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Two Carnival cruise ships returned to a popular Texas port on Sunday for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic halted the cruise industry more than a year ago. The ships, the Carnival Breeze and Carnival Vista, arrived at the Port of Galveston, exciting local business owners who rely on sales from tourists who come to the city before heading out to sea, Click2Houston reported. “People come in and fill up hotels before they go out on our cruises,” William Neumann, who owns the Shark Shack and the Playground, told the outlet. They spend money in the retail shops readmore

Two Indiana high school students were killed and two others injured in a car crash on their way to prom Saturday night, a report said. Lendon Byram and his girlfriend Kalen Hart have been identified as the victims who died in the two-car wreck near 281st Street and Lacy Road in Hamilton County, the Indianapolis Star reported, citing police. The other students were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. They were on their way to the Hamilton Heights High School senior prom at the time of the crash, the report said. Hart was a senior at Hamilton Heights, while Byram was readmore

An affluent Massachusetts town will continue to require residents and visitors to wear face-coverings while outside — despite the state lifting its outdoor mask mandate last week. Officials in Brookline, a Boston suburb, announced on Friday that they would delay complying with Gov. Charlie Baker’s order to relax face coverings in public places. “Out of an abundance of caution and in our residents’ best interests, the Town of Brookline will not follow suit with the state’s decision to lift the outdoor mask mandate today,” Health Commissioner Dr. Swannie Jett said in a statement. “Our face covering requirement has served readmore

Boxer Félix Verdejo turned himself in to federal authorities in Puerto Rico on Sunday to face charges in the disappearance and death of his 27-year-old pregnant girlfriend, officials said. Verdejo, 27, is accused of abducting Keishla Rodríguez and killing her by throwing her off of a bridge in San Juan at around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, according to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI. Authorities allege that Verdejo injected his lover with a syringe containing an unidentified substance — before binding her arms and feet with wire and tying a heavy block to her. The fighter allegedly shot at readmore

Hillary Clinton on Sunday warned that the US could face “huge consequences” from President Biden’s decision to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan. The former secretary of state was asked on CNN what she thought of Biden’s move to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. “It’s one thing to pull out troops that have been supporting security in Afghanistan, supporting the Afghan military, leaving it pretty much to fend for itself, but we can’t afford to walk away from the consequences of that decision,” she said. While acknowledging readmore

A Missouri woman who smuggled a gun into a county jail by hiding it in her vagina was sentenced to a decade behind bars, a report said. Amy Wilhite, 39, had pleaded guilty to sneaking the four-inch revolver into Boone County jail on February 14, The Smoking Gun reported. The gun that Amy Wilhite was caught smuggling into a jail. Brian Leer The firearm was loaded with five rounds when Wilhite brought it into the lockup. Police and jail guards failed to detect the gun, which was eventually found by authorities 17 days after Wilhite was sent to jail on seperate gun and readmore

Argentina coronavirus cases hit 3 million on Sunday since the pandemic began, as medical workers said hospitals were full to capacity despite toughened government measures to bring down the spread of infections. The country’s health ministry said there were 11,394 new cases over the last 24-hour period, bringing up the grim new milestone, with 156 new deaths taking fatalities to 64,252. The government of President Alberto Fernandez this week unveiled a new round of tougher restrictions as a second wave of infections has battered the country, filling up intensive care units and setting new daily records for cases and deaths. But medical staff readmore

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday accused President Biden of abandoning “the rule of law” at the US border, saying the Lone Star State is literally paying the price for the immigrant surge there. Abbott, who blamed the Biden administration’s policies for causing the crisis, said Texas may have to dole out up to $1 billion this year for border security, health costs and education. “It shows that President Biden’s approach to this is to abandon the rule of law,” Abbott said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” adding that the “root cause” of the border crisis is “readmore

Mourners gathered in North Carolina Sunday for a public viewing and memorial service for Andrew Brown Jr., the man shot dead by deputies last month — as authorities issued a warning to protesters to remain peaceful. Dozens of friends, relatives and neighbors flocked to the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City for the viewing, which will be followed by a private funeral service on Monday at the Fountain of Life Church, ABC News said. Brown, 42, a father of seven, died April 21 after sheriff’s deputies executing a search warrant at his home fatally shot him as he tried to flee readmore

Alan Dershowitz has agreed to defend Rudy Giuliani as he’s investigated over his Ukraine dealings — slamming the US as a “banana republic” for sending the FBI to raid his new client’s Manhattan home. Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor who served on President Trump’s impeachment legal team, said it was “inappropriate” for the federal agents to execute a search warrant at Giuliani’s Upper East Side apartment last week. “In banana republics, in Castro‘s Cuba, in many parts of the world when a candidate loses for president, they go after the candidate, they go after his lawyers, readmore