I adopted my daughter from foster care. It took a specialized village to help her succeed. The day our daughter toddled around a corner of her foster mother’s house in a peach pantsuit and flashed my husband and me a mischievous grin, we knew we were her parents. We also knew we had made the
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Here is a look at the life of Amy Klobuchar, US senator from Minnesota and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Personal Birth date: May 25, 1960 Birth place: Plymouth, Minnesota Birth name: Amy Jean Klobuchar Father: Jim Klobuchar, Star Tribune columnist Mother: Rose (Heuberger) Klobuchar, teacher Marriage: John Bessler (1993-present) Children: Abigail Education: Yale University, B.A.
Continue ReadingMatthew Perry and Courteney Cox played Friends, then lovers, then husband and wife over the course of a decade — but the two actors are actually distant cousins, according to ancestry experts. The “Friends” stars are 11th cousins, researchers at the online genealogy website MyHeritage have found. They discovered that Perry and Cox share distant
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Police in San Jose, California, are responding to a shooting downtown near Younger Avenue and San Pedro Street, according to a tweet from the San Jose Police Department. The intersection is by the site of a Valley Transportation Authority light rail maintenance yard. VTA spokesperson Brandi Childress said there “reports of an active shooter” at
Continue Reading The realities of a narrow Senate majority are coming into focus as Democrats approach the holiday weekend and a turn in the season still grappling with how to pass key items in their agenda from voting rights and gun control to immigration and infrastructure. With key votes all teetering or stalled in the 50-50 Senate,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A bill legalizing sports gaming in the state heads to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk. The Connecticut State Senate voted Tuesday night to approve the bill by a vote of of 28-6. Gov. Ned Lamont applauded what he called a bipartisan effort. He said he
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JP’s Peace Love and Happiness Foundation has awarded a grant for $25,000 to Guardian Group to further combat domestic sex trafficking.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHEROKEE COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Fire investigators are working to determine how two men were burned by electricity at a construction site. The incident happened Tuesday around 8 a.m. at the Holiday Inn being built on Reinhardt College Parkway in Canton. According to Cherokee County officials, firefighters responded
Continue ReadingPolice in San Jose, California, are responding to a shooting downtown near Younger Avenue and San Pedro Street, according to a tweet from the San Jose Police Department. “This is still an active scene and we ask that everyone stay out of the area while we conduct our investigation,” said the tweet. The Santa Clara
Continue ReadingDarnella Frazier says she still struggles with what she witnessed a year after recording the murder of George Floyd. Frazier, then 17, was on her way to a Minneapolis store to buy snacks with her young cousin when she captured the clearest video of police officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck. On
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — It’s been a week since the state significantly eased COVID-19 restrictions. Gov. Ned Lamont said he’ll give an update on the state’s economic and health condition on Wednesday afternoon. A news conference is set for 1 p.m. at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
Continue Reading The White House is finalizing plans for President Joe Biden to meet with Queen Elizabeth during his first trip abroad next month, a US official said Wednesday. This face-to-face greeting, during which Biden would be joined by first lady Jill Biden, is expected to take place before the President leaves the United Kingdom following the
Continue ReadingAfter about four years at The Sports Bar, a neighborhood restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mandi Steed put in her two weeks notice this past spring. It wasn’t an easy decision. Steed, who is 29, had been working in restaurants for over a decade, and she was a fan of this one in particular. She
Continue ReadingEmmy Rossum kept a big and tiny secret. The “Shameless” star announced Tuesday that she and her husband, “Mr. Robot” creator, Sam Esmail, have welcomed a baby, a little girl. “5.24.21,” Rossum shared on her verified social media accounts along with photos of herself pregnant. “On a sunny Monday morning, at 8:13AM, we welcomed our
Continue ReadingDozens of campaign groups are urging Google to abandon a cloud computing project in Saudi Arabia, saying the company is at risk of being “complicit in future human rights violations.” Google announced plans late last year to establish a “cloud region” in Saudi Arabia in partnership with Saudi Aramco. Google said that services offered as
Continue ReadingSyrians were voting Wednesday in presidential elections widely dismissed by experts and activists as a sham poll, rigged in favor of President Bashar al-Assad. Assad, 55, who has repeatedly been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, is expected to win an election for the second time since an uprising in 2011 spiraled into
Continue ReadingItalian officials have arrested three people on manslaughter charges over a fatal cable car accident in northern Italy Sunday which left 14 people dead. The men “have admitted to what happened,” Carabiniere Lieutenant Colonel Alberto Cicognani claimed in an interview with CNN affiliate Skytg24 Wednesday morning. According to Cicognani, the suspects said in their interrogation
Continue ReadingFord is doubling down on electric vehicle development, announcing Wednesday it will invest $30 billion in electrification efforts by 2025. The automaker also pledged that 40% of its vehicles sold by 2030 will be electric. Ford had previously announced plans to spend $22 billion on electrification efforts and had recently revealed plans to build two
Continue ReadingThe National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominees for the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards and Alex Trebek was among them. The longtime host of “Jeopardy!” died in November after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Here is a list of some of the nominees: OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES “The Bold and the
Continue ReadingA recent easing of mask-wearing guidelines from the US government was a welcome change for many Americans. That wasn’t entirely the case for mask seller Gabriela Henriquez. “I immediately called and texted my friends who were working for me making masks through the pandemic and said this wasn’t good news for us,” said Henriquez, who
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