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New Year’s Eve fireworks are on in some places, but they’ll look a lot different this year
New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world will look very different this year as cities take precautions against the spread of Covid-19. The…
Continue Reading Mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn leads Anderson Cooper in meditation
“You can’t figure it out by thinking,” Jon Kabat-Zinn advised Anderson Cooper on embracing the present moment through mindfulness.…
Continue Reading Doctor drives three hours to get Covid-19 vaccine to rural Michigan hospital
A Michigan doctor and his silver pickup truck are playing a key role in getting the Covid-19 vaccine to remote parts of the state. Dr. Richard Bates…
Continue Reading What we know about the 63-year-old Nashville bomber
The man who detonated an RV bomb in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning was a loner with no significant criminal record and as yet no signs of…
Continue Reading Girlfriend of Nashville bomber told police in 2019 he was building explosives in an RV, records show
A woman who said she was the girlfriend of the man who set off the Christmas Day explosion in Nashville told police last year he was making bombs in…
Continue Reading Tornado touches down in Corsicana, Texas, as storm system moves into Gulf Coast
Officials in Navarro County, Texas, said a tornado touched down in the town of Corsicana on Wednesday morning. The Office of Emergency Management…
Continue Reading Florida’s first-come, first-serve Covid-19 vaccination plan for the elderly leads to scramble
Florida’s county-by-county plan to vaccinate its elderly population has created a mass scramble for a limited number of doses, leading to…
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Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ dies of Covid-19 complications at 82
Dawn Wells, who played the lovable castaway Mary Ann Summers on “Gilligan’s Island,” died in Los Angeles on Wednesday from Covid-19…
Continue Reading 911 calls reveal panic and confusion before and after the Nashville bombing
Just after the Christmas morning bombing in downtown Nashville, a terrified woman told a 911 dispatcher she thought the roof of the building where…
Continue Reading A Black jazz musician’s son was falsely accused of stealing an iPhone, father says. The woman accusing him is speaking out to CNN
Prosecutors in New York City are investigating an incident in which a jazz musician said his 14-year-old son was attacked by a woman who falsely…
Continue Reading Here’s what we know about the new coronavirus variant found in US
The United States’ first known case of the new coronavirus variant was discovered in Colorado on Tuesday, according to state health officials.…
Continue Reading Here’s what we know about the new coronavirus variant found in Colorado
The United States’ first known case of the new coronavirus variant was discovered in Colorado on Tuesday, according to state health officials.…
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At least 22 killed in attack on Yemen’s Aden airport after new government arrives
Several explosions hit Yemen’s Aden airport as the newly formed power-sharing government arrived from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The blasts…
Continue Reading Joe Clark, the baseball bat-wielding principal who inspired the movie ‘Lean on Me,’ dies at age 82
Joe Louis Clark, the hard-charging high school principal who inspired the movie “Lean on Me,” has died at the age of 82, his family said…
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UK regulator approves Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
UK regulators have approved the use of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, which is cheaper and easier to distribute than some…
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British lawmakers back post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal on eve of deadline
British lawmakers voted to back the United Kingdom’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Wednesday, on the eve of the December 31…
Continue Reading A Black jazz musician’s son was falsely accused of stealing an iPhone. The woman accusing him is speaking out to CNN
Prosecutors in New York City are investigating an incident in which a jazz musician said his 14-year-old son was attacked by a woman who falsely…
Continue Reading A Black jazz musician’s 14-year-old son was falsely accused of stealing an iPhone. Prosecutors are investigating
Prosecutors in New York City are investigating an incident in which a jazz musician said his 14-year-old son was attacked by a woman who falsely…
Continue Reading 2020 was the year of scary bugs, and 2021 will be even worse
In biblical terms of awfulness, 2020 ticked every box: There was war. There was famine. Above all, there was pestilence. And there were scary bugs.…
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