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A 3-year-old was walking ahead of his grandpa on an Arizona trail when he was bitten by a rattlesnake, fire officials said. Rescuers responded to the incident at 10:58 a.m. on Thursday, April 4, on the Granite Mountain trail, the Scottsdale Fire Department said in a news release. As firefighters responded to the area, the […]

The port of Baltimore could be partially open again by the end of the month as the US military and partners push to clear the collapsed bridge that blocked the main shipping channel after being rammed by a cargo vessel, and Joe Biden toured the disaster site on Friday. After getting a firsthand look at […]

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) shook up the internet on Friday by suggesting the earthquake in New York and Monday’s pending eclipse were messages from God to repent. The Georgia Republican took to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday and suggested that there was a higher meaning behind the natural phenomena. She even dropped the […]

A video of buildings toppling is shared on social media with the claim it depicts the earthquake that shook Taiwan on April 3, 2024. This is false; the clip shows a controlled demolition of high-rises in China from 2021. “Nine feared d£@d, hundreds inj¥red as 7.2 earthquake hits Taiwan,” says an April 3, 2024 X […]

Rift comes after Somaliland deal giving landlocked Ethiopia access to the Red Sea. A deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland involving the lease of coastline and establishment of a naval base has further worsened diplomatic relations with Somalia. Somalia’s government is furious at the agreement, which would give landlocked Ethiopia access to […]

WASHINGTON — Three Democratic congressmen unveiled legislation Friday to rename a federal prison in Miami after former President Donald Trump. The bill — offered by Reps. Gerry Connolly, of Virginia; Jared Moskowitz, of Florida; and John Garamendi, of California — comes in response to a measure introduced by a group of House Republicans to rename […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal trial is set to begin, rehashing longstanding grievances with the current judge in a long-shot, eleventh-hour bid to disrupt and delay the case. Trump’s lawyers — echoing his recent social media complaints — urged Manhattan Judge […]

(Bloomberg) — Ontario, Canada’s most popular province for international students, will see a smaller decline in the number of new study permits than previous estimates. Most Read from Bloomberg The province will have a 41% reduction in study permits from 2023 levels, according to new government estimates released Friday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government earlier […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Indiana State Police surprised a tenant in the 2100 block of Kopf Lane in rural West Lafayette earlier this week with a search warrant and then troopers swarmed the detached garage. “Some case from 2016 is all I know,” the tenant said when the Journal & Courier asked about the state […]

A federal judge has dismissed most of the defendants in Johnston County school board member Ronald Johnson’s lawsuit over losing his job as a Smithfield Police detective and being indicted on criminal charges. Johnson filed a federal lawsuit in June charging that he was the victim of a conspiracy by multiple groups to remove him […]

By Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK, April 5 (Reuters) – Don Hankey, the billionaire businessman whose company Knight Specialty Insurance provided the $175 million bond that Donald Trump posted in his New York civil fraud case, told Reuters that the fee his firm charged the former U.S. President was low. Hankey, who backed Trump as […]