Two teenage girls have been charged in the carjacking death of an Uber Eats driver this week in Washington, DC, police say. Mohammad Anwar, 66, of Springfield, Virginia, was killed Tuesday afternoon near Nationals Park, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement. Anwar was working as an Uber Eats driver, says a GoFundMe page
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration could need at least 34,100 additional beds to keep up with the projected number of unaccompanied kids arriving at the US-Mexico border through September, according to internal government estimates obtained by CNN. The uptick in minors crossing the US southern border alone has posed a steep challenge for the administration, as officials
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Those afraid of heights have a new excuse to steer clear of amusement park rides. This week, two Florida teens were suspended for a few hours on a slingshot ride around three stories high after a cable snapped, rescue officials told CNN affiliate WKMG-TV. The passengers were rescued without injuries from the ride at Old
Continue Reading The Colorado police officer slain in Monday’s massacre at a Boulder grocery was the final person shot in the rampage that left 10 people dead, police said Friday. And no one — other than that officer, Eric Talley — was shot after he and other officers started engaging the gunman at the King Soopers store
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There are a whole lot of hole-in-ones going on at the WGC Matchplay. Sergio Garcia hit a hole-in-one to win a sudden death playoff against Lee Westwood on Friday to reach the tournament’s knockout rounds and now Tommy Fleetwood has repeated the feat. Like Garcia, Fleetwood’s hole-in-one on Saturday came at the Austin Country Club’s
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(CNN) — Se puede escuchar la frustración en la voz del enfermero mientras narra el video, acercándose a una ventana abierta. «Hay que ser ingeniero para que esto funcione», dice. «Tienes que ser como MacGyver». El video pasa por una mujer con oxígeno, el tubo baja desde su nariz hasta la camilla en la que
Continue Reading Dena Cook lost her roof when a tornado ripped through her Birmingham, Alabama, neighborhood on Thursday, but her faith is stronger than ever after seeing that the scarf-draped cross in her backyard was spared by the storm. “It’s just God,” Cook told CNN on Friday. Cook and her husband rode out the tornado in a
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You can hear the frustration in the nurse’s voice as he narrates the video, walking closer to an open window. “You have to be an engineer to make this work,” he says. “You have to be like MacGyver.” The video moves past a woman on oxygen, the tube running down from her nose to the
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A tree frog from Florida named Betty has been named Cadbury’s 2021 Easter Bunny. The White’s tree frog, native to Australia, beat over 12,000 contenders for the coveted title, the Hershey Company announced in a news release this week. Betty will be Cadbury’s mascot in a national commercial this spring. Kaitlyn Vidal — a college
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When you think of professional athletes training, you might have an image of impossibly grueling workouts that the average person could never get through. That isn’t exactly accurate. The biggest difference between the way the general public works out and how the pros approach training is style. Understanding how pro athletes take care of themselves
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Bindi Irwin is a mom. The “Crikey! It’s the Irwins” star and her husband, Chandler Powell, announced the arrival of their first child together, daughter Grace Warrior Irwin Powell, on Instagram. Irwin posted: “March 25, 2021. Celebrating the two loves of my life. Happy first wedding anniversary to my sweetheart husband and day of birth
Continue Reading Reese Witherspoon celebrated a decade of wedded bliss with her husband, Jim Toth, in a heartfelt post on Instagram this week. “Celebrating 10 years of marriage to my sweet hubby,” the Oscar-winning actress wrote beneath a throwback photo from the duo’s 2011 wedding. “What a special day with all of our dear friends. Looking back,
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The fried chicken sandwich wars are going global, cookie subscriptions are the new Netflix, and, for or better or worse, you can soon get a free doughnut every day for the rest of the year. Those are just some of the tantalizing and tasty offers that made headlines this week in the fast food world.
Continue Reading Lee Westwood was shocked but also in awe of Sergio Garcia after the Spaniard hit a hole-in-one to win a sudden death playoff against the Briton to reach the WGC Matchplay knockout rounds. “Well, 28 years on tour and I thought I’d seen everything. I hadn’t!” tweeted Westwood. Garcia’s moment of inspiration on the fourth
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You know how they say that anything worth doing is worth doing twice? Well, a man in South Carolina must have taken it to heart — and now he has $200,000 to show for it. The man went to a package store in the town of Summerville and bought two tickets with the same number:
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Meimei Xu grew up in Illinois, Florida and Georgia. But that didn’t stop people from asking her, “Where are you from?” The 19-year-old says growing up Asian American hasn’t been easy. When she was in grade school there were classmates who made hurtful comments. They told her Chinese food was strange and one of them
Continue ReadingIt was Thursday afternoon before a Senate recess was about to begin, and senators were in a hurry — especially Marsha Blackburn. As senators bolted from the chamber after the week’s final vote to catch their afternoon flights, the Tennessee Republican hopped in a waiting car along with an aide and made her way down
Continue ReadingAs Congress debates new legislation on firearm restrictions in the wake of two high-profile mass shootings, the National Rifle Association is playing a diminished role. But thanks to years of shedding its claim to bipartisanship and aligning almost entirely with the Republican Party, the country’s premier pro-gun lobby’s agenda has firmly planted its agenda within
Continue Reading You’ve been binge-watching television and movies the whole pandemic. Might as well get paid for it. In yet another job that encourages you to essentially do nothing, the website Nerd Bear wants to pay someone $1,000 to watch all 24 James Bond movies in 30 days. The website says it hopes the gig will keep
Continue Reading The Library of Congress just archived their songs The Library of Congress has added Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” and Kermit the Frog’s “The Rainbow Connection” to its National Recording Registry. The songs are among 25 “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s
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