A top aide to billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, who allegedly offered to pay Iowa politicians to endorse Steyer, has resigned, the campaign announced on Friday. Steyer campaign manager Heather Hargreaves issued a statement addressing the resignation of the campaign’s Iowa political director, Pat Murphy. “After the conclusion of an investigation alleging improper communications
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Click here for updates on this story MT. MORRIS TOWNSHIP, MI (WJRT) — Mt. Morris City Police Officer Kevin Mihailoff pulled up around noon Tuesday to an upsetting scene. A car ran off Stanley Road, landing upside down in the Brent Run Creek, about a 15 foot drop. “The only part of the vehicle that’s
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Authorities in Florida have knocked on more than 600 doors in the search for a 5-year-old girl who disappeared from her home this week, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said Thursday. Hundreds of tips have poured in and more than 300 officers, including those with the dive team and K-9 and mounted units, have searched for
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Dozens of school bus drivers in Las Cruces are threatening to go on strike next week if their demands for better pay and safer driving conditions are not met. “Right now, we’re at an all-time crisis of having far too many drivers leave for better jobs for better pay for
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Even with an economics degree from Yale and job experience on Wall Street and in Hollywood, the future for Shawn Pleasants looked increasingly glum. Homeless for 10 years in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles, Pleasants had done little to extricate himself from a cycle of depression and methamphetamine use that began before he landed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RACINE COUNTY, WI (WDJT) — A woman found murdered in the town of Raymond in 1999, has finally been identified and her suspected killer caught. After 20 years, Jane Doe finally has a name: Peggy Lynn Johnson and what she endured before her death is heartbreaking. The 23-year-old
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(CNN Español) — El gerente de la empresa auditora Ethical Hacking, contactada por el Tribunal Supremo Electoral de Bolivia (TSE) para realizar una auditoría del proceso electoral, dijo en un entrevista con la Televisión Universitaria de Bolivia que el proceso estuvo “viciado de nulidad”. Álvaro Andrade explicó que reportaron al TSE, varias vulnerabilidades y entre ellas
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Members of the US women’s soccer team scored one of their goals Friday when a federal judge allowed their gender discrimination lawsuit to proceed as a class action. The US Women’s National Team’s lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation was filed in March in US District Court in California, with 28 members of the team
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Two White House officials told lawmakers the “blatant” push for politically motivated investigations from President Donald Trump left “no ambiguity” what the Ukrainians needed to do to secure a highly sought meeting — and the effort was coordinated by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, according to deposition transcripts released Friday. The testimony
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EL PASO, Texas — The makeshift memorial near the Cielo Vista Walmart for victims of the Aug. 3 mass shooting is being relocated to Ponder Park this weekend, according to a city representative. Peter Svarzbein, the District 1 member of city council, announced the development in social media post on Friday afternoon. (See it at
Continue Reading An Iowa inmate serving a life sentence says he should be a free man after he became ill, momentarily died, and had to be revived at the hospital. But the courts are having none of it. Benjamin Schreiber was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1997 after being convicted of first-degree murder. In
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Escucha Zona Pop en Apple Podcasts o en TuneIn si tienes Android y si tienes Spotify, suscríbete y comparte tus comentarios con la etiqueta #ZonaPop. (CNN Español) – Los españoles Rosalía y Alejandro Sanz lideran la lista de nominaciones a los Latin Grammy por sus producciones “El Mal Querer” y “#ElDisco”. Este martes, la Academia Latina de la Grabación anunció
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On a recent fall day at MIT, a group of players kicked around a soccer ball on the school’s Killian Court lawn. They ran around and jumped in piles of leaves. They even did backflips. But these weren’t students, they were cheetahs. Mini cheetahs, actually. Oh, and they’re robots. MIT’s Biomimetic Robotics Labratory, which sits
Continue Reading The Trump administration on Friday proposed a charge on asylum applications — the first time the US government has charged for the form — as well as an 83% fee increase for the naturalization form, according to a proposed rule issued in the Federal Register late in the afternoon. US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS) — Unless you’ve driven down the tight-quartered Collier Avenue, or have looked down over the South Slope from a third- or fourth-story window, you may not realize how many large trees take up the half-acre parcel of land between Collier and Coxe Avenue, just south
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A pedestrian was struck by a truck in Wheeling, West Virginia, on Thursday morning and then dragged by another vehicle for several miles, police said. Wheeling police were dispatched at 6:36 a.m. for a report of a pickup truck hitting a pedestrian in the Warwood neighborhood, according to a news release from the department. But
Continue Reading The preparation of donor breast milk has been linked to the deaths of three babies at a Pennsylvania hospital, officials said Friday. Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, about 70 miles north of Harrisburg, discovered the infection in July. The infection was caused by the pseudomonas bacteria, which grows in water. Three babies died and
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Right-wing social media accounts have been widely sharing two photographs that they claim show the whistleblower at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and prove that the whistleblower is biased against Trump and hopelessly untrustworthy. In fact, the pictures show nothing of the sort. But that hasn’t stopped the images from
Continue Reading Two former executives are suing G/O Media, the parent company of sites including Gizmodo, Deadspin and The Onion, alleging discrimination and negligence. Both lawsuits detail discrimination personally faced or witnessed by the plaintiffs from Jim Spanfeller, who became CEO of G/O Media in April after private equity firm Great Hill acquired Gizmodo Media Group. Michael
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BERNALILLO, New Mexico — Centennial High School lost 2-0 to top ranked Volcano Vista Friday afternoon in the New Mexico Athletic Association 5A State Soccer championship game. The loss ended a remarkable season as the Lady Hawks finished 21-1-2 overall. Centennial was seeded #2 in the tournament. The team is coached by Alex Reyes who led the
Continue Reading Elon Musk and investor David Einhorn, one of Tesla’s toughest critics, ratcheted up the rhetoric Friday as the two billionaires traded jabs in a long-running battle of words. The latest round started early Friday, when Musk posted a snarky tweet responding to earlier comments from Einhorn accusing him of fraud. In a shareholder letter last
Continue Reading Emily Cunningham, a user experience designer, is just one of 750,000 people who work for Amazon. Like most rank-and-file employees in corporate America, she doesn’t have a direct line to the CEO; nor does she usually have much sway over what the company does. But Cunningham does own more than $2,000 in Amazon stock, and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENSBORO, NC (WGHP) — A 16-year-old Western Guilford High School student is in the hospital after an explosion in her chemistry class Wednesday. “Please pray for our beautiful daughter Aimee Green. She was in chemistry today, and the teacher was doing an experiment. It went badly and exploded.
Continue Reading President Donald Trump made an extensive pitch to African American voters Friday at a campaign event in Atlanta launching the Black Voices for Trump coalition, reprising his 2016 argument that Democrats have done little for the African American community and arguing they are too focused on things like impeachment to work on its behalf. “The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS) — The day before she takes the stage in High Point, Madeline Delp gave us a preview of the flowing red gown she’ll wear at the Miss North Carolina USA Pageant, which takes place Friday and Saturday. If she wins, she’d become the first wheelchair
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CAPRON, VA (WTKR) — “U.S. Marine Corps/Where you at Coast Guard/Left, left/ Left, right left,” chanted inmates inside Deerfield Correctional Center. Members of the Incarcerated Veterans Chapter at the state prison in Capron kicked off the ceremony with a head-turning drill. “We are unified,” the men yell out.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JAMES CITY Co., VA (WTKR) — Based on revealing court documents, two Belk employees were doing much more than checking out customers at a store in James City County. Police said 36-year-old Tamniqua Fields admitted to stealing roughly $30,000 worth of merchandise from the store inside the Windsormeade
Continue Reading Facebook and YouTube said Friday that they were removing content that mentioned the potential name of the whistleblower whose complaint sparked an impeachment probe into President Trump. “Any mention of the potential whistleblower’s name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content ‘outing of witness, informant, or activist,’” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.
Continue Reading A New York-based technology company sold Chinese-made surveillance equipment to the US government while falsely claiming the products were made in the United States — a scheme that directly undermined national security, federal prosecutors have alleged. Aventura Technologies, based in the Long Island town of Commack, for years sold surveillance cameras and other equipment used
Continue Reading Donald Trump has had a week! Transcripts of closed-door testimony from a series of witnesses in front of the House Intelligence Committee seem to affirm the idea that a quid pro quo was in place between the US and Ukraine. He was ordered by a judge in New York to pay $2 million as restitution
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