By RUBÉN ROSARIO Click here for updates on this story KEY LARGO, Florida (WSVN) — A Key Largo resident made a surprise find. According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the resident found a package containing one kilo of cocaine washed up along a seawall at around 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday. Authorities said the drugs
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Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A global authority on food security has warned that famine conditions in Sudan have spread in the North Darfur region and are likely to continue through October due to the ongoing conflict that has torn the country for over 15 months. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC’s report
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Italian officials have confirmed that Italy’s controversial new migrant processing centers in Albania won’t be operational for several more weeks because of construction delays. Cabinet undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano cited the hot weather, which has forced work pauses during the hottest times of the day at the Gjader site, as contributing to the
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free. Gershkovich, Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with
Continue Reading By Marc Liverman Click here for updates on this story PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee (WLOS) — An East Tennessee woman is sharing her story after making it out of Dolly Parton’s Dollywood theme park on Sunday, July 28 during flash flooding. Strong thunderstorms caused high water to move so fast that parts of the park looked
Continue Reading By BRENDA TEELE Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — The water at the Shreveport Water and Treatment Plant is normally brown, the same color as Cross Lake until it’s filtered and treated with ozone. “We are working diligently, and I think pretty smartly until it’s done, although we started basically
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say 30 people have died and 35 others are missing in a city in southeastern China after days of heavy rains tied to a tropical storm. The death toll rose sharply Thursday from a previously reported four deaths in villages in the city of Zixing in Hunan province. Chinese
Continue Reading Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The teenage brother of a U.S. Air Force airman who was shot and killed in his home by a Florida sheriff’s deputy in May has been killed in a shooting in the Atlanta area, police said. Andre Fortson, Senior Airman Roger Fortson’s 16-year-old brother, was killed this week in DeKalb
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — While most Olympic divers sitting poolside at Paris’ Aquatic Center are anxiously twiddling their thumbs, one athlete has been twiddling a pair of knitting needles. Tom Daley, the 30-year-old Team GB diver who won his fifth Olympic medal earlier this week, has unveiled his latest achievement: a handknitted Paris
Continue Reading MANORVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a cab driver was killed and his passenger was injured when a commuter train hit the taxi at a grade crossing on Long Island. The crash happened at about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday at a Long Island Rail Road crossing gate in Manorville. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says cabbie Daniel
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Originally Published: 31 JUL 24 18:30 ET By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — As cancer cases rise among young adults in the United States, a new study has identified 17 cancer types that appear to be more common in Generation X and millennials than older age groups. Among adults born between 1920 and 1990, there is a significant difference
Continue Reading By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, CNN (CNN) — Being a parent is tiring, no doubt about it. Add balancing a career, a household, plus maybe being a single parent without support or a caregiver to ailing parents, and burnout is practically guaranteed. Before you know it, mothers and fathers find themselves at their doctor’s office with symptoms
Continue Reading Originally Published: 31 JUL 24 07:00 ET Updated: 31 JUL 24 08:55 ET By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Editor’s note: Want to learn more about starting and staying on the Mediterranean diet? Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better newsletter, an eight-week course in how to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks the sunny Mediterranean way. (CNN) — Dementia
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Julia Hernández (CNN) — El ejército de Israel dijo que uno de los autores intelectuales de los ataques del 7 de octubre, el jefe militar de Hamas, Mohammed Deif, murió en un ataque que llevó a cabo en el sur de Gaza el mes pasado. La afirmación de la muerte de Deif se produce un
Continue Reading Associated Press Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush will join an effort to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary in 2026. They’re highlighting the initiative’s attempts to build bipartisan momentum in an era of extreme political polarization. The former presidents and first ladies Michelle Obama and Laura Bush will serve as honorary national co-chairs of
Continue Reading Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A group of lawyers say Zimbabwe police have arrested 18 political activists in what has been criticized as another clampdown on opposition by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration. State security agents removed four of the activists from a plane at an airport in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday.
Continue Reading By Matthew Nuttle Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — An Army soldier stationed at Schofield Barracks on Oahu has been charged with producing and distributing child pornography. According to court documents, from July 2023 to June 2024, Tyler Ray Daughtry produced and distributed child pornography in Hawaii and elsewhere. Federal investigators
Continue Reading AP National Writer GARHMUKTESHWAR, India (AP) — They were found in gutters, on streets, in bushes. They were boarded on trains, deserted in hospitals, dumped at temples. They were sent away for being sick or outliving paychecks or simply growing too old. By the time they reached this home for the aged and unwanted, many
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — All lanes on I-10 east near downtown have reopened after being closed for hours due to a jackknifed semi-trailer. Police say the call came in before 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. Our ABC-7 crews say that the semi’s container blocked most of I-10 east. Police also tell
Continue Reading By Ellie Nakamoto-White Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — For the last 30 years, Our Next Generation has worked year-round to empower children in the Milwaukee community through academic enrichment. The local non-profit helps support students from the first grade all the way to the twelfth. Nearly four years ago, Tamahl
Continue Reading PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the sixth time in a row as inflation falls and the economy recovers more slowly than expected. The cut, which had been predicted by analysts, brought the interest rate down by a quarter of a percentage point, to 4.50%. The
Continue Reading AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a year, the U.S. stock market went in mostly one direction, up, and in mostly one manner, quietly. A bonanza around artificial-intelligence technology helped drive Big Tech stocks higher, while other areas of the market held up amid rising hopes for coming cuts to interest
Continue Reading By Sara Powers Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — An F-16 fighter jet from the Ohio Air National Guard landed safely in Ohio after having an emergency while flying over Michigan. The jet needed to drop two fuel tanks, one of which exploded in a lake. At about 1:15 p.m.
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Venu Sports — the sports streaming platform planned by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery — will be available for $42.99 per month with its planned launch in the fall. The streaming service’s launch price was announced on Thursday. Venu (pronounced “venue”) Sports is being considered by some to be the
Continue Reading Originally Published: 01 AUG 24 08:31 ET Updated: 01 AUG 24 09:30 ET By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — A large-scale prisoner swap between the US and Russia is under way, according to a source familiar, and it is expected to include Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul
Continue Reading AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in a year last week, even as the labor market remains broadly healthy. Jobless claims for the week ending July 27 climbed by 14,000 to249,000 from 235,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. It’s the most since
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Estados Unidos y Rusia llevaron a cabo un histórico intercambio de prisioneros este jueves que involucró a dos docenas de detenidos, entre ellos el ex infante de la Marina estadounidense Paul Whelan y el periodista de The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich, quienes fueron liberados como parte de un amplio acuerdo
Continue Reading Associated Press Ferdinand Omanyala’s status as Africa’s fastest man has many people believing Kenya’s push for Olympic gold medals isn’t entirely a long-distance objective. But the Commonwealth Games 100-meter champion doesn’t want to get ahead of himself despite posting the second-fastest time this season of 9.79 seconds to qualify for the Olympics. The African record
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By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The United States and Russia carried out a historic prisoner exchange Thursday when two dozen detainees, including former US Marine Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, were released as part of a sweeping deal that involved at least seven countries. Thursday’s
Continue Reading By Sara Powers Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — Suspected human remains were discovered at a construction site in Michigan last week, and archeologists are investigating after they were determined to likely be from a pre-modern era. The bones were discovered at about 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Grandview Parkway
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