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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Americans no longer have to fear the Internal Revenue Service showing up unannounced at their door. The IRS is ending a decades-old practice of having unarmed revenue officers visit households and businesses to help them resolve their account balances by collecting unpaid taxes and unfiled tax returns. These visits
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament on Monday approved the first major law in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the country’s justice system, triggering a new burst of mass protests and drawing accusations that he was pushing the country toward authoritarian rule. The vote, passed unanimously by Netanyahu’s
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The Algerian government says wildfires raging across the country have killed 25 people and injured about 50. The Defense Ministry says Monday that includes 10 soldiers killed while trying to get the flames under control in the face of high winds and scorching summer temperatures. The Interior Ministry says at least
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The continuous triple digit heat has posed some challenges for first responders. Matt Hein, an engineer and paramedic with Palm Springs Fire Department says, “It can be brutal. There’s days where it’s super uncomfortable.” First responders like Hein carry out medical aid, respond to fires and car wrecks daily while wearing their yellow coats. “Three
Continue ReadingCNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Want to live up to an additional 24 years? Just add eight healthy lifestyle choices to your life at age 40 and that could happen, according to a new unpublished study analyzing data on US veterans. Starting at age 50 instead? No problem, you could prolong your life
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Barackman Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — The Excelsior Springs Fire Department, in cooperation with the city’s police department, rescued a man who fell down a more than 30-foot ravine this morning by utilizing a rope rescue. The man had slipped into the tree line while fleeing
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Strothers, Kristina Russo & Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story GUILFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A volunteer for an event in Guilford fell from a hot air balloon over the weekend. Police said the volunteer was a 69-year-old man who was working at The Balloon Glow and Laser Show on the
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A monitoring group says thousands of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries have arrived in Belarus since the group’s short-lived rebellion. The activist group Belaruski Hajun tracks troop movements within Belarus and it says between 3,450 and 3,650 soldiers have traveled to a camp close to Asipovichy, a
Continue ReadingBy Darienne DeBrule Click here for updates on this story HIGHLAND, Utah (KSTU) — 11-year-old Cooper Murray is a natural athlete. He’s always ready to put his mitt on, hit the field and talk about baseball. “When he plays, he goes all in. He’ll slide, and he’s just yelling, and he just loves it. He’s
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Tavss Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY (KSTU) — Wildlife officials say the large number of recent duck deaths in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Park is not connected to avian influenza. Up to 30 ducks were found dead earlier this month, leading the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to
Continue ReadingBy CBS CHICAGO TEAM Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A man is being held on $500,00 bail, accused of driving into a children’s triathlon course in far north suburban Wauconda over the weekend. Police said, shortly after 8:30 a.m. Saturday, as officers were blocking off the intersection of Bonner and
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. Dennis Rader, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert DeSalvo and Ted Bundy are just a few of more than 3,600 serial killers documented in the United States as
Continue ReadingBy CBS PITTSBURGH Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The growing number of Picklesburgh visitors got even bigger when one woman went into labor during the festivities. The Trib has reported EMS personnel transported the woman to a hospital. The baby’s status is unknown. Thirty-three people in total were treated throughout
Continue ReadingBy WBZ-NEWS STAFF Click here for updates on this story GROVELAND, Massachusetts (WBZ) — At least two people were seriously hurt when an SUV slammed into a senior living facility in Groveland Monday morning. Police told WBZ-TV an 83-year-old man who lives at the facility was driving the Lexus when it crashed into an apartment
Continue ReadingBy SANDRA MCNEILL Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — The Miss Gay Michigan America pageant is returning to Detroit after nearly 30 years. The new owners of the pageant, Robert and Scott Beaton, have announced that the competition will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, August 12 at St
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A Chinese marketing firm likely organized and promoted protests in Washington last year as part of a wide-ranging pro-Beijing influence campaign, according to new research. The Chinese firm also used a network of over 70 fake news websites to promote pro-China content in an example of the more aggressive
Continue ReadingBy KCAL-NEWS STAFF Click here for updates on this story COSTA MESA, California (KCAL) — A third suspect was arrested Friday and held without bail in Santa Ana, charged in a Molotov cocktail attack on a Planned Parenthood facility in Costa Mesa in 2022. Xavier Batten, 21, of Brooksville, Florida, was arrested by the FBI
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. A diagnosis of depression in adulthood could more than double your risk of developing dementia in older age, according to a new study. The
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Un gran incendio forestal que arrasó la isla griega de Rodas obligó a miles de turistas a abandonar sus hoteles en lo que, según las autoridades de Grecia, fue la mayor operación de evacuación de la historia del país. Los afectados por las llamas describieron escenas caóticas y aterradoras, en las
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Convicted murderer Luis Hassan, found guilty of the 1990 murder of his girlfriend, Kristina Lazzarini, is set to be released under California’s new compassionate release law. Hassan, a former Cathedral City police officer, was convicted of shooting Kristina in the head on her 27th birthday and staging the scene to look like a suicide. Steve
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