Climbers rescued after becoming stuck on a cliff
Click here for updates on this story MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Search…
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Apollo 11 legend dies and 5 other top space and science stories this week
Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. Space missions provide us with an incredible gift beyond knowledge: perspective. More…
Continue ReadingAndrew Brown Jr. shooting exposes disconnect between majority rural Black city and the county
For more than a week, protesters have marched in the streets of a small, quaint, North Carolina city that has been rocked by the police killing of…
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Knoxville, Tennessee, is reeling after another Black high school student is killed — this time by police
The Rev. Calvin Skinner has given hundreds of sermons, but he says this past Sunday’s felt more urgent than ever. “The city of Knoxville…
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Three Loveland police officers involved in violent arrest of elderly woman with dementia resign
Three Colorado officers who laughed at body camera footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia are “no longer…
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He was adopted months after he was born. After decades of searching, he’s finally met his birth family
The door was open and a “frail little voice” called out for the brothers to come inside. Sitting in a medical lifting chair was their…
Continue ReadingThe Siege of Sarajevo lasted for years — now the city’s battle with Covid-19 is dragging on with no end in sight
In the hills above Sarajevo, thousands of uniform white headstones line the slopes, marking the graves of just some of the victims of the Bosnian…
Continue ReadingThe Kentucky Derby returns to its regular race day, but fewer fans will attend because of Covid-19
One of America’s most famous sporting events takes place Saturday in front of a reduced crowd, a sign that the country is returning to normal…
Continue ReadingNigerian teen gets 19 scholarship offers worth more than $5 million from the US and Canada
One Nigerian teenager must feel like she has the world at her feet after receiving 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the…
Continue ReadingTang! The space-age drink that’s still a worldwide staple
When you think of Tang — if you think of Tang at all — you probably think of its association with the United States space program in the…
Continue ReadingOne officer dead and another injured in Arizona after being struck by suspect in stolen vehicle
An Arizona police officer was fatally struck and another critically injured by a “violent felon in a stolen vehicle following a multi-agency…
Continue ReadingProsecution and defense teams in Derek Chauvin’s sentencing argue whether aggravating factors apply
Prosecutors for the state of Minnesota and an attorney for Derek Chauvin argued in separate filings Friday whether additional factors should affect…
Continue ReadingFamily is awarded $1.8 million after their son died while in police custody
A California family was awarded nearly $1.8 million after an Anaheim jury ruled that police officers were primarily responsible for the death of a…
Continue ReadingNorth Carolina governor grants pardon to man who spent 22 years in prison for killings he didn’t commit
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday pardoned a man who was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder and first-degree arson in 1995, a news…
Continue ReadingFormer Georgia deputy called beating Black man in custody ‘sweet stress relief,’ FBI says
A former Georgia sheriff’s deputy who pleaded guilty to a federal weapons charge also previously discussed assaulting a Black person and…
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Feds launch human smuggling investigation after police find more than 90 people in Houston home
Houston police officers following up on a kidnapping report found more than 90 people jammed in a two-story home in what authorities said turned out…
Continue ReadingCrush at religious festival in Israel’s Mount Meron kills 45 people
Hundreds of buses stretched over miles of winding road were ferrying thousands of worshipers off Mount Meron in northern Israel on Friday after 45…
Continue ReadingFather, son keep tradition alive at NAIA volleyball tournament
Click here for updates on this story SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Sioux City Journal) — Don’t let anyone tell you that these…
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Why a gun store manager says people like him can be a missing link to stop suicide
Joe Liuni felt a little strange in a room full of mental health professionals in New York state. As a gun owner, general manager of a gun store and…
Continue ReadingThe great power race between the US and China is on. And Beijing is confident of winning
When US President Joe Biden urged Americans to “win the 21st century” in his joint address to Congress, he painted a picture of a new…
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