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Fort Worth police asked for help Wednesday to identify four robbery suspects accused of attacking a 64-year-old Newark man while he was pumping gas at a QuikTrip on Northside Drive.One of the suspects sprayed the man with a unknown chemical, which caused him extreme pain, and the other three suspects opened the doors to the…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians walk near the main entrance to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand located in central Wellington, New Zealand, July 3, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s central bank on Wednesday announced a halt to its pandemic-induced NZ$100 billion ($70 billion) bond purchase progamme, sending the…

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced at a press conference Wednesday that the death toll in the Surfside, Fla., apartment collapse had increased to 46 people, after 10 more bodies were found.Video Transcript- Through these efforts and since our last briefing, the US teams recovered an additional 10 victims bringing the total confirmed deaths to…

Tropical Storm Elsa is made landfall in Taylor County, along Florida’s northern Gulf Coast, at 11 a.m. local time.The National Hurricane Center measured the storm’s sustained wind speeds at 65 mph, which is below the threshold for a Category 1 hurricane.The storm is still expected to bring heavy rainfall and flash flooding. Parts of northern…

A goldfish once small enough to flush down someone’s toilet has achieved greatness in Virginia, by landing in the record books.Jeremy Fortner from Chesterfield, Virginia, caught the “trophy fish” in Hunting Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River, and set an official state record in the process, according to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources.…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — When 16-year-old rising volleyball star Deven Gonzalez was pulled from the rubble of her Miami condo building, her initial reaction amid the shock was to tell firefighters that she had to compete in a major tournament in a few days.The teen’s entire world revolved around volleyball. She played beach volleyball,…

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden, reprising his role as comforter-in-chief, highlighted Thursday the “life and death” situation that has brought together all levels of the government as he visits a south Florida community reeling from the collapse of a 12-story condo building that left 18 people dead and dozens missing.A week after disaster in Surfside,…

Last week the BBC investigated the recent discovery of an English link in US President Joe Biden’s ancestry. Since then a family from England has claimed a connection to the president through the same forebears. They explained what it means to them.For 20 years, Paul Harris has made a hobby of dwelling on the past.Bit…

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Women holding their mobile phones are silhouetted as they walk on an overpass at a business district in Tokyo, Japan, November 5, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino 2/2 By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Women make up fewer than 10% of managers at most Japanese companies and a big majority of firms…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A person walks past the Bank of England in the City of London financial district, in London, Britain, June 11, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – British inflation can rise above 3% before the Bank of England feels discomfort, according to a Reuters poll of economists who also…