US Vice President Mike Pence announced in Turkey Thursday that he and Turkish President Erdogan agreed to a ceasefire halting Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria, which was launched after President Donald Trump effectively gave Turkey the go ahead on a phone call with Erdogan earlier this month. The deal appears to secure Turkey most of
Continue Reading Donald Trump: Two-term president? While that prospect may seem distant amid an endless series of terrible headlines — Syria! Ukraine! Impeachment! — for the President of late, a trio of new electoral models from Moody’s Analytics all predict a victory for the incumbent in 2020. “Results from each of the three models tell equally compelling
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Women who live in states with strict and punitive abortion laws account for the majority of requests made to a website that supplies abortion medications, a new study has found. The website, Women on Web (WoW), has been run by an international non-profit since 2006 and provides abortion medications — under doctor supervision — to
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Click here for updates on this story Honolulu, HI (KITV ) — The University of Hawaii Board of Regents announced its support for another telescope on Mauna Kea as the fight against TMT approaches 100 days. The Board introduced a new resolution on Tuesday calling for the current Hoku Kea facility at the summit be
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A Las Cruces man was indicted by a Dona Ana County grand jury Thursday on 12 felony counts of making and possessing child pornography Raymond Pacheco is charged in the indictment with 11 counts of sexual exploitation of a child for manufacturing sexually explicit material, and one count of possession of such materials. Pacheco remains
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A sheriff’s office was looking all over for Bigfoot for months. They finally found him exactly where you’d think he would be: alone in the woods. Typically if someone calls in a Bigfoot sighting, it would be ignored or maybe even laughed at. But in this case, it was celebrated. A statue of Sasquatch was
Continue Reading Recognizable names like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff are the public faces of the fast-moving impeachment inquiry related to Ukraine. But it’s the legal mind many haven’t heard of who is advising and helping to coordinate the impeachment fight behind the scenes. Douglas Letter was handpicked by Pelosi to become
Continue Reading US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was directed by President Donald Trump to work with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine, he told Congress on Thursday, and was left with a choice: Abandon efforts to bolster a key strategic alliance or work to satisfy the demands of the President’s personal lawyer. Sondland said he wasn’t
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Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time writing briefs or preparing for court. His mission? Saving the world’s oceans from plastic pollution. It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played
Continue Reading There has been a small increase in vaccine exemption rates among kindergarteners in the United States, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The finding, published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Thursday, shows that rates of young children not receiving vaccinations against certain diseases,
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(CNN Español) — “Mi afán es que no quede nadie que no grite: ¡Bravo por Cuba!, cuando yo bailo. De no ser así, de no poder cumplir ese sueño, la tristeza sería la recompensa de mis esfuerzos”. Así hablaba la bailarina clásica cubana Alicia Alonso hace unos 50 años, según Cubadebate. Alonso, famosa por sus
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SAN DIEGO, CA (KGTV) — A San Diego native made history at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, becoming the first above-the-knee double amputee to finish what many consider the world’s most grueling endurance race. Roderick Sewell crossed the finish line of the 140-mile triathlon race in 16 hours and 26 minutes and immediately embraced
Continue Reading The White House has settled on its defense for President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani’s actions on Ukraine: It’s all about 2016, not 2020. Mick Mulvaney, acting White House chief of staff, articulated the strategy on Thursday during an exchange with reporters, saying that aid to Ukraine was in fact tied to Trump’s wish for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SANBORN, NY (WKBW) — It’s a 39 second video captured on a cell phone which appears to show Niagara-Wheatfield 8th grader, Duane Mays Junior being taunted and teased by his classmates. You can hear several students in the video making fun of his shirt, and you see when
Continue Reading Two men charged in a federal campaign finance case involving associates of Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty Thursday in Manhattan federal court. The two defendants arraigned Thursday, David Correia and Andrey Kukushkin, are each charged with one count of conspiring to funnel foreign money into the US election system. Two additional defendants in the case,
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A 13-year-old boy was struck and killed by a truck as he crossed the street Tuesday night. Brian Velazquez was crossing the Dyer on his scooter, not at an intersection, when a truck hit him. His family would be told by doctors he died. His sister told ABC-7 Brian didn’t go to school yesterday. They
Continue Reading The Latin American Music Awards (AMAs) feel and sound like the best house party you’ve ever attended. The one-night celebration of the best Latin music, as voted by fans, features artists from every corner of the industry, from regional Mexico to tropical pop and trap. And the 2019 nominees are stacked with talent. Some have
Continue Reading U.S. Border Patrol agents followed a 10-year-old immigrant with cerebral palsy to a Texas hospital and took her into custody after the surgery. She had been brought to the U.S. from Mexico when she was a toddler. In another case, an armed Border Patrol agent roamed the hallways of an emergency room in Florida, stepping
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. PETERSBURG, FL (WFTS) — We’ve heard about porch pirates stealing packages from front doors, but how about a delivery driver? St. Petersburg Police arrested and charged Dainel Enrique Garcia Zambrano, who delivers Amazon packages, on Tuesday for grand theft and dealing in stolen property. Investigators say Zambrano
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COBB COUNTY, GA (WGCL) — “This inmate worker could have taken advantage of an opportunity to be productive while in custody but instead fled the jail for a few hours of freedom,” said Sheriff Neil Warren after the capture of an inmate on Wednesday. Corey Morris, of Marietta,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LEE’S SUMMIT, MO (KCTV) — A missing Lee’s Summit man who had been missing for a week is hospitalized after being found in a wrecked car at the bottom of a ravine. Police say Ryan Linneman, 37, was located Wednesday night along Interstate 470 near View High Drive.
Continue Reading Sing it with us: “Rise and shine!” That common phrase is now part of a popular meme, thanks to Kylie Jenner. Here’s how it all went down: Last week, Jenner posted a tour of her Kylie Cosmetics office on her YouTube channel. In addition to making us all feel poor, the 22-year-old summoned her toddler
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Metro Public Health confirms an adult male is Nashville’s first death of severe pulmonary illness associated with the use of electronic cigarettes. MPHD officials are working closely with the Tennessee Department of Health to investigate the recent death. News4 has learned the man was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Michigan (WNEM) — An Indiana woman who had been drinking wine before she attacked a Delta Air Lines crew and federal agents on a Michigan-bound flight has been sentenced to six months of probation. Camille Krueger says she’s “just so sorry” for the January 2018 incident aboard an
Continue Reading NASA’s stationary InSight lander is slowly but surely getting to know Mars on a deeper level. Since landing on Mars in November 2018, InSight has been taking selfies, providing daily Martian weather reports, detecting quakes on Mars and hearing strange sounds. But its heat probe experiment was struggling to burrow beneath the surface of the
Continue Reading How best to capture the politics of the moment? With a cover photo, naturally. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump tweeted a photo that he used in an attempt to mock House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The President and Pelosi had engaged in a contentious White House meeting held earlier that day on the unfolding crisis in
Continue Reading A young man I met while doing advocacy work once told me a horrific story that has stuck with me for years. He realized he was having trouble breathing. He knew the culprit was likely asthma, a life-long affliction for him. He was well enough to get himself to the emergency room at the small
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KAYSVILLE, UT (KSTU) — A Latter-day Saint Bishop is being held without bail after investigators said they located thousands of images of child pornography at his home, and investigators believe he may have sexually abused children. In August, Skype informed local law enforcement officials that a user had
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Saudi Aramco’s long-awaited IPO has been delayed–again. The timing for the blockbuster listing was pushed back to allow the state-run Saudi oil company to publish quarterly results that will provide clarity on the impact of last month’s attacks on its oil facilities, a source familiar with the IPO process told CNN Business on Thursday. Investors
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Thousands of Oregonians stopped what they were doing Thursday morning and took cover during the “Great Oregon ShakeOut.” At exactly 10:17 a.m., students at Benson High School joined more than 720,000 other people participating in the annual earthquake drill. “There’s a bunch of natural
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