to brighten up children’s hospital patients’ days. When 17-year-old Che Penn answered one of the calls Tuesday afternoon, noisy flapping African penguins appeared. “They’re so cute,” Penn exclaimed.
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament has voted in favor of a bill that would force Discovery Inc., the U.S. owner of Poland’s largest private television network, to sell its Polish holdings. The bill, if it gets the Polish president’s approval, is widely viewed as a blow to media independence
Continue ReadingBy ROB POLANSKY Click here for updates on this story ENFIELD, CT (WFSB) — A granddaughter arrested in connection with the death of a couple in Enfield has now been charged with their murders. Harlee Swols, 22, was charged with two counts of murder on Wednesday. Enfield police were called to an apartment on Alden
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Some of the largest live entertainment companies and Southern California sports teams will require all U.S. office employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Among the organizations that will issue this new rule includes Goldenvoice, the parent company of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, and Live Nation Entertainment, which has a partnership
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Rickie Fowler wishes he weren’t in this position, but he’s set to make the most of his final chance to reach the PGA Tour playoffs at the Wyndham Championship. Fowler is 130th in FedEx Cup points. Only the top 125 advance to the first postseason event at the Northern Trust next
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE, TERRY TANG AND PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — More Arizona medical providers and education institutions announced new measures to stop COVID-19 from spreading as stark differences in Arizona’s approach to surging cases continue. Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday urged the governor to punish local school districts that require students to
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By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Georgia prosecutors have charged 14 people with recruiting poor children from Atlanta to sell candy and food door-to-door in the city’s northern suburbs. State Attorney General Chris Carr alleges it was a scheme to funnel money to a notorious Los Angeles-based street gang. The Republican says
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business A new Senate bill targeting US app stores seeks to rein in the power of tech giants such as Apple and Google by banning restrictions on app developers. The proposed bipartisan legislation by Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Amy Klobuchar and Marsha Blackburn would outlaw certain contractual obligations that app developers say
Continue Reading Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: NortonLifeLock, Wendy’s rise; WW International, Perrigo fall.
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks closed mostly higher on Wall Street Wednesday, marking more records for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Weakness in some technology stocks helped pull the Nasdaq composite slightly lower. Investors got some better news on inflation when the Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose at a slower
Continue ReadingLt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will replace Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he steps down, making her the state’s first female chief executive.
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday distanced herself from outgoing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace a day earlier with impeachment looming following the release of a report that found he sexually harassed 11 women. In her first public comments since Cuomo’s stunning announcement, Hochul, a Buffalo native
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By Kyung Lah, Cheri Mossburg, Sarah Moon and Ray Sanchez, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that teachers and other school employees must either be vaccinated against Covid-19 or submit to regular testing. California will become the first state in the nation to implement such a requirement. “To give parents confidence that their children
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Sonia Moghe, CNN Seven men and five women have been selected and sworn in as jurors in the R. Kelly federal trial in New York, a spokesperson for the US Department of Justice said Wednesday. Opening statements and testimony begin August 18. Jurors will remain anonymous and partially sequestered. Kelly faces
Continue Reading VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’n prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into an oil spill off the country’s Black Sea coast that appeared to be far bigger than initially expected. The spill occurred over the weekend at the oil terminal in Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka near the port of Novorossiysk. The terminal belongs to
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN The US House should be able to access some of Donald Trump’s tax records through a subpoena to his accounting firm Mazars USA, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled on Wednesday. The ruling is a resounding loss for Trump, given that the accounting records appear to cover
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A prosecutor told a judge that a Las Vegas homeowner accused of shooting three tenants after an argument over unpaid rent said he didn’t want to go through an eviction and wanted to handle things “his way.” The judge on Wednesday heard that another renter was
Continue ReadingBy Nicola Ruotolo and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Any budding lifeguards might want to work on their doggy paddle this holiday season, after a group of 14 people struggling in high wind and waves at sea were rescued with the help of Italy’s lifeguard dogs. The animals helped to rescue bathers who got into difficulty around
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