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By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A series of fleeting choices and troubling circumstances fueled a staggering tragedy — the fire at a Bronx apartment building that left 17 people dead. The heat in the apartment where the blaze began was insufficient, leading a family to depend on a space heater
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DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — Defending champion Algeria missed a bunch of goal-scoring chances and drew with Sierra Leone 0-0 in a big surprise at the African Cup of Nations. Sierra Leone is playing in its first African Cup since 1996 and only its third ever. It came up against an Algeria team that is unbeaten
Continue ReadingBy SHARON JOHNSON, OLIVIA KALENTEK Click here for updates on this story GLASTONBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — The Connecticut state department is facing a staffing shortage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 1,000 Department of Corrections (DOC) employees are recovering from COVID-19. Union leaders say they’ve been dealing with staffing issues for years, and it
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un hombre de 57 años de Maryland evoluciona bien tres días después de recibir un corazón de cerdo modificado genéticamente en una cirugía de trasplante, la primera en su tipo, dijo la Universidad de Medicina de Maryland en un comunicado de prensa este lunes. David Bennett padecía una enfermedad cardíaca terminal,
Continue Reading KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Court documents show prosecutors plan to drop a welfare fraud charge against the stepmother of a New Hampshire girl and replace it with nine other charges. The attorney general’s office said Tuesday the change will be based on new information from the state about Kayla Montgomery. She
Continue ReadingBy SARAH HURWITZ Click here for updates on this story CENTRALIA, Washington (KPTV) — As the flood waters recede in Lewis County, now the focus turns to cleanup and recovery. Lewis County Emergency Management says most county roads are now reopen, after flood waters shut down I-5 near Chehalis on Friday. For David Madrigal, the
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By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An off-duty Los Angeles police officer has been killed in a shootout with several assailants who approached him in a neighborhood. The shooting occurred shortly after 9 p.m. Monday in an unincorporated area of south Los Angeles County. The Sheriff’s Department says a pickup truck approached
Continue ReadingCNN, WLS, WCBS By Travis Caldwell, Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris, CNN The number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 across the US is the highest it’s ever been, pushing officials to enact emergency procedures amid an ongoing case surge fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant. More than 151,000 Americans were in the hospital with
Continue Reading AURORA, Ind. (AP) — DNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio River in Indiana is from an Ohio woman who vanished with her two young children in 2002. Indiana State Police announced Tuesday that Dearborn County’s coroner learned Friday the bone was confirmed as belonging
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a significant false claim on Friday about Covid-19’s impact on children. Sotomayor made the remark during a Friday hearing about the legality of the Biden administration’s attempt to require large employers to force workers to be vaccinated for the virus or undergo weekly testing. Here
Continue Reading BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic snowboard champion Patrizia Kummer says she will head to the Beijing Games early to spend three weeks in quarantine because she isn’t vaccinated against the coronavirus. Chinese authorities require unvaccinated Olympians to enter quarantine upon arrival if they don’t have a valid medical exemption. Kummer is scheduled to arrive this
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry says the country has donated $500,000 to the United Nations for food, medical aid and other assistance for Afghans who fled to neighboring Tajikistan. The ministry’s director general says Israel is proud to be part of the international effort to help Afghan refugees from the Taliban takeover in August.
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story HANCOCK COUNTY, Mississippi (WALA) — A semi truck driver escaped without serious injury but a load of brand new automobiles burned after a crash late Monday night on Interstate 10. It was shortly before 11 p.m. when the Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to the crash
Continue ReadingCNN By Oren Liebermann, Pete Muntean and Barbara Starr, CNN Business An unusual ground stop was issued to some pilots for a short period of time following a North American Aerospace Defense Command alert of a launch of a North Korean missile, a US official said Tuesday. The official says it was not a national
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A veterinarian says that a young brown bear found exhausted in snowy woods in southeastern Poland is improving but remains in life-threatening condition. In a good sign, the young male bear named Ada had eaten two meals by Tuesday morning, after he was given medication and put in a warm hut.
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Meta, la empresa matriz de Facebook, retrasa su regreso a las oficinas hasta el 28 de marzo, y exigirá una prueba de vacunas de refuerzo a los trabajadores. La empresa ya exige que los trabajadores de las oficinas estén vacunados. Janelle Gale, vicepresidenta del departamento de recursos humanos de Meta,
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The victims of a deadly apartment building fire in the Bronx included three young children who were part of a family that tried to make it down to safety but perished in the smoke. Fire officials say a malfunctioning electric space heater apparently started the fire Sunday that killed 17 people.
Continue Reading KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A family member says the Taliban have released a popular university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments who was arrested over the weekend. Faizullah Jalal’s daughter says Tuesday her father was freed from Taliban custody. The group had accused him of “nonsense remarks on social media, which were provoking
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The Associated Press Stocks are off to another weak start Tuesday as traders try to calibrate how markets and the economy will handle the higher interest rates that are likely on the way from the Federal Reserve this year. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%. The index is coming off five straight losses and hasn’t had
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks are off to another weak start Tuesday as traders try to calibrate how markets and the economy will handle the higher interest rates that are likely on the way from the Federal Reserve this year. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%. The index is coming off five straight losses and hasn’t had
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