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iStock(BREVARD COUNTY, Fla.) — Three, two, one, zero, grounded. A SpaceX rocket launch was aborted after countdown finished Sunday at Kennedy Space Center. Although some of the Falcon 9’s rockets had already ignited, a power [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — The coronavirus outbreak has begun to affect big retail stores in the country, as two major companies announced this weekend they will close all of their U.S. storefronts for the rest of [Read More…]

iStock(LOS ANGELES) — A large and potent storm system on the West Coast is already bringing very heavy snow to the northern and central California Mountains in what looks to be the most significant storm [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Earlier this month, Kostas Tanainis dropped off more than 100 sleeping bags, towels and blankets at the warehouse he started in 2015 to organize donations for refugees and migrants on the island [Read More…]

iStock(ST. JAMES PARISH, La.) — Community activists in St. James Parish, Louisiana, are demanding land permits for a $9.4 billion plastics facility be revoked after archaeologists may have discovered the project is scheduled to be [Read More…]

Davison County Commissioners have agreed to operate county offices this week with partial staff in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The Commission conducted a telephonic meeting late Saturday afternoon that [Read More…]

NorthWestern Energy activated a company-wide plan to address the implications of the COVID 19 outbreak while providing reliable energy service for our customers in Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana. Our business continuity and pandemic plans [Read More…]

iStock(LIMA, Peru) — Olinda Silvano lives with the painful memory of her father’s blood-stained shirt and his dying message, “Fight for Cantagallo.” “He opened the door thinking it was a neighbor from the community,” Silvano [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — A frontal boundary helped spark severe weather in southwest Texas overnight Friday. That same frontal boundary will be responsible for snow and rain through the Plains Saturday, however, most precipitation activity will [Read More…]

iStock(MEXICO CITY) — Last month’s grisly murders of a 25-year-old woman and 7-year-old girl sent a flood of feminists and other activists into the streets of Mexico City. With chants of “Ni una más,” or [Read More…]

Earlier this week and in our respective capacities as spiritual leaders of the two dioceses in South Dakota, we announced measures for limiting the spread of illness during Masses. These statements were circulated within parishes [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe thunderstorms moved through the Mid-South and parts of the Midwest Thursday, producing damaging winds. Kentucky had wind gusts up to 66 mph and golf ball-sized hail was reported in Illinois [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images(ALEXANDRIA, Va.) — Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and anti-secrecy activist, was ordered released after spending more than a year locked up in jail for contempt of court for failing [Read More…]

XiFotos/iStock(NEW YORK) — Frank Karinda was waiting for his wife to finish her doctor’s appointment when he decided to take his 1-year-old son for a walk around the hospital grounds in Filderstadt, Germany, a few [Read More…]

LeoPatrizi/iStock(PALM BEACH, Fla.) — A passenger on a flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Palm Beach, Florida, has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. The plane landed around 8:30 [Read More…]

narvikk/iStock(NEW YORK) — As the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise in the United States, Americans are hunkering down and more and more schools, sports leagues and amusement parks are [Read More…]

As an organization, there are services that the City provides that are critical to the community, especially during crisis or emergency situations.  While we know many other City services are valuable to our citizens, we [Read More…]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Conspiracy theorists have embraced the novel coronavirus as a source for spinning new yarn, and they received a major boost Friday from an official source — China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson. In a [Read More…]

zzvet/iStock(NEW YORK) — China and Nepal are not giving permits to climbers hoping to summit Mount Everest this season. The reports that climbers won’t be able to make attempts from either the northern, Chinese-controlled Tibet [Read More…]

da-kuk/iStock(NEW YORK) — As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep the country, major businesses — from national retailers to chain restaurants — have been forced to re-evaluate their company policies to help protect hourly [Read More…]