By David Schuman Click here for updates on this story RICHFIELD, Minnesota (WCCO) — Police are investigating alarming allegations against a metro nursing home. Richfield police are looking into whether staff at The Villas at Richfield let a patient die then tried to cover it up. A search warrant filed this week says a patient
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has conceded that wages may rise by less than previously thought as a direct result of her budget decision to increase a tax that businesses pay for their employees. On Wednesday, Reeves raised taxes by around 40 billion pounds to plug a hole she claims
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Missouri voters this election will decide whether to effectively undo their state’s near-total abortion ban – one of the nation’s strictest – with a ballot measure that aims to write reproductive freedoms into the state’s constitution. It is one of 10 states voting on constitutional amendments to protect reproductive rights
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has apologized for the death of a 9-year-old girl who is believed to be the first person in the U.K. to have air pollution listed on her death certificate, after a decade-long battle that highlighted the risks vehicle emissions pose to children in low-income communities. The apology
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Antes del huracán Milton, muchas familias de Florida se atrincheraban en sus casas o empaquetaban sus pertenencias para evacuar. Jessica solo tenía su coche. Se preparó para hacer frente a la tormenta con sus hijos, de 12 y 3 años, con jugo de manzana, ropa en bolsas de plástico, peluches de
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered in Istanbul to protest against the arrest and removal from office of a mayor from Turkey’s main opposition party for alleged links to a banned Kurdish militant group. Ahmet Ozer, mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district, was detained on Wednesday by anti-terrorist police over his alleged connection to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Attackers have set fire to the headquarters of a Bangladesh party that supported the country’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the Jatiya Party offices on Thursday night in Bangladesh’s capital. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was hurt in the attack.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Parks and Recreation Department said Thursday it will close the Pilot Butte summit road to motorized vehicles for the season at 8 p.m. on Sunday. The road to the top of the northeast Bend landmark closes to motorized vehicles every year in November. “With the return of winter weather, we
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Moeller Click here for updates on this story SUTTER COUNTY, California (KOVR) — Just in time for Halloween, bats are in the spotlight. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has detected a fungus in some Sutter County bats and there’s a chance they could start dying within the next few years. When
Continue ReadingBy Cristina Mendez Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Baltimore City’s Department of Public Works is operating at “historic” levels when it comes to wastewater treatment, according to Michael Hallmen, the Deputy Bureau Head of Water and Wastewater. On Wednesday, DPW held the first of three informational meetings scheduled this
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The co-chair of the Trump-Vance transition team on Wednesday night endorsed vaccine conspiracy theories pushed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and suggested the activist and Trump ally would be given federal data in order to check vaccines’ safety if former President Donald Trump is elected. Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlan
Continue ReadingBy Tara Lynch Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The family of a Baltimore Department of Public Works employee who died on the job in August called a new Inspector General report that shows heat-related illnesses were omitted “heartbreaking.” Ronald Silver II died of hyperthermia, or overheating, during one of
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI (AP) — Western envoys in Kenya have raised concerns over reports of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances and urged for swift investigations as the country takes up its seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council. In a joint statement on Thursday, the nine ambassadors and high commissioners said they “will support
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States is an elaborate display of wealth — an intricately carved slab of black limestone initially laid in the floor of the second church of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent British settlement in North America. Often referred to as the “Knight’s Tombstone” due
Continue ReadingCNN By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Radiohead singer Thom Yorke took off his guitar and left the stage during his solo concert in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday after being heckled by a pro-Palestinian protester. In video footage circulating on social media, a concert-goer can be heard shouting toward the stage at the Sidney Myer
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump has established a clear advantage in the race for the White House in two key Southern battleground states, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. Likely voters in Georgia divide 48% for Trump
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights. AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a 2023 traffic stop. The judge has ruled that the trooper’s actions did not violate the law. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel granted Trooper Ryan Londregan’s motion to dismiss
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Please disregard ENT–TV-SNL, published on Nov. 10, 2024, and datelined in NEW YORK. It duplicates a previously published story that is now out of date.
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