By Raymond Strickland Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A Philadelphia couple struggling with homelessness filmed their experience living in a storage container, and their video was viewed more than 12 million times on social media. But they say when the storage facility found out about it, the couple was asked
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican tribunal has rejected a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by the Holy See’s former auditor general. Libero Milone and his late deputy had sued the Holy See for 9.3 million euros. They claimed they were essentially extorted by Vatican police and forced to resign in 2017 or
Continue ReadingBy Dave Carlin Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — New technology is coming to bus and subway routes in New York City. The MTA is testing out a new way to help all New Yorkers get around. It is something that involves colorful codes commuters can’t help but notice. They
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Many parts of the world are experiencing a rapid depletion in the subterranean reserves of water that billions of people rely on for drinking, irrigation and other uses, according to new research that analyzed millions of groundwater level measurements from 170,000 wells in more than 40 countries. It’s the
Continue ReadingBy Alfred Charles Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Six people were forced out of their house when the living room floor in their home in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood collapsed Tuesday morning, authorities said. A 96-year-old woman who was inside the apartment fell through the floor during the incident. It
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A liquor store has opened in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over 70 years, a diplomat reported Wednesday, a further socially liberalizing step in the once-ultraconservative kingdom that is home to the holiest sites in Islam. While restricted to non-Muslim diplomats, the store in Riyadh
Continue ReadingBy Paul Burton Click here for updates on this story NORTH ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (WBZ) — North Attleboro Council member Darius Gregory made his voice heard during Monday’s town council meeting. Emotions ran high over a decision to remove the book “Woke, A Young Poet’s Call To Justice” from the Martin Elementary School’s library. “I’m sitting
Continue ReadingWBZ, WOKE A YOUNG POET’S CALL TO JUSTICE, NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS, CNN By Paul Burton Click here for updates on this story NORTH ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (WBZ) — North Attleboro Council member Darius Gregory made his voice heard during Monday’s town council meeting. Emotions ran high over a decision to remove the book “Woke, A
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have extended an invitation to attend the State of the Union address to a Texas woman who sued her state and lost over the ability to get an abortion to end a wanted pregnancy. The Bidens spoke with Katie
Continue ReadingBy ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei faced a one-day general strike Wednesday protesting his decree targeting unions as well as his proposals for economic and labor law changes. Argentina’s largest labor union organized the strike that was joined by other unions. Demonstrators took to
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior team have taken a leave of absence from their current clubs in recent days. Current NHL players Michael McLeod and Cal Foote of the New Jersey Devils, Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers, Dillon Dube of the Calgary Flames and former NHL
Continue ReadingBy Justin Andrews Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — Thousands of homes across the St. Louis area share a common racial covenant restriction on property deeds. The restriction means homes can only be sold to white or non-Jewish buyers. Although the covenants are not enforceable under the law, Webster
Continue ReadingBY FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of the severe drought in the Amazon last year that sent rivers to record lows, isolated hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins. That’s according to researchers from World Weather Attribution, which
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new Republican superintendent of public schools is facing bipartisan criticism for appointing a right-wing social media influencer from New York to a state library advisory committee. Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters announced Chaya Raichik’s appointment to the committee on Tuesday, saying she is “on
Continue ReadingANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland appeals court has thrown out the murder conviction of a daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte. Thirty-year-old Sophia Negroponte was sentenced last year to 35 years in prison in the 2020 stabbing death of her friend, Yousuf Rasmussen, after a drunken argument. News outlets report that three
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys extremist group members was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison after he berated and insulted the judge who punished him. Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted Chief Judge James Boasberg before he handed down the sentence,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys extremist group members was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison after he berated and insulted the judge who punished him. Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted Chief Judge James Boasberg before he handed down the sentence,
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Montgomery Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WANF) — Starting next week, students in Decatur schools who have unpaid meal charges will get a cheese sandwich and milk instead of a selection of what’s on the lunch menu for the day. For the past few years, all public school students have
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Mark Ruffalo has quite the tale about what happened before he first became a father. During a recent conversation on Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett’s “Smartless” podcast, Ruffalo shared that more than 20 years ago, when his wife Sunrise Coigney was close to giving birth to
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Microsoft became the second-ever company worth $3 trillion on Wednesday as the artificial intelligence boom sent shares of the company’s stock soaring higher. For comparison, Microsoft’s market value is now larger than the entire GDP of France and just behind that of the United
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