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Businesses raise funds for family after two girls drown in creek

OSCEOLA, Iowa (KCCI) -- The Osceola community is coming together to support the family of two young girls who drowned in White Breast Creek last Friday.The girls, ages 7 and 10, went missing Friday night, and search crews found their bodies in the creek just outside of Osceola. Several local businesses are raising money to help the family during this difficult time.At the Nutrition Hub on the Osceola Square, customers are buying energy drinks, knowing proceeds from Tuesday's sales will go to the family."It was heartbreaking," said Makalya Halverson, owner of Nutrition

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How has the Iran war affected Middle East states?

LONDON, May 13 - The war that began on February 28 with a massive Israeli-U.S. bombing campaign against Iran has rocked the entire Middle East, wreaking damage to infrastructure and economies and overturning settled assumptions about regional security.On a second major front, Israel launched a ground invasion and bombing campaign of Lebanon in March in pursuit of Hezbollah fighters after the armed group fired across the border in solidarity with Iran.This is how some countries have been impacted:IRANThe strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a host of top officials and genera

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Fani Willis vows to sue over new Georgia law that removes party labels in Atlanta-area elections

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law requiring nonpartisan elections for most local officials in the five most populous counties in the Atlanta area, leading Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and another Democratic prosecutor to threaten to sue over the bill's constitutionality. Kemp signed the bill privately Tuesday, the final day after Georgia's 2026 legislative session for the governor to sign or veto bills. Republicans have repeatedly targeted Willis because of her prosecution of Republican President Donald Trump after he pushed to overturn Democrat J

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Tennessee Democrats stripped of House committee seats over redistricting protests

The Republican speaker of Tennessee's House of Representatives on Tuesday stripped Democratic lawmakers of all committee assignments as punishment for their role in boisterous protests during last week's special session on redistricting.The move came five days after the Republican-controlled Tennessee House approved a new congressional map dismantling a Black-majority district in the U.S. House of Representatives built around the predominantly African American city of Memphis.Last Thursday's vote, likely to result in flipping the Democratic-held seat to the Republicans in November's midterm e

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Trump promises US-Cuba talks but gives no details

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Cuba is asking for help and "we are going to talk," without providing any more information about U.S. plans. Trump has heaped pressure on the Caribbean island nation since returning to office last year, and threatened that Cuba "is next" after U.S. forces captured Nicolas Maduro, the president of longtime Cuban ally Venezuela, in January."No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and only heading in one direction - down! Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!! In the meantime, I'm off to China!" Trump wrote i

Man hit by Frontier Airlines plane taking off at Denver airport intended to kill himself, officials say

Kouri Richins set to be sentenced for her husband’s murder on what would have been his 44th birthday

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Dorofeyev scores in OT to give Golden Knights 3-2 win over Ducks and 3-2 series lead

Pavel Dorofeyev has made a name for himself with his shot from the right circle, the epitome of a skilled player making the best use of his talents by setting the Vegas record for power-play goals with 20 this season. But this is the Stanley Cup playoffs and toughness is asked of all the players. Dorofeyev took a hard shot off his right knee in the second period Tuesday night, forcing him to leave the ice for a few minutes. But Dorofeyev, who earlier had a power-play goal, scored at 4:10 of overtime to give Vegas a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks, moving the Gol

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David Venturella to serve as acting ICE director

Longtime immigration official David Venturella is expected to serve as the next acting ICE director, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.The former private prison firm executive will assume leadership of the agency as the Trump administration tries to take a different approach to its immigration crackdown following a turbulent year. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said he wants agents to take a “quiet” approach while remaining aggressive on arrests.Venturella will take over the role from acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement head Todd Lyons, wh

GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards, amid House Ethics inquiry, denies having inappropriate relationship with staff

‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the controversial Florida migrant detention facility, expected to close, source says

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America is in for yet another long spell of price pain

President Donald Trump’s latest Iran war pitch to American consumers: Short-term pain will bring long-term gain. But Tuesday’s ugly consumer inflation report, Wednesday’s uglier wholesale inflation report and some worrying bond market signals all point to one thing.The pain will not be short-lived.Wednesday’s Producer Price Index report showed the war with Iran is raising costs for US businesses at a rate not seen in nearly four years, increasing the likelihood that companies will pass on those higher costs to consumers.PPI, a measure of wholesale inflation, increased in April to 6% on

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As the US starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

Cuba is struggling with devastating nationwide blackouts as the United States’ effective oil blockade strangles fuel supplies. But this crisis may also be accelerating a China-backed clean energy revolution that’s been quietly unfolding in the Caribbean nation.Cuba is currently pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet, with help from China, according to data from the energy think tank Ember. Imports of Chinese solar panels and batteries have soared over the past year and, with Chinese investment, Cuba has built dozens of solar parks.The country is still heavily depend

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Tests in Italy, Spain come back negative in global hunt for hantavirus

Seventeen people under observation in Italy and Spain for possible hantavirus infection have tested negative, the countries' health ministries said on Wednesday as governments around the globe tracked the virus to stop it from spreading.The World Health Organization said on Tuesday more cases were expected from the cluster that broke out on a luxury cruise ship during a polar expedition that departed from Argentina, but it stressed this was nothing like Covid and was not a pandemic.Hantavirus is primarily spread by rodents but can be transmitted between people in rare cases. That requires clo

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NFL sends 49ers back to Mexico City in Week 11 after Melbourne opener on 9-game international slate

The San Francisco 49ers will bookend the NFL 's largest ever international slate, playing the 2026 season opener in Melbourne against the NFC West rival Los Angeles Rams and facing the Minnesota Vikings in Week 11 in Mexico City. Covering eight stadiums, seven cities and four continents, this year will feature nine games outside of the U.S. for the most the league has ever staged. Sixteen teams, exactly half of the NFL, will play internationally in 2026. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has declared the goal of 16 games annually outside of the U.S. Afte

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Florida plans to close 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention center, New York Times reports

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Trump says US FDA Commissioner Makary is out

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'He was having some difficulty': Trump reacts to resignation of his FDA chief

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is leaving the Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the situation, after President Donald Trump signed off on a plan to fire him last week.

Online seller eBay rejects GameStop's $56 billion takeover offer

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Amazon looks to redefine a need for speed with 30-minute deliveries

Amazon is rapidly opening store-sized delivery hubs in dozens of U.S. and foreign cities to fulfill customers’ most urgent product needs in 30 minutes or less

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‘My life is not affordable. No one cares’

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Ship operator and employee are charged in crash that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore bridge

Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the operator of the ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024 leading to the deaths of six construction workers

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls