Ben & Jerry’s two co-founders want to make it easier for Americans to sue police officers who abuse their authority, a move that reform advocates say is a key step towards substantive police reform. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield made their views clear during a virtual press conference Tuesday announcing the new campaign to end
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The Biden administration has paused arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as it conducts a wider review of agreements worth billions of dollars made by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told CNN Wednesday. The move to freeze the sales to the Gulf allies could signal a change in
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (WBZ) — It’s a meal prepared by robots. Spyce is the creation of four MIT graduates, including CEO Michael Farid. The idea came about when they were students, frustrated with the lack of healthy and inexpensive meals available nearby. Farid said, “We felt like being mechanical
Continue ReadingMichaela Goade just etched her name into the history books. This week she became the first Native American to win the Randolph Caldecott Medal for her illustrations in the children’s book “We Are Water Protectors,” according to the American Library Association. The Caldecott Medal is a prestigious award given annually to the artist of the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PLYMOUTH, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A Plymouth PE teacher is getting some much-deserved recognition for helping a choking student. The district said Billy Brunstrom of Manomet Elementary School came to the rescue last week during dismissal. “Brunstrom noticed a student giving the universal choking sign and struggling for air,”
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President Joe Biden’s pledge that there will be sufficient vaccines for 300 million Americans by the end of summer represents a bold and politically risky response to criticism his pandemic plan lacks ambition. In effect, the President is putting a date on a return of a semblance of normal life — with no guarantee that
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Johns Hopkins University officials are investigating after four swastikas were found etched into the walls of a dormitory elevator on the Peabody Institute campus. The incident wasn’t just reported to campus security, but also to federal law enforcement as a possible hate crime. The university
Continue ReadingFifty-three people are dead and 29 seriously injured following a collision Wednesday between a bus and a truck containing flammable liquid in West Cameroon. The accident occurred at around 3 a.m. at the Cliff of Dschang, near the city of the same name. “This unfortunate accident, which occurred during the night, highlights the problem of
Continue ReadingElliot Page and Emma Portner are getting divorced. The couple announced the decision in a statement to CNN on Tuesday. “After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer. We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.” Their split comes three
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A heads-up for potential fraud victims this tax season – if you get a 1099-G form in the mail, but you never applied for unemployment benefits, someone else may have in your name. CBS 2’s Tara Molina on Tuesday investigated the next steps you should
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Newly released-video shows Antioch teen Kyle Rittenhouse being interviewed by police, hours after the teen was accused of shooting three people during the unrest in Kenosha over the summer. The video shows Rittenhouse asking officers to delete his social media. As CBS 2 Investigator Megan
Continue ReadingA federal judge’s action Tuesday preventing President Joe Biden’s 100-day pause in deportations demonstrated the land mines that await the new administration in the nation’s courts. The short-term order by the Texas-based judge could also force a confrontation up to the US Supreme Court, where the Biden legal team already faces hard choices over how
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Sekou Smith, a NBA reporter and analyst for more than two decades, has died from Covid-19. He was 48. Smith worked for NBA TV and wrote for NBA.com since 2009. “We are all heartbroken over Sekou’s tragic passing,” Turner Sports, which broadcasts and operates NBA TV and NBA.com, said in a statement. “His commitment to
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Over a month ago, I got injected with either a Covid-19 vaccine candidate or placebo from Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen unit. Since I’ve enrolled in a randomized, double-blind vaccine trial, I don’t know what I got and neither do the doctors and nurses who are running the trial at Ark Clinical Research in Long Beach,
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The Deschutes National Forest plans to start work this week on a restoration project along Paulina Creek near Ogden Group Camp, to improve the hydrologic function of a section of the creek which historically was moved and channeled.
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration’s planned task force aimed at reuniting children who were separated from their parents at the border under the Trump-era enforcement policies will include input from first lady Jill Biden, according to three sources familiar with the planning. Biden is tasking her East Wing with taking an active role in the reunification project.
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The Family Access Network announced Emily Woodworth and Jen Enna have accepted staff positions, while Tasha McFarland is a new board member with the FAN Foundation.
Continue ReadingAs is custom at the beginning of the legislative session, state lawmakers across the country have proposed a torrent of bills intended to boost local economies, constrain or expand spending or make much-needed infrastructure fixes. But mixed in among the standard bureaucratic business are bills that take aim at LGBTQ+ residents of states — bills
Continue ReadingTurning a concept as old as “My Favorite Martian” into something fresh and funny isn’t easy, but “Resident Alien” somehow manages that, fueled by its dark, offbeat tone and Alan Tudyk’s otherworldly skill playing the title character as a stranger in his own skin. Regular twists also help, in a serialized dramedy that turns the
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NAUGATUCK, Connecticut (WFSB) — Students at Naugatuck High School staged a walkout and march following the discovery of old racist social media posts supposedly made by the police chief’s daughter. Around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, students marched from the high school to the borough’s green for a 1
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