Click here for updates on this story Newton (WCVB) — An off-duty police officer sprang into action when a crime unfolded right in front of him. The entire incident was caught on camera. A robber is seen on surveillance video demanding the clerk at a Massachusetts convenience store open his register. The thief didn’t know
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Troops have been deployed to India’s ethnically diverse northeastern states of Assam and Tripura, amid violent protests against the passing of a controversial and far-reaching law that offers a path to Indian citizenship for non-Muslim minorities from three neighboring countries. The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was approved by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Minneapolis (WCCO) — The Minnesota State Services for the Blind creates textbooks in braille for students across the state. One textbook can cost $25 thousand to produce in a braille format. But those expensive master copies are currently vulnerable and not backed up. In one year, Minnesota State
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(CNN Business) — Las acciones de Saudi Aramco se dispararon al alza el jueves, convirtiendo al gran productor estatal de petróleo en la primera compañía de US$ 2 billones del mundo y logrando la valuación buscada por el Príncipe heredero Mohammed bin Salman. La acción ganó 10% por segundo día consecutivo, alcanzando 38,70 riales (US$
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Tres soldados resultaron levemente heridos en una explosión en Cubará en el departamento de Boyacá en Colombia, confirmaron a CNN fuentes del Ejército y del Ministerio de Defensa de ese país. Los atacantes hicieron estallar el coche bomba y lanzaron artefactos explosivos en una via cerca de una brigada militar donde delegados
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Minneapolis (WCCO) — The Minnesota State Services for the Blind creates textbooks in braille for students across the state. One textbook can cost $25 thousand to produce in a braille format. But those expensive master copies are currently vulnerable and not backed up. In one year, Minnesota State
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Denver (KCNC) — The holidays can be tough for those who can’t be with loved ones, including those who are serving time behind bars. The Denver Sheriff’s Office said there is a rise in depression among inmates during the holidays, so they launched a program using holiday greeting
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Brockton (WBZ) — A driver was trapped after going airborne and crashing into a Brockton home late Wednesday night. It happened around 11:30 p.m. on Centre Street. The multi-family home has two apartments. Four people were home at the time of the crash. None were injured. Brockton Fire
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Decatur (WGCL) — Family and friends are mourning the loss of Willie Mae Hardy, a Decatur resident who passed away Wednesday night at age 111. She was one of the state’s oldest living residents, being born in 1908 in Junction City, Georgia. She was the oldest of seven
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Polk County (WLOS) — Authorities now say five of six horses injured or killed in the upstate of South Carolina and in Polk County this fall were attacked by wild boars. A joint investigation conducted by numerous law enforcement agencies in the Upstate, including the South Carolina Law
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The Peloton wife has spoken, and from now on, she’d like to be known as anything but the star of the ad that exploded the internet’s collective brains. Actress Monica Ruiz sat with “Today” host Hoda Kotb to finally address the infamous commercial that became a cultural phenomenon coinciding with a massive tank in Peloton
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Cancer was the last thing on NBC correspondent Kristen Dahlgren’s mind. Dahlgren shared her story Wednesday with “Today” and said she believed she was low risk. “I’m in my 40s. I’m active,” she said. “I don’t have a family history of anyone getting breast cancer early — and perhaps most importantly, in April I had
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The Hubble Space Telescope had a front row seat to capture the best and closest image to date of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, a visitor that originated from outside of our solar system. On Sunday, the comet passed within 190 million miles of Earth on its closest approach before continuing on through our solar system. As
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas – A former Socorro Independent School District superintendent is being held on $50,000 bond on federal corruption and conspiracy charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. Sylvia P. Atkinson, 48, currently the vice president of the Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees, was indicted by a
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Carlos Alberto Montaner es escritor y analista político de CNN. Sus columnas se publican en decenas de diarios de España, Estados Unidos y América Latina. Montaner es, además, vicepresidente de la Internacional Liberal. (CNN Español) — Los congresistas demócratas, con el visto bueno de algunos republicanos, han decidido tratar de revocar el
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“Surviving R. Kelly” had a such an impact that Lifetime is airing a sequel. The original six-hour docuseries scored more than 26 million viewers and renewed interest in allegations of sexual misconduct by the singer. In it several of Kelly’s alleged victims and their families shared their stories. The Grammy-winning artist has vehemently denied multiple
Continue Reading Forty-seven men accused of homosexuality are standing trial in a Nigerian court, their lawyer and a rights group told CNN. The men, who say they are innocent of the charges, appeared in court on Thursday. They are among the group of 57 men arrested by the police in a raid on a hotel in Lagos
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El informe final de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos – CIDH- sobre el secuestro y posterior asesinato en 2018 de tres miembros de un equipo periodístico de El Comercio, de Ecuador, fue revelado este jueves en Washington. El documento concluye que hubo descoordinación y falta de prevención frente al riesgo en
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Montana (Billings Gazette) — News stations owned by Cowles Montana Media were “hit across the board” Sunday night in a cyber attack that continued to block access Wednesday to companywide operating software, their president said. About 10 news stations owned by the company, including KULR8 in Billings, are
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to spend trillions of dollars on education, child care, green energy and health care. She argues that these proposals will supercharge the economy, boosting growth and wages. And she plans to pay for it all with a bevy of taxes on the wealthy, Wall Street and corporations. Most of her assertions
Continue Reading The principal’s voice piped through the PA system at Wilbur Cross High School with a startling announcement. ICE had detained a student. “Everyone was worried and asking around,” says Sandy Martinez-Paz, a 17-year-old junior at the school. “We wanted to know who it was.” Students later learned that Mario Aguilar, an 18-year-old who enrolled in
Continue Reading Despite a petition calling for his removal, Michael Vick will serve as the NFL’s honorary Pro Bowl captain this year, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said. More than 560,000 people signed a Change.org petition to bar Vick from serving as a captain, a role that would see him mentor players and coach from the sidelines. But
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The White House held a summit on child care and paid leave on Thursday, an issue first daughter and senior presidential adviser Ivanka Trump has carried the torch on since President Donald Trump took office. “We have come together today because we have a historic chance to pass paid family leave and childcare reform so
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Likely Democratic primary voters in California are about evenly split among the top three candidates — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — in the race for the Democratic nomination, while Texas Democrats tend to favor Biden, the nationwide frontrunner, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in two of the largest early
Continue Reading The world needs to reach “peak meat” within the next 10 years to combat the effects of climate change, scientists have warned. In a letter to The Lancet Planetary Health Journal, they said all but the poorest countries needed to set a time frame for livestock production to stop growing, since the meat and dairy
Continue Reading PGA golfer Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey was among more than 100 people arrested over a six-day sex crime sting in Florida. Gainey, 44, was charged with soliciting a prostitute, a misdemeanor in Florida, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. Gainey was released on $500 bond, according to Polk County jail records. The undercover operation into
Continue Reading When she was 24, Emanuela Marinelli was walking near the Vatican in Rome when she caught a glimpse of a “beautiful face of Christ” printed on a souvenir in the window of a shop run by nuns. The image, she said, stood out among the other items for sale — a kitschy array of ashtrays
Continue Reading In a year when the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen almost 20%, shattering one record after another, some newly public companies have been left in the cold. Uber, Lyft and Slack all struggled due to questions about when (or if?) they will turn a profit. Beyond Meat and Peloton have endured some growing pains,
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los usuarios de Google en Estados Unidos tuvieron muchas preguntas sobre la presión arterial, la dieta cetogénica y el hipo en 2019. Esos temas se encontraban entre las 10 preguntas más buscadas relacionadas con la salud en el motor de búsqueda este año, según nuevos datos de Google. La lista se basó en
Continue Reading Do you bathe in milk, gobble up kimchi or dress in getups straight out of the ’80s? If you don’t, you might soon — Facebook predicts those trends could go global in 2020. For its 2020 Topic and Trends Report, Facebook collected country-specific topics users in 13 countries had shared that it says could become
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