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Police in Sarasota, Florida are reminding pet owners to not leave their four-legged friends in hot cars after officers had to smash a window to save a dog this week. Police say they were called to University Parkway this week about a dog locked inside a car that was turned off. Body camera footage released …

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates for now to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the state can restart executions after an involuntary 10-year pause. South Carolina had been one of the most prolific states of its size …

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60% of Americans have received at least one vaccine shot, he said President Biden highlighted on Monday that for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation early last year, cases of COVID-19 “are down in all 50 states.” But in a pitch to encourage unvaccinated Americans to get their shots, the president warned that “those who are …

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Republicans on the House intelligence oversight panel are pressing President Biden to launch a major probe into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. California Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on intelligence, noted that GOP members of the panel are conducting their own inquiry into the virus pandemic that began in Wuhan, China, …

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The Department of Labor & Industry announced that Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate has fallen low enough to automatically conclude the Extended Benefits program. The program officially concluded the claim week ending on May 15, 2021. Last week, L&I said the approximately 7,000 people filing for benefits on the EB program will be moved to the federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation …

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As fewer people die from the coronavirus, the pace of vaccinations is stalling, and four out of 10 Republicans say they do not plan to get a vaccine, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus no longer …

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About 12,466 stations had reportedly run empty as of Sunday evening Gasoline shortages continue to plague much of the East Coast, leaving a majority of the stations in Washington, D.C., out of fuel. Supplies at thousands of gas stations in dozens of Southern states were drained after a cyberattack forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest …

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Scientists are warning that another explosion could occur in Chernobyl due to the spike in neutron numbers in an underground room called 305/2. The numbers may indicate that new fission reactions are taking place, and there’s a possibility the smoldering nuclear reaction — in a room that’s currently unreachable — could lead to an explosion, Business …

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Gov. Wolf decried the ‘continued death of African Americans at the hands of police’ in a letter to state employees The head of the Pennsylvania State Trooper Association called Monday for Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to issue an apology for remarks he made toward police in a recent letter to state employees regarding the Juneteenth holiday. The union’s criticism …

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