By Caroline Vandergriff Click here for updates on this story NORTH TEXAS, Texas (KTVT) — A group of North Texas high school students is tackling a global problem: footwear poverty. Millions of children around the world can’t afford shoes and are either going barefoot or making do with a worn-out pair. It was something Jack
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A newly released autopsy report says the University of Missouri student whose body was recovered from a river after going missing in Tennessee’s capital for nearly two weeks died from accidental drowning and intoxication. News outlets report that Davidson County Medical Examiner’s office released Riley Strain’s autopsy report Tuesday. The autopsy
Continue ReadingBy JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities say they’ve uncovered a complex scheme between one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels and Chinese individuals in the U.S. who laundered millions of dollars from illicit drug sales. Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that two dozen people have been charged after a five-year investigation.
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By Clare Foran, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to pass a bill to ban bump stocks in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling. The bill would enact a federal ban on the sale of bump stock devices. Bump stocks allow a shooter
Continue ReadingSTAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor is heading back to the Summer Games — as a beach volleyball analyst for NBCUniversal. May-Treanor will work on beach volleyball coverage along with former Olympians Chris Marlowe, Dain Blanton and Kevin Wong. May-Treanor won beach volleyball gold medals with Kerri Walsh Jennings in 2004,
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he wants to restrict students’ usage of smartphones during the school day, citing the mental health risks of social media. The announcement, which was first reported by Politico, comes a day after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
Continue ReadingBy Doug Drury (The Conversation) — Late Monday night, Virgin Australia flight VA 148 set out from Queenstown in New Zealand bound for Melbourne. Not long after takeoff, the right engine of the Boeing 737-800 jet started emitting loud bangs, followed by flames. The pilot flew on with the remaining engine, bringing the plane’s 73 passengers
Continue ReadingBy Gina Swanson Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — As Father’s Day is approaching, a forever family is making headlines across the country. Meet the Smith family: Taveon, 12; Ireon, who is soon to be 11; Tayvon, who just turned 10; and Pappa J. The foursome has felt like family
Continue ReadingBy Nick Iadonisi Click here for updates on this story MT. HOLLY, New Jersey (WPVI) — These recent high school graduates are heading to West Point, inspired to join the military by their respective fathers who served the country. Sean Powell and David Wiser are childhood best friends preparing for their next chapter together. “Seeing
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A Keizer father, his 14-year-old daughter and their dog planned to wrap up their fun five-day hiking trip in the Cascades on Sunday, Father’s Day. But it turned into quite a different experience when she dislocated her knee and couldn’t go on, prompting an “incredibly challenging” air rescue in the Three Sisters Wilderness Area by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew out of Astoria.
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — El presidente Daniel Noboa dijo que las fuerzas de seguridad de Ecuador frustraron un intento de matarlo a inicios de este año, según entrevista concedida al periodista Jon Lee Anderson publicada este lunes en The New Yorker. El periodista sostiene que, al llegar a su primer encuentro con Noboa en
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A former high-level swimmer accused her Hall of Fame coach of sexually abusing her about 15 years ago when she was a minor and alleged USA Swimming and other organizations and individuals knew about the abuse and did nothing to stop it, according to a federal
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — For years, a few crumbs of cannabis played an outsized role in shaping Shiloh Jordan’s life. With a stroke of a pen by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Jordan looks forward to that being in the past for him _ as well as tens of
Continue ReadingBy Erin Jones Click here for updates on this story PLANO, Texas (KTVT) — A woman who went viral for a racially charged confrontation with four women in a Plano parking lot has pleaded guilty to hate crime charges. Back in August of 2022, four friends were leaving Sixty Vines when they heard 59-year-old Esmeralda
Continue ReadingBy Mike Darnay Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A husband and wife are facing charges and are accused of stealing more than $1 million from their son’s heating and air conditioning business in Coraopolis. The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Joseph Ravas and Tasha Ravas have
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Bartos Click here for updates on this story MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — An Ohio hospital is seeing double — a lot of double. The Hillcrest Hospital NICU and postpartum units are caring for seven sets of newborn twins at the same time, Cleveland Clinic Children’s said in a Facebook post last week.
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity,
Continue ReadingMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker from Vermont has apologized for repeatedly pouring water into a Democratic colleague’s bag, after he caught her doing it on video. State Rep. Mary Morrissey publicly apologized to state Rep. Jim Carroll, colleagues and the citizens of Vermont from the House floor on Monday. Both are from
Continue ReadingCarmen Sánchez (CNN Español) — En el año 2001 Colombia se hizo con su primer y único trofeo de la Copa de América. Ahora 23 años después, vuelve con jugadores destacados, una racha de dos años sin perder y con toda su afición lista en EE.UU. para animar a su equipo y volver a conseguir
Continue ReadingBy Madeleine Wright Click here for updates on this story RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (KYW) — A Delaware County man is attracting attention because of the feathered companion he brings with him to the convenience store. Retired butcher Bill Wasson, 84, from Glenolden, brings his pet cockatoo, Tiki, to the Wawa on MacDade Boulevard in Folsom
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