Wherever Robert Lewandowski goes, records seem to follow him. This season, the Polish striker has a goalscoring streak that would make even the eyes of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo water. Against Red Star on Tuesday, Lewandowski scored the fastest Champions League quadruple in history, bagging four goals in just 14 minutes and 31 seconds
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It’s not just humans that are left or right-handed. Animals also show a clear preference for what scientists call “lateralized behavior.” Reindeer herds tend to circle in a counter-clockwise direction; giraffes move their left leg first when splaying their legs; chimpanzees and gorillas show a significant right-hand bias, while orangutans show the opposite. Now, scientists
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In some 911 calls, fake story lines and impromptu acting could avert tragedy. When an Ohio woman called 911 to say her mother’s boyfriend was on a violent tirade, she couldn’t risk letting the man hear who she was talking to. Instead, she pretended to order a pizza and used code words until the 911
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(CNN Español) – Parlamentarios de España, Argentina y Costa Rica participaron en una reunión este martes en la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela presidida por Juan Guaidó, quien es reconocido como presidente encargado del país por más de 50 países. En el marco de lo que denominaron como “Encuentro Parlamentario Mundial” se sumaron a la sesión parlamentaria
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Click here for updates on this story EUGENE, OR (KPTV) — A Chinese national pleaded guilty Tuesday to smuggling hundreds of endangered turtles out of the U.S. and into China. Xiao Dong Qin, 34, of Shanghai, directed an unindicted co-conspirator in Eugene to buy more than 300 live turtles from reptile dealers in Alabama, California,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Officials with pipeline owner/operator Kinder Morgan told the Dona Ana County Commission on Tuesday that they are still working to find the cause of a massive oil spill that happened last year near the city of Anthony. Officials did say corrosion played a part. On Dec. 13th, 2018, officials discovered
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The top State Department official overseeing US policy in Europe and Eurasia, Philip Reeker, testified last month before House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry in a closed-door deposition. The transcript of that testimony, which was released Tuesday, is here: cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/philip-reeker-closed-door-testimony/index.html
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (KPTM) — Reviews can make or break a company but what if the tables turned? One woman in Blair is speaking out about a letter she received in the mail from a local dermatologist in Omaha. Bria Haye says she took her son to Dr. Herschel
Continue Reading The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to compel them to comply with subpoenas issued as part of their investigation into the Trump administration’s push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. In the 85-page filing, the committee said the suit
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Migrant families have sent approximately 135 children across the US-Mexico border alone after waiting in squalid and unsafe conditions in Mexico as a result of a Trump administration policy. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told CNN it has identified approximately 135 children in their custody who previously arrived at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (WTKR) — Think you can’t live without heat for one cold day? Try four years, which is exactly how long Charles Wright had to endure the cold. Wright has a metal wood stove that he could not use in those four years. It was his
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The top State Department official overseeing US policy in Europe and Eurasia, Philip Reeker, testified last month before House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry in a closed-door deposition. The transcript of that testimony, which was released Tuesday, is below.
Continue Reading Mark Sandy, a senior career official at the Office of Management and Budget, testified earlier this month behind closed doors as part of the Democratic-led House impeachment inquiry. Read the full transcript of that deposition here: cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/mark-sandy-closed-door-testimony/index.html
Continue Reading The White House budget office’s first official action to withhold $250 million in Pentagon aid to Ukraine came on the evening of July 25, the same day President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on the phone, according to a House Budget Committee summary of the office’s documents. That withholding letter, which was
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AT&T and Microsoft have announced the next phase of a partnership that’s aimed at advancing development in two of the buzziest areas of tech: 5G and cloud computing. The companies inked an agreement in July to work together on innovations in 5G and cloud. 5G is next generation network technology that’s expected to change the
Continue Reading Mark Sandy, a senior career official at the Office of Management and Budget, testified earlier this month behind closed doors as part of the Democratic-led House impeachment inquiry. Read the full transcript of that deposition below:
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EAST MOLINE, IL (WQAD) — Even after Governor J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois State Board Of Education issued an “emergency action” to end isolated seclusion rooms, Amber Patz said she is waiting to see the change – not just be promised it. Her now 11-year-old son transferred from
Continue Reading Russia has deployed military forces to Libya that are “de-stabilizing” the North African country, a top State Department official warned Tuesday. David Schenker, the State Department’s assistant secretary for near eastern affairs, told reporters that Russia is deploying troops in “significant” numbers to support Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, whose Libyan National Army launched an April
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Ocala Ocala council election thrown into turmoil over winning candidate’s felony arrests By Quan McWil and Angel Kennedy The outcome of last week’s council election in Ocala was thrown into turmoil Tuesday amid a formal investigation by the city into whether the winning candidate might be ineligible to
Continue Reading Two daughters of the late Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland on Tuesday endorsed their father’s former staffer Harry Spikes, instead of Cummings’ widow, in the race to fill the congressman’s seat, The Washington Post reported. The congressman died in October and there is now a crowded race to fill his spot on Capitol Hill.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, CT (WFSB) — Veterinarians are reminding pet owners to keep their Thanksgiving feasts on their tables and not under them where pets can get them. Dr. Thomas Maley from the Animal Clinic of Milford said the holidays are a busy time for him and his staff. He
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Two of Disney’s most successful movie franchises are about to hit theaters again, and toymaker Hasbro needs people to buy as many related toys, figurines and games as they can to gain lost ground this holiday season. “Frozen 2” slides into theaters nationwide on Friday, and “Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker” will unleash the Force
Continue Reading President Donald Trump, facing the prospect of impeachment, met last week with Mark Penn, the former pollster and political strategist to Bill Clinton. Trump met with Penn in the Oval Office last Monday alongside Vice President Mike Pence and adviser Kellyanne Conway, two sources familiar with the meeting said. During the meeting, Penn went over
Continue Reading Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud released a letter to the university community Monday detailing his plans to improve campus security and well-being after a spate of racist incidents plagued the campus earlier this month. While a student was arrested last week in connection to some graffiti and four students were suspended in connection with using
Continue Reading House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Tuesday notifying him of public impeachment hearings next week and inviting the President and his counsel to participate, including asking questions of the witnesses. Read Nadler’s letter to Trump here: cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/nadler-trump-impeachment-invite/index.html
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man who police said attacked his wife over a three-day period, repeatedly beating her and “strangling the woman to the point she nearly lost consciousness,” has been released from jail on his own recognizance. Carlos Herrera was freed from the Dona Ana County Detention Center without having
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At least 23 people have been killed, several more are missing and hundreds have been injured after an earthquake struck Albania on Tuesday. The quake, which had a preliminary rating of 6.4 magnitude, hit the European nation at an approximate depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles) early Tuesday local time, according to the United States
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Army officials on Wednesday confirmed that an El Paso father accused of violently attacking and seriously injuring his two young boys and then running naked outside his home after getting high on LSD, is an active duty soldier at Fort Bliss. That word came one day after police said 26-year-old
Continue Reading An 11-year-old boy was shot and killed during a party in Cleveland, Ohio last Saturday, according to police, who are investigating the fatal shooting. Tyshaun Taylor was at a friend’s birthday party in an East Side apartment Saturday night when he was shot in the chest around 9:30 p.m., said Cleveland police Det. David Gallagher.
Continue Reading It was just a few weeks ago, on a sunny day in early October, when Ibrahim Hassan stood snapping photos of his children smiling with American soldiers in his hometown of Ras al-Ain. The regular US patrols gave the Kurdish construction worker a reassuring sense of security against the chaotic backdrop of Syria’s civil war.
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