Georgia Republicans’ successful effort to enact sweeping voting restrictions has ratcheted up pressure on Democrats to take unprecedented steps and change the rules of the US Senate in order to overhaul election law and expand voting access across the country. But Democratic hopes are running into a major problem: The party lacks the votes to
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s push to create a bipartisan commission that would investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is in danger as House Democrats turn to their committees to conduct their own sweeping probe as a fallback option, with a bipartisan path to an independent panel appearing elusive. Nine Democrats who chair
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An Instacart shopper who entered an Atlanta supermarket bathroom this week told police he saw an AR-15 style rifle and heard what he believed was the sound of someone loading guns in a bathroom stall. The witness rushed out of the bathroom and notified staff at the Publix Supermarket. When police arrived soon after, they
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Sunny, warm conditions will stay with us through the weekend.
Continue ReadingXiaojie Tan, one of eight people killed in last week’s Atlanta-area spa shootings, was remembered at her funeral Friday for forging her own way in business, raising her daughter well and treating her customers as friends. And if Americans could learn from her example, “the violence and bloodshed might stop,” her ex-husband said at the
Continue Reading President Joe Biden is “looking” at what executive actions he can take on guns, particularly when it comes to regulating imported weapons and those made with “3D equipment,” he told reporters on the tarmac in Delaware on Friday. “We’re looking at that right now,” Biden said. “We’re looking at what kind of authority I have
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — We are getting a first look inside the investigation of a deadly attack on a corrections officer. An inmate murdered 45-year-old Joseph Gomm at the Stillwater prison in 2018. WCCO investigates what the never-before-seen evidence reveals and the warning the killer had sent in the
Continue Reading Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin “know they’re invited” to join a US-hosted virtual summit on climate, President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday. “I haven’t yet, but they know they’re invited,” Biden said, when asked on the White House’s South Lawn if he’d invited the two leaders to join the event.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BELMAWR, New Jersey (WCBS, KYW) — A New Jersey gym at the center of controversy throughout the coronavirus pandemic is now offering a freebie to anyone who does not receive the COVID vaccine. Atilis Gym, in Bellmawr, initially made headlines last year when it repeatedly defied Gov. Phil
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“Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington,” the most popular publication in the Oregon State University Extension Service catalog, celebrates 70 years with a new edition.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI BEACH, Florida (WFOR) — On Sunday March 21, when police closed popular Ocean Drive at 8 p.m., not everyone went home. Some people continued the party on the streets of residential Meridian Avenue, just a few blocks over. “Over 1,000 people easily,” said John Walter, who lives
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — The driver of a stolen U-Haul truck led police on a slow-speed pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles early Friday morning that lasted more than five hours. The chase started at around 1 a.m. in Burbank when officers spotted the truck, ran
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The Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries is seeking one new member each for positions in coastal and Central Oregon.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story GOSHEN, New York (WCBS) — That’s one driver on a fast track for trouble. According to State Police, a trooper patrolling on State Route 17 in Goshen Sunday just after 10 a.m. spotted an Infiniti G35 going 117 mph on the 65 mph road. The trooper pursued the
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Click here for updates on this story CONCORD, New Hampshire (WBZ) — Barbara Higgins is over the moon in love. The Concord, New Hampshire woman welcomed her baby boy on Saturday. He is five days old; she is 57 years. Jack is their joy, but this family has suffered too. Daughter Molly died from a
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Teeth! Who would have thought they could be so impacted by the pandemic, but the Pennsylvania Dental Association says they absolutely are. Dr. John Pawlowicz who’s dad and brothers are all dentists says the pandemic impact has come in an interesting way. “So many people
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s not something you see every day: sharks swimming in a container on the back of a truck on a Maryland highway! A woman filmed a video when she was on I-895 in Baltimore. In the video, you can see the sharks swimming in a
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President Joe Biden on Friday called a sweeping elections bill signed into law in Georgia “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” and “an atrocity” and called on Congress to pass voting rights legislation that would counter restrictions Republicans are trying to push through at the state level across the country. “Recount after recount and court
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story RANCHO CORDOVA, California (KOVR) — If you come across a bear, that bear’s first instinct should be to run away, but researchers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife have come across some bears with very odd behavior. “Someone opened the trunk and it climbed in the
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