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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. worked Sunday to ramp up diplomatic and financial pressure on Russia over Ukraine, promising to put Moscow on the defensive at the U.N. Security Council as lawmakers on Capitol Hill said they were nearing agreement on “the mother of all sanctions.” The American ambassador to the United Nations said the Security Council will press Russia hard in a Monday session to discuss its massing of troops near Ukraine and fears it is planning an invasion. “Our voices are unified in calling for the Russians to explain themselves,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said of the U.S. and the other council members on ABC’s “This Week.” ”We’re going into the room prepared to listen to them, but we’re not going to be distracted by their propaganda.” Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is bent on waging an “attack on democracy,” not just on a single country. It’s a case that some senior foreign policy figures have

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Staff and inmates at the Vermont state prison in Springfield have high rates of suicidal thoughts, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues, according to a survey conducted by University of Vermont researchers. According to the survey done last June, 49% of staff at the  Southern State Correctional Facility  developed anxiety since starting their career, 46% developed depression, 43% became overweight or obese, 40% developed high blood pressure and 39% developed post-traumatic stress disorder,  The Times Argus reported . The study found 10% of staff seriously considered suicide at some point in the past 12 months. The study found that 70% of the inmate population developed anxiety, 65% developed depression and 55% developed post-traumatic stress disorder. The survey also found 36% of them seriously considered suicide in the past year. Department of Corrections Commissioner Nicholas Deml said the report was “concerning” and “disturbing,” but state off

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Sunday announced that the city’s snow emergency will remain in effect until Monday morning amid cleanup efforts following Saturday’s blizzard. On Saturday, Boston tied it’s single-day snowfall record with a whopping 23.8 inches. The snow emergency is slated to remain in effect until 6 a.m. on Monday. A parking ban will also remain in effect until that time and all vehicles parked on a posted snow emergency artery will be towed to allow for snow clearing operations to take place. Boston residents with a resident sticker can find a list of free and discounted garages  here . Residents will have two hours after the snow emergency ends to retrieve their cars from the discounted garages before they will be charged the regular rates, according to Mayor Wu. Additionally, residents will have 48 hours after the snow emergency expires to remove space savers and finish shoveling. “We really wa

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man severely injured in a 2019 crash in New Hampshire that killed seven members of his motorcycle club has filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles for allegedly failing to suspend the driver’s license of the man charged in connection with the crash. Joshua Morin, of Dalton, alleges in his lawsuit filed last week in Berkshire Superior Court that the agency acted willfully, wantonly or recklessly when it failed to process thousands of license suspensions and revocations reported from out-of-state,  The Berkshire Eagle reported . That failure allowed Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, whose license had been suspended in Connecticut after an operating under the influence charge, to continue driving, according to the lawsuit. Connecticut sent notice of Zhukovskyy’s license suspension to Massachusetts, but the notice was not processed because of “a defect” in t

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. CONROE, Texas (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the  deadly Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol  if he returns to the White House. “If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6th fairly,” Trump said Saturday night during a rally in Conroe, Texas. “And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.” The offer represents an attempt by Trump to further minimize the most significant attack on the seat of government since the War of 1812. Participants smashed through windows, assaulted police officers and sent lawmakers and congressional staff fleeing for their lives while trying to halt the peaceful transition of power and the certification of rival Joe Biden’s victory. More than 700 people have been arrested and charged with federal crimes in connection with the riot, marking

If you’re getting ready to head out to dig out after yesterday’s nor’easter, be sure to bundle up. Wind chills will be around 0° by noon, and remain in the single digits through the afternoon. Speaking of yesterday’s powerhouse of a storm, southeastern MA and a few towns along the North Shore received 2 FEET or more of snow. The jackpot area looks to be Stoughton, Canton, and Sharon where over 30″ of snow fell. https://twitter.com/JackieLayerOn7/status/1487791171405586436 Boston was just shy of reaching the 2 foot mark, but as far as January snowstorms, it was the second highest January snowstorm on record. Wind gusts were also damaging yesterday, especially at the coast where gusts varied from 60-80 mph. For the forecast for today, thankfully we do have the sunshine today. Highs will be in the 20s. Tonight it will be another cold one with temperatures varying from 7-14°. Tomorrow is another day with mostly sunny skies and highs into the upper 20s. We start a warmi

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A six-vehicle crash killed nine people and left one person in critical condition in Nevada, and police are trying to determine if a driver was impaired before running a red light, causing the collision. Las Vegas police said the driver and a passenger were among the dead after Saturday’s crash and the ages of the other victims ranged from juveniles to middle-aged adults. A Nevada intersection remained closed Sunday as authorities investigated. Two people were taken to a hospital where one died and the other was in critical condition, according to North Las Vegas police. They said the identities of the driver and the other eight people killed would be released by the Clark County coroner’s office. In all, 15 people were involved in the crash. “We have not seen a mass casualty traffic collision like this before,” police spokesman Alexander Cuevas said at a news conference. Cuevas said the crash was reported at 3 p.m. after the driver struck multiple vehi

Communities along the Massachusetts coast, including Scituate, Plymouth, and Plum Island, are dealing with blizzard conditions, flooding, and damaging wind gusts as a potentially historic nor’easter hammers the region . Giant waves crashed over the seawall when high tide hit in Scituate on Saturday morning, leaving a nearby neighborhood underwater. Video from Rebecca Road showed about two feet of water inundating a number of seaside homes. The storm surge also left the area littered with debris and large rocks. The wind gusts in Scituate were also so intense that birds were struggling take flight. https://twitter.com/Michael7News/status/1487496941986529282 An evacuation advisory was posted for residents who live in Scituate and officials brought in military vehicles to assist with any needed evacuations. Residents who opted to ride out the storm lined up to pick up sandbags provided by the town on Friday morning. Crews in Marshfield spent the week reinforcing the 650-foot s

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady is retiring from the NFL after an unprecedented career in which he won seven Super Bowls and set numerous passing records, according to ESPN. The 44-year-old Brady goes out after leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title last season and NFC South championship this season. ESPN reported  Brady’s retirement  on Saturday, citing unidentified sources. Brady had cited a desire to spend more time with his wife and children despite still playing at the top of his game. Brady led the NFL in yards passing (5,316), touchdowns (43), completions (485) and attempts (719), but the Buccaneers lost at home to the Los Angeles Rams last Sunday in the divisional round. Brady won six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots in 20 seasons playing for coach Bill Belichick. He joined the Buccaneers in 2020 and led them to the second Super Bowl title in franchise history. Brady leaves the games as the career leader in yards passing (84,520) and TDs (624). Heâ€

As the market for college athlete to earn money off their names, images and likenesses rapidly evolves, NCAA enforcement is faced with the tricky task of trying to police activities currently unregulated by detailed, uniform rules. NCAA Vice President of Enforcement Jon Duncan  told the Associated Press that letters of inquiry have gone out to multiple schools over the last few months. He declined to identify the schools but said the letters are not indicative of a formal investigation and they are frequently used for an assortment of reasons. “It’s just dialogue with a school to get more information about whether violations have occurred,” he said this week. The NCAA lifted most restrictions on athletes earning money through sponsorship deals or as paid endorsers last summer  after numerous states passed laws that usurped the association’s rules. The NCAA enacted an interim policy that  flung open a new market , but with no consistency from state to state. Schools were told to crea

Cohasset police are urging residents to stay off the roads amid Saturday’s nor’easter after a truck slid onto the MBTA commuter rail tracks. Officers responding to the crash found a vehicle that had left the roadway and come to rest on the tracks at Spring Street, according to Cohasset police. The Greenbush Commuter Line was was shut down for approximately 30 minutes as crews worked to clear the scene. “Please stay off the roads. Driving conditions are treacherous,” Cohasset police said in a tweet. https://twitter.com/CohassetPolice/status/1487490077248917507 from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News Source: https://ift.tt/rjXY4q9Iy

(CNN) — Warm thoughts of young romance — not the cold, harsh possibilities of a Midwestern road trip in winter — were on Dawn O’Hair’s mind as she left Chicago for Indianapolis to see her boyfriend. Her weekend visit, back in the winter of 1997-98, did not go well. After a spat with her beau, O’Hair got back into her car very early on a Monday morning to return to Chicago and her job. She should have stayed put. The 23-year-old was driving up Interstate 65 straight into a blizzard. “I ended up in whiteout conditions. I had trouble maintaining control in my 1995 Chevrolet Cavalier,” she said. “The wind was crazy. The snow was blowing sideways. It was super hard to see. It was horrible.” “I got nervous and decided to pull over [but] my car got stuck,” she said. “I didn’t know what to do. I got out and tried to figure out a way to get traction, but without luck.” And there she was — in a real mess. She hadn’t checked the forecasts. She had nothing particularly warm to wear. No blanke

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. (CNN) — An American woman from Kansas who allegedly joined ISIS and led an all-woman battalion in Syria has been arrested and charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, was apprehended in Syria earlier and was transferred to FBI custody Friday, according to the criminal complaint and a Saturday news release from the Department of Justice. Fluke-Ekren allegedly wanted to recruit operatives to attack a US college campus and is accused of discussing a terrorist attack on a shopping mall, the Justice Department statement says. The complaint was filed under seal in 2019 but made public Saturday after Fluke-Ekren was brought back to the US from Syria to face charges, according to the news release. While in Syria, Fluke-Ekren was also appointed, prosecutors say, to lead and train women and children to use AK-47 assault rifles,

(CNN) — An American woman from Kansas who allegedly joined ISIS and led an all-woman battalion in Syria has been arrested and charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, was apprehended in Syria earlier and was transferred to FBI custody Friday, according to the criminal complaint and a Saturday news release from the Department of Justice. Fluke-Ekren allegedly wanted to recruit operatives to attack a US college campus and is accused of discussing a terrorist attack on a shopping mall, the Justice Department statement says. The complaint was filed under seal in 2019 but made public Saturday after Fluke-Ekren was brought back to the US from Syria to face charges, according to the news release. While in Syria, Fluke-Ekren was also appointed, prosecutors say, to lead and train women and children to use AK-47 assault rifles, grenades and suicide belts for ISIS starting in 2016. Her first appear

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts state trial court has agreed to pay $425,000 to settle a lawsuit from a court social worker who says a judge pressured her into having sex with him. Details of the settlement were released Thursday. Judge Thomas Estes  resigned  in 2018 after he was indefinitely suspended by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court following the allegations. Social worker Tammy Cagle had accused Estes of pressuring her into performing oral sex on him and then pushing her out of the drug court when she tried to end the relationship. Cagle worked on the Pittsfield drug court where Estes occasionally sat. Estes had said their relationship was consensual and denied harassing Cagle or playing a role in her losing her job. A former public defender, Estes was nominated to the bench by Democratic former Gov. Deval Patrick in 2014 and had served as first justice of the Eastern Hampshire District Court in weste

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A former member of a high school soccer team that won its first state championship with help from members of the immigrant community has died from injuries after being hit by a car in Saudi Arabia. Zakariya Abdullahi, a defender on the Lewiston High School’s 2015 squad, was in a coma before he died Thursday in a Saudi hospital, the  Sun Journal reported . Abdullahi, who graduated from Lewiston in 2016, was on a pilgrimage to Mecca with his mother and older brother when the brothers were hit by a car while on a sidewalk, friends said. They had been living in Minnesota. Amy Bass, who wrote a book “One Goal” about the 2015 team that featured players from Somalia, Kenya and Congo, recalled the last text she received from Abdullahi on Jan. 5. “The whole trip was incredibly emotional for him. It was filled with family and spirituality, and regaining a sense of place that was so important to him,” she told he newspaper. A GoFundMe was created to raise money to brin

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The ex-boyfriend of a woman convicted of murder in Worcester last year has been indicted on charges that he helped transport the victim’s body and then lied about it to authorities. A Worcester County Grand Jury handed up indictments Thursday charging Jonathan Lind with four charges including perjury, misleading a grand jury, conveying a human body and accessory after the fact to murder. Lind’s ex-girlfriend, Julia Enright of Ashburnham, was found guilty last year of fatally stabbing Brandon Chicklis, 20, in June 2018 in a treehouse near her home. The 24-year-old Enright faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years at sentencing scheduled for March. Enright lured the Westminster man, a former classmate, to the treehouse with the intent to kill him, prosecutors said. Enright testified that she stabbed him in self-defense when he raped her. Aut

Two firefighters suffered injuries while battling a blaze at a laundromat in Boston on Thursday night, officials said. Crews braved frigid temperatures as they worked to knock down a two-alarm fire that broke out on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester, according to the Boston Fire Department. Photos from the scene showed firefighters on ladder trucks dousing the flames with water. https://twitter.com/BostonFire/status/1486870917624082433?s=20&t=-Mpm9MdB7kOsBge_joppXw Six people were inside the laundromat when the fire started but they all escaped without injury. The two firefighters who were transported from the scene are expected to be OK. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News Source: https://ift.tt/3ADBHPv

(CNN) — Millions of people in the United States are behind on their Covid-19 vaccinations, and millions more have missed other routine vaccinations throughout the pandemic. Long before the coronavirus, public health officials were concerned about low levels of routine vaccinations that are recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for adults and adolescents for diseases like flu and HPV. A sharp drop in uptake over the two years of the pandemic has cut into the progress that has been made. Adults and adolescents have missed more than 37 million routine vaccinations during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to  an analysis of insurance claims by Avalere , a health care consulting firm. The firm compared monthly claims from January 2020 through June 2021 against baselines from 2019. On average, the analysis found, monthly claims were down 32% for adults and 36% for adolescents compared with 2019. Vaccinations ticked up briefly in March 2021 but otherwise consisten

(CNN) — The next time you try to log in to the Internal Revenue Service’s website you’ll be urged to use facial-recognition software to verify you are who you say you are. The verification process includes taking a picture of a photo ID, like a driver’s license or passport, and then taking a video selfie with a smartphone or computer so software can compare the two. It’s part of a partnership the IRS has with ID.me, a fast-growing company that uses facial recognition software as part of its identity-verification process. For now, this process is optional if you already have an IRS username and password. But if you don’t, and you want to use online tools to request an online tax transcript or see information regarding your tax payments or economic impact payments, you’ll need to sign up with ID.me. And starting this summer, those old IRS usernames and passwords will no longer work. As CNN reported  last year , ID.me already verifies identities for more than half of all states’ unempl

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is meeting Thursday with retiring liberal Justice Stephen Breyer at the White House, lauding his long Supreme Court service and formally announcing Breyer’s decision to retire. The two are to deliver remarks in the Roosevelt Room a day after news broke of the 83-year-old Breyer’s upcoming retirement. He made it official on Thursday; the Supreme Court sent out his retirement letter just before the two were to meet. The president is considering at least three judges for the expected vacancy on the Supreme Court as he prepares to quickly deliver on his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court. Since Biden took office in January 2021, he has focused on nominating a diverse group of judges to the federal bench, not just in race but also in professional expertise. He installed five Black women on federal appeals courts, and three more nominations are pending before the Senate, their experience ranging from civil

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense, his lawyers said in a notice filed Thursday as he, his parents and school officials faced a new lawsuit over the attack at Oxford High School. The notice, listed in a summary of case filings available online, should lead to mental health exams of 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, who is charged as an adult with murder and other crimes for the shooting, which also wounded six other students and a teacher. Experts will consider whether the teen understood the wrongfulness of his conduct on the day of the shooting. The lawsuit, meanwhile, was announced  on behalf of the parents of Tate Myre, who was slain Nov. 30, and other students who witnessed the shootings. It alleges negligence by school officials and Crumbley’s parents over the attack. “We’re sad and heartbroken — our lives forever chang

Police in Melrose are turning to the public for help identifying a man who allegedly stabbed a 19-year-old woman in the neck during a violent home invasion early Wednesday morning. Officers responding to a reported home invasion at a home on Lynde Street shortly before 3 a.m. learned a man had entered the home and grabbed a kitchen knife, according to the Melrose Police Department. The man then made his way into the teen’s room and demanded her keys before the two began fighting, police said. Her father, William Westgate, told 7NEWS that he woke up to his daughter’s screams. “I race down, I get to the bottom of the stairs, and my daughter was halfway down the street chasing somebody saying he’s got my pocketbook,” he said. Westgate said when his daughter turned around, they both realized she had been stabbed. “She’s got the stab wound to the throat, she was cut in the back of her head, she has a slash on the top of her head, and she’s also got a puncture wound on her shoulder,” h

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. A woman died after she was pulled from a house fire in Tyngsboro on Thursday morning, officials said. Emergency crews responding to a report of multiple people trapped in a fire at 24 Fletcher Dr. around 9:20 a.m. found flames shooting from the single-family ranch, according to Tyngsboro Fire Chief Wes Russell and Tyngsboro Police Chief Richard D. Howe. One resident was quickly aided outside by an arriving officer, but police say a woman was left trapped in a second-floor bedroom. Arriving firefighters navigated through the smoke-filled home and carried the woman out. She was taken to Lowell General Hospital, where she passed away. Her name has not been released. The American Red Cross is assisting those who were displaced by the fire. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. This is breaking news story; stay with 7NEWS for updates online and on-air. Bangla Zoom is most popular bangladeshi websi

This content collected from Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday affirmed his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying it was “long overdue.” He praised retiring Justice Stephen Breyer as a model public servant and promised a nominee by the end of February. Breyer joined Biden at the White House, a day after news broke of the 83-year-old’s upcoming retirement. Since Biden took office in January 2021, he has focused on nominating a diverse group of judges to the federal bench, not just in race but also in professional expertise. He installed five Black women on federal appeals courts, with three more nominations pending before the Senate. Biden has already met personally with at least one top nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, Breyer’s former clerk worked at the U.S. Sentencing Commission and has been a federal trial court judge since 2013 in the District of Columbia. The two met when Biden in