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We're one year, or roughly 31,536,000 seconds, into this new, strange pandemic life.We've missed loved ones and weddings and funerals, dance recitals and baseball playoffs, more "firsts" and simple pleasures than we can even count at this point.We've learned how…
Newly-released police body camera footage shows a California man telling Fresno police officers, county sheriff's deputies and paramedics that he can't breathe as they restrain him in the moments before he died in 2017.In an introduction to the edited video…
After applying to more than 20 colleges, one high school senior from Philadelphia has been offered a total of over $1 million in scholarship money.Shanya Robinson-Owens, 17, applied to somewhere between 25 to 30 different colleges, hoping to find the…
The first thing you need to know about dropping out of school is that it doesn't happen all at once. Educators say students don't just wake up one day and decide that's it, no more school. It happens slowly. They…
A UPS driver was moved to tears after his customers in Pennsylvania showed their appreciation in a big way.Chad Turns delivers for UPS in the small town of Dauphin, Pennsylvania, and is beloved by his customers, said resident Jenny Shickley.…
Hattie Blumenberg can't easily get to a mass vaccination center. The 90-year-old woman has limited transportation, and leaving her Chicago home would require someone physically carrying her from the house to a vehicle.But a new program at Chicago's Rush University…
"We're just tired," Will Lex Ham of New York City tells CNN. "We're tired of being scapegoated."Ham's sentiments echo the fatigue, frustration and collective trauma experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) due to recent racist attacks on their…
Click here for updates on this story NEWPORT, Vermont (WPTZ ) -- Nearly 130 inmates at a Vermont correctional facility have tested positive for COVID-19, noted by corrections officials the largest outbreak within a prison since the pandemic started.The Vermont Department…
Click here for updates on this story BERKELEY, California (KGO) -- A protest on Thursday prompted the shutdown of the onsite COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Golden Gate Fields.Protesters are reportedly calling for Golden Gate Fields' race track to be shut down,…
A SpaceX rocket has a major crash, old photos come to life and a New York woman makes a weird discovery. These are the must-watch videos of the week.'It just blew up!'SpaceX's rocket prototype stuck its landing, but then exploded…
The Senate passed President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan on Saturday, after an all-night "vote-a-rama" and a 12-hour struggle to get one Democrat to support the party's plan on a critical issue.The vote was 50 to 49 on…
The Senate is now engaged in a marathon effort to take up President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill, a process that could stretch into the weekend before a final vote in the chamber takes place.The chamber voted Thursday…
The US shouldn't ease restrictions in place to prevent Covid-19 before the number of new coronavirus cases falls below 10,000 daily, "and maybe even considerably less than that," Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday.The US should pull restrictions gradually, after a…
On April 11, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered what would be his last speech from a window at the White House to the crowd below. They had gathered there expecting a celebratory speech on Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender…
On April 11, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered what would be his last speech from a window at the White House to the crowd below. They had gathered there expecting a celebratory speech on Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender…
Deep in the heart of Texas, above an oil patch about the size of Kansas, a little team in a small plane is trying to reveal a big problem.They are methane hunters. With an infrared camera and a Picarro Cavity…
