Storm breaches N. California river’s levee, thousands evacuate
A Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop was forced to evacuate early Saturday after the Pajaro River’s levee…
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Quake death toll nears 48,000 in Turkey, 6,000 in Syria
ISTANBUL (AP) — The head of Turkey’s disaster and emergency management agency has raised the country’s death toll from a magnitude 7.8…
Continue ReadingAwards shows have been criticized for their lack of diversity for years. Why are they so slow to change?
By Leah Asmelash, CNN Year after year, the conversation surrounding mainstream awards shows is the same: Where’s the diversity? Even in a…
Continue ReadingParisian streets littered with trash after wave of strikes
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN The City of Lights has a garbage problem. Massive strikes in Paris against pension reform this week are affecting trash…
Continue ReadingUS agencies debunk Florida surgeon general’s vaccine claims
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. health agencies have sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general, warning him that his claims about COVID-19 vaccine…
Continue ReadingCoroner: Death of former Ohio AMBER Alert infant unexplained
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An autopsy has concluded that the death of one of two Ohio twin boys who became the center of an AMBER Alert last year was…
Continue ReadingAmericans’ fun road trip to Mexico became days of horror
By JULIE WATSON, JAMES POLLARD, and ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press/Report for America LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — It was supposed to be a fun road trip…
Continue ReadingSVB employees received bonuses hours before bank shutdown, reports say
CNN By Ramishah Maruf, CNN The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation offered Silicon Valley Bank employees 45 days of employment and 1.5 times…
Continue ReadingStablecoin USDC breaks dollar peg after revealing $3.3 billion Silicon Valley Bank exposure
Reuters Stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) lost its dollar peg and slumped to an all-time low on Saturday after Circle, the US firm behind the coin, revealed…
Continue ReadingArizona launches hotline for public to report ‘inappropriate’ school lessons
By Eddie Sun, CNN Arizona’s top education official launched a hotline this week for state residents to report K-12 class curriculum and lessons…
Continue ReadingUkrainian firefighters on risky mission to save lives, homes
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and EVGENY MALOLETKA Associated Press KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The firefighters find thick grey smoke pouring from the…
Continue ReadingWhat’s next for human gene editing
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists met this week in London at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing to discuss advances…
Continue ReadingWhat’s next for human gene editing
By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists met this week in London at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing to discuss advances in the field —…
Continue ReadingNonprofit to turn hotel into housing for adults with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities
By CONOR MCCUE Click here for updates on this story DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) — A Douglas County nonprofit will…
Continue ReadingPolice: Stalker kills woman, husband in Seattle-area home
Associated Press REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — A longhaul truck driver from Texas who became obsessed with a software engineer in Washington state after…
Continue ReadingAn anti-government protest in Czech capital draws thousands
PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands of people in the Czech Republic rallied in Prague to protest high inflation and to demand an end to the country’s…
Continue ReadingThieves are taking Dodge Chargers by pushing them into the street, programming with new keys
By SARA MACHI Click here for updates on this story RED GROVE, Illinois (WBBM) — Car thefts are at their highest level…
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The US surpasses 160 mass shootings in 2023. Here’s every event mapped
Stacker cited data from the Gun Violence Archive to visualize the scope of mass shootings thus far in 2023. Data is as of April 17,…
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How summer programs targeted learning loss in grades K-12
HeyTutor cited data from the Census Household Pulse survey and looked at news reports to break down different summer programs targeting learning…
Continue ReadingLandmine blast kills 2, injures 1 in SW Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says a landmine explosion in the country’s southwest has killed two people and critically…
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