In between conducting scientific experiments on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover paused to take a selfie. It’s really 57 images stitched together from its location in the Glen Etive region, taken October 11. Behind the rover is a vista including its previous locations, such as Vera Rubin Ridge and the northern rim of Gale Crater. While
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Click here for updates on this story GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, MI (WXMI) — A father is facing charges after his 16-year-old son with special needs drowned in the family’s swimming pool. It happened March 28 at a home on Port Sheldon Street in Georgetown Township, near Hudsonville. Deputies were called to the home after the teen
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KISSIMMEE, FL (WESH) — Five Kissimmee police officers reunited with the baby they saved from choking. Officers said it was a combination of training and good luck that helped them save a choking little MJ. Body camera footage showed the chaotic scene as Amanda Zimmerman handed her lifeless
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Sen. Bernie Sanders released a comprehensive plan late Thursday afternoon to legalize marijuana, begin a process to expunge old pot-related convictions and take steps to shape the emerging legal sales industry. The proposal dropped, winkingly, at precisely 4:20 PM ET. Sanders, a longtime proponent of marijuana legalization, would also ban tobacco companies from getting into
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TANGIPAHOA PARISH, LA (WGNO) — School Superintendent Melissa Stilley provided an update on the situations at three high schools. In the last 24 hours, the total number of students removed from Tangipahoa Parish public high schools for fighting climbed to 48. Stilley reported that 26 Independence High students
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Scottsdale, AZ (KTVK) — After a “record-setting” turnout, the newly-opened White Castle near Scottsdale was forced to close early Thursday morning due to high demand. According to White Castle Vice President Jamie Richardson, the “24-hour” restaurant had “no lull in demand,” causing them to close for service at
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Just in time for Halloween is news you can use. There’s reportedly a new “Hocus Pocus” movie coming. According to Deadline, the new film is in the works for forthcoming streaming service Disney+ with a script from television writer and producer Jen D’Angelo. The original 1993 film about a trio of 17th century witches wreaking
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Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles threw the ceremonial first pitch for Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday. And she made it her own by adding a flip leading up to her pitch. Biles, a Houston native, is no stranger to the mound. She previously threw out the first pitch for a Houston Astros
Continue Reading Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, improved its ranking on the latest World Bank ease of doing business index, but some analysts say that doesn’t necessarily mean an improved economy — and that the country still has anti-business policies. The country now ranks 131 on the World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 index, released Wednesday. The west
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Another critical legacy of the post-Cold War era may be on the verge of biting the dust now that President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies, which allows member states to conduct unarmed surveillance over one another’s territories and helps verify arms control agreements. Watching Trump drive a
Continue Reading Congressional leaders honored the late Rep. Elijah Cummings on Thursday as his body laid in state in National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol. Cummings, a longtime Maryland Democrat and key figure leading investigations into President Donald Trump, died last week at the age of 68. The congressman’s death prompted an outpouring of grief from
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Many Californians are angry as the state’s largest power utility continues to intentionally cut off electricity for hundreds of thousands of customers in an attempt to avoid sparking wildfires. Pacific Gas & Electric has been criticized in recent years for the role its equipment was found to have played in a series of catastrophic blazes
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WGN) — A man is dead after he broke into an apartment in the city’s Austin neighborhood. The incident happened around 10 p.m. Wednesday at an apartment above Gigi’s Food Mart convenience store, in the 5000 block of West Chicago Avenue. Police said a 51-year-old man climbed
Continue Reading Three-quarters of Americans are concerned about the situation in Syria and many see a reemergence of ISIS as likely following recent changes in US policy, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. But the country is divided over how to proceed. Just over half (51%) think the US has a responsibility to remain
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE COUNTY, UT (KSTU) — A 21-year-old man is behind bars after police say he threatened a mass shooting targeting children. Terek Wesley Fleming of Midvale was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail, Wednesday. He faces charges of making terroristic threats and threats of violence. Police
Continue Reading The opening statement of Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, is “reverberating” on Capitol Hill among Republicans, according to GOP Hill sources, who told CNN that Taylor’s testimony is a game changer in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. A senior Republican source on Capitol Hill told CNN that Taylor’s statement was
Continue Reading Newly released video of a fatal police shooting in April 2017 shows an officer firing a deadly shot at an unarmed 16-year-old who had jumped over a fence and was running away. Police in Fresno, California, say that three different official departments have ruled the shooting justified. The surveillance camera footage, provided by attorney Stuart
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WISN) — A woman entrusted with helping at-risk girls is now accused of sex trafficking them. The victims of the child sex trafficking said they met the woman when she was a worker at Milwaukee Academy who was supposed to be protecting them, but police said she
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Nota del Editor: Dipayan Ghosh es becario Shorenstein y codirector del proyecto Plataformas digitales & democracia en Harvard Kennedy School. Fue asesor de políticas tecnológicas y económicas en la Casa Blanca de Obama, y luego se desempeñó como asesor sobre temas de políticas privadas y públicas en Facebook. Sígalo en Twitter @ghoshd7. Las opiniones expresadas
Continue Reading Nota del editor: BJ Miller, M.D. es un médico especializado en cuidados terminales y paliativos, que trata a pacientes y familiares en el Centro Oncológico Integral para la Familia Helen Diller, de la Universidad de California en San Francisco. Miller ha dedicado su carrera a promover la atención médica desde un enfoque humano, como política
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The pain was still fresh for Henderson resident Ed Wheeler when we first met him back in 2013, shortly after his dog, Miracle, had been shot dead by North Las Vegas SWAT. “My mom was the one that called me and told me that
Continue Reading What started as a hand-drawn sign ended in a gesture that will be remembered for a lifetime. Jeff Covel — or Mr. Jeff, as his community knows him — is a diehard Nationals fan and a crossing guard at Nottingham Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia. So he made a sign with masking tape and marker
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KNXV) — A Phoenix man was charged this week after leaving his elderly mother on her bedroom floor for four days. On Tuesday, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office charged Leland Jay Wedin Jr., 59, with vulnerable adult abuse after the death of his 85-year-old mother. Court records
Continue Reading Nota del Editor: Dean Obeidallah, exabogado, es el presentador del programa diario de radio en SiriusXM “The Dean Obeidallah Show” y columnista para The Daily Beast. Síguelo en @DeanObeidallah. Las opiniones expresadas en el siguiente artículo son propias del autor. (CNN) — El presidente Donald Trump revirtió abruptamente el rumbo el sábado y anunció que
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A civil lawsuit has been filed against actor Cuba Gooding Jr. by one of the women connected to the criminal sexual abuse case against him. The woman, Natasha Ashworth, publicly identified herself for the first time in the lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Ashworth, a former waitress at the Manhattan nightclub, Tao
Continue Reading When Tom Stevens got an email from the White House saying that President Donald Trump was considering giving his grandfather, baseball legend Babe Ruth, a posthumous Medal of Freedom, he thought it was spam. “This email from the White House pops up and I put (it) in the same class as a Nigerian prince wanting
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La Secretaría de Seguridad Pública de Guerrero, México, informó este miércoles que nueve personas murieron en un enfrentamiento entre hombres armados en el estado Guerrero, en el suroeste del país. El enfrentamiento se dio en la vía que conduce de Zitlala a Pochahuizco entre presuntos narcotraficantes que, según las autoridades, tenían en
Continue Reading A painting that has been in a New York museum for decades has been recovered by the FBI because the Nazis stole it from a Jewish family that fled Germany before World War II. The painting “Winter,” by American impressionist Gari Melchers, had been in the collection at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie until last
Continue Reading An experienced Arkansas hunter was found severely injured in the woods Tuesday night, his body riddled with antler puncture wounds. He later died. The 66-year-old man from Yellville had shot a deer, and made plans with his nephew to field dress the deer’s body together, police told CNN. When his nephew found him, the hunter
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The election of Donald Trump has upended much of the media and entertainment industry and it was no different for “Late Night” host Seth Meyers, who said he had to hire more researchers to help him put on his nightly NBC show. “We started doing these longer form pieces, our ‘Closer Look,’ which we do
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