No Model S or Model X cars on the Tesla assembly line is apparently no problem for investors. Friday Tesla revealed it did not build any of its two most expensive models, the Model S sedan and Model X SUV, in the first quarter. But it achieved a record number of deliveries of the less
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Click here for updates on this story CONEY ISLAND, New York (WABC) — After an 18-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, Coney Island amusement parks — including the iconic Luna Park and Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park — will be welcoming back guests starting Friday, April 9. There will be added safety restrictions, including
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico’s president now says he won’t get a Covid-19 vaccine because his doctors told him he still has a high level of antibodies from when he was infected in January. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday, “I have sufficient levels of antibodies and right now it isn’t indispensable for me to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story REXBURG, Idaho (East Idaho News) — A Rexburg man will spend time on probation after an illegal sexual relationship with a teenager. Trever Liebert, 24, was sentenced to three years probation after earlier pleading guilty to felony injury to a child. District Judge Steven Boyce handed down the
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CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. says renewed tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s western Darfur region has killed at least 40 people over three days. The clashes erupted between the Arab Rizeigat and Masalit tribes in Genena, the provincial capital of West Darfur province Saturday. It followed the deaths of two people from
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — A memorial has been installed, remembering the five cyclists killed just outside the Las Vegas Valley in December. The Ghost Bike memorial will be a permanent fixture of Downtown Summerlin. The memorial was unveiled in January, but was given its display in Downtown Summerlin
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WASHINGTON, DC — More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden is handling the sharply increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and approval of his efforts on larger immigration policy falls short of other top issues. That suggests it could be a weak point for the new administration.
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A rural Illinois bar opening event in February was linked to a Covid-19 outbreak of at least 46 cases, a school closure and the hospitalization of a long-term care facility resident, according to a United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. The Illinois Department of Public Health identified 29 individuals who tested positive
Continue Reading Thandiwe Newton wants her name back. The “Westworld” actress, who had been going by Thandie Newton, told British Vogue, “I’m taking back what’s mine.” Newton’s parents, a Zimbabewan princess and a lab technician from Cornwall, England, named her Thandiwe, which means beloved in Shona. However, as a Black girl in a Catholic school in Cornwall,
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Tulsa schools have a long shopping list of projects for when federal stimulus money makes it to Oklahoma. Teachers and administrators are thinking of ways to put the pandemic-plagued 2020-2021 academic year firmly in the rear view mirror by making schools better than they were before. “It’s so exciting,” said Ebony Johnson, chief learning officer
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A 4.0 magnitude earthquake jolted the Lennox area of Los Angeles County early Monday morning, about half an hour after a less intense tremor, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake was recorded at 4:44 a.m. PT (7:44 a.m. ET) and was 19.9 km deep. It followed a 2.5 temblor at 4:15 a.m.
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The Internal Revenue Service started sending what it calls “plus-up” payments last week to people who are owed a bigger stimulus check based on their actual 2020 income than they initially received. The original payments were based on 2018 or 2019 tax returns. That means people who earned less in 2020 could be owed more
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Desperate for money to finance a struggling presidential campaign, then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 team reportedly turned to fundraising tactics that duped donors into giving far more money than they intended or believed they were. That’s according to a blockbuster report in The New York Times over the weekend that describes the scheme this way: “Facing
Continue Reading Tulsa schools have a long shopping list of projects for when federal stimulus money makes it to Oklahoma. Teachers and administrators are thinking of ways to put the pandemic-plagued 2020-2021 academic year firmly in the rear-view mirror by making schools better than they were before. “It’s so exciting,” said Ebony Johnson, chief learning officer for
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — All New Mexicans age 16 or older who wish to be vaccinated against the coronavirus now have a chance to receive their shots, as Monday marked the start of expanded eligibility under the state Department of Health’s distribution plan. Young service industry employees from Las Cruces told ABC-7 that they
Continue Reading The doctor who treated George Floyd at the Hennepin County Medical Center last May testified Monday that he believed Floyd most likely died of asphyxia. Dr. Bradford Langenfeld, an emergency medicine physician, said he treated Floyd for about 30 minutes on May 25, 2020, as hospital staff unsuccessfully tried to restart his heart. Langenfeld went
Continue Reading Benjamin Netanyahu faced some of his biggest challenges to date, both legally and politically, in a historic split-screen day in Israel. Shortly after 9 a.m. on Monday, the Israeli Prime Minister entered the Jerusalem district courthouse for the evidentiary phase of his corruption trial. Sitting with a mask on, arms crossed and head tilted to
Continue Reading President Joe Biden recorded a video that will be played at naturalization ceremonies welcoming new US citizens in which he thanks them for choosing the United States and invokes his own ancestors who emigrated from Ireland. “I want to thank you for choosing us and believing that America is worthy of your aspirations,” Biden says.
Continue Reading Spring has arrived, and America’s services sector is positively booming. As some pandemic restrictions are relaxed and vaccines are put in more arms, pent-up consumer demand is getting released — and that’s helping economic activity in the services sector roar back, according to the Institute for Supply Management‘s monthly report. For March, the group’s index
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(CNN) — El Dr. Anthony Fauci, director del Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas, dijo en un episodio del podcast Politico Dispatch este lunes que no cree que el Gobierno sea el principal impulsor de los pasaportes sanitarios o de vacunas, pero que las entidades privadas sí podrían hacer algo con esa idea. “Dudo
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — The push from students for the University of Nebraska to divest from fossil fuels began well before Veronica “Roni” Miller joined the Board of Regents in the spring of 2020. After he was announced as the next university leader in late 2019,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MEDORA, North Dakota (WDAY) — Firefighters are reporting 85% containment on a wildfire that began on Thursday, April 1, and destroyed 2,276 acres surrounding Medora. Easter Sunday saw firefighters making progress on fire containment despite the difficult terrain and sustained red flag conditions, through four days of intense
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The Minneapolis police chief testified Monday that now-fired Officer Derek Chauvin violated departmental policy in pinning his knee on George Floyd’s neck and keeping him down after Floyd had stopped resisting and was in distress. Continuing to kneel on Floyd’s neck once he was handcuffed behind his back and lying on his
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A toddler was grazed by a bullet in a triple shooting in south St. Louis City early Saturday evening. Officials with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said three people arrived at a hospital with gunshot wounds. One of them was a 2-year-old boy
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has resumed, with a key witness painting a picture of an image-obsessed Israeli leader forcing a prominent news site to flatter his family and smear his opponents. Monday’s testimony came as Netanyahu’s chances of securing another term in office appeared to be dwindling in high-stakes post-election
Continue Reading Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo is expected to testify in Derek Chauvin’s trial on Monday as prosecutors shift their focus from what happened to George Floyd to a closer analysis of what it means legally. The first week of the trial in Minneapolis centered on a blow-by-blow breakdown of Floyd’s last day, including video from
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A group of detainees caused chaos and unrest at the Justice Center in downtown St. Louis Sunday night, the second time such an uprising has occurred in recent months. Videos from the scene show detainees breaking windows, throwing items out of the windows, and
Continue Reading Border processing facilities for migrant children are “stretched beyond thin” and experiencing “profound overcrowding” that make social distancing “impossible,” court-appointed monitors said in documents made public this weekend. The recommendations made to the court could help federal agencies deal with the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the border. The filings were submitted by Dr. Paul Wise
Continue Reading Over the weekend, cybersecurity experts revealed that about half a billion Facebook users’ personal information was breached — a treasure trove of data the includes full names, birthdays, phone numbers and their location. Facebook said that massive leak stems from an issue in 2019, which has since been fixed. Still, there’s no clawing back that
Continue Reading One of the most storied programs in women’s college basketball history is back at the top after a 29-year wait. And just barely. The Stanford Cardinal — the No. 1 overall seed in this year’s NCAA tournament — has won the national championship, outlasting fellow Pac-12 Conference member and No. 3 seed Arizona 54-53 at
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