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Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe will be the commonwealth’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, CNN projected on Tuesday, besting four other primary challengers as he seeks to become the first person in decades to serve multiple terms as top executive of a commonwealth that bars governors from consecutive terms. McAuliffe’s win sets a general election between the
Continue ReadingThe mother of a boy found dead last month on a trail near Las Vegas has been arrested in Colorado, Las Vegas police said Tuesday in a news release. The boy was identified by police on Monday as 7-year-old Liam Husted of San Jose, California. His mother, Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, 35, was taken into custody
Continue ReadingFirst, the good news: Covid-19 cases are down in the US. Hospitalizations are dropping. And new deaths have decreased drastically as more Americans get vaccinated. Now the bad news: Most Americans still haven’t been fully vaccinated — threatening both short-term consequences for themselves and long-term consequences for the country. “We’re definitely going in the right
Continue ReadingDavid McMahon hated the design of his classroom. Located on the ground floor of the Pudong campus of the Shanghai French School, its almost floor-to-ceiling windows made him feel like he was “teaching in aquarium,” in the words of one of McMahon’s colleagues. Passersby couldn’t help but look in, and their attention would inevitably distract
Continue ReadingThe coming flu season may be a doozy. Even as coronavirus was devastating populations around the world, killing 3.7 million people globally, doctors and public health officials noticed something else was missing: There was almost no flu. One child died from flu this year in the US. In 2019-2020, there were 199 flu-related deaths in
Continue ReadingThe Wisconsin pharmacist who tried tampering with vials of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine because he believed it was not safe for people was sentenced to three years in federal prison Tuesday. Steven Brandenburg, 46, of Grafton, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of attempting to tamper with consumer products with reckless disregard for the
Continue ReadingThey may be getting divorced, but there’s apparently no love lost between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Kardashian posted a photo of her, West and three of their kids on her verified Instagram account Tuesday in honor of the rapper-entrepreneur-provocateur’s birthday. “Happy Birthday Love U for Life,” the caption read. The couple married in a
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One of the most surprising announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday wasn’t a new feature for its own customers — it was something new for Android and Windows users. As part of its unveiling of iOS 15, Apple said users of other operating systems will be able to join FaceTime calls when
Continue ReadingA series of gun measures in Colorado that were prompted by the mass shooting in Boulder in March are close to becoming law. Democratic state lawmakers have passed three gun measures that will allow localities to regulate firearms, expand background check requirements for firearm transfers and create an “Office of Gun Violence Prevention” — sending
Continue ReadingInfrastructure negotiations between President Joe Biden and a Senate GOP group led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito broke down on Tuesday, and now the White House is shifting its focus toward an impending proposal from a bipartisan Senate group led by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. The decision to pivot from weeks-long negotiations with Senate Republicans
Continue ReadingChipotle raised its menu prices by about 3.5% to 4% to cover the cost of higher wages for employees, the company’s Chief Financial Officer John Hartung said Tuesday. “You take about a 4% price increase to cover the dollar cost of the extra labor,” he told an analyst during a conference. Chipotle announced in May
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Two women are facing charges after being accused of leaving suspicious packages that resembled body bags on the grounds of the state Capitol back in April. Connecticut State Police have arrested Erin Melocowsky, 19, and Olivia Rae Rinkes, 30, and charged them both with
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CRESTWOOD, Missouri (KMOV) — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed a civil lawsuit against a Crestwood spa accused of human trafficking. Schmitt’s office said Tuesday there have been multiple accounts of young Asian girls at the Royal Day Spa providing sex acts in exchange for money. The
Continue ReadingRepublican members of Oregon’s House of Representatives have called on an embattled member of their caucus to resign after newly surfaced video showed him appearing to give protesters insights into how to access the state Capitol, which led to a scuffle between protesters and police last year. In a letter sent by every Republican in
Continue ReadingThere are now 27 graves that have been uncovered at an excavation site for the remains of those killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre at Oaklawn Cemetery. That is 15 new burials since the 12 that were uncovered in October, according to Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck. This is the sixth day of the
Continue ReadingThe day before the White House announced that President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin would hold their first in-person meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the US ambassador to Russia privately told lawmakers he’s worried about Washington giving concessions to Moscow without getting anything in return. In a two-hour briefing to the Senate Foreign Relations
Continue ReadingA man from central Pennsylvania was arrested Tuesday for allegedly impersonating former President Donald Trump‘s family members on social media to raise money for a fake political organization he used to defraud donors and pocket the money for himself, according to prosecutors. Joshua Hall, 22, allegedly pocketed thousands of dollars from hundreds of victims across
Continue ReadingCovid-19 vaccinations have slowed to a trickle in some states, leaving unvaccinated Americans vulnerable to new variants and threatening the chances of reaching herd immunity. The US reached its peak of daily vaccinations on April 1, with more than 4.3 million people inoculated in one day, according to data from the US Centers for Disease
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When Ever López walked across the stage at his North Carolina high school graduation, he became the first of his immediate family to graduate high school. But the Asheboro High School student, who had the Mexican flag draped over his shoulders as he walked the stage, says he was denied his diploma on graduation day
Continue ReadingSenator Mitt Romney wants answers from Microsoft after the company blocked images and videos around the world of “Tank Man,” the unidentified protester during China’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. In a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella provided exclusively to CNN, Romney said he was concerned
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