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2 dead, 1 wounded in Michigan shooting

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DETROIT — Two people are dead and one other person was wounded in a shooting Wednesday night in Washtenaw County, officials said.

They also said three suspects in the triple shooting are in custody.

Northfield Township police were called at about 8:30 p.m. to a home in the 2000 block of Nollar Bend Road near U.S. 23 and East North ...Read more

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FBI investigating Colorado Springs home in connection to Las Vegas explosion

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Authorities in Colorado on Thursday announced they were conducting “law enforcement activity” at a home in Colorado Springs in connection with the Cybertruck explosion at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.

In a statement on X, FBI Denver stated that its agency, the Denver Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms ...Read more

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Feds say New Orleans attacker acted alone, seek links to Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas

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Authorities are looking for possible connection between the attack in New Orleans that killed 15 and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, which happened within hours of each other on New Year’s Day.

President Biden said Wednesday that federal investigators were looking for links but “thus far, there is ...Read more

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Help the homeless get back home, away from Florida? Here's how it's done

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Broward County commissioners at a November meeting kept reeling off many proposals to address homelessness, and up came yet one more idea: Can’t we just help the homeless move out of town?

It’s far from a novel suggestion.

Broward County has been doing that already — through a philanthropic program that’s been in place for decades. It�...Read more

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10 young people shot outside Queens club holding memorial for slain teen

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NEW YORK — Ten young people were wounded in a mass shooting outside a Queens nightclub holding a “celebration of life” for a teen shot to death three months ago, police said Thursday.

At least three gunmen fired more than 30 shots at a crowd of about 15 people waiting outside the t he Amazura concert hall at 144th Pl. near Archer Ave. ...Read more

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wants to privatize Pinnacol, the state's workers' comp carrier. Will the third try be the charm?

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DENVER — Facing a massive budget deficit and a workforce that is decreasingly bound by state lines, Gov. Jared Polis has pitched a solution that’s been raised twice in recent memory at the Colorado Capitol: spinning off the state’s stake in Pinnacol Assurance.

Privatizing the quasi-governmental insurance company would mean pulling the ...Read more

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New Orleans attack, Cybertruck blast raise US security fears

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A gruesome attack on revelers celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans thrust U.S. domestic security back into the spotlight just weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

The tragedy, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, set off panic in the historic French Quarter and postponed events, including a major football ...Read more

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New Orleans attack, Cybertruck blast raise US security fears

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A gruesome attack on revelers celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans thrust U.S. domestic security back into the spotlight just weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

The tragedy, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, set off panic in the historic French Quarter and postponed events, including a major football ...Read more

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What to know about bird flu in Pennsylvania

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As more cases of bird flu are reported across species and locations, states across the country are taking precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the virus.

Hundreds of thousands of people will gather at the Pennsylvania Farm Show beginning later this week — a potential breeding ground for virus transmission, which the state ...Read more

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New Orleans attack, Cybertruck blast raise US security fears

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A gruesome attack on revelers celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans thrust U.S. domestic security back into the spotlight just weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

The tragedy, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, set off panic in the historic French Quarter and postponed events, including a major football ...Read more

Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II

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June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the U.S. government detention facility in Rohwer, Arkansas, where they had been imprisoned for three years because of their Japanese heritage.

“We...Read more

Mindfulness is about ‘remembering’ − a practice of coming back to the now

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To many, New Year’s Day represents the possibility for beginning anew.

Of late, individuals are welcoming the start of another year with a resolution to practice mindfulness, a type of meditation. Many believe mindfulness will help them relax, lessen stress and anxiety, reduce chronic pain and generally improve the quality of their ...Read more

Disgraced former NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey's home raided by feds, criminal probe launched

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NEW YORK — The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau and federal investigators raided the home of disgraced former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey Thursday — as a criminal investigation into accusations he swapped sex for overtime was launched, officials said.

Search warrants were also executed in “other locations” as the NYPD ...Read more

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Trudeau leaves Canada in suspense as anxious Liberals urge him to go

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The holiday period is over and Canadian politics is gripped by a single question: when will the country hear from Justin Trudeau?

The prime minister has largely disappeared from public view since Dec. 16, when Chrystia Freeland — his finance minister and once his most powerful ally in cabinet — resigned in devastating fashion, with a ...Read more

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Jimmy Carter helped avert nuclear disaster as young naval officer

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Jimmy Carter played a key role in repairing one of North America’s early nuclear reactor disasters.

He was a young Navy officer in the nation’s nascent nuclear-powered submarine program in 1952 when a Canadian experimental reactor near Ottawa overheated, resulting in a partial melting of fuel rods, followed by explosions which damaged the ...Read more

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South Korean police search aviation agency over plane crash

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South Korean police searched offices and the airport where Sunday’s deadly plane crash occurred, as part of a series of raids on Thursday aimed at determining who is responsible for the disaster.

Investigators from the Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency searched the office of the Busan Regional Aviation Administration in Muan county as well as ...Read more

10 young people wounded in mass shooting outside Queens nightclub

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NEW YORK — Ten young people were wounded in a mass shooting outside a Queens nightclub holding a “celebration of life” for a man murdered three months ago, police said Thursday.

At least three gunmen opened fire about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday at a crowd of about 15 people waiting outside the the Amazura concert hall at 144th Pl. near Archer ...Read more

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Relatives of kids in Illinois DCFS care would have better access to state assistance under proposed legislation

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At 48, having raised three children now in their 20s, Jeanette Byrd is back in a world of diapers, day care and cartoons.

In the last two years, Byrd’s 3-year-old granddaughter and 1-year-old grandson were placed in her care by the Department of Children and Family Services, and now she’s on the path toward permanent guardianship of the ...Read more

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A small town tries to revive its hospital in the middle of a rural health crisis

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THOMASVILLE, Ala. — It was a moonshot effort for a small Southern town: Open a brand-new rural hospital in the poorest region of one of the poorest states in the nation.

Thomasville, which has fewer than 4,000 residents, sits in the middle of Alabama’s Black Belt, so named for its rich, black soil. The rural, southern swath of Alabama is ...Read more

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18 years ago, federal agents raided this Minnesota meatpacking town; residents fear Round 2

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WORTHINGTON, Minn. – What Sandra Pineda remembers most is the fear.

On Dec. 12, 2006, Pineda woke up from a night shift at the Swift meatpacking facility along Interstate 90. About 8 a.m., a friend called her with a warning: Immigration officers were raiding the plant.

That morning, in a raid called Operation Wagon Train, Worthington was one...Read more