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A school superintendent in California, Stephanie Anello, was fired after she was accused of protecting a friend who allegedly bullied and harassed other employees. The friend, Kenneth Turnage, is the director of maintenance, operations, and facilities at the Antioch Unified School District. The school district’s board voted unanimously on Thursday to end Anello’s contract. The … Read more
Last October 7, Hamas executed a well-planned attack on Israel. This attack had been carefully prepared for years by people connected to Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza. Some of these people also praised Adolf Hitler on social media and were very anti-Semitic, meaning they strongly hated Jewish people and wanted to destroy Israel. … Read more
Peter Buffett, the son of famous investor Warren Buffett, made an important decision 47 years ago when he chose to sell his inheritance to “buy time.” Although he could have made hundreds of millions of dollars if he had kept his shares, Peter doesn’t regret his choice and believes his father would agree with him. … Read more
Search and rescue teams at Grand Canyon National Park were searching on Friday for a missing Arizona woman who was swept into a creek during a flash flood. The National Guard was also called in to help evacuate other stranded hikers. The woman, identified as 33-year-old Chenoa Nickerson from Gilbert, Arizona, was hiking in Havasu … Read more
On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, North Carolina Mayor Leonardo Williams shared his story about starting a restaurant and praised the Democratic Party for supporting small businesses. Williams, the mayor of Durham, talked about how he and his wife, Zweli, began cooking for their community years ago. They gave out food samples … Read more
A man from Alabama, Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, admitted on Friday that he set off a homemade explosive device filled with nails outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office earlier this year, according to the Department of Justice. Calvert, from Irondale, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court to using the explosive device maliciously. The explosion … Read more
An unusually strong cold front was moving through Northern California on Friday, bringing a rare chance of snow in August for the Sierra Nevada mountains. A low-pressure system from the Pacific Ocean is causing a sudden change in weather, dropping temperatures and creating conditions for showers and thunderstorms on Friday and Saturday. However, the weather … Read more
An unusually strong cold front moved into Northern California on Friday, bringing a rare chance of snow in August to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada. A low-pressure system from the Pacific Ocean is causing a few days of unusual weather, with temperatures dropping sharply and creating conditions for showers and thunderstorms on Friday and … Read more
An Orange County man, Christopher John Badsey, 63, was sentenced to over seven years in federal prison on Friday for scamming three companies out of $3 million. He promised to deliver protective gloves during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic but never provided them. Badsey, from Lake Forest, was also ordered to pay $1.94 … Read more
The summer celebration was supposed to be a joyful occasion. British tech tycoon Mike Lynch had invited his closest lawyers and friends to the Italian port of Porticello, near Palermo, to celebrate the end of a long 13-year legal battle. Twelve guests flew in from the UK, the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Ireland to … Read more
SpaceX is preparing for a historic spacewalk during the Polaris Dawn mission, where astronauts who are not part of the government will walk in space for the first time. This mission will also test SpaceX’s new, slimmer spacesuits and a Crew Dragon spacecraft that has been modified to open its hatch door in space, without … Read more
There are 73 days left until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, but most Americans will vote before then, just like they did in the last two elections. Early voting starts on Sept. 6 for some people, with seven key states sending out ballots in the same month. This means the next few months are … Read more
A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court accused the court’s liberal majority on Thursday of going too far in an election case, saying they were acting more like lawyers for the Democratic Party than neutral judges. The case was brought by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). They want to block Green Party candidate Jill … Read more
