Cats can get sick with bird flu. Here’s how to protect them
AP Medical Writer The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of bird flu and how people…
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Cats can get sick with bird flu. Here’s how to protect them
AP Medical Writer The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of bird flu and how people…
Continue ReadingAn uneasy calm settles over Syrian city of Homs after outbreak of sectarian violence
Associated Press HOMS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day…
Continue ReadingA Virginia zoo welcomes newborn pygmy hippopotamus as year ends
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A female pygmy hippopotamus delivered a healthy calf at the Metro Richmond Zoo earlier this month. She is the third baby hippo…
Continue Reading2 sailors die in the stormy first night of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, organizers say
AP Sports Writer Two sailors on separate boats have died in boom accidents two hours apart on a storm-ravaged first night of the annual Sydney to…
Continue ReadingNew York to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed…
Continue ReadingIsraeli attorney general orders probe into report that alleged Netanyahu’s wife harassed opponents
Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s attorney general has ordered police to open an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin…
Continue ReadingBad Bunny announces a new album, ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’
AP Music Writer Happy holidays from Bad Bunny, who announced Thursday he will release a new album Jan. 5. “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” which…
Continue ReadingNebraska man who lost his home over $588 debt is getting it back
Associated Press A Nebraska man is getting title to his home back, years after losing it over a $588 tax debt, one of his lawyers said Thursday.…
Continue ReadingHaiti’s health minister loses his job after a deadly gang attack on a hospital in the capital
Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post following a deadly gang attack on the…
Continue ReadingPizza deliverer in Florida charged with stabbing pregnant woman at motel after tip dispute
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A pizza deliverer in central Florida has been charged with pushing her way into a motel room with an accomplice and stabbing…
Continue ReadingNYC taxi driver was having a medical episode when he jumped the curb and hit people, police say
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A taxi driver whose car hit six pedestrians when he jumped a curb in a Manhattan shopping district on Christmas…
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Mysterious ‘boom’ heard throughout Central Oregon, residents raise questions
UPDATE: NewsChannel 21 reached out to the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) concerning the possible Christmas Day sonic boom and according to a…
Continue ReadingSinkhole prompts lane closures on Interstate 80 in New Jersey
WHARTON, N.J. (AP) — A sinkhole that opened up along Interstate 80 in northern New Jersey has forced authorities to close the eastbound lanes of…
Continue ReadingManmohan Singh, India’s former prime minister, dies aged 92
By Aishwarya S Iyer, Abel Alvarado and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — India’s former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who steered the country through…
Continue ReadingBoy killed in Colorado reservation shooting was in bed when he was hit
Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old boy on a tribal reservation in Colorado earlier this…
Continue ReadingAn altercation erupts at a high-level meeting of a Russia-dominated economic union
MOSCOW (AP) — A meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of former Soviet nations has plunged into disarray when two of the leaders…
Continue ReadingDeath toll in bridge collapse in Brazil jumps to 8, with at least 9 people still missing
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian authorities say more bodies have been found after the collapse of a bridge linking two northern states, raising the…
Continue ReadingIndia’s former prime minister Manmohan Singh, architect of economic reforms, dies at 92
Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform…
Continue ReadingTexas man arrested for allegedly threatening ‘to show up at’ a Capital One ‘with a machete and gasoline’ over debt issues
By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A Texas man was arrested Friday for allegedly sending threatening messages to an unnamed debt collection agency over…
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