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STATESBORO, Ga. — A person already in prison has been sentenced to 80 years in federal custody after authorities said the inmate built two bombs while behind bars and mailed them to a federal courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, and the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced the sentence for the … Read more
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. General Assembly speeches address countless facets of human existence. But on Tuesday, one world leader also made a point of honoring the existence of horses. “Horses have been integral to human livelihoods, culture and civilizations since time immemorial,” said Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, whose Central Asian nation led the Assembly earlier … Read more
NEW YORK — As medical professionals react with alarm to President Donald Trump’s unproven statements about Tylenol, childhood vaccines and autism, a different group of Americans is feeling vindicated. For the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement, a diverse coalition that includes supporters of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., anti-vaccine activists and others who distrust … Read more
A former Omega Psi Phi pledge who alleges he was so severely beaten during the Nu Eta chapter’s “Hell Night” that he had to relearn how to walk is now suing the fraternity, the University of Southern Mississippi and multiple other people and organizations JACKSON, Miss. — A former Omega Psi Phi pledge who alleges … Read more
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner won a decade-long court battle on Tuesday against being extradited to the U.S. to face corruption charges in a bribery scandal involving soccer’s world governing body. Trinidad and Tobago ’s high court permanently stayed extradition proceedings against Warner, who faces racketeering and bribery charges in the … Read more
Faith Ayer had no qualms about taking Tylenol for chronic migraines and COVID-19 during her pregnancy, and grew disappointed and angry as she watched President Donald Trump rail against the pain medicine. “A lot of the claims that were shared have just not been backed by evidence,” said Ayer, a nurse practitioner in Jacksonville, Florida, … Read more
SALLISAW, OK — Storms carrying heavy rain and damaging winds ripped part of the roof off a hospital in eastern Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon, forcing some patients to be evacuated, according to county officials. The Northeastern Health System hospital in Sallisaw had to evacuate around nine patients after a small section of its roof was … Read more
The winning numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing of the “Mega Millions” game were: 13-24-41-42-70, Mega Ball: 18, Megaplier: The winning numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing of the “Mega Millions” game were: 13-24-41-42-70, Mega Ball: 18 (thirteen, twenty-four, forty-one, forty-two, seventy, Mega Ball: eightteen Estimated jackpot: $451 million For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | … Read more
UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter, using the incidents to portray the global body as dysfunctional. “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the … Read more
Thomasina Clarke has watched school after school close in her once thriving St. Louis neighborhood, which was hit by a tornado this spring and whose population has plummeted in recent decades. “It’s like a hole in the community,” Clarke said. She fears a new round of closure discussions could strip the historically Black community of … Read more