Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO (KMOV) — The fight over the control of the St. Louis County Council will head to court after last week’s meeting took an unprecedented turn. St. Louis County filed a lawsuit against several of its council members after trying to remove Councilwoman Lisa Clancy
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The French government has put an abrupt end to a $20 billion takeover of the country’s biggest retailer by Canada’s largest convenience store operator. In a joint statement on Saturday, French supermarket chain Carrefour and Couche-Tard, the owner of Circle K, said that talks about a €16.2 billion ($19.5 billion) transaction “are no longer continuing.”
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GRUNDY COUNTY, TN (WSMV) — Over the weekend, more than 250 dogs and puppies were rescued after they were found in unlivable conditions at a home in Grundy County. The Dogs On Borrowed Time rescue posted on Facebook that the woman who lived at the address was selling
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Steve Martin is apparently a half full-half empty kind of guy. The comedic actor tweeted Sunday about receiving a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and displayed his tendency toward the middle ground. Martin started out by writing “Good news/Bad news.” “Good news: I just got vaccinated!” he wrote. “Bad news: I got it because I’m
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BEAVERTON, OR (KPTV) — A woman has her son back, after a thief stole her car with the child inside. Police responded to a business on the 11900 block of Southwest Canyon Road at around 9 a.m. Saturday. A woman said she went into Basics Meat Market to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PLYMOUTH, PA (WNEP) — Friends and family gathered in Luzerne County to remember a woman murdered last week, allegedly by her own husband. A vigil was held to honor Mary Barrett. Barrett’s friends say she loved her community in Plymouth and it’s clear they loved her back. Dozens
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, WA (KPTV) — Washington’s COVID-19 rules now allow for some indoor seating in open-air settings, and breweries in Vancouver are taking full advantage of the change. “People are maybe able to watch the football game and kinda get some shelter from the outdoors,” Jason Bos, one of
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An ABC-7 First Alert is in effect for changes that will take place several days this week. The dry spell will come to an end this week, not only will you will need your jacket, but you will want your umbrella. Tonight a cold front will move in and bring strong gusty east winds. Winds
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a national holiday, and with it comes some business closings. The main entities closed for the day will be corporate offices, government agencies and banks, but here is a list of what to expect. Most retail and grocery stores, restaurants are open If you need to run errands, you’re
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Nota del editor: Julian Zelizer, analista político de CNN, es profesor de historia y asuntos públicos en la Universidad de Princeton y autor del libro «Quemando la casa: Newt Gingrich, la caída de un presidente y el surgimiento del nuevo partido republicano». Síguelo en Twitter @julianzelizer. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario son suyas. Ver
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There are just days to go until President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in, Donald Trump is no longer President and Democrats take control of the US Senate, but rank-and-file members on Capitol Hill are still waiting for signals from leadership about what the first month of Biden’s presidency will look like. It seems the uncertainty
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President-elect Joe Biden nominated Gary Gensler to serve as the commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a Monday statement. Gensler and Chopra are both allies of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Currently a member of the Federal Trade Commission, Chopra will — if
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Greek Olympic gold medalist Sofia Bekatorou’s very public detailing of her alleged sexual assault in 1998 by a high-ranking Hellenic Sailing Federation (HSF) official has sparked an outcry in the Mediterranean country over the way her revelations were initially dealt with. Bekatorou did not name the person she is accusing. On Saturday, Aristides Adamopoulos —
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Caught between colliding pressures of a pandemic, political unrest and outcries for social justice, this Martin Luther King Day of Service is unlike any other. But despite the limitations of the season, this federal holiday doesn’t have to be any less impactful. Now more than ever, MLK Day of Service is enabling everyday people to
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Más de 95 millones de casos alrededor del mundo, más de dos millones de muertes y personas alrededor del globo luchando contra la enfermedad desde las UCI: en su segundo año, la pandemia de coronavirus no ha dado muestras de ralentizarse. Con casi 400.000 y casi 210.000 fallecidos, respectivamente, Estados Unidos y
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Were there hour-by-hour countdowns to the end of the Bush presidency? The end of the Obama years? No, definitely not to this extent. Trump’s time in office is ending in ignoble fashion. There are countdowns
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EL PASO, TEXAS — Thousands of borderland students will begin in-person learning Tuesday weeks into the semester. In-person classes aren’t causing large COVID-19 outbreaks, according to the CDC, but there is still cause for concern. “The main thing is education,” said Dr. Armando Meza, an infectious disease specialist with Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso.
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A battered nation haunted by sickness, death and division is heading into an epic week in which constitutional principles will triumph over lies and insurrection with the transfer of power from one president to the next. President-elect Joe Biden’s shouldering of the presidency on Wednesday will end twice-impeached Donald Trump’s four-year assault on truth and
Continue Reading Parler’s website suddenly reappeared online Sunday afternoon with a message from its CEO, John Matze: “Hello world, is this thing on?” The message, dated January 16, implies that the social network popular with members of the far right has found a new online hosting platform, after Parler was booted from Amazon Web Services on January
Continue Reading Jamie Lynn Spears called Tesla “a secret cat-killer” and told CEO Elon Musk that he owes her a couple new feline friends. The actress, singer and sister of Britney Spears said in a since-deleted Instagram video that her cats were run over by a Tesla they never heard coming. Teslas, like other electric cars, run quieter
Continue Reading An Army reservist who federal investigators say has secret-level security clearance and a long record of posting his extremist views online was among the latest wave of rioters charged by federal prosecutors in connection with the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Others charged this weekend include a woman who has been seen in photos brandishing the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department reported eight new coronavirus-related deaths and 496 new cases Monday morning. El Paso County’s pandemic death toll has now increased to 1,590. The victims were identified as: 1 man in his 50s1 women in her 50s1 man in his 60s1 woman in her 60s1 woman
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Just a little more than halfway into January, the US has added a staggering 3.9 million new Covid-19 cases and more than 51,000 virus-related deaths. The country’s total Covid-19 death toll is now rapidly approaching 400,000 — that’s more than the number of Americans who died in World War I, Vietnam War and the Korean
Continue Reading Esta semana supone el fin del gobierno de Trump y el cambio de mando con una toma de posesión atípica, no solo por la pandemia. La caravana de migrantes choca con las autoridades de Guatemala. Avanza el caso Nisman en Argentina. Navalny regresó a Rusia. Además, hoy es el ‘Blue Monday’. Esto es lo que
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN) — Programas públicos de vacunación masiva que utilizan una vacuna china contra el coronavirus están en marcha en Indonesia y Turquía, donde se espera que decenas de millones de personas reciban dosis de la vacuna CoronaVac, fabricada por la empresa Sinovac, con sede en Beijing. El miércoles, el presidente de Indonesia, Joko
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Mars is about to be a very busy place when three separate missions arrive at the red planet in February. One of those missions includes NASA’s Perseverance rover. When it lands, we’ll be able to hear the sounds of Mars for the first time, thanks to microphones riding on the rover. A new interactive experience
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As if we needed any more reason to ruminate over pandemic life’s daily plights, today (January 18) is Blue Monday — the third Monday of January, which is rumored to be the most depressing day of the year. But is it? Research hasn’t proved that there is any one day more depressing than all the
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EL PASO, Texas — Nelly Yanez says she was frustrated by what she saw when she went to take her 93-year-old father to get his Covid-19 vaccination at the mega-site at University Medical Center. “I’m like this is ridiculous there’s no way. There was elderly people there in wheelchairs, some of them with oxygen tanks.
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Instead of training for up to five hours a day as they prepare for the Australian Open, 72 players find themselves unable to leave their hotel rooms under quarantine rules — and a number of them are vocally expressing their frustrations. Some are not only frustrated. Covid-19 Quarantine Victoria Commissioner Emma Cassar said on Sunday
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