Winter Storm Grounds Flights, Delays Trains And Knocks Out Power
A major winter storm is disrupting transportation routes in parts of New England and the Midwest, after bringing snow and freezing rain to the areas. The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings or advisories for parts or all of at least eight states , and states of emergencies were declared in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Amtrak has canceled some trains along the northeast corridor, and more than 9,000 flights were delayed or canceled on Sunday according to FlightAware.com ....
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Democrats Reject Trump Border Wall Proposal, Calling It A 'Non-Starter'
Updated at 5:28 p.m. ET With negotiations over reopening the government at a standstill, President Trump offered to back temporary protections for some immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, many of whom are now adults, in exchange for funding for a wall on the Southern border. In a White House speech on Saturday, Trump also offered to extend the Temporary Protected Status program that blocks deportation of certain immigrants fleeing civil unrest or natural disasters. The...
Sunday Puzzle: You're Halfway There
On-air challenge: The answer to each puzzle is a compound word or familiar two word phrase, in which the first part has a long "I" sound and the second part has a long "E" sound. 1. A dish that's "à la mode" comes with what? 2. Area that may be marked off with police tape 3. Completely remove, as fingerprints from a surface 4. Home plate umpire's call immediately before "You're out!" 5. Area beyond where first and second basemen play 6. To transmit an event over the internet as it occurs 7....
Welcome To The World's Largest Gathering Of Humans
Shivering and blue-lipped but smiling, Niraj Shukla emerged from the Ganges River this week, flanked by his parents and millions of other people, feeling renewed. "The water is very cold, but once you have a bath – it's sort of a miracle, you know?" said Shukla, a 32-year-old engineer who lives in India's capital New Delhi. The Shukla family were among the first of what's expected to be 150 million pilgrims all taking a dip in India's holy river through March 4 as part of the Kumbh Mela , a...
Family Of American Jailed In Syria Goes Public In An Appeal To Trump
The family of an American citizen believed to have been jailed in Syria two years ago is making his story public for the first time, spurred by President Trump's announcement last month that he will withdraw U.S. troops from the country. Majd Kamalmaz, a 61-year-old psychotherapist from Arlington, Va., arrived in Damascus on Feb. 15, 2017. He traveled to the Syrian capital for a condolence visit following the death of his father-in-law and to check on elderly relatives, according to his...
Could The 10-Year Challenge Be Putting Your Data At Risk?
In the latest social media craze, people are sharing photos comparing how they looked 10 years ago with how they look today. Dubbed the "10-Year Challenge," the viral fad has attracted everyone from celebrities like Mariah Carey and Justin Baldoni , to environmentalists seeking to highlight the impacts of climate change. The challenge is light-hearted, but you may want to think twice before joining in. That's according to author and tech consultant Kate O'Neill, who warns that data from the...
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Tony Mendez, The 'Argo' Spy Who Rescued Americans In Iran, Dies At 78
Tony Mendez became a legend inside the CIA with his daring 1980 rescue of six American diplomats who were given shelter by the Canadian Embassy in Tehran after the U.S. Embassy had been stormed by Iranian revolutionaries. But the "Canadian Caper" remained classified for nearly two decades, and Mendez didn't receive full acclaim until the Oscar-winning movie Argo , came out in 2012, with Ben Affleck portraying him. Mendez, who was 78 and had Parkinson's disease, died Saturday at an assisted...
Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities
When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture hall watching a BuzzFeed video about what it's like to be an intersex or a transgender person. "It was a good video, but it felt inadequate for the education of a class of medical students, soon to be doctors," says Spiegel , now in her third year of medical school. The video, paired with a 30-minute lecture on sexual orientation, was the only LGBT-focused information Spiegel and her fellow...
Gladys Knight To Sing The Super Bowl's National Anthem, As A Perilous Fight Endures
Forget being on the wrong side of history, the NFL is on the wrong side of the culture. In two weeks, Super Bowl LIII will kick off in Atlanta, the black mecca and current hip-hop capital, but the league has had to scramble to find black artists willing to perform at the halftime show. Once revered as the biggest audience draw in pop, the halftime slot has become a political hot potato — or football, if you will — due to the fallout surrounding the NFL's alleged blacklisting of Colin...
Joshua Tree Artist Built A Crystal Cave Of Wonder With Chicken Wire, Spray Foam
Last summer, All Things Considered and Atlas Obscura took a road trip up the West Coast . Along the way, they met Bob Carr, the creator of Bob's Crystal Cave near Joshua Tree, Calif., where he welcomed visitors for 15 years. Bob died earlier this month at age 80. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth and daughter Zena. Bob "died as he lived — on his own terms and with dignity and grace," Elizabeth says. Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura first met Bob on a family road trip and has this remembrance....
Video: Giant Great White Shark Frolics With Divers
Divers off the coast of Oahu's North Shore had the rare treat last week of swimming and frolicking with a great white shark, widely believed to be one of the largest in the world, and the thrilling, inter-species encounter was captured on video. Ocean Ramsey, who independently studies sharks and leads cage-free shark diving tours off the Hawaiian island, was in the water with her team, monitoring a group of tiger sharks feeding on a decomposing sperm whale on Tuesday, when she suddenly...
R.I.P. Jack Bogle, Democratizer Of Investing
John Clifton Bogle — "Jack" Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard Group — passed away yesterday, at the age of 89. He was a giant in the financial industry but in a way, his legacy is not about what he did for the financial sector, but rather about the ways that he tried to prevent the financial sector from ripping people off. On today's Indicator, Cardiff talks with Katherine Bell, the editor-in-chief of Barron's, which covered Jack Bogle's ideas and career extensively over the years, and in...
Is That An Elephant On The Hill Above The 60 Fwy? No, It's An Ancient Mammoth... And A Fun Discovery
If you live in the Inland Empire and are driving on the 60 Freeway from Riverside towards Los Angeles, you might have seen the HUGE steel "elephant"-like statue looming in the distance on the hill above the freeway. Many people don't know it's acutally a sculpture of an ancient mammoth. Lots of drivers have wondered what it is, how it got there, and why it sits on that Jurupa Valley hill. As part of our listener-interactive reporting project, The Inland, KVCR's Shareen Awad went on a mission...
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Growth In Beaumont, Part 1: As Population Explodes, How To Pay For More Schools?
Over the past 20 years, the population in the city of Beaumont has nearly quadrupled. That prompted KVCR listener Mario Gonzalez to ask us: with all of the people moving to Beaumont, what are the plans to build more schools and infrastructure to keep up? In Part 1 of a series, we're looking at Beaumont's plans to build more schools, and the challenges they've been facing. KVCR's Danielle Fox has the story. Over the past decade, the Inland Empire has experienced massive population growth. Take...
