Teen Vogue’s newly appointed editor in chief isn’t slated to start until March 24, but she has already issued two apologies this week and has drawn the ire of her soon-to-be staff, advertisers and celebrities. Alexi McCammond, who was a political reporter at Axios before being appointed to lead the Condé Nast-owned progressive magazine last
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Two lawsuits have been filed against the local power company, blaming the utility for the extent of the damage caused last year by Oregon’s Beachie Creek fire. The fire, which ignited in August and burned through the end of October 2020, destroyed nearly 200,000 acres. More than 1,300 structures, including 470 homes, and at least
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Click here for updates on this story DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times ) — Davenport city officials intend to use a portion of proceeds from the pending $6.35 million sale of a downtown public housing property to get a long-talked about Juvenile Assessment Center off the ground. Davenport aldermen met Tuesday for a work session to
Continue Reading The European Central Bank plans to pick up the pace of its bond buying in the coming months to bolster the region’s lackluster recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and counter a spike in borrowing costs. The central bank said in a statement on Thursday that over the next three months it expects asset purchases under
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DURHAM, North Carolina (WRAL) — With brush, oil — and a lot of heart — Maria Bennett Hock painted 45 portraits or 45 heroes in 45 days. Every portrait is of an employee at Duke University Medical Center. Hock, a portraitist, longed to give countenance to the faces
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WISCONSIN DELLS, Wisconsin (WiscNews) — The Wisconsin Dells community is helping a retired firefighter and his family rebuild after a fire destroyed their home March 5. At least two online fundraisers and two drop-off donation sites have been set up in Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo to help Chris
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLOWERY BRANCH, Georgia (WGCL) — A teacher at Flowery Branch High School was arrested late Tuesday afternoon for allegedly sending a sexually explicit photograph of himself to one of his students. Hall County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Matthew “Tyler” Stubbs, 25, of Duluth at the sheriff’s office headquarters.
Continue Reading CVS has added 12 new states to its Covid-19 vaccine rollout as more supply becomes available. In the last week, CVS has started administering the vaccine to eligible populations in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah and Vermont. The company is now administering Covid-19 vaccines in nearly 1,200
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Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a country’s food security, the United Nations uses the five-phase scale known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Famine can
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The Portland City Council has finalized a big settlement between the city and the family of a 17-year-old who was shot and killed by police in 2017. The family of Quanice Hayes sued the city and the Portland Police Bureau after he was shot
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Attorney General Merrick Garland arrived at the Justice Department Thursday for his first day at work and spoke about the need to “adhere to norms” in an implicit rebuke of the Trump-era leadership. “We are united by our commitment to protecting our country as our oath says, from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And by
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story QUEENS, New York (WABC) — An incident in which an Asian American mother says she was spit at while holding her baby and called the ‘Chinese virus’ is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The woman told police that the confrontation occurred Tuesday morning, sometime between 10:30
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VALLEJO, California (KGO) — In Vallejo Wednesday, was a birthday party for the ages. It was a gathering of firefighters and a family they know very well though difficult circumstances. We have never seen a party like it, especially for a two-year-old like Michael Reading. “He loves fire
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Body-cam video shows a Phoenix police officer crashing through a side gate to save a family of six while their house burned down all around them. It happened at a home off McDowell Road and 64th Avenue in Phoenix on Saturday. Eighty-year-old Ruby Johnson Smith
Continue Reading Senior members of the US military took to Twitter late Wednesday and Thursday to call out Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a sexist segment in which he mocked women serving in the armed forces. Carlson, who is effectively the face of Fox and hosts the top show on the right-wing channel, ridiculed President Joe
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Niecy Nash knows that people were surprised when she married Jessica Betts last August. “The Claws” star said on Ellen DeGeneres talk show on Wednesday that she and Betts, a singer, were friends for more than four years before they became romantically involved. “You called her my wife,” Nash told DeGeneres. “I lovingly call her
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(CNN Español) –– Sí, el nuevo coronavirus lleva más de un año propagándose por el mundo y cobrando millones de vidas, pero aún hay muchos aspectos que no conocemos del todo sobre el covid-19, incluidos los efectos a largo plazo en nuestro cuerpo y todos los síntomas que pueden persistir. Es un virus engañoso y
Continue Reading (CNN) — Dinamarca suspendió el uso de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Oxford-AstraZeneca durante 14 días mientras investiga informes de algunos pacientes que desarrollaron coágulos de sangre después de ser inoculados. Esto ocurre días después de que varios otros países de la Unión Europea (UE) suspendieron el uso de un lote específico de la
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden puede informar en su primer discurso en horario estelar el jueves que una campaña de vacunación que ahora llega a 2 millones de personas al día ha acercado mucho más a Estados Unidos a salir de la pandemia que cuando asumió el cargo hace 50 días. Con las nuevas
Continue Reading (CNN) — Una segunda ola de covid-19 está arrasando a Brasil, empujando a los hospitales y a las unidades de cuidados intensivos (UCI) al colapso y sumando números récord de muertes diarias. Si bien una nueva variante del coronavirus se propaga por todo el país, muchos brasileños continúan desafiando las restricciones de movilidad de los
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An alleged member of an extremist group charged in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol insulted the US Capitol Police in a court filing Thursday, arguing that the breach of the congressional complex would not have happened if the police had “engaged in the level of strategic planning” that the rioters did. Thomas
Continue Reading (CNN) — Las compañías farmacéuticas Pfizer y BioNTech anunciaron este jueves que la evidencia del mundo real del Ministerio de Salud de Israel muestra que ha habido «dramáticamente» menos casos y muertes de covid-19 entre personas en Israel que han sido completamente vacunadas con la vacuna Pfizer/BioNTech en comparación con los que no han sido
Continue Reading (CNN) — Este jueves 11 de marzo se cumple un año de que la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declarara que la propagación desenfrenada del misterioso nuevo coronavirus, y que en febrero de 2020 nombró covid-19, era una pandemia. A continuación, la cronología de la pandemia de covid-19 que, pese a varias vacunas aprobadas y
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Al menos 360 migrantes indocumentados, en su mayoría provenientes de países de Centroamérica, fueron encontrados por autoridades federales en diversos puntos de México esta semana, según afirmaron las autoridades de ese país. Los hallazgos se confirman justo cuando Estados Unidos reporta que agentes fronterizos encontraron y detuvieron a más de 100.000 indocumentados
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In September, Timnit Gebru, then co-leader of the ethical AI team at Google, sent a private message on Twitter to Emily Bender, a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington. “Hi Emily, I’m wondering if you’ve written something regarding ethical considerations of large language models or something you could recommend from others?” she asked,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Al menos 11 personas murieron y 5 más resultaron heridas este jueves luego de una colisión entre un autobús y un camión de combustible en Nuevo León, México. El incidente ocurrió en la carretera Colombia del Municipio de Salinas Victoria, al norte de Monterrey, en Nuevo León, informó en un comunicado Protección
Continue Reading Molson Coors, the brewer behind the Miller and Coors brands, revealed a “cybersecurity incident” at the company that has disrupted its beer-making operations. The Chicago-based company said in a regulatory filing Thursday that the hack has taken its systems offline, delaying and disrupting parts of Molson Coors’ operations, including its production and shipments. An investigation
Continue Reading Regé-Jean Page, the British star of the lavish regency-era romance series “Bridgerton,” will read a bedtime story on the BBC children’s program Cbeebies in a move that is sure to delight parents as well as children. The actor, who played heartthrob Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, in the hit Netflix show, will read “Rain
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — A rideshare driver was beaten and carjacked on the South Side Wednesday night after Chicago police said he asked his passengers not to eat in his car. The 56-year-old driver brought the two passengers to a fast food spot in the 200-block of West Garfield
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