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Sometimes Connie Bolle wonders if her husband, Jeff Bolle, 60, would still be alive if things had been different last spring. After being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, the high school football coach and counselor started chemotherapy in 2023, but he had to stop abruptly when the drug he received, cisplatin, became harder to find […]

Passengers say major delays at Birmingham Airport on Monday have left them out of pocket after paying for new flights to reach their destinations. Many people were stuck in queues and missed their flights on Monday due to a technical issue with security lanes. Lily-Rose Watkins, a student living in Selly Oak, Birmingham, said she […]

[BBC] An Iranian billionaire convicted of stealing nearly three billion dollars has had his death sentence commuted to a 20-year jail term. Babak Zanjani was convicted in 2016 of pocketing money from the oil ministry to circumvent US sanctions on Iran. He said he had been unable to hand over the cash because of sanctions […]

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth today (April 30) after six months in the final frontier. The Shenzhou 17 spacecraft touched down under parachutes in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region today at 5:46 a.m. EDT (0946 GMT; 5:46 p.m. Beijing time), about nine hours after departing China’s Tiangong space station. All three Shenzhou 17 crewmembers […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky does not expect his country to join NATO during the country’s war with Russia. “In my personal opinion, we will only join NATO after we have won,” he said at a joint event with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday. All 32 NATO members must […]

Ukraine has no plans to force men of conscript age to return from abroad, a senior government official said on Tuesday, despite a shortage of soldiers needed on the front lines to fend off Russia’s 26-month-old invasion. “There will be no restrictions and no forced return of Ukrainian citizens of any gender or age to […]

A woman has recounted the “insane plane behaviour” she witnessed on her recent flight, and it has sparked a debate about airplane etiquette. In a viral video posted to TikTok, user Alex Bennett (@justalexbennett) recalled how a father asked a fellow plane passenger to swap sweats with him so that he could sit with his […]

Related: Trump trial enters third week with Michael Cohen’s ex-banker testifying The New York judge presiding in Donald Trump’s criminal trial fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for nine violations of a gag order designed to protect trial participants from his abuse, imposing the maximum financial penalty allowed under New York state law. The […]

MANITOWOC — Manitowoc County residents will be given the chance to connect with local nonprofits and learn about their missions, services and volunteer opportunities at an upcoming Spring Volunteer Fair. The fair, hosted by United Way Manitowoc County, will be at Lester Public Library in Two Rivers in the Community Room at 11 a.m. May […]

In the Los Angeles restaurant where Nathaly Paola Castro Torres works, customers never fail to comment on her short stature. “People stare at me too much and make comments or jokes,” Torres, 42, said. “Many times they also (take) photos of me and I don’t like it. I feel very bad.” At 4 feet, 2 […]

Donald Trump is not happy with his lead defense attorney, Todd Blanche, according to The New York Times. The former president has been frustrated with Blanche since the early days of his criminal hush money trial, four people familiar with the situation said, according to New York Times political reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. […]