A dad and his young daughter turn their Covid isolation into a popular podcast
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Sleep on the job? Company offers $3,000 for ‘Sleeping Beauty’ to test out mattresses
What if you could get paid for sleeping? Well, guess what — you can: $3,000 to be exact. Sleep Junkie, a mattress reviewing platform, is…
Continue ReadingA fight between the EU and UK reveals the ugly truth about vaccine nationalism
The UN General Assembly in September last year was a pivotal moment in the pandemic, when leaders began to show some unity as global deaths…
Continue ReadingNASA mission will zoom by asteroid before returning sample to Earth
A NASA spacecraft that took a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away now has a plan to come back home. On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx…
Continue Reading‘Moms Demand Action’ pushes lawmakers to take action on ghost guns, background checks
Click here for updates on this story ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (WJZ) — A group of moms is leading the charge for getting…
Continue ReadingStudents build home from ground up as part of high school curriculum
Click here for updates on this story JAMISON, Pennsylvania (KYW) — High school students at Middle Bucks Institute of…
Continue ReadingPetition asks for ‘thin blue line’ mural to be removed from high school
Click here for updates on this story TAUNTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Taunton Police will meet with school leaders about…
Continue ReadingMichael Thompson is free after decades in prison. Now he wants to be an advocate for criminal justice reform
Michael Thompson spent more than two decades behind bars for convictions stemming from a marijuana sale. At 4 a.m. on Thursday, he finally walked out…
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia severs ties with Covid-19 testing and vaccine organization after losing ‘trust in them’
The city of Philadelphia has cut ties with a Covid-19 vaccine provider, saying it lost “trust in them as an organization,” after a slew…
Continue ReadingEU regulators recommend authorization of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine
The European Union’s medicines regulator on Friday recommended authorizing the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for use among its 27 member…
Continue ReadingChinese millennials aren’t getting married, and the government is worried
Two years ago, Joanne Su was anxious about turning 30 years old. She worked for a foreign trade company in China’s southern metropolis of…
Continue ReadingMichael Thompson was behind bars for decades. Now he’s free
Michael Thompson spent nearly 25 years behind bars after a marijuana sale led to a long sentence due to prior convictions. At 4 a.m. on Thursday, he…
Continue ReadingThree city police departments face upheaval after two deal with disheartening reports and one chief steps down
Police departments in cities nationwide have faced heightened pressure to reform their practices after widespread protests last summer against police…
Continue ReadingCoachella, Stagecoach festivals canceled again because of the coronavirus pandemic
The Coachella and Stagecoach festivals, two of Southern California’s largest music celebrations, have again been canceled under an order issued…
Continue ReadingMichael Thompson was behind bars for decades after a marijuana sale. Now he’s free
Michael Thompson spent nearly 25 years behind bars for a sentence stemming from a marijuana sale. At 4 a.m. on Thursday, he finally walked out of…
Continue ReadingTexas Gov. Abbott fights back against Biden administration’s order suspending oil, gas drilling on federal lands and waters
Click here for updates on this story ODESSA, Texas (KTVT) — In Odessa Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott fired back…
Continue Reading‘The sweetest person in the world’: Ed Wilson, turning 105
Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — TGIF. We made it another week, and so did the impressive man…
Continue ReadingNew text scam claiming to be IDES could use personal information for fraudulent unemployment claims
Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a million people…
Continue Reading6 people killed after liquid nitrogen leak at Georgia food processing plant
Six workers were killed and several others were taken to a hospital after a liquid nitrogen leak Thursday at a poultry processing plant in…
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