Click here for updates on this story PORT ST. LUCIE, FL (WPTV) — A local mom graduated from nursing school at the Fortis Institute Tuesday night, but her path to the graduation day was filled with challenges much bigger than bookwork and tests. Shayna Berkowitz, 24, celebrated becoming a Licensed Practical Nurse with her
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If Democrats want to win in 2020, they have to sharpen their attacks on the Donald J. Trump economy. Moody’s Analytics 2020 Presidential Election Model weighs the current economy, politics and voter turnout and projects a second Trump term. “If the economy a year from now is the same as it is today, or roughly
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Country star Kane Brown choked back tears as he honored his late drummer, Kenny Dixon, as he accepted an award at the CMT Artists of the Year awards show just four days after Dixon’s death. Dixon was involved in a fatal car crash in Christiana, Tennessee, on Oct. 12. The accident happened just a month
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The Republican-controlled Senate failed on Thursday to overturn President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration he has used to pay for a wall on the US-Mexico border. Trump announced the emergency in February after failing to persuade Congress to appropriate additional funding to build the wall, one of his main campaign promises in 2016. Congress then
Continue Reading In one of his last official acts before his death, the late House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings signed two subpoenas for documents related to a temporary end to a policy change that allowed some immigrants with severe health issues to remain in the US. Hours before his passing, staffers drove the subpoenas
Continue Reading In the months leading up to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, multiple people associated with Trump, both inside and outside of his administration, were engaged in efforts to change leadership at Naftogaz, Ukraine’s geopolitically important state-owned oil and gas company. One of those people, US Energy Secretary Rick
Continue Reading A Las Cruces man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly threatened his 13-year-old son with a knife. Las Cruces police said 37-year-old Edward Baeza was upset that his wife was not home and began to ask their three children where she was in a rude manner. Shortly after, police said Baeza grabbed a knife then
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(CNN Español) — La bailarina clásica cubana Alicia Alonso murió este jueves a los 98 años, confirmó a CNN un portavoz del Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Alonso falleció en un hospital de La Habana y por el momento no se ha revelado la causa de su muerte, de acuerdo con los medios estatales Granma y
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ProPublica is widely thought to be the gold standard of nonprofit investigative journalism. And The Texas Tribune has the same reputation on the local level, with coverage of the Lone Star State that is commonly cited as a model for nonprofit news startups. Now they are coming together to launch a co-branded investigative reporting unit.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Wellington, FL (WPTV) — A teenager from Wellington is training to run seven marathons in seven days across Florida to raise awareness about the environment. Charlie Richardson has been running since he was in elementary school. “It’s a good resetter for me,” said Richardson, who graduated from Wellington
Continue Reading Stephen Colbert has signed a new contract that keeps him as host of CBS’ “The Late Show” through 2023, the network announced Thursday. “I’ve been asked by CBS to host ‘The Late Show’ until 2023, and I have every intention of honoring their subpoena,” Colbert said in a statement. Financial terms of the deal were
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A concerned neighbor called police at 2:23 a.m. to check on the woman across the street because her front door was open. At 2:30 a.m., she would be dead. Aaron Dean, a white police officer, shot and killed Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, a 28-year-old black woman, through her window early Saturday morning in Fort Worth, Texas.
Continue Reading When Atatiana Jefferson‘s neighbor called police, he says he expected them to go check to see if she was OK. But the officer who shot her in her own home was sent on a call that police often handle as a potential burglary. Authorities are looking into what former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean
Continue Reading Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke struggled to explain on Wednesday how he would make people who wish to do harm with an assault-style weapon to comply with his proposed mandatory gun buyback, a plan that divided Democrats at Tuesday’s primary debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. O’Rourke’s plan includes a ban on assault-style
Continue Reading A recent storm uncovered wreckage from a wooden ship buried on a beach in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Charlie Hornfeck told CNN that he spotted the wreck on Saturday while walking his dog Kay Dee on the beach in Hatteras, North Carolina. He was looking to see how bad the erosion and other storm damage
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Chicago teachers went on strike Thursday, marching on picket lines in defense of their union’s “social justice” agenda after failing to reach a contract deal in a dispute that canceled classes for more than 300,000 students. The strike in the nation’s third-largest school district came after the Chicago Teachers Union confirmed Wednesday night that its
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Dina García es profesora en el Departamento de Comportamiento y Política de Salud, en Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). (CNN Español) — El cáncer representa una de las principales causas de muerte a nivel mundial. De acuerdo al Centro Internacional de Investigaciones sobre el Cáncer, IARC por sus siglas en inglés, en el
Continue Reading You can’t argue with science, right? Actually, expect this to cause quite a bit of conflict. According to the Daily Mail, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Julian De Silva has declared model Bella Hadid the most beautiful woman in the world based on the “science” of the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi. What’s that? It’s a measure
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, KY (WLKY) — A young University of Louisville football fan will get the opportunity of a lifetime this weekend. Allen Norton, 4, has been selected to help conduct the marching band’s halftime show Saturday. Norton was born with holes in his heart and had surgery when he
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Boxer Patrick Day died Wednesday, four days after he was knocked out during his bout with Charles Conwell on Saturday night in Chicago. Day, 27, succumbed to a traumatic brain injury he suffered that night, according to a statement from his promoter, Lou DiBella of DiBella Entertainment. “He was surrounded by his family, close friends
Continue Reading Within the first 10 minutes of Tuesday’s fourth presidential debate, you could tell something fundamental had changed in the race: Elizabeth Warren is the new front-runner. The Massachusetts senator was attacked from all sides from the get-go — on how she planned to fund her “Medicare for All” plan, on the “punitive” nature of her
Continue Reading Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s death penalty trial is set to begin in January 2020, according to a court order issued Thursday by Florida Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer. Cruz is facing 34 counts of premeditated and attempted murder for the massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day in 2018.
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A new anti-bullying PSA video produced by Monica Lewinsky allows watchers to briefly experience cyberbullying firsthand. “The Epidemic” begins with a short video that shows Hailey, an American teenager, suffering from an unknown virus. She’s a regular teenager — attending class, watching TV, always checking her phone. Except unlike many of her peers, Hailey leaves
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Click here for updates on this story PORT ORANGE, FL (WESH) — Spruce Creek Elementary School students, including 9-year-old Bentley Purdue, thought they were gathered in the courtyard for the school’s teacher of the year announcement. Instead, Purdue got a surprise in the form of his stepdad, Air Force Staff Sgt. Justin Merrick. “I thought
Continue Reading A 93-year-old former guard at a Nazi concentration camp will go on trial in Germany on Thursday on the charge of being an accessory to thousands of murders. The man, known as “Bruno D,” will face a Hamburg court over the deaths of 5,230 people after he joined the SS as a guard between August
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARRISON TOWNSHIP, MI (WXYZ) — It’s a story you’ll see Only On 7. A music star from metro Detroit is getting praise for stepping in to stop trouble at a popular waterfront bar in Harrison Township on Labor Day. “He really stepped in to prevent tragedy, actually getting
Continue Reading A privacy-focused US senator is introducing sweeping legislation on Thursday that imposes sharp penalties on companies and executives who fail to protect consumer data, bringing additional pressure to bear on the tech industry. The bill, known as the Mind Your Own Business Act, threatens to put top executives behind bars for up to 20 years
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La bailarina clásica cubana Alicia Alonso, murió este jueves a sus 98 años, confirmó a CNN un portavoz del Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Alonso murió en un hospital de La Habana y hasta el momento, la causa no ha sido revelada, detallaron los diarios estatales Granma y Cubadebate. El presidente de Cuba,
Continue Reading After (yet another) hugely contentious meeting between President Donald Trump and congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Trump of experiencing a “meltdown.” Which, because political rhetoric is totally out of control, will likely get dismissed as just another exaggeration designed to play to the Democratic base. It
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