High school students who started school at Kansas City’s Ewing Marion Kauffman School saw something new when they entered their classrooms: a cellphone lockbox. A new policy requires all high school students to lock away their phones for the day. Students drop their mobiles into the box, which is designed for phones, and it’s locked into
Month: September 2024
Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva was booed during an awkward moment with a ball girl during her third-round match against Italy’s Jasmine Paolini on Saturday at the 2024 US Open. Putintseva faced backlash for her attitude and demeanor towards the ball girl while in the midst of a loss in the second set, as seen in a
A cruise that promised three years at sea is stuck in the harbor months after it was scheduled to set sail. ABC News’ Trevor Ault reports.
Brazil has blocked Elon Musk’s X social media platform after the SpaceX and Tesla CEO refused to comply with the nation’s demands to blacklist certain accounts. Musk claimed on his platform that the country also froze the assets of Starlink, his satellite internet company. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the country’s telecom agency to
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom should now narrow his focus from national politics to pivotal races in his own backyard. Here’s an important politician who’s suddenly without an important political gig in this extraordinarily important election season. But he could find a significant gig right here in California. A few California congressional races will help determine
Skateboarding women of Bolivia wear Indigenous garb to pay homage to the strength of their mothers and grandmothers. Their motto: When you fall, you have the power to get back up. (Image credit: Ben de la Cruz/NPR)
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Actor George Clooney praised President Biden’s decision to leave the 2024 race as “the most selfless thing that anyone’s done since George Washington” on Sunday. In July, Clooney famously penned a New York Times guest essay headlined, “I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee,” which admitted Biden had declined and insisting the
The man, Nicholas Paul Grubb, was found frozen near the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania in 1977. His identity remained a mystery until a state trooper found his fingerprints.
TEL AVIV, Israel — A rare call for a general strike in Israel to protest the failure to return hostages held in Gaza led to closures and other disruptions around the country on Monday, including at its main international airport. But it was ignored in some areas, reflecting deep political divisions. Hundreds of thousands of
This weekend marks 10 years since Jacob Hoggle, 2, and Sarah Hoggle, 3, were last seen with their mother, Catherine Hoggle. Although murder charges against her were dropped after she was repeatedly found not competent to stand trial, Montgomery County prosecutor John McCarthy remains hopeful she will eventually be tried. Catherine Hoggle was the last
FOREST PARK, Ill. — Blue Line train service between Forest Park and Austin has been temporarily suspended due to a police investigation, CTA announced on its website just after 5:30 a.m. Monday. Trains are operating only between O’Hare International Airport and Austin as a result of the investigation, CTA says. No details of the investigation
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — There are thousands of jobs in fields like construction, transportation and utilities that need to be filled in Central Texas. Pflugerville Public Library hopes to chip away at that number through its new online platform called Blue Career. “It gives you the opportunity to kind of dive into the professions, see
A prominent piece of New York City’s military history in Rockaway will soon be no more. The National Park Service is demolishing Fort Tilden’s building T-9, meaning this will be the final summer that the dilapidated structure, a familiar sight to many beachgoers, will stand. The building was first constructed during World War I to
The Beatles went viral before there was viral. In 1964, after playing to a staggering 45% of American households on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February, the band embarked upon a chaotic tour of North America. The dates included a Sept. 5 show at Chicago’s International Amphitheatre, 60 years ago this week. “It’s hard to
A Texas judge late last month struck down a nationwide ban on noncompete agreements that was supposed to take effect this Wednesday. Existing noncompete agreements will therefore now remain in place. And employers may still ask you to sign one as a condition of employment. That is, unless and until a higher court decides otherwise,