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Colin Powell dead at 84 from COVID-19

Colin Powell, who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and peace but who stained his sterling reputation by going before the U.N. and making faulty claims to justify the U.S. war in Iraq, has died from COVID-19 complications. He was 84. In 1989 Powell became the first Black chairman… Read More

Teenage second-degree murderer granted parole after 11 tries

Eric M. Smith, who was 13 when he killed a 4-year-old boy with a rock in western New York, has been granted parole, corrections officials said on Saturday. Smith, now 41, appeared for the 11th time before the Board of Parole on October 5 and was granted release as early… Read More

Bill Clinton returns home after hospitalization

Bill Clinton arrived Sunday at his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital, officials said. The former president left the University of California Irvine Medical Center around 8 a.m. with Hillary Clinton on his… Read More

This state will take time in removing profanity from license plates

Removing the flipping obscenities from license plates on Maine’s roads and highways isn’t going to happen overnight, even though a law banning such profanities in a state where such regulation has been unusually lax goes into effect Monday. Currently, there are license plates with salty language including f-bombs, references to… Read More

California resident finds more than 90 snakes under her home

Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under houses but recently was called by a woman who said she had seen rattlesnakes scurry under her Northern California house and was surprised to find more than 90 rattlesnakes getting ready to hibernate. Wolf, director of Sonoma County… Read More

Breaking: 2018 Parkland school shooter to plead guilty

The gunman who killed 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school will plead guilty to their murders, his attorneys said Friday, bringing some closure to a South Florida community more than three years after an attack that sparked a nationwide movement for gun control. The… Read More

Biden DOJ will ask Supreme Court to halt Texas Heartbeat Act

Texas has continued banning most abortions after a federal appeals court rejected the Biden administration’s latest attempt to stop a novel law that has become the nation’s biggest curb to abortion in nearly 50 years. The decision Thursday could push the law closer to returning to the U.S. Supreme Court,… Read More

Transportation Sec. Buttigieg goes on paid leave amid shipping crisis

Last year, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg was stumping for President Joe Biden very, very vocally. Yet, Buttigieg has recently become more quiet. Now we know why. He’s been on paid family leave since the middle of August, a Transportation Department spokesperson told Politico on Thursday. SHOCKING: Common Food Linked to… Read More

FDA endorses half-dose Moderna shot for booster, especially among elderly

U.S. health advisers said Thursday that some Americans who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine at least six months ago should get a half-dose booster to rev up protection against the coronavirus. The panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously to recommend a booster shot for seniors,… Read More