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Four broadcast journalism students at Chapman University in California will screen their independent film about Marc Fogel on Wednesday, May 8 in efforts to spread awaren...
May 08, 2024 Local News
PAVILION TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Three tornadoes have been confirmed in Michigan as severe storms barreled through the central U.S. early Wednesday, killing one man in Tennesse...
May 08, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 44-foot (13-meter) dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said. The whale, identified as an endang...
May 08, 2024 National News
MOUNTAIN HOME VILLAGE, Calif. — Two young siblings died after being swept away by a rapidly flowing creek in Southern California's San Bernardino Mountains, authorities s...
May 08, 2024 National News
TikTok and its Chinese parent company filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new American law that would ban the popular video-sharing app in the U.S. unless it's sold to ...
May 07, 2024 National News
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Tuesday that makes additional changes to Georgia's election laws ahead of the 2024 presidential contest in the battleground s...
May 07, 2024 National News
CHICAGO — Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who had initially adopted a permissive approach sa...
May 07, 2024 National News
ROSEAU, Dominica — Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they...
May 07, 2024 National News
IRVING, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It's a significant shift as th...
May 07, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president’s hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor s...
May 07, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to issue a forceful condemnation of antisemitism during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when th...
May 07, 2024 National News
BRETTEVILLE-L’ORGUEILLEUSE, France — On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic who was ready to give his life — and save as many as he could. Now 99, he’s ...
May 06, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — Columbia University canceled its large university-wide commencement ceremony Monday following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled its campus and...
May 06, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, acco...
May 06, 2024 National News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing counted down for its first astronaut launch on Monday after years of struggle. NASA test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were set t...
May 06, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — Columbia University is canceling its large university-wide commencement ceremony amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests but will hold smaller school-based cerem...
May 06, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial fined him $1,000 on Monday and, in his sternest warning yet, told the former president that future gag order viola...
May 06, 2024 National News
HOUSTON (AP) — More storms were moving through the already saturated Houston area on Sunday, where flooding from heavy rains has led to the rescue of hundreds of people ...
May 06, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art m...
May 06, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — Crucial witnesses took the stand in the second week of testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial, including a California lawyer who negotiated deals at t...
May 06, 2024 National News
SAN FRANCISCO — They’re lounging, biting each other and generally making a ruckus in numbers not seen in more than a decade. And don't even think about stealing their anc...
May 04, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, remnants of Halley's comet, peaks this weekend. And with just a waning crescent moon in the sky, it should be visible. The Eta...
May 04, 2024 National News
HOUSTON — Heavy storms slammed the Houston area again Friday, widening already dangerous flooding in Texas and leading to numerous high-water rescues, including some from...
May 03, 2024 National News
DORCHESTER, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman has won $1 million twice on lottery tickets in the last 10 weeks. Christine Wilson, of Attleborough, won the most recent prize o...
May 03, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — Anti-war demonstrations ceased this week at a small number of U.S. universities after school leaders struck deals with pro-Palestinian protesters, fending off ...
May 03, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges and taken into custody Friday in connection with a U...
May 03, 2024 National News
DENVER — A fundraising dinner for the Jefferson County Republican Party slated to feature South Dakota governor and vice-presidential hopeful Kristi Noem has been cancele...
May 03, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — Hope Hicks took the stand Friday in Donald Trump's hush money case, recounting in her morning testimony how she followed Trump from the real estate world to p...
May 03, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — Clarence B. Jones says he thought a prankster was on the line when he answered the telephone and heard the person on the other end say they were calling from...
May 03, 2024 National News
UMC removes anti-LGBTQ language
UMC removes anti-LGBTQ language
May 03, 2024 Religion
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