Five Below wants to win more teen shoppers with novelty stores and cheap prices. The toy, game, room decoration and tech accessory store targets teens and tweens as its key customers and sells most of its stuff for — as its name suggests — under $5. It said Wednesday that it will open 170 to
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Sintoniza CNN el jueves a las 3 pm ET para ver la entrevista exclusiva completa de Christiane Amanpour con el expresidente de Brasil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. (CNN) — El expresidente de Brasil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hizo un llamado al presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, para que garantice la equidad de
Continue Reading Londres (CNN) — El regulador de medicamentos de la Unión Europea ha llegado a la conclusión de que la vacuna Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 es segura de usar después de que varios países de la UE suspendieron sus lanzamientos tras informes de que podría estar relacionada con coágulos de sangre. La directora ejecutiva de la Agencia Europea
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The FBI released on Thursday several new video clips of violence toward police during the Capitol riot, as investigators continue their hunt for suspects. The videos — showing graphic moments of rioters beating police with metal poles, stolen shields and chemical sprays — highlight some of the more shocking moments from the riot, such as
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Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — While we live through this pandemic, there’s one epidemic that’s taken a backseat: veterinarians are taking their lives at alarming rates. It’s a trend spanning three decades and professionals in the field want it to stop. Including Dr. Erin Howard, DVM, a veterinarian for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its elephants’ arrival from Swaziland, in South Africa, with an announcement that the herd is growing — by one. Dennis Pate, zoo president and CEO, announced Thursday morning that hormone work with
Continue Reading There has been a marked rise in anti-Asian violence across the United States, an issue that once again rattled a community on edge after the Tuesday mass shooting deaths of eight people at spas in the Atlanta area, six of whom were Asian women. Police have said it is too early to know the shooter’s
Continue Reading A coalition tracking reports of racism and discrimination against Asian Americans says it has received at least 3,795 firsthand complaints since last year. Stop AAPI Hate began tracking violence and harassment against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on March 19 last year. From then through the end of 2020, Stop AAPI Hate received a total
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — Hands On Nashville is looking for medical volunteers to help out at this Saturday’s mass vaccination event at Nissan Stadium. The group says they are looking for volunteers with active medical licenses who can help administer vaccines. If you are qualified and interested in helping
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Low-dose aspirin may help protect the lungs and reduce the need to put patients on ventilators, researchers reported Wednesday. The cheap and widely available pills also keep patients out of ICUs and can reduce the risk of death, probably by preventing tiny blood clots, a team at George Washington University reported in a study published
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COLLINSVILLE, Illinois (KMOV) — A local 11-year-old is making history with IKEA! Nick, a 5th grader in Collinsville, was one of over 66,000 children from around the world to submit a drawing for IKEA’s Soft Toy Drawing Competition. Out of all the entries, IKEA selected five unique drawings,
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A former chief of Washington, DC’s police force on Thursday condemned Sen. Ron Johnson after the Wisconsin Republican last week suggested that he would have felt less safe during the January 6 Capitol riot if the protesters supported the Black Lives Matter movement and Antifa instead of being largely White. “Sen. Johnson is clearly part
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Two of the Biden administration’s top national security officials will sit down with their Chinese counterparts Thursday — a key first meeting in the relationship that the US secretary of state has called “the biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century.” Secretary of State Tony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, China’s foreign affairs chief
Continue Reading Tran Wills couldn’t talk Wednesday about the shootings at Atlanta spas a day earlier without breaking down sobbing. “I saw myself in these women,” she said. “I feel I have been screaming about hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans from the beginning of the pandemic, and no one was listening.” Many Asian-American and Asian
Continue Reading Peloton is warning owners to keep their children away from their treadmills after an accident involving its Tread+ in which a child died. CEO John Foley sent a letter to Tread+ owners Thursday, saying the warning comes after a “tragic accident involving a child and the Tread+, resulting in, unthinkably, a death.” He didn’t reveal
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) raided another illegal game room, this time in Wai’anae. HPD says a dozen gambling machines were seized Tuesday afternoon. The Narcotics/Vice Division with the assistance of the District 8 Crime Reduction Unit and Specialized Services Division executed the search. To
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Five Below wants to win more teen shoppers with novelty stores and cheap prices. The toy, game, room decoration and tech accessory store targets teens and tweens as its key customers and sells most of its stuff for — as its name suggests — under $5. It said Wednesday that it will open 170 to
Continue Reading Alexi McCammond is out as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue before she officially started the job, she and the magazine’s owner announced Thursday. The announcement of her appointment to the job had sparked outrage from the publication’s staffers and readers as well as some celebrities because of anti-Asian tweets she posted a decade ago. “I became
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We first heard the sounds of Martian wind and a laser zapping rocks on Mars. Now, the Perseverance rover has returned audio of itself driving across the Martian surface. Every new sound sent back by the rover is an exciting first because none of the previous missions to Mars have carried microphones. As the rover’s
Continue Reading Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, the country’s vice president announced in a televised address on Wednesday. He was 61. “President John Magufuli died of a heart ailment that he has battled for over 10 years,” Samia Suluhu Hassan said. She added that the president had been receiving
Continue Reading At least two of the eight people killed at Atlanta-area Asian massage spas Tuesday lived in the same spa where they worked, Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said. “This one fact alone highlights the vulnerability, the invisibility, and the isolation of working-class Asian women in our country,” Nguyen said at a Thursday news conference. “When
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WASHINGTON, DC — Otero County Commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin has pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges stemming from the U.S. Capitol siege on Jan. 6, NBC station WRC-TV in Washington reported Thursday. New Mexico county commissioner Couy Griffin has pleaded NOT GUILTY to charge in connection with US Capitol
Continue Reading President Joe Biden has ordered the American flags at the White House and on other federal ground be flown at half-staff as “a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence” in Atlanta this week. The shooting rampage on Tuesday took place at three different Atlanta-area spas — one in Cherokee
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MONMOUTH, Iowa (WQAD) — A couple from Monmouth, Iowa was ready to retire as pastors at their church at the end of 2020. But they haven’t slowed down one bit. “If it wasn’t for them, probably would have been closed by now,” says parishioners Connie Bonney. “Instead of
Continue Reading The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send millions of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses stockpiled and waiting for official usage approval in the US over the border to Mexico and Canada, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. “I can confirm that we have 7 million releasable doses available of AstraZeneca,” Psaki said at
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — La secretaria de Prensa de la Casa Blanca, Jen Psaki, confirmó el jueves que Estados Unidos tiene 7 millones de dosis listas de la vacuna covid-19 de AstraZeneca, y que Estados Unidos está trabajando para finalizar los planes para prestar 2,5 millones de dosis a México y 1,5 millones a Canadá. Se
Continue Reading Top Republicans in the House have repeatedly clashed with US Capitol security officials during closed-door meetings in recent weeks, as GOP lawmakers have privately aired their frustrations about the lack of clarity surrounding security measures and what they feel has been undue political influence from Democrats over the decision-making process, according to several sources familiar
Continue Reading Five Below wants to win more teen shoppers with novelty stores and cheap prices. The toy, game, room decoration and tech accessory store targets teens and tweens as its key customers and sells most of its stuff for — as its name suggests — under $5. It said Wednesday that it will open 170 to
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Facts 192 parties have ratified the protocol (191 states and one regional economic integration organization). The United States has not; it dropped out in 2001. The protocol mandated that 37 industrialized
Continue Reading Seven sandbar sharks now swim the waters of the New York Aquarium at Coney Island. Their new digs are definitely more spacious than their previous home — a New York man’s above-ground pool. Joshua Seguine, 40, is facing a $5,000 fine for illegal possession with intent to sell seven sandbar sharks, according to a statement
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