Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WCCO) — A mother and daughter are home, together, after a terrifying morning. A man stole their car with the 4-year-old in the back seat. “I literally felt like I was watching a horror movie, but I was living it,” said Jannah Almalki. Jannah never imagined
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A top Pentagon career official overseeing Ukraine policy, who testified to House impeachment investigators that former US special envoy to Ukraine told her Ukrainian officials were alarmed that US security aid was being held up, is set to testify publicly Wednesday as the probe rounds out the second week of its public chapter. Laura Cooper,
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Lebanon’s parliament has been postponed after demonstrators blocked roads and prevented politicians from arriving for a first session since protests erupted across the country last month. Tuesday’s parliamentary session was delayed indefinitely “in light of the current extraordinary circumstances,” according to a statement by Adnan Daher, the Secretary-General of the House of Representatives. This is
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LATROBE, Pa (KDKA) — A local couple lost $18,000 after scammers claimed to be with the federal government and used specific information to drain the couple’s bank account. On Friday, Phyllis Hood received a call from people claiming to be United States Department of the Treasury employees. They
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROCKLIN, CA (KOVR) — A picture may say a thousand words but the photos of security camera footage from a home in Rocklin have sparked a thousand questions. CBS13 has decided to blur the faces of the individuals in these photos since Rocklin Police say no police report
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JOHNSON COUNTY, AR (KFSM) — One person has been arrested in Johnson County after being found with illegal weapons and narcotics in his vehicle on I-40. According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department, during the early morning hours of Sunday (Nov. 17) a deputy pulled over a vehicle
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Lawsuits against e-cigarette maker Juul were filed this week by the states of California and New York, two Washington state counties and a school district for allegedly targeting minors. The lawsuits claim Juul’s advertising campaigns target young people to use nicotine without knowing the associated risks by enticing them with flavor pods. Juul spokesman Austin
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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has launched a new mid-range restaurant chain just six months after his UK dining empire collapsed. Two of his restaurants in Southeast Asia — one in Bali, the other in Bangkok — will adopt a new all day dining format. They will be called Jamie Oliver Kitchen and will be partly
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The dream of boarding an electric commercial passenger airplane and flying from A to B with minimal carbon emissions has taken a step closer to reality with the announcement of a new aircraft that could be operational within three years. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS) said Monday it is working on developing the UK’s first all-electric
Continue Reading Germany’s Green Party has placed the power to debate directly into the hands of women. A new ruling, adopted at the party’s conference in Bielefeld, which ran from Friday to Sunday, stipulates that its female members have the right to decide whether a debate continues in the event of gender imbalance among its speakers. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — The Portland Police Bureau is investigating how someone hacked into a Portland restaurant’s phone system, changing the greeting to contain a hateful, anti-Semitic message. Shalom Y’all has been in business for two years. Over the weekend, restaurant owners say their phones were hacked not
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EL PASO, Texas — Authorities executed a search warrant at a house in east El Paso in connection with an “alien smuggling” investigation, according to a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It happened Tuesday just after 6 a.m. in the 11900 block of Royal Woods Drive. ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa told ABC-7 that several
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (WTKR) — 62-year-old Felix Rodriguez is not letting the loss of both legs stop him from anything he wants to achieve. He is a diabetic and lost his leg years ago. Then, an accident at a construction job took his other leg. News 3 first
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa (WPMT) — As part of his effort to combat bullying and its damaging effects, state Rep. Kyle Mullins, D-Lackawanna, today announced a bipartisan anti-bullying proposal. He was joined by state Rep. Torren Ecker, R-Adams/Cumberland, and state Rep. Brandon Markosek, D-Allegheny, who are co-sponsors of the
Continue Reading A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet. Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JEFF HAMBURGER (WGNO) — The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested two Slidell residents after it was learned they were manufacturing counterfeit currency. Detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office were executing a search warrant at a residence on Ninth Street in Slidell when they found
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He’s a World Cup winner and one of Spain’s most celebrated footballers, but Gerard Pique hopes to avoid an own goal in his controversial $3 billion revamp of tennis’ Davis Cup that began in front of a less than packed house in Madrid this week. The Barcelona defender’s investment company Kosmos has signed a 25-year
Continue Reading Two of Neptune’s innermost moons perform a strange dance to avoid each other that is weird and completely unique compared to all known orbits, according to new research. Naiad and Thalassa, both tiny Tic Tac-shaped moons around Neptune, are only about 1,150 miles apart. While Naiad completes an orbit around Neptune every seven hours, Thalassa
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If you thought the situation for Manchester United on the pitch was troubling, fans looking for consolation in the club’s financial situation may want to look away now. While rivals Manchester City showed record revenues this year of $692.4 million, the eleventh consecutive year of growth under the ownership of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin
Continue Reading The Taliban has released two Western professors who had been held hostage for the past three years in exchange for three high-ranking militants, in a prisoner swap that could pave the way for renewed peace talks. US citizen Kevin King and Australian citizen Timothy Weeks were forcibly removed from a vehicle while traveling in Kabul
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(CNN) — Una mujer de Australia recibió 25 puntos de sutura en la cara y estuvo a punto de perder un ojo tras ser atacada por un canguro cuando ésta paseaba a su perro. El ataque ocurrió cerca de un conocido sendero en la ciudad de Wodonga, en el estado de Victoria, según 9News, canal
Continue Reading Strolling about the 330 acres of Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia is like stepping back in time. Or into the future. It just depends on what production is happening on the lot at the moment. When Perry opened the sprawling development last month, complete with 12 sound stages and a scaled down version of
Continue Reading With so much else getting rebooted and revived, a “Mad About You” reunion series is hardly shocking. What’s perhaps most surprising is seeing the one-time NBC hit relegated to an out-of-the-way spot on Spectrum, the cable distributor, where this amiable but disposable vanity project is likely to garner more media attention (hence this review) than
Continue Reading Google is calling on Texas’s attorney general to hand over a vast trove of internal documents and communications related to a multi-state antitrust probe of the tech giant, including any information supplied to regulators by Texas’s outside consultants and Google’s chief critics and rivals. In a sweeping public records request earlier this month, Google asked
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Video of a prison fight involving Jake Patterson, the Wisconsin man who kidnapped Jayme Closs after killing her parents, has been released by the New Mexico Corrections Department. The August fight was sparked by a fellow inmate asking Patterson about his crimes, a release from the department said. Patterson received two life sentences in May
Continue Reading Fewer international students are coming to the United States. That’s hurting American universities and the economy. The continued decline in international student enrollment since the fall of 2016 has cost the US economy $11.8 billion and more than 65,000 jobs, according to estimates from NAFSA: Association of International Educators, an international association of professional educators.
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Mötley Crüe is reuniting. The band has officially confirmed they are getting back together after what was supposed to be their final show on New Year’s Eve in 2015. In a statement posted on the group’s website, they said that due to the success of “The Dirt,” the band biopic starring Machine Gun Kelly, they
Continue Reading A Southern California woman who was wounded in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting has died, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Coroner Department said. Kimberly Gervais, 57, of Mira Loma, California, was one of the more than 500 people injured when Stephen Paddock opened fire from his hotel room on the Route 9 Harvest Music
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As prepared for delivery: Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member, thank you for the opportunity to address the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with respect to the activities relating to Ukraine and my role in the events under investigation. Background I have dedicated my entire professional life to the United States of America. For more
Continue Reading James “Jimmy” Finkelstein, the owner of The Hill newspaper, is not a widely known media executive, but he is one of the era’s most consequential. Finkelstein resides at the nexus of President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and John Solomon, the now-former executive at The Hill and current Fox News contributor who pushed conspiracy theories about Ukraine into the public conversation.
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