Meet your Girl Scout Cookie match
Girl Scout Cookie Weekend is here, which means the country’s youngest entrepreneurs will come out in droves to peddle their cookies, and…
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UCLA gymnast Nia Dennis has crowd falling crazy in love with her Beyoncé-inspired routine
The crowd lost their breath to Nia Dennis’ gymnastics routine last weekend. The University of California, Los Angeles, junior’s amazing…
Continue Reading Congratulations…from space!
Buckle up and let me tell you about a recent moment of completely unexpected, unwarranted kindness: Last weekend, I ran a few races at Walt Disney…
Continue Reading Millions of children across the world aren’t going to school. It’s not just their education that could suffer
For 18-year-old Huang Yiyang, school starts when she opens up her laptop. Over the past two weeks, there have been no school bells, bustling…
Continue Reading 13 rescued, 3 missing after boat ‘dump-and-run’ off San Diego coast
At least three people were missing and 13 others sent to hospitals Friday after apparently being dumped from a boat off the coast of San Diego,…
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Dow plunges nearly 4,000 points this week amid Coronavirus fears
NEW YORK — Stocks fell again Friday in another wild day, leaving Wall Street with its worst week since October 2008 as coronavirus fears spread.…
Continue Reading Sheriff’s department investigating whether deputies shared Kobe Bryant crash scene photos
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday it was “deeply disturbed” over a report that deputies shared photographs…
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Amid lawsuits, Buffalo diocese files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, amid a sexual abuse scandal, has filed for Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy protection, it said in a statement Friday.…
Continue Reading A Seattle-area school was closed for cleaning after a staff member’s relative was tested for coronavirus
Bothell High School outside Seattle was closed for cleaning on Thursday and Friday after a staff member’s relative was quarantined and tested…
Continue Reading Family of Molson Coors shooting suspect expresses ‘sadness and heartache’
The family of the employee who killed five co-workers at the Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee before taking his own life on Friday expressed…
Continue Reading Much of Houston remains under boil-water notice as crews repair broken water main that supplies about half of the city
Hundreds of schools and businesses in Houston remained closed Friday as crews attempt to repair a water main that provides up to half of the…
Continue Reading An entire Swiss village must evacuate due to a World War II ammo dump. The cleanup could take 10 years
Residents of the Swiss village of Mitholz are going to have to find new homes, so authorities can clean up a crumbling ammunition depot filled with…
Continue Reading Why do we even have a leap year? (Get ready to do some math)
2020 is a leap year, which means we get to enjoy a whole extra day of February, and people born on February 29 finally get some presents. But why do…
Continue Reading Colorado police officer accused of distributing marijuana seized on the job
A policeman has been charged with distributing about a pound of marijuana he confiscated while on duty in December, the Colorado Bureau of…
Continue Reading Tulane University removes its Victory Bell after learning it was originally used on a plantation
Tulane University has removed its Victory Bell after learning that it originally came from a plantation where Africans were enslaved. University…
Continue Reading This astronomy student found 17 new exoplanets — and one is potentially habitable
Michelle Kunimoto has a knack for finding exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars outside of our solar system. The University of British Columbia…
Continue Reading A growing list of US colleges are canceling or rerouting study abroad programs because of the coronavirus
A growing list of American universities have canceled study abroad programs as the novel coronavirus continues to spread. At least seven universities…
Continue Reading Plans are on hold for a Philadelphia safe-injection site to combat overdoses
Plans to open a Philadelphia facility that would allow and supervise the injection of illegal drugs have been put on hold. On Thursday, the nonprofit…
Continue Reading 4 kids, from 3 to 4 years old, were taken to a hospital after a car crashed into a Pennsylvania day care center
Four children ages 3 and 4 were injured when a woman crashed her car through the window of a day care center, Pennsylvania authorities say. The black…
Continue Reading Tensions escalate between Kremlin and Ankara after dozens of Turkish troops killed in Syria
Fatigue with Syria’s endless conflict can’t hide the enormity of this moment. It is highly unlikely that the Syrian regime had the will…
Continue Reading Earth has a new mini-moon — but it’s only temporary
It’s not the moon, but you can call it mini-moon. Earth has captured a tiny object and pulled it into orbit. The asteroid, known as 2020 CD3,…
Continue Reading Biggest explosion in the universe spotted by astronomers
A record-breaking explosion created by a black hole 390 million light-years away has been discovered by astronomers. “In some ways, this blast…
Continue Reading Nigeria says it is ready and more than capable of dealing with coronavirus
The head of Nigeria’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country is more than capable of dealing with coronavirus as…
Continue Reading Did Iran give Trump a foreign policy victory, after all?
All hell didn’t break loose, after all. Before the new coronavirus epidemic gripped the globe — about a million supercharged news cycles…
Continue Reading Houston water main break causes major flooding, submerging cars and filling streets
A water main break Thursday sent water flowing nearly two miles away, submerging some freeways, streets and even cars in east Houston, Harris County…
Continue Reading French cinema faces moral reckoning as Roman Polanski’s new film up for 12 gongs at prestigious awards
French cinema is gearing up for a watershed moment on Friday when “An Officer and a Spy,” the latest movie from Roman Polanski, competes…
Continue Reading At least 33 Turkish soldiers killed in an air attack by Syrian regime, Turkish governor says
At least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria’s Idlib province on Thursday in an aerial attack by Russian-backed Syrian regime forces,…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for February 28: Coronavirus, Taliban, immigration, Syria, Michigan
Don’t turn your calendars over just yet! It’s a Leap Year, which means tomorrow is your once-every-four-years bonus day. Here’s…
Continue Reading Novel coronavirus sparks massive US stock market losses as cases spread worldwide
Stock markets in the US have posted some of their worst ever losses as the novel coronavirus sparked mass sell-offs. The Dow dropped 1,191 points on…
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