Steve Nedved
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Feb 20
Samsung unveils ‘Galaxy Fold,’ the first foldable smartphone-tablet hybrid
KreangchaiRungfamai/iStock(SAN FRANCISCO) — Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Fold, a smartphone that fits into your pocket but unfolds into the size of a tablet, at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. “We are fundamentally limited by the size of our devices, until now,” Justin Denison, Samsung’s senior vice president of marketing, told an audience of …
Feb 20
Vatican to hold unprecedented summit on priest sex abuse starting Thursday
ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images(VATICAN CITY) — After thousands of cases of clerical sexual abuse of minors have come to light over decades, an unprecedented summit of leading bishops gathered to discuss the protection of minors in the church is set to start in the Vatican on Thursday. Speaking to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square on …
Feb 20
‘ISIS bride’ Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen: Sec. Pompeo
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — “ISIS bride” Hoda Muthana, who has been asking to return to the United States, is not an American citizen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Wednesday, contrary to her family lawyer’s assertion.This is a developing story. Please check back for more updates. Copyright © 2019, ABC Radio. All …
Feb 20
DNA leads to man’s arrest 46 years after murder of 11-year-old Linda O’Keefe: ‘We have never forgotten Linda’
Newport Beach Police(NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — A man has been arrested through DNA and genetic genealogy in the decades-old cold case killing of 11-year-old Linda Ann O’Keefe, who was strangled to death in Southern California in 1973, authorities said. O’Keefe was last seen alive on July 6, 1973, as she walked home from summer school, …
Feb 20
Miss Me More? Kelsea Ballerini’s surprising omission from the ACM’s Female vocalist category
Black River EntertainmentWhen ACM Awards host Reba McEntire revealed the nominees for this year’s 54th annual awards Wednesday morning, there was one name surprisingly missing from the Female Artist of the Year category: Kelsea Ballerini. Kelsea’s been up for the trophy every year since 2015, the same year she took home the New Female Vocalist of the Year award. In …
Feb 20
Officers mourn NYPD detective slain by friendly fire: ‘Brian lived to protect all New Yorkers’
tillsonburg/iStock(NEW YORK) — Grieving officers of the New York Police Department gathered Wednesday at an emotional funeral for Detective Brian Simonsen who was killed by friendly fire while responding to a robbery last week. Simonsen, 42, and his partner “made the decision to move toward the danger” at a Queens T-Mobile store on Feb. 12, …
Feb 20
Battle of the bands: Richard Branson, Nicolas Maduro to hold rival aid concerts on Venezuelan border this weekend
Gary Miller/Getty Images(LONDON) — In one of the strangest twists yet in the current crisis enveloping Venezuela, two rival concerts representing the divide in the international community will take place this weekend on the nation’s Colombian border — one staged by billionaire Richard Branson, the other by an increasingly defiant President Nicolas Maduro. After philanthropist …
Feb 20
W. Va. educators strike for second day to make sure loathed education bill is a ‘dead deal’
Ildo Frazao/iStock(CHARLESTON, W. Va.) — Nearly a year after they went on strike and inspired educators nationwide to do the same, West Virginia teachers wielded their power again and this time politicians were quick to listen. Just hours after West Virginia teachers went on strike for the second time in a year, the state House …
Feb 20
Snow threatens rush hour commutes across Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast: The latest forecast
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Over 1,150 flights have been canceled Wednesday — many in the Washington, D.C., area — as a winter storm moves through the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and eventually the Northeast. Schools in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Omaha are all closed for the day and federal offices in D.C. are shuttered. Here’s the latest forecast: …
Feb 20
Dan + Shay, Chris Stapleton, and Kacey Musgraves are among the front runners for the 54th ACMs
Academy of Country Music/Cliff Lipson/CBSACM Awards host Reba McEntire revealed the nominees for the 54th ACM Awards Wednesday on CBS This Morning. Dan + Shay and Chris Stapleton are this year’s top contenders, with six nominations each, with Kacey Musgraves close behind with five. Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Florida Georgia Line and Bebe Rexha each received four. The awards will be handed out live from MGM Grand Garden Arena …