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Catherine McQueen/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but a banana a day is cheaper. While inflation has pushed prices up in most aisles of the grocery store, the common yellow fruit has impressively defied produce inflation and remained accessible to consumers across the country. The average price […]
Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography/Getty Images/STOCK (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — Though Republicans held a presidential primary election in Michigan on Tuesday, their delegates to the Republican National Convention will officially be allocated on Saturday at a state convention. Former President Donald Trump is running against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for the delegates, though […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The New York Attorney General’s Office sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nassau County over its recent anti-transgender sports ban. “The Order’s immediate effect is to force sports leagues to make an impossible choice: discriminate against transgender women and girls, in violation of New York law, or find somewhere […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (SPARTANSBURG, Pa.) — Police have announced an arrest in connection to the death of 23-year-old pregnant Rebekah Byler that has shaken an Amish community in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania State Police announced early Saturday morning that Shawn Cranston — a 52-year-old man from Corry, Pennsylvania — has been arrested in connection with the […]
ABC News (AMARILLO, Texas) — Several large wildfires continue to tear through northern Texas, including one that has grown into the largest blaze in state history. The Smokehouse Creek Fire that ignited in Hutchinson County remained active Thursday, with just 3% containment, the Texas A&M Forest Service said. The flames, which cover an area larger […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A blizzard warning is in effect in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains as a dangerous storm slams the region. The blizzard began Thursday and will continue off and on through this weekend. The heaviest snow will be Friday and Saturday, when some areas could see snowfall rates of 3 to 5 […]
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents seized 9.7 pounds of fentanyl with an estimated street value of $130,000. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (NEW YORK) — A U.S. citizen has been arrested attempting to cross back into the United States from Mexico after authorities found an estimated $130,000 of fentanyl hidden in the taxi […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday said the U.S. would carry out airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza in the coming days. Speaking in an Oval Office meeting with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, he referred to what he called the “tragic and alarming event” in North Gaza on Thursday in […]
Getty Images – STOCK (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — A Greenville, South Carolina, man pleaded guilty on Friday for sending a threatening letter to a federal judge that read, in part, “I have watched you leave the courthouse numerous times and plotted to get my revenge.” Authorities say the handwritten letter goes on to say, “you best […]
J. Countess/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Brown University professor Tricia Rose has spent decades studying race, gender, and class in America. Her new book “Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – and How We Break Free,” which will be released next week, provides an account of American inequality and what people can do to […]
