Thasunda Brown Duckett officially took the helm as the new CEO of TIAA on Saturday, becoming the fourth Black woman ever to head a Fortune 500 company. Her new position is noteworthy for a number of reasons. Duckett and Walgreens’ new CEO Rosalind Brewer, who left Starbucks in March, are the only two Black women
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Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WLOS) — A bill to raise the minimum age to get married from age 14 to 18 has been halted in North Carolina’s General Assembly, despite bipartisan support. North Carolina and Alaska are the only two remaining states that allow 14-year-olds to marry, and North
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say a wanted suspect has been arrested with an illegally modified semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine. On Thursday at 7:20 p.m., detectives and officers located 20-year-old Marquise Brazile in the area of North Hunt Street and North Dana Avenue. The Enhanced Community
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With the coronavirus pandemic spiraling out of control in India and other developing regions, the United States this week committed to sharing 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with other countries. But that’s a drop in the bucket. The US has bought or contracted to buy more than 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines.
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Lance Bass wants in on Justin Timberlake’s “It’s Gonna Be May” meme. The former *NSYNC member posted a video on TikTok of him dancing to the boy band’s song “It’s Going To Be Me.” In the caption, Bass made a nod to International Dance Day and called on his followers to use his dance video
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Officers are investigating an overnight double murder shooting of two juveniles near 8th and Olive. Around 11:30 p.m., officers were called to 8th and Olive on sound of gunshots. When they arrived at the scene, two victims were located outside of their apartment.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A string of shootings across St. Louis left one person dead and several others wounded within a six-hour span. The first shooting happened before 10:30 p.m. Friday in the 4300 block of Gibson where a man was shot in the arm. One hour later,
Continue Reading Summer is around the corner, but anyone who is looking forward to a refreshing dip in the pool to cool off may be in for a big “shock.” A chlorine shortage may make it more difficult for pool owners to buy the sanitizing tabs. Chlorine supplies are running low due to a fire at a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EAST ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A MetroBus driver is being honored for his heroic actions Wednesday. Bus driver Nick was driving along his route in East St. Louis when he spotted a toddler sitting in alone in a field near a gated subdivision. Feeling uneasy, he pumped the
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(CNN Español) — Este sábado, la alcaldesa de Bogotá, Claudia Lopez informó a través de su cuenta verificada de Twitter que se ha retirado a todo el ESMAD de la ciudad para garantizar el retorno de las personas a sus casas. Colombia lleva varios días de protesta en diferentes ciudades por la propuesta de reforma
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police say a 15-month-old girl is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a vehicle in northeast Portland on Friday. At 3:50 p.m., officers were dispatched to a report of an injury crash outside a home in the 2200 block of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Police are looking for a person caught in surveillance video firing a gun through a southeast Portland homeowner’s front door. The shooting happened Tuesday, but Michael Posson, the homeowner, says he didn’t notice the bullet hole until early Thursday morning. He says that’s when
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (SAR) team said it rescued four climbers that became stuck early Friday morning in the Columbia River Gorge. The sheriff’s office said it received a call just after midnight on Friday of the climbers that
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Republicans have seized on a recent claim that former Secretary of State John Kerry told Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about Israeli strikes on Iranian interests in Syria. Zarif made the allegation in leaked audio, a claim which, if true, would undermine the US relationship with Israel. Though Kerry has flatly denied that any such
Continue Reading Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. Space missions provide us with an incredible gift beyond knowledge: perspective. More color photos taken by the Ingenuity helicopter this week revealed what it looks like to fly on Mars, with the Perseverance rover making a cameo. It’s astounding to think of a 4-pound rotorcraft
Continue Reading For more than a week, protesters have marched in the streets of a small, quaint, North Carolina city that has been rocked by the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. Civil rights leaders and attorneys have converged on Elizabeth City demanding answers and justice after Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office deputies fatally shot Brown and the
Continue Reading The Rev. Calvin Skinner has given hundreds of sermons, but he says this past Sunday’s felt more urgent than ever. “The city of Knoxville has hit its boiling point,” he told CNN. “The case of Anthony Thompson Jr. really solidifies this feeling that enough is enough.” Thompson, 17, was fatally shot by police when officers
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Three Colorado officers who laughed at body camera footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia are “no longer employed” by the department, Loveland Police Chief Robert Ticer said Friday. Karen Garner was arrested in June for walking out of a Walmart with $13.88 worth of items, according to a federal lawsuit
Continue Reading (CNN) — Aquí antes había una zona de construcción ruidosa. Ahora parece un pueblo fantasma, congelado en el tiempo. La maquinaria pesada se encuentra estacionada e inmóvil. Montones de bolardos de acero se extienden hasta donde alcanza la vista. El gobierno de Trump construyó más de 724 kilómetros de vallas a lo largo de la
Continue Reading The door was open and a “frail little voice” called out for the brothers to come inside. Sitting in a medical lifting chair was their mother, a woman in her late 80s who Martin Hauser had never known. After 30 years searching for his biological family, Hauser, 59, finally got to meet his birth mother
Continue Reading With the coronavirus pandemic spiraling out of control in India and other developing regions, the United States this week committed to sharing 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with other countries. But that’s a drop in the bucket. The US has bought or contracted to buy more than 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines.
Continue Reading Forget the Oscars. If you’re looking for star power — in the business world, at least — it doesn’t get any bigger than Warren Buffett, and he’ll be live from Los Angeles on Saturday for the latest Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting. For the second year in a row, the meeting will be virtual because
Continue Reading In the hills above Sarajevo, thousands of uniform white headstones line the slopes, marking the graves of just some of the victims of the Bosnian War. They’re a constant reminder of the bloody conflict in the early 1990s that claimed the lives of around 100,000 people. This city, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was
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The economy is on the path to recovery but it’s still far from repaired. Yet investors and economists are already worried it might be growing too fast. Here’s what experts actually mean when they talk about the “overheating” economy. Just over a year ago, the US economy faced its worst downturn on record as businesses
Continue Reading Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway returned to profitability in the first quarter of this year after reporting a nearly $50 billion loss during the first quarter of 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Berkshire Hathaway, a sprawling conglomerate that owns companies ranging from the Geico insurance giant and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to well-known consumer
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Cricket fan Shitu Anand Patil has recently recovered from Covid-19. She’s also acutely aware of the suffering families in India are gripped by amid an overwhelming surge in coronavirus infections. Those circumstances explain the unease she has sometimes been feeling while watching the Indian Premier League (IPL), the country’s most lucrative sporting competition which has
Continue Reading Eli Broad, an entrepreneur and businessman known for creating two billion-dollar businesses and establishing the iconic Broad Museum in Los Angeles, has died at the age of 87, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation said Friday. “As a businessman, Eli saw around corners, as a philanthropist he saw the problems in the world and tried
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British artist L.S. Lowry’s “Going to the Match” painting is expected to sell at auction for up to $4 million in June, Sotheby’s auction house said on Friday. “‘Going to the Match’ is among the earliest known, if not the earliest, depiction of one of L.S. Lowry’s most iconic and timeless subjects — that of
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El Paso, Texas- The spring pattern returns to the Borderland. We’ll get a break from strong winds today, but gusty winds will return for Sunday. The biggest threat for tomorrow will be the increase in fire danger, blowing dust and strong winds. Today however, winds will be from the west to southwest 5-15 MPH. Clear
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A special election in Texas on Saturday features a sprawling field of Republicans and Democrats competing for the US House seat formerly held by the late GOP Rep. Ron Wright, who died in February after contracting Covid-19. Candidates from both parties are competing on the same ballot, with 23 candidates in total, including 11 Republicans
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