‘Drive safe, work safe, save lives’ with National Work Zone Awareness Week
National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW) in Yuma County is to be observed April 26-30, with a unique approach to this year’s theme of “Drive…
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Biden vowed to end the death penalty. Activists are demanding action as he nears the 100-day mark
As President Joe Biden nears the milestone of his first 100 days in office, anti-death penalty advocates are growing frustrated with his silence and…
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Ashley Cain’s baby daughter Azaylia dies after leukemia battle
Former UK soccer player turned reality TV star, Ashley Cain, has announced on social media that his baby daughter, Azaylia, died on Saturday after…
Continue ReadingCrenshaw ‘hopeful and confident’ in recovery after emergency eye surgery
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says he is “hopeful and confident” in his recovery after undergoing emergency eye surgery earlier this month, but…
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Why China isn’t airing this year’s Oscars
One of this year’s Oscar nominees, “Do Not Split,” is a documentary about the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. But residents of Hong…
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Manchin says he’s ‘not a roadblock’ for Biden’s priorities as he pushes for slimmed-down infrastructure bill
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said Sunday that he’s not a “roadblock” for President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, even as he…
Continue Reading‘We compromise, we die’: Rep. Cori Bush says she won’t support qualified immunity compromise in policing bill talks
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri said she would refuse to vote for new policing reform legislation that compromises on civil lawsuit protections…
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‘Funky pickles’ seized by Border Protection turn out to be $4 million worth of meth
Customs and Border Protection officers recently seized more than $4 million worth of suspected methamphetamine at the Pharr-Reynosa International…
Continue ReadingUS begins local withdrawal from Afghanistan
Gen. Austin Scott Miller, commander of US Forces Afghanistan and NATO’s Resolute Support Mission, confirmed Sunday that the US has begun to…
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Costa Rica estrena radar que detecta basura espacial de hasta 2 centÃmetros
(CNN Español) — El paisaje cambió en una pequeña localidad de Carillo, Guanacaste, en el pacÃfico norte de Costa Rica, a unos 250 kilómetros…
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Two college students chatting on a bus discovered they lived in same Chinese orphanage 15 years ago
When Ally Cole, a sophomore at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, sat next to freshman Ruby Wierzbicki on a bus on April 14, she struck up a…
Continue ReadingBiden administration working to deploy additional supplies and support to India
The Biden administration is working to deploy additional supplies and support to India as the country faces a worsening Covid-19 outbreak, White…
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Mars helicopter achieves fastest, furthest flight yet
The Ingenuity helicopter has successfully flown for the third time on Mars in a week. This time, the helicopter logged a flight that was faster,…
Continue Reading Companies that thrived during Covid hope customers stick around post-pandemic
Although 2020 was rough for most companies — to say the least — some bucked the trend. The pandemic forced consumers to learn, workout, socialize…
Continue ReadingHomeless relief is on the way, but the crisis could get worse as evictions loom
States and cities are racing to use the billions in federal relief aid approved by Congress to fight the growing crisis of homelessness — but…
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Are we numb? Handling the collective trauma of police violence, mass shootings and a pandemic
A reckoning with the deaths resulting from institutionalized racism, a resurgence of almost-daily gun violence and 3.1 million pandemic deaths…
Continue Reading Premios Oscar 2021: con la misión de salvar los cines
(CNN) — Si los Oscar necesitaban un tema general este año más allá de solo honrar lo mejor de las pelÃculas, el cierre de la cadena de cines…
Continue Reading Elon Musk will host SNL in May. Yes, THAT Elon Musk
Live from New York, it’s … Elon Musk? In one of the more surprising announcements in the recent history of “Saturday Night…
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At least 82 killed in massive Baghdad hospital fire, ministry says
At least 82 people died in a huge hospital fire Saturday night in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday.…
Continue Reading Why the future of the Oscars — like movie-going itself — remains uncertain
The Oscars have always been an ad for going to the movies, but as we head into this year’s ceremony on Sunday, the future of movie-going and…
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