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Early voting means ‘election season’ has already begun

Tuesday, Nov. 5, is Election Day – but if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day.Wisconsin kicks off early voting today, making it the first state to make absentee ballots widely available to voters. By the end of the month, more than half of all states will have ballots in at least some voters' hands, including Michigan and North Carolina.It makes the next […]

September 19, 2024

US News

Wisconsin field trip children, adults injured in tractor and wagon accident at apple orchard

A field trip at a Wisconsin apple orchard soured after at least 17 people, including children, were injured following a tractor rollover. In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Chippewa Fire District's Deputy Chief Corey Jeffers said that two hay wagons that were being pulled by a tractor rolled over at the Bushel and a Peck Apple Orchard in Lafayette, Wisconsin.Jeffers said that three patients were transported with life-threatening injuries, five with serious injuries, and nine others were transported by ambulance. One […]

September 19, 2024

Orlando News

Vermont caps emergency motel housing for homeless, forcing many to leave this month

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reservedBruce and Nova Jewett, who are experiencing homelessness, sit at the Hilltop Inn in Berlin, Vt., on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, where they have been living and will have to leave by Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)BERLIN, Vt. – This fall, hundreds of the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness in Vermont must leave state-funded motel rooms where they’ve been living as the state winds down its pandemic-era motel voucher program. The move […]

September 19, 2024

World News

North Korea launches fresh wave of trash balloons toward South Korea

North Korea launched a fresh wave of "trash balloons" toward its southern neighbors Wednesday night, according to local media. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that the North launched more than 160 balloons carrying trash across its southern border. The report cited South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) which said it discovered dozens of "trash bundles" containing paper, plastic bottles, and other household garbage in parts of Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds the capital of Seoul. Balloons are seen from the Unification […]

September 19, 2024

Orlando News

Refugees in New Hampshire turn to farming for an income and a taste of home

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reservedFarmer Sylvain Bukasa, a refugee from Democratic Republic of the Congo, harvests corn on his plot at Fresh Start Farm, Aug. 19, 2024, in Dunbarton, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)DUNBARTON, N.H. – It's harvest time in central New Hampshire, and one farm there appears to have been transplanted from a distant continent. Farmers balance large crates laden with vegetables on their heads while chatting in Somali and other languages. As the sun burns away […]

September 19, 2024

Science News

New research investigates how short-term space travel affects ‘space tourists’

New studies show that space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who spend months in orbit.Samples taken from test subjects in space showed wide-ranging shifts in cells and changes to the immune system.The study comes as opportunities for private space travel have expanded in recent years.Space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who spend months in orbit, according to new studies published Tuesday.Those shifts mostly returned to normal once the amateurs returned […]

September 19, 2024

Orlando News

Oversight board says it will help speed up projects to fix Puerto Rico’s electric grid

BusinessFILE - People march along Las Americas Highway to protest the LUMA Energy company in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File) (Carlos Giusti, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)SAN JUAN – A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances announced Wednesday that it will step in to help speed up projects to fix the island’s crumbling power grid as widespread outages persist.Only $1.2 billion out of more than $17 billion authorized by […]

September 19, 2024

Orlando News

TIMELINE: Here’s where things stand in the Madeline Soto case 6 months later

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – Around six months after the body of missing Florida 13-year-old Madeline Soto was officially recovered, there are still plenty of questions regarding her death.However, investigators have still managed to uncover plenty of details about the case over these past few months, shedding light on what happened.As the investigation continues, below is a timeline of events stemming back to her initial disappearance.All episodes of “Justice for Madeline” can be found here.FEBRUARY 26 — DAY ONEMadeline Soto was […]

September 19, 2024

Sports News

Olympic judges ignored Simone Biles’ score review that could have given her gold, breaking US tie with China

Newly released footage shows the women's gymnastics judges at the Paris Olympics floor routine final neglected to process a request from U.S. coaches for a review of Simone Biles' routine. Had the request been considered and her score changed with what the U.S. coaches saw, it likely would have resulted in Biles taking gold. Biles initially won silver with a score of 14.133, just 0.333 points behind Brazil's Rebeca Andrade, who won her second Olympic gold after a famed comeback from […]

September 19, 2024

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Early voting means ‘election season’ has already begun

Wisconsin field trip children, adults injured in tractor and wagon accident at apple orchard

Vermont caps emergency motel housing for homeless, forcing many to leave this month

North Korea launches fresh wave of trash balloons toward South Korea

Refugees in New Hampshire turn to farming for an income and a taste of home

New research investigates how short-term space travel affects ‘space tourists’

Oversight board says it will help speed up projects to fix Puerto Rico’s electric grid

TIMELINE: Here’s where things stand in the Madeline Soto case 6 months later

Olympic judges ignored Simone Biles’ score review that could have given her gold, breaking US tie with China

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