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Continue ReadingSinéad O’Connor reportedly is explaining why she infamously ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a 1992 performance on “Saturday Night Live.” The Irish singer-songwriter says she’d removed the photo of the then-Pontiff from her mother’s bedroom wall after the elder woman died, according to an excerpt of O’Connor’s forthcoming memoir, “Rememberings,”
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After notching recent wins in their long hunt for material to help bring legal accountability to former President Donald Trump, congressional Democrats fear the Biden administration won’t be helpful when it comes to obtaining the documents they covet the most: Trump’s tax returns. Critics of the former President have demanded a response to what they
Continue ReadingThere’s no doubt that relationships were tested during the pandemic, as many people limited social interactions and worked remotely. But how much distance is too much? And are some of those relationships worth rekindling or are we better off without people we grew apart from? Jennifer Scott, 43, deleted a Facebook account she’s had for
Continue Reading A special congressional election in New Mexico on Tuesday poses an early test of whether Republicans’ strategy of latching Democratic candidates to their party’s most progressive police reform proposals will help the GOP win control of the House in next year’s midterms. Democratic state Rep. Melanie Stansbury and Republican state Sen. Mark Moores are facing
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As the US celebrated Memorial Day, health experts celebrated that more than half of the population was at least partially vaccinated — but reminded the public there is work to still be done to keep the next holiday safe from Covid-19 as well. “It’s great news that people can see their friends, they feel comfortable
Continue ReadingA 17-year veteran of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in California has died after being shot in the line of duty Monday, the department said. Sgt. Dominic Vaca, 43, was shot after pursuing a motorcycle without a license plate, San Bernardino Sheriff John McMahon said in a video statement posted to Twitter. Vaca died
Continue Reading As the US celebrated Memorial Day, health experts celebrated that more than half of the population was at least partially vaccinated — but reminded the public there is work to still be done to keep the next holiday safe from Covid-19 as well. “It’s great news that people can see their friends, they feel comfortable
Continue ReadingStudents from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger were indiscriminately shot and abducted Sunday by a group of “armed bandits,” state police said in a statement. At least one person was confirmed dead in the latest string of school kidnapping raids the country has seen this year. Yaro Alhassan, the Salihu
Continue ReadingMonde Nissin has made stock market history as it works to get more people to eat its noodles and fake chicken. The maker of Lucky Me! instant noodles, an iconic brand in Southeast Asia, and meat substitute Quorn went public in the Philippines on Tuesday, raising 48.6 billion Philippine pesos (about $1 billion). That marked
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For the first time in over a year, millions of Americans are gathering for a major holiday without masks or physical distancing — safely. But the majority of Americans still aren’t fully vaccinated, leading to the possibility of yet another post-holiday spike of coronavirus infections. “To people who are traveling and people who have been
Continue ReadingFrance and Germany are “seeking full clarity” on a report claiming that one of Denmark’s intelligence agencies helped the United States spy on several senior European officials, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday. “If the information is true,” Macron said during a statement to the press following a virtual Franco-German
Continue ReadingRescuers searching for a missing hiker in Colorado found him dead after an apparent fall Monday, officials said. The San Miguel County Sheriff’s office discovered Patrick Eells, 29, dead from traumatic injuries sustained from an apparent fall, a news release from the sheriff’s office said. Eells, an experienced mountaineer, told his girlfriend Sunday he was
Continue ReadingVaccinated people are taking Krispy Kreme up on its free doughnuts offer. In March, the chain announced a special promotion for Americans who have been vaccinated against Covid-19: Prove that you’re vaccinated, and you can get a free doughnut a day for the rest of the year. So far, Krispy Kreme says it has given
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Brazil has cautioned that it is still in “negotiations” with South America’s Football Confederation, CONMEBOL, and the Brazilian Football Confederation, shortly after CONMEBOL announced Monday that Brazil would host the Copa América championship — in just 13 days. “The CONMEBOL 2021 Copa América will be played in Brazil!” CONMEBOL said on Twitter. “The start and
Continue ReadingSearch crews have recovered human remains, two engines and part of a plane that crashed into a Tennessee lake Saturday, killing all seven people aboard, officials said. Remnant Fellowship Church founder and Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin Lara was one of the seven on board the Cessna 501 when it crashed into Percy Priest Lake
Continue ReadingBelgium is recalling its ambassador to South Korea following an incident in which his wife was recorded striking a woman in Seoul. In a statement Friday, Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had “become clear” that Ambassador Peter Lescouhier could not “further carry out his role in a serene way.” Lescouhier’s wife, Xiang Xueqiu,
Continue ReadingMichael Flynn, former President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, appeared to endorse a Myanmar-style coup in the United States on Sunday. For months, QAnon and Trump-supporting online forums have celebrated the deadly military coup in Myanmar and suggested the same should happen in the United States so Trump could be reinstated as President. Flynn
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With live mariachi music and free tacos, the Latino Community Association turned its vaccination clinic in Redmond on Sunday into a festive occasion – and vaccinated 149 people against COVID-19.
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The World Health Organization said on Monday that it has assigned new “labels” to key coronavirus variants so the public can refer to them by letters of the Greek alphabet instead of where the variant was first detected. For instance, WHO calls the “UK variant” (B.1.1.7) “Alpha,” and the “South African variant” (B.1.351) is “Beta.”
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