WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve expects to keep its benchmark interest rate pegged near zero at least through 2023 as it strives to accelerate economic growth and drive down the unemployment rate. The central bank also said Wednesday that it will seek to push inflation above 2% annually. The Fed also left its benchmark
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — If you’ve found certain flavors of the popular sports drink Gatorade to be in short supply or unavailable at stores, you can blame the COVID-19 pandemic, among other factors. KRDO NewsChannel 13 has confirmed through several sources that higher demand and apparent supply chain issues have caused the shortage. According
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PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has struck down Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered “non-life-sustaining” businesses to shut down, calling them unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV on Monday sided with plaintiffs that included hair salons, drive-in movie theaters, a
Continue ReadingWildfires are raging in California and Oregon. The Atlantic has seen a record number of tropical storms for this time of year. Phoenix keeps breaking heat records. Death Valley saw 130-degree heat and Iowa got smacked by a derecho. Climate-connected disasters seem everywhere in the crazy year 2020. But scientists Wednesday say it’ll get worse.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – A vaccine to shield Americans from becoming infected with the coronavirus is emerging as the latest flashpoint in the race for the White House. President Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of “disparaging” a vaccine he repeatedly has said could be available by the end of October. Trump leveled the accusation a day
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ATLANTA (AP) – An Associated Press analysis of absentee ballot rejections found the number of ballots that could go uncounted this year in some key battleground states could be up to three times higher than during the last presidential election four years ago. The rejections could be even more pronounced in some urban areas where
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CNN — The Oregon Humane Society assisted the ASPCA and Wings of Rescue to relocate 49 pets from shelters in Louisiana affected by Hurricane Laura. The animals were available for adoption in nine Louisiana shelters, including Lafourche Parish, Jefferson Parish, St. Charles Parish and others. The move helped open space and resources for pets and
Continue Reading(CNN) — Wearing a green gown and speaking from his hospital bed, Jacob Blake delivered a message to his supporters Saturday night, warning them that everything can change in an instant. “Your life and not only just your life, your legs — something that you need to move around, to move forward in life — can be taken like this, man,”
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A statewide team of 90 firefighters, including six from Colorado Springs and one from Black Forest, arrived near the Louisiana-Texas line Thursday to respond to Hurricane Laura. The team, which includes some civilians, is called Colorado Task Force One, working under the Federal Emergency Management Agency and will serve a
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Gov. John Bel Edwards said he’s received report of the first fatality from Hurricane Laura in Louisiana, a 14-year-old girl who died when a tree fell on her home. The governors of Louisiana and Texas say search and rescue teams are still looking, but they’ve found reports so far of widespread fatalities. Texas Gov. Greg
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Laura is hitting the Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane with an “unsurvivable storm surge” expected in some areas, according to the National Hurricane Center. Watch live coverage of Hurricane Laura on ABC news. “Unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from Sea Rim State Park, Texas, to Intracoastal
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Colorado remains one of the bright spots in the battle against COVID-19, but many other states are still struggling through massive infection rates and deaths. The Texas-Mexico border remains one of the biggest hotspots, prompting FEMA to recently send in the Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force-7452 from San Diego as part of the military’s support
Continue Reading(CNN) — Well, 2020 keeps getting better all the time. Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us. On the day before the presidential vote, no less. Yep. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on November 2, according to the Center
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CNN — A 12-year-old girl was among three minors caught gambling at a casino in Sydney, Australia, regulators said Saturday. According to Liquor & Gaming New South Wales (NSW), the state regulator, The Star Sydney — among the largest casinos in the country — has been fined about $64,500 (90,000 Australian dollars) for that instance
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY, Okla (CNN) — More and more people are holding virtual meetings as a way to socially distance while at work. Unfortunately, it turned into a disturbing encounter for one Oklahoma City law firm. An affidavit shows the law firm set up a Q&A session via Zoom back in May, which was open to
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BALTIMORE (AP) – Baltimore firefighters say an explosion has leveled several homes in the city, killing one person and critically injuring others. Their local union is tweeting that one person is still trapped in the wreckage while another was pronounced dead at the scene. The union also said that three people were in critical condition
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(CNN) — A teenager was killed and 20 others, including an off-duty police officer, were shot at a large gathering in southeast Washington, DC, early Sunday. DC Police Chief Peter Newsham said multiple shooters carried out the attack that killed 17-year-old Christopher Brown and left 20 people with gunshot wounds. “During the course of the
Continue ReadingA federal appeals court on Friday overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case didn’t adequately screen jurors for potential biases. The three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial on whether the 27-year-old should be
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A survey of 5,000 day care providers across the country paints a bleak future because of the COVID-10 Pandemic. According to the survey conducted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, 52% of providers said they’ll be of business by the end of the year, and 40%
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MIAMI (AP) – The United States is grappling with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, as Florida shattered the national record for a state’s largest single-day increase in new confirmed cases with a reported 15,299. Deaths from the virus also have been rising in the U.S., especially in the South and West, although they
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