By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Tuesday reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States. Brazilian health experts say most people dying of COVID-19 in recent days are either unvaccinated or suffer from
Continue Reading By MARÍA VERZA and MORGAN LEE Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — After migrants in northern Mexico placed mattresses against the bars of their detention cell and set them on fire, guards quickly walked away and made no apparent attempt to release the men before smoke filled the room and killed at least 40,
Continue Reading By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She posted on social media about competing in a bike race, losing her pet hedgehog and visiting a butterfly garden with her grandmother but gave no sign of the anti-abortion views investigators say drove her to set fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic. On Tuesday, a
Continue Reading By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After nearly a year of searching, investigators used DNA pulled from a half-eaten burrito to capture the man they believe firebombed a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group’s office. The U.S. attorney’s office in Madison announced that police arrested 29-year-old Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury at Boston’s Logan International
Continue Reading By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A group of Nebraska lawmakers are filibustering all bills that come before the Nebraska Legislature in protest of a bill that would ban gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. Democratic lawmakers say they’ll filibuster every bill through the end of the 90-day session unless the anti-trans
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG and ROBERT BUMSTED Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Queen’terica Jones found her mother’s lifeless body after a tornado slammed into the rural town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Jones describes her mother, Erica Moore, as a “beautiful soul” and says finding her was terrible. At least 21 people in Mississippi and
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By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — This kind of thing doesn’t happen much in San Diego. As Padres owner Peter Seidler walked on stage for a panel discussion at FanFest on a brilliant Saturday afternoon in February, chants of “Peter! Peter! Peter!” rose up from the crowd of several thousand fans
Continue Reading By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s state elections board on Tuesday removed two local election officials who had refused to certify their county’s 2022 results after officials determined they violated state law. The state board voted unanimously to dismiss Surry County elections secretary Jerry Forestieri and board member
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to become his sex slave was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in federal prison. Matthew Christian Locher was “a parent’s worst nightmare,” U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee said during his
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Bahou Click here for updates on this story ANN ARBOR, Michigan (WXYZ) — If there’s a Barbie girl living in her own Barbie world, that would definitely be Annie Penta of Ann Arbor. “I am a huge fan of Barbie,” said Penta. ”I used to be obsessed with going thrifting and collecting Barbie
Continue ReadingBy Kim Russell , Kent Saunders Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WXYZ) — In 1907, a group of men who loved art started a club that’s now known as the Scarab Club in Detroit. The founders were some of the time’s leading artists. If you visit, you will see the historic marker
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The weather is slowly changing on Jupiter and Uranus, according to our galaxy’s own interplanetary meteorologist. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured Earth’s outer planetary neighbors in images from 2014 to 2022, documenting changes in the planets’ weather and seasons over time. With Jupiter at about 484 million miles (779 million
Continue ReadingBy Evan Millward Click here for updates on this story NEWPORT, Kentucky (WCPO) — As construction goes vertical on Newport’s long-awaited Ovation project, its developers and architects are using the technology behind a popular video game to visualize how it will look when it’s completed. And it’s all done using just an Xbox controller. “Honestly,
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LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — The driver of a reportedly stolen California Highway Patrol cruiser jumped out as it was pursued down a desert highway Tuesday. The driver hit the pavement hard and lay motionless in the middle of the road, as the scene was broadcast by Southern California TV news helicopters. CHP confirmed the man
Continue ReadingBy Karla Cripps, CNN Bangkok has long been considered a world capital when it comes to street food. But these days, its fine dining scene is proving to be just as alluring. An eatery in the Thai capital won the top spot at the 2023 “Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants” awards, which were handed out at
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Continue ReadingBy Craig McKee Click here for updates on this story CINCINNATI (WCPO) — As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. For Ken Williamson, the photos he snapped while deployed to the Vietnam War told a different side of the conflict. “You don’t ever hear about it and it was a very
Continue Reading By Justin Gamble Using artificial intelligence and archival news articles, a teenager in Northern Virginia created a program to measure media biases — and in researching older news articles, she found that Black homicide victims were less likely to be humanized in news coverage. Emily Ocasio, an 18-year-old from Falls Church, Virginia, created an AI
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — A milk truck-tanker crash that killed four people and injured several others on a Phoenix freeway in 2021 was caused by driver fatigue, U.S. transportation investigators said Tuesday. In a virtual meeting to announce its probable cause report, the National Transportation Safety Board criticized Arizona Milk Transport for not ensuring drivers get
Continue Reading BAKER, Calif. (AP) — Train traffic resumed Tuesday afternoon on a stretch of track where 55 railcars and two locomotives derailed a day earlier in a remote area of Southern California’s Mojave Desert. There were no injuries when the freight train carrying iron ore went off the tracks Monday morning in the Mojave National Preserve,
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