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6 US soldiers hit by avalanche during warfare training

An avalanche hit six Army soldiers undergoing mountain-warfare training near Vermont’s highest peak Wednesday, sending five to the hospital. Rescuers worked to evacuate the six soldiers training at Smugglers Notch, a narrow pass at the northern edge of Mount Mansfield. The base of the notch is surrounded by steep cliffs… Read More

Students walkout to protest school safety

Tens of thousands of young people across the U.S. walked out of school to demand action on school safety Wednesday in one of the biggest student protests in decades. Braving snow in New England and threats of school discipline in places like Georgia and Ohio, they carried signs and bowed… Read More

[Video] Shocking video of baseball star beating his girlfriend goes viral

Major League Baseball indefinitely suspended Houston Astros minor leaguer Danry Vasquez in August of 2016 following his arrest on suspicion of assault family violence, and the outfielder was released by the team. On Tuesday, a news channel in Corpus Christi, Texas released a video that reportedly shows that disturbing incident… Read More

Dog dies after flight attendant does…WHAT!?

A dog died on a United Airlines plane after a flight attendant ordered its owner to put the animal in the plane’s overhead bin. United said Tuesday that it took full responsibility for the incident on the Monday night flight from Houston to New York. In a statement, United called… Read More

World famous physicist Stephen Hawking dead at age 76

In his final years, the only thing connecting the brilliant physicist to the outside world was a couple of inches of frayed nerve in his cheek. As slowly as a word per minute, Stephen Hawking used the twitching of the muscle under his right eye to grind out his thoughts… Read More

Students walkout across the US to protest school safety

From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month’s massacre of 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In nearly 3,000 protests nationwide, students… Read More

Thousands facing power outages after 3rd nor’easter

Storm cleanup and the restoration of power to the tens of thousands of residents and businesses without electricity was the focus Wednesday, one day after a fierce nor’easter lashed the Northeast with hurricane-force winds and heavy snow. With spring tantalizingly close after the switch to daylight saving time, many were… Read More

Revealed! Texas bomb victims’ families knew each other

Families of two people killed by package bombs left on their doorsteps in Austin knew each other and were connected through local activism in the black community, a civic leader said Tuesday. But it was not clear how they might be tied to a third household where a package bomb… Read More

ABC star apologizes for nasty anti-Christian comments

by Kylie Handler, editor ABC’s “The View” star Joy Behar is apologizing for comments she made for equating people’s claims that Jesus Christ talks to them to mental illness. During his appearance on Fox’s “Hannity,” Vice President Mike Pence announced that Behar called him to give a “sincere” apology and he… Read More

TRAGIC! Deadly Disney World bus crash reported

A bus carrying high school band members home to Texas from Disney World ran off a highway and plunged into a deep ravine Tuesday in Alabama, killing the driver and injuring many passengers, authorities said. First responders used ropes to rappel down the 50-foot ravine in the middle of Interstate… Read More