After Hurricane Fiona, Puerto Ricans are frustrated with electric grid, infrastructure problems
Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Fiona has pummeled Puerto Rico, an island whose infrastructure struggled to recover from the devastating Hurricane Maria that killed almost 3,000 people in 2017.
Fi…
Scoreboard roundup — 9/21/22
iStock(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Cincinnati 5, Boston 1
NY Yankees 14, Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia 4, Toronto 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Houston 5, Tampa Bay 2
Baltimore 8, Detroit 1
Texas…
LACDPH to give all K-12 schools naloxone amid opioid overdose increase: District
Scott Olson/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — A medicine used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose from drugs such as fentanyl will be available at all K-12 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District in the coming weeks, Superintendent Alber…
In heated debate, Arizona secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem reveals he sat for Jan. 6, DOJ interview
Samuel Corum/Getty Images(PHOENIX) — Arizona Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem revealed during Thursday’s debate that he has been interviewed by both the Justice Department and Jan. 6 committee about his alleged involvement in the C…
‘Celebrity Wheel of Fortune’ puts a star-studded spin on America’s Game
ABC/Christopher WillardIt’s time once again for celebrities to spin the wheel and solve the puzzle. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune returns to ABC Sunday night, with Snoop Dogg, Amanda Seales and Mark Duplass competing on behalf of their chosen charities.
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Boy, 8, paralyzed in Highland Park shooting returns home
Jason and Keely Roberts(HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.) — After a little over two months of hospitalizations and rehabilitation, an 8-year-old boy, who was left paralyzed from the deadly Highland Park, Illinois shooting, was finally able to go home.
Jason and K…
Elton John set to rock the White House Friday night
Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) — British pop legend Elton John is set to rock the White House on Friday night, playing for President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden in a South Lawn performance the White House says “will c…
Nearly 225,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 since the start of 2022 despite viral declines, data shows
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS(NEW YORK) — Although the daily death rates have ticked down slightly from August, updated federal data shows that the U.S. is still losing hundreds of Americans to COVID-19 every day, and 225,000 people in the U.S. have been lo…
McCarthy rolls out House GOP ‘Commitment to America’ ahead of midterms
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Thursday rolled out an agenda that he says the House GOP would follow should it retake control of the chamber after this year’s midterms.
The plan, dubbed …
New evidence alleges Ethan Crumbley exhibited more warning signs ahead of school shooting
David Guralnick-Pool/Getty Images(OXFORD, Mich.) — New evidence uncovered during discovery of the case of Ethan Crumbley allegedly shows that Oxford High School teachers and school officials failed to respond to warning signs exhibited by the accused…