JamesBrey/iStock(NEW YORK) — The homeless are among the most vulnerable as dangerous and brutally cold wind chills target the Midwest cities Wednesday. In Chicago and Minneapolis, where schools are shuttered and everyone is urged to avoid the outdoors, warming centers and buses are available for homeless residents. Wind chills clocked in at minus 52 degrees …
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Jan 30
Dems renew push for equal pay for equal work: ‘Time that we pay people what they are worth and not how little they are desperate enough to accept’
adrian825/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Ten years after President Barack Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law, House Democrats rallied to renew the push towards equal pay for equal work, stressing that while there has been progress towards pay equality, women still earn just 80 cents to the dollar a man makes for the same …
Jan 30
6 animals electrocuted in ‘freak accident’ at South Africa’s Kruger park
Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images(LONDON) — Six large animals were electrocuted to death at South Africa’s biggest national park in what officials described as “a freak accident.” A heavy storm toppled a power line in the Skukuza section of Kruger National Park last Friday, exposing a live cable that killed a giraffe and a white …
Jan 30
The latest forecast on brutally cold Midwest temperatures soon heading east
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Brutally cold, below-zero wind chills are paralyzing parts of the Midwest Wednesday — and soon, the freezing temperatures will be felt on the East Coast. Extremely dangerous wind chills (what it feels like outside) have plummeted to minus 66 degrees in Ponsford, Minnesota; minus 55 degrees at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International …
Jan 30
Meghan Markle returns to her acting roots in visit to National Theatre
Chris Jackson/Getty Images(LONDON) — Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, returned to her acting roots in her first official visit to the National Theatre since succeeding Queen Elizabeth II as its patron. The Duchess of Sussex seemed right at ease with fellow actors as she watched a performance, took part in a workshop and met …
Jan 30
Little blue penguins stolen from nest in ‘late-night’ raid in New Zealand
Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — Two protected little blue penguins were stolen from their burrow in a “late-night raid” in New Zealand last week, the Department of Conservation said. Security footage showed a woman shining a light into the penguins’ nest at Perfume Point in the coastal city of Napier while two men used a crowbar …
Jan 30
Three Iraqi refugees arrested in foiled German terror plot: Authorities
PT_Fotografi/iStock(BERLIN) — In the early morning hours of Wednesday, three Iraqi citizens living in a village in northwestern Germany were arrested on suspicion of preparing a bomb for a planned an “Islamist-motivated terror attack.” Three men, identified only as Shahin F. and Hersh F., both 23, as well as Rauf S., 36, are in custody. …
Jan 30
Lincoln’s new SUVs could put it back in the luxury game with American drivers
Morgan Korn/ABC News(NEW YORK) — The Lincoln Motor Company had a surprise for the automotive journalists waiting inside the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge last month. Hidden behind closed doors at the trendy new hotel in Dumbo, one of Brooklyn, New York’s hippest neighborhoods, was the 80th Anniversary Continental, a limited edition of the luxury sedan. …
Jan 30
Attorneys question Davison County indigent public defender contract
Two attorneys are asking Davison County Commissioners to reconsider their decision on a new public defender contract. The commission has reached an agreement with two firms: Alvine Weidenaar LLP, represented by Zach Flood and Stiles, Papendick and Kiner of Mitchell represented by Doug Papendick. The contract, which has yet to be signed would run from …
Jan 30
Brutal, bone-chilling cold moving into Midwest, Northeast
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Colleges have cancelled classes and even the U.S. Postal Service has suspended deliveries in parts of the northern U.S. as wind chills of minus 60 and below have officials warning of life-threatening conditions. Airlines had cancelled 1,718 flights nationwide as of 6 a.m. on Wednesday and over 5,000 have been cancelled …