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By LAUREN VICTORY Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Sometimes household chores require reinforcements, like the junk removal crews you’re about to meet. Spring cleaning projects are booking up the schedule, but as CBS 2’s Lauren Victory explained, there’s another serious reason that’s keeping the company busy. Literally tossing unwanted furniture,
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The Arctic could be free of sea ice roughly a decade earlier than projected, scientists warn – another clear sign the climate crisis is happening faster than expected as the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution. A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications found Arctic
Continue Reading By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — There are an estimated 600 million domestic cats in the world, and 80% of them are feral or stray animals. Spaying and neutering cats helps prevent homeless kittens and overcrowded animal shelters. Curbing feral cat populations also reduces the risk of these animals preying on wild animals, such as birds,
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Coinbase has been targeted by U.S. regulators in a new lawsuit Tuesday that alleges the cryptocurrency platform is operating as an unregistered securities platform and brokerage service. The lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission comes only a day after it filed charges against Binance,
Continue Reading WSB By Pamela Kirkland, CNN (CNN) — The Atlanta City Council voted early Tuesday to approve $31 million in public money for construction of a police and fire training facility, dubbed “Cop City” by opponents, following a marathon 16-hour meeting that saw hundreds of people voice their opinion. The facility has been a point of
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN) — A school board in Oklahoma has approved an application for a Catholic virtual charter school – a decision that would create the first publicly funded religious charter school in the nation – despite concerns over the plan’s constitutionality. The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The collapse of a major dam in southern Ukraine sent global prices of wheat and corn higher. Wheat prices gained 2.4% in early trading Tuesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, to $6.39 a bushel. The cost of corn rose more than 1% (to $6.04 a bushel) and oats gained 0.73% ($3.46 per
Continue ReadingBy SARA POWERS Click here for updates on this story MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Michigan (WWJ) — Macomb County deputies and firefighters are being recognized for rescuing a toddler who was unresponsive after falling into a swimming pool. Macomb County deputies, firefighters and MedStar were dispatched to a Macomb Township home on Saturday, June 3, after receiving
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Merck is suing the federal government over a plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices, calling the program a sham equivalent to extortion. The drugmaker is seeking to halt the program, which was laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act and is expected to save taxpayers billions of dollars in
Continue ReadingBy CBS TEXAS STAFF Click here for updates on this story SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KTVT) — Several months after announcing it would investigate the transportation of Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last week, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office has officially filed a completed criminal case to the county’s District Attorney’s Office. In September of last
Continue ReadingBy Kristy Kepley-Steward Click here for updates on this story CANTON, North Carolina (WLOS) — The Canton area has now had seven earthquakes in just under a two-week period. The latest quake struck early Tuesday morning, June 6, just after midnight at 12:08 a.m. The latest earthquake registered a 2.6 magnitude and was located in
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una madre de cuatro hijos fue asesinada a tiros en Florida tras una larga disputa con una vecina que se había quejado de que los hijos de la víctima jugaban al aire libre, informaron las autoridades y un abogado de la familia. Los agentes respondieron a una llamada por allanamiento
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Disney is set to conjure up another sequel to a beloved film. According to a recently published New York Times profile of Sean Bailey, who is president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, “Hocus Pocus 3” is in development. “Hocus Pocus 2” was released in October, almost
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Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has formally pleaded not guilty to a fraud charge over his alleged failure to declare millions of dollars held in a trust in Singapore. The 92-year-old billionaire confirmed his name at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday before entering a not guilty plea to fraud between
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Anti-corruption officials and lawmakers say the European Parliament has failed to introduce new rules or enforce the old ones six months after a cash-for-influence scandal rocked the assembly. The criticism came as the offices of two members of the European parliament implicated in the scandal dubbed Qatargate
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy is likely slowing sharply this year, hobbled by high interest rates, the repercussions of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the latest outlook of the World Bank, a 189-country anti-poverty agency, which estimates that
Continue Reading SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s parliament has formally approved the new government proposed by two main political rivals — the GERB party of ex-Premier Boyko Borissov, which won the April general election, and the runner-up, the pro-European liberal coalition “We Continue the Change — Democratic Bulgaria.” They have agreed to form the first-ever Bulgarian government
Continue ReadingCNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — It was an improvised scene the audience didn’t see, but Jeremy Strong freaked out the “Succession” creator with his performance in the series finale. The creator, Jesse Armstrong, appeared on a recent episode of NPR’s “Fresh Air” and was asked about Strong climbing over the railing at
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — It was an improvised scene the audience didn’t see, but Jeremy Strong freaked out the “Succession” creator with his performance in the series finale. The creator, Jesse Armstrong, appeared on a recent episode of NPR’s “Fresh Air” and was asked about Strong climbing over the railing at the
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