NEWTOWN, Conn. — The students who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 live with their trauma — and without their friends — every day. Sitting around a table at the Edmund Town Hall in Newtown on their last Friday as high school students, five seniors who survived the shooting were making plans to…
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LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers added more infield depth, acquiring veteran utility man Cavan Biggio from the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday for minor-league right-hander Braydon Fisher. The Dodgers are expected to option outfielder Miguel Vargas to Triple-A Oklahoma City to make room on the active roster. Biggio, 29, has six seasons of experience with…
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Lautaro Grinspan | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution EL PASO, Texas — A 24-year-old mother from Venezuela called it “destiny” that she and her twin daughters had made it into the U.S. just hours before new restrictions were enacted at the border. Clad in a purple tracksuit, Jenny Giro breastfed her daughters while sitting on the…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the talk of the tech world and has become the dominant new kid on the block in the world of Silicon Valley startups. AI has also taken to the streets as fully autonomous robotaxis have been roaming San Francisco since last August — and are expected to expand to the rest…
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Popular YouTuber and Windsor resident Ben Potter, who brought comic books to life as audio dramas on his channel Comicstorian, was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 25 near Fort Collins, Colorado, on Saturday. Related Articles National News | Elizabeth Holmes appears to gain ground as her appeal is heard National News | ER…
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A lawyer for imprisoned fraudster Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday appeared to make headway with the trio of judges weighing her bid for a new trial. Holmes, 40, was convicted by a jury in early 2022 on four felony counts of defrauding investors in Theranos, her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup. On Tuesday, her appeal was…
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By Jackie Veling | NerdWallet More U.S. consumers may need help managing their credit card payments. Roughly 6.9% of credit card users were in serious delinquency in the first quarter of 2024 — the highest rate since historic lows in 2021 — according to the Federal Reserve’s latest quarterly report on household debt and credit,…
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By TOM KRISHER | AP Auto Writer DETROIT — Just before 2 a.m. on a chilly April night in Seattle, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup stopped at an electric vehicle charging station on the edge of a shopping center parking lot. Two men, one with a light strapped to his head, got out. A security camera…
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Colleen Schrappen | (TNS) St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS — Both of Dan Tague’s parents earned bachelor’s degrees. So did his older sister and brother. But as his turn approached, Tague, 20, saw a different route. In high school, he designed sets for plays and enrolled in any “hands-on” classes he could. By the time…
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Only two years ago, California enjoyed an unparalleled budget surplus of $97.5 billion, the result of soaring revenues and an influx of federal coronavirus funds. This editorial board advised Gov. Gavin Newsom to use that opportunity to make substantive changes to the budgeting process, invest in long-neglected infrastructure and prepare for the inevitable downturn. Any…
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