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More than 800 unaccompanied kids stopped at southern border in single day
New York Post - 6 Aug 2021 02:39
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stopped a whopping 834 unaccompanied minors at the US-Mexico border Wednesday.
Ex-cop Amber Guyger's murder conviction upheld by appeals court in Botham Jean killing
NY Daily News - 6 Aug 2021 04:18Mom's corpse kept wrapped in newspapers by daughter who collected her Social Security: cops
NY Daily News - 6 Aug 2021 03:15
The home where the mummified body was found was also littered with buckets and jogs full of human waste
2 North Carolina men charged in murder of Pennsylvania woman visiting Miami Beach on spring break
NY Daily News - 6 Aug 2021 03:53
Two North Carolina men who have already been charged with the rape of a 24-year-old Pennsylvania woman who overdosed and died while visiting Miami Beach have now been charged with first-degree murder.
Myanmar's Military Has Weaponized COVID-19. In My Village, We Did Everything We Could to Save Ourselves
Time - 6 Aug 2021 03:11
As the virus surged in my township, my community--like many others across the country--took the COVID-19 response into its own hands, writes Vahpual, a journalist in Chin state.
Drunk driver who tested 9 times the legal limit, which is believed to be a record, will spend more than a year in prison
NY Daily News - 6 Aug 2021 02:05
The 28-year-old's driving privileges were permanently revoked
'Tiger King' 'hitman' busted for DUI in South Carolina
NY Daily News - 6 Aug 2021 01:48
Handyman Allen Glover was stopped in Beaufort County.
'My dream is a living hell': Florida nurse begs COVID patient to go on ventilator
USA Today - 6 Aug 2021 15:54
The surge of COVID-19 patients due to the delta variant has scared Florida ER nurse Lauren Anderson. The conditions are worse than the first wave.
Ahead of Sept. 11 anniversary, Congress scrambles to fully fund World Trade Center Health Program
NY Daily News - 6 Aug 2021 14:21
According to estimates provided to the News, the program was looking at a funding shortfall of roughly $2.8 billion within the next five years.
Women ride bicycle at theme park in China suspended almost 1,000 feet off the ground
USA Today - 6 Aug 2021 13:54Canada Border Agents Begin Labor Action, Threatening Trade, Tourism
Wall Street Journal - 6 Aug 2021 13:52
Talks between the union representing about 9,000 employees at the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canadian government failed to produce a new agreement before a Friday morning deadline.
Security contractor reportedly says plan was to arrest Haitian president
New York Post - 6 Aug 2021 13:50
A Miami-based security contractor suspected of training mercenaries in the assassination plot of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, claimed he was working with an ex-judge to help arrest the leader.
Jailed former South African President Zuma admitted to hospital
CNN - 6 Aug 2021 13:45
Jailed former South African president Jacob Zuma has been admitted to an outside hospital for medical observation, the country's Department of Correctional Services (DCS) said Friday in a statement.
Biden's electric vehicle sales goal won't be too hard to reach by 2030
CNN - 6 Aug 2021 04:31
President Joe Biden announced an agreement Thursday that aims to push the US auto industry to sell more electric vehicles. The goals include a "shared aspiration" that 40% to 50% of vehicles sold in the US will be electr...
6 people are dead after a sightseeing plane crashes in Alaska
CNN - 6 Aug 2021 04:24
Six people are dead after a sightseeing plane crashed in southeast Alaska on Thursday, according to the US Coast Guard.
4-year-old girl killed in accidental shooting in Englewood
Chicago Tribune - 6 Aug 2021 03:44
A toddler is dead after another child found a gun and it was accidentally discharged in a home in Englewood, authorities said.
Cuomo campaign booted from Democratic fundraising site amid sex harass scandal
New York Post - 6 Aug 2021 03:41
Fundraising platform ActBlue has booted Gov. Andrew's campaign committee from its site after a state investigative report found the Democrat sexually harassed female staffers half his age.
Teachers' union sues Rhode Island mom over requests for CRT curriculum info
New York Post - 6 Aug 2021 03:39
State and local branches of the NEA filed a lawsuit against a Rhode Island mom who initiated requests seeking information about whether her daughter's school curriculum included principles of CRT.
Florida vet pleads guilty to making animal torture porn
NY Daily News - 6 Aug 2021 02:42
An Aventura, Florida veterinarian pleaded guilty to sexual abusing pets, and producing "crush video," a type of pornography that shows animals getting stepped on and smashed to death.
Sheriff tells Seattle courthouse employees to stay remote over safety concerns
New York Post - 6 Aug 2021 02:30
Employees at Seattle's King County Courthouse are postponing their return to work in-person due to safety concerns in the courthouse and the adjacent park at the sheriff’s orders after a man attempted to rape a county ...
Human Rights Campaign staffers call for organization's president to resign over ties to Andrew Cuomo
NY Daily News - 6 Aug 2021 02:15
Alphonso David , who served as counsel to the governor from 2015 to 2019, said that attorney general's report has "made me sick to my stomach," and that Cuomo should resign.