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Queen Elizabeth, 95, was taken to the hospital on Wednesday for "preliminary investigations" and was released Thursday, Buckingham Palace confirmed. The same day, the queen canceled a trip to Northern Ireland on advice from doctors, the palace said.
"Following medical advice to rest for a few days, The Queen attended hospital on Wednesday afternoon for some preliminary investigations, returning to Windsor Castle at lunchtime today, and remains in good spirits," Buckingham Palace said in statement. The news was first reported by the U.K.'s The Sun newspaper. The queen was seen at an event for global business leaders with Prime Minister
Reuters,
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Lisa Baertlein
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LOS ANGELES - Southern California's Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle the most ocean cargo of any ports in the United States, but are some of the least efficient in the world, according to a ranking by the World Bank and IHS Markit. In a review of 351 container ports around the globe, Los Angeles was ranked 328, behind Tanzania's Dar es Salaam and Alaska's Dutch Harbor. The adjacent port of Long Beach came in even lower, at 333, behind Turkey's Nemrut Bay and Kenya's Mombasa, the groups said in their inaugural Container Port Performance Index published in May. The
WPTZ-TV [Plattsburgh NY],
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Stewart Ledbetter
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MONTPELIER, Vt. — Gov. Phil Scott is asking residents to take personal responsibility to help reduce a continuing spike in active COVID-19 infections, a surprise given Vermont's position as the nation's most-vaccinated state. Vermont has seen 921 new infections and four new deaths over the last four days. Scott said the cycle of the delta variant of the virus, which arrived later in Vermont than in southern states, may explain part of the stubborn surge in active cases. Scott said he hopes cases wane in a week or two. In the meantime, Scott is again asking residents to get a booster
New York Times,
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Ruth Graham
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MONETA, Va. — On a sunny Thursday morning in September, a few dozen high school students gathered for a weekly chapel service at what used to be the Bottom’s Up Bar & Grill and is now the chapel and cafeteria of Smith Mountain Lake Christian Academy. Five years ago, the school in southwest Virginia had just 88 students between kindergarten and 12th grade. Its finances were struggling, quality was inconsistent by its own admission, and classes met at a local Baptist church. Now, it has 420, with others turned away for lack of space. It has grown to occupy a
KXRM-TV [Colorado Springs CO],
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Dani Birzer
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Parents are demanding answers following allegations that teachers forced middle school students in Colorado Springs to tape masks to their faces. Academy School District 20 has said it will investigate the claims. More than 100 students and staff members are being interviewed about the situation. A picture of a sixth-grader from Chinook Trail Middle School with a mask taped to her face made the rounds on social media over the weekend. The child’s mother said she posted the picture to find out if other parents were aware of a “policy” of taped masks, and whether it
KCBS-TV [Los Angeles CA],
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Staff
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WILMINGTON — With the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach now running 24/7 operations, a new problem has occurred. Many of the shipping containers that spent weeks onboard ships waiting to be unloaded are now being dumped in nearby neighborhoods once they’re emptied. Sonia Cervantes lives along Anaheim Street, where UCTI Trucking Company is located. The company’s lot only has a capacity for 65 containers so the additional containers now line up along Anaheim Street in front of some people’s homes.
“It’s a bunch of neighbors that are very upset because it’s a non-stop situation,” said Cervantes. “I would
CBS News,
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Staff
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Desperate efforts continued on Tuesday to save a group of missionaries, most of them Americans, being held for ransom by a criminal gang in Haiti. FBI agents were working with local authorities in the tiny Caribbean nation to find the 16 U.S. nationals and one Canadian who were kidnapped on Saturday. Haiti's justice minister said the gang was asking for $1 million each — $17 million dollars in total — to release the missionaries, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The missionaries, from an Ohio-based Christian organization, were abducted just outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. CBS
Business Insider,
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Mary Hanbury
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Grace Kay
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California ports have hit another record, despite Biden's plan to extends their working hours in order to ease the backlog. According to data from the Marine Exchange, there were a total of 157 ships recorded in and around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Monday, matching a record that was reached for the first time in September. The total number of ships at anchor and in holding areas, waiting to dock and unload at the ports, also hit a fresh record on Monday as 100 vessels floated off the shore. 97 of these ships are container ships
KMGH-TV [DENVER, CO],
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Robert Garrison
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DENVER — A rideshare driver was hospitalized after he was stabbed several times during an altercation with a group of teens seeking a ride in Denver early Monday morning, according to the Denver Police Department. It happened just after midnight in the 2100 block of Broadway Street in Denver. Police said the victim was driving to pick up the group after they requested a ride from that address. When the driver arrived, he informed the group of five male teens he could not fit them all in his vehicle, according to police. Standard rides on rideshare platforms only allow up to
Fox Business,
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Houston Keene
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10/18/2021 7:30:34 PM
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West Virginia Republicans are speaking out after an Illinois Democrat said their entire state is "an irrelevant part" of the national economy. Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., took the jab against the Mountain State in a comment to Politico on Monday while pushing the progressive Democrats’ Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP). Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., sent progressives scrambling to rework the climate agenda in the $3.5 trillion spending bill after he told the White House over the weekend that he would not support the program, spurring ire from progressives like Casten. "If you came and said to me, 'We will pass
Washington Examiner,
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Tori Richards
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Despite President Joe Biden's goal to move cargo around the clock in Los Angeles ports, the gates remained shut on Sunday with a smattering of open traffic on Saturday. The nationwide port schedule app Pier Trucker showed terminals that looked like ghost towns Sunday with barren traffic lanes as additional cargo ships continue to pile up along the coastlines of Los Angeles and Orange counties. On Friday, 88 ships were waiting to dock at either Long Beach or Los Angeles harbors — 10 additional ships from the last count on Oct. 13, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California.
Fox Business,
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Catie Perry
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Americans will see food costs rise "tremendously" in the coming weeks, according to billionaire supermarket owner John Catsimatidis. Catsimatidis, who is the president of Gristedes and D'Agostino Foods, discussed his concerns about inflation and supply chain issues on FOX Business’ "Mornings with Maria," and warned companies like Nabisco, Pepsi and Coke will begin to prioritize products and raise prices in order to get ahead. "I see food prices going up tremendously," he told Maria Bartiromo. "[CEOs] want to be ahead of the curve and the way they're doing it is they're dropping all promotions. They are dropping low-moving items."
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Surprise - It's hard to find stories about Bernieland's surge in COVID cases.