ROME — The artist who sculpted “Charging Bull,” the bronze statue in New York which became an iconic symbol of Wall Street, has died in his hometown in Sicily at age 80.Arturo Di Modica died at his home in Vittoria on Friday evening, the town said in a statement on Saturday. Di Modica had been…
Human remains found in Lee County, North Carolina last Friday have been identified as Cory Dale Moore, a 32-year-old father who has been missing since September, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.The remains were found around 1 p.m. on Friday, February 12, 2021 in a heavily wooded area near Carbonton and Pickard roads in…
Janteyl Johnson had a plan. She wanted to go to beauty school in Philadelphia where she would train to be a hairstylist. And she wanted to go to business school to learn how to open and run her own salon.“She loved doing hair… she was always changing hers up,” Janteyl’s mother Kyma Johnson told Dateline.…
A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who has been living in Tennessee was deported Saturday back to his home country of Germany.In February 2020, a Memphis immigration judge ruled that Friedrich Karl Berger could be deported because he assisted in “Nazi-sponsored persecution” when he served as an armed guard in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp…
President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in Texas as the state reels from a severe winter storm that left millions of people without power amid freezing temperatures.Biden’s action makes federal funding available to communities across 77 counties, including hard-hit Harris County, where Houston is located. Additional disaster designations may be made after further…
SANTA FE, N.M. — A Democrat-led Legislature in New Mexico pushed forward Friday to ensure future access to abortions by voting to repeal a dormant ban on most abortion procedures, marking a defiant counterpoint to efforts in some conservative states.House legislators voted to approved the repeal of the 1969 statute that has gone unenforced since…
NASA’s new Mars rover, Perseverance, on Thursday successfully touched down on the red planet to kick off a new search for alien life. In a bit of fortuitous timing, perhaps, a day later Apple TV+ premiered the first episode of the second season of “For All Mankind,” which is about an alternate reality in which…
A San Antonio woman made multiple attempts to rescue a dog she found wandering the snow-filled streets of Texas. When all else failed, she realized she had one last idea: use tortillas.Kristin Salinas-Labrador, 28, was coming back from work when she saw a black Labrador on the road and immediately pulled over. Though she wanted…
Democratic New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on Friday that she was joining several other Democrats in the state in calling for a full investigation into Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.In a statement emailed to Newsweek, Ocasio-Cortez wrote, “I support our state’s return to co-equal governance and stand with…
A Ventura County Community College District professor is facing backlash for reprimanding a student who is hard of hearing during a virtual class. A video of the incident made waves on social media when it surfaced on Friday.In the video, which made its way onto Reddit on Friday, the frustrated professor calls on a student…
