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Teacher shot by 6-year-old describes challenging recovery
A Virginia teacher who was shot and wounded by her 6-year-old student said she has had four surgeries and is going through a challenging recovery.1 year ago
Catherine Thorbecke
Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers
Amazon is cutting 9,000 more jobs, CEO Andy Jassy announced Monday.1 year ago
Zoe Sottile
New Mexico Game and Fish is now hiring ‘professional bear huggers’
Bear lovers rejoice: The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is hiring for "professional bear huggers."1 year ago
Associated Press
March Madness: Sweet 16 matchups are set after wild weekend
March Madness is heading to the Sweet 16 without a handful of top teams. Two No. 1 seeds, Kansas and Purdue, No. 2 seed Arizona and No. 4 seed Virginia are all gone — and gone with them are millions of busted brackets.1 year ago
Associated Press
New York Community Bank to buy failed Signature Bank
New York Community Bank has agreed to buy a significant chunk of the failed Signature Bank in a $2.7 billion deal, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said late Sunday.1 year ago
Zoe Sottile
Customs officers confiscate 6 illegal giant African snails at Detroit airport
Customs officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport made an unusual -- and potentially dangerous -- discovery in a passenger's luggage: Six giant African snails.1 year ago
Logan Smith, KCNC
Colorado man killed in avalanche, two others rescued
Two men are reportedly hospitalized and one is dead after they were caught in an avalanche Friday near the town of Marble.1 year ago
Associated Press
Miami Beach sets spring break curfew after 2 fatal shootings
Miami Beach officials imposed a curfew beginning Sunday night during spring break after two fatal shootings and rowdy, chaotic crowds that police have had difficulty controlling.1 year ago
Brenda Goodman, CNN
Frozen strawberries sold at Costco, Trader Joe’s recalled
Frozen organic strawberries sold at several stores, including Costco and Aldi, and in a frozen fruit blend at Trader Joe's are being recalled after they were tied to an outbreak of hepatitis A infections in Washington state.1 year ago
Rick Sallinger
Native tribes believe they’re not heard in renaming of Mount Evans: ‘The tribe had a vision’
By now Mount Evans was expected to be renamed Mount Blue Sky, but the Northern Cheyenne tribe has objected to the process.1 year ago
Michelle L. Price, Jill Colvin, and Eric Tucker
Trump says he expects to be arrested, calls for protest
Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that his arrest is imminent and issued an extraordinary call for his supporters to protest as a New York grand jury investigates hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president.1 year ago
Associated Press
Lack of hugs caused US fentanyl crisis, Mexico’s leader says
Mexico's president said U.S. families are to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don't hug their kids enough.1 year ago
Jennifer Korn
Meta rolls out paid verification option for Facebook and Instagram users in US
Facebook and Instagram users in the United States will soon be able to pay to get a blue check on their account.1 year ago
Sandra Gonzalez
Actor Sam Neill reveals cancer diagnosis
In his forthcoming memoir, actor Sam Neill reveals he recently battled stage III blood cancer, but he is now cancer free.1 year ago
Jill Colvin, Associated Press
‘I’M BACK!’: Trump returns to Facebook after reinstatement
Former President Donald Trump has returned to Facebook after a more than two-year ban.1 year ago
Ben Finley, Associated Press
Mother: Irvo Otieno was ‘brilliant and creative and bright’
The mother of a Black man who died in police custody at a Virginia mental hospital says her son was “brilliant, creative and bright.”1 year ago
Mark Kennedy, AP Entertainment Writer
Lance Reddick, ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick’ star, dies at 60
Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” "Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, has died. He was 60.1 year ago
Zeke Miller and Fatima Hussein
Biden calls for tougher penalties for execs of failed banks
President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to allow regulators to impose tougher penalties on the executives of failed banks, including clawing back compensation and making it easier to bar them from working in the industry.1 year ago
Cheri Mossburg
Yosemite National Park to partially reopen after 3-week closure
Yosemite National Park will begin to reopen Saturday with limited access and hours.1 year ago
Associated Press
Rural Missouri sheriff, 2 deputies arrested in kidnap plot
A rural Missouri sheriff and two deputies are jailed and facing charges accusing them of helping a man in a parental kidnapping plot.1 year ago
Associated Press
ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin over Ukraine war crimes
The International Criminal Court says it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine.1 year ago
Christopher Rugaber
Will Americans end up footing the bill for bank failures?
The government’s response to the failure of two large banks has already involved hundreds of billions of dollars. So will ordinary Americans end up paying for it, one way or another?1 year ago
Alli Rosenbloom
Taylor Swift will unveil four previously unreleased songs ahead of Eras Tour debut
Taylor Swift shared on Instagram Thursday that "in celebration of the Eras Tour," she'll be releasing four previously unreleased songs. They're set to debut at midnight.1 year ago
