Author Archives: Syndicated Content
US to bolster firefighter ranks as wildfires burn year-round
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - U.S. wildfire managers have started shifting from seasonal to full-time firefighting crews to deal with what has become a year-round wildfire season as climate change has made the ...
Sep 03, 2021
US expects to admit more than 50,000 evacuated Afghans
WASHINGTON (AP) - At least 50,000 Afghans are expected to be admitted into the United States following the fall of Kabul as part of an "enduring commitment" to help people who aided the American war e...
Sep 03, 2021
Feds probe NY Tesla crash that killed man changing flat tire
DETROIT (AP) - The U.S. government's road safety agency has added another fatality involving a Tesla to the list of crashes it is probing due to the use of partially automated driving systems. A speci...
Sep 03, 2021
Illinois students to receive 5 mental health days from school
CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) - Students in Illinois will soon be able to take up to five mental health days off school. A new bill signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last month will allow for five excused absen...
Sep 03, 2021
Biden moves to declassify documents about Sept. 11 attacks
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday directing the declassification of certain documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a supportive gesture to vic...
Sep 03, 2021
Landlord finds 19 tarantulas, 1 python left behind by tenant
AUBURN, Maine (AP) - A Maine landlord arranged for the rescue of 15 tarantulas and one python that had been left behind by a tenant. Animal rescuer Drew Desjardins was called to the apartment Wednesda...
Sep 03, 2021
Labor Day travel: CDC asks unvaccinated not to travel, vaccinated to weigh risk this weekend
SAN FRANCISCO (NewsNation Now) - With the long Labor Day holiday weekend ahead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking unvaccinated Americans not to travel due to the surge in COVID-...
Sep 03, 2021
Arizona man who wore horns in riot pleads guilty to felony
PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona man who sported face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns when he joined the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge and wa...
Sep 03, 2021
Pentagon spokesman declines to name ISIS terrorists killed in airstrike, says 'no question' target was 'valid'
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby declined Friday to provide the names of the ISIS terrorists the military killed in airstrikes late last week and early this week, as the Biden administration worked to co...
Sep 03, 2021
Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances
SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA, Okla. (KFOR) - A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance backup...
Sep 03, 2021