A 21-year-old woman was arrested at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for attempting to smuggle three pounds of cocaine hidden in the soles of seven pairs of shoes, customs officials said Tuesday. “Shoes are made for walking and not smuggling narcotics,” US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a news release. The Georgia woman, who
Continue ReadingWill Smith is getting serious about his health and will document his journey for YouTube. In the upcoming tentatively titled series “Best Shape of My Life,” Smith will show the actor “rebuilding his body into the best shape of his life and getting his groove back along the way,” according to a description distributed by
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Rep. Liz Cheney’s days as the No. 3 in House GOP leadership appear to be numbered, with speculation growing about her replacement and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy contending she has failed to do her job in driving the party’s message to take back the majority. Cheney has grown increasingly isolated within her conference amid
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Business groups and voting rights organizations are attempting to apply public pressure on Texas Republicans as lawmakers gear up to finalize bills that would make it harder to vote in parts of the Lone Star State and criminalize some of the actions of election workers. A group of some 50 trade associations and companies, including
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There are six new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including Jefferson County’s 33rd, raising the state’s death toll to 2,508, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — For many motorcycle riders, getting their bikes blessed each year before the riding season is the most important ritual. It’s one of the safeguards bikers use to make sure they’re protected while they’re on the road. Thousands of riders and their
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — Alex Ekesa ran a 26.2-mile race Sunday, taking on the warming temperatures and wind gusts that came with it. Turns out, that was the easy part to his weekend. Due to days of multiple travel issues, the 38-year-old runner from Kenya didn’t
Continue Reading President Joe Biden said Tuesday it is his “hope and expectation” to meet with his Russian counterpart during a planned visit to Europe in June, a high-stakes diplomatic encounter he hopes can restore a degree of predictability to an increasingly fraught relationship. “We’re working on it,” Biden said at the White House, suggesting his proposed
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities in Wisconsin say a standoff ended after a man who had threatened to shoot police climbed into a ceiling, fell through and was arrested. The Barron County Sheriff’s Department said the standoff started Sunday just after 4 p.m. with a 911 call for someone
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story TEXAS (KTVT) — On a recent sunny Saturday, a local car show was buzzing. Nearly two dozen cars, and not a single one of them needed a drop of gas. Why? They were all driving all-electric vehicles. Just a battery-powered motor to push them down the road. We
Continue ReadingAn era in late night television is coming to an end next month. “Conan,” Conan O’Brien’s show on TBS, will end its run on June 24, TBS announced Monday. The conclusion of the show will end the host’s nearly 30-year run in late night. TBS said that the final weeks of the show will have
Continue Reading The Biden administration will release its highly anticipated national strategy for fighting domestic terrorists in the coming weeks, the White House announced Tuesday, signaling a major break from President Donald Trump’s administration in addressing more directly the threats posed by White supremacists and right-wing militia groups. The expected release of the strategy comes after the
Continue ReadingHere is a look at the life of Stevie Wonder, singer, songwriter, producer and activist. Personal Birth date: May 13, 1950 Birth place: Saginaw, Michigan Birth name: Stevland Hardaway Judkins Father: Calvin Judkins Mother: Lula Mae Hardaway Marriages: Tomeeka Robyn Bracy (2017-present); Karen “Kai” Millard Morris (2001-October 5, 2015, divorced); Syreeta Wright (September 14, 1970-1972,
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The US Food and Drug Administration will consider within months emergency use authorization of the Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine in children 2 to 11 years old — at a time polls show younger Americans are least likely to say they want a shot. The move comes as the country’s daily Covid-19 cases and deaths are now
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FISHERS, Indiana (WISH) — A 10-year-old boy from Fishers is on a mission to help the homeless across Indiana. Last week, Maddox O’Connor asked police to help hand out 200 blessing bags. Now, he has an even bigger goal of donating 3,000 bags full of food, hygiene products
Continue Reading The Justice Department is preparing to offer guilty plea deals to four Capitol rioters who are accused of trapping police in a tunnel and attacking them with chemical sprays and firecrackers. Federal prosecutors said at a court hearing Tuesday that their supervisors recently approved plea offers in the case, which revolves around one of the
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Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, “There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.” He was referring to the intoxicating drug, not the cryptocurrency. But ethereum investors may have reasons for fear and loathing, too. The world’s second-most valuable cryptocurrency has soared
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD wants your help finding whoever attacked an Asian woman Sunday near Times Square. It happened around 8:45 p.m. on West 42nd Street near Ninth Avenue. Police said two women were walking when they were approached by the suspect, who told them to
Continue ReadingYou probably haven’t seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you. If you upload a picture of your face to PimEyes’ website, it will immediately show you any pictures of yourself that the company has found around the internet. You might recognize all of them, or be surprised (or, perhaps,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — There is a disturbing video of a school principal in Clewiston hitting a six-year-old student with a wooden paddle. The student’s mother recorded the incident on her cell phone last month. The child’s mother said she did not give consent for the child to be
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