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Trump: “they tried for a coup”

(NBC News) Speaking before a cheering audience at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting Friday, President Trump again referred to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as a failed “coup.” “They tried for a coup, it didn’t work out so well. And I didn’t need a gun for that one, did I?” Mr. Trump said. “Spying, surveillance. Trying for an overthrow,”…

Silicone wristbands detect chemical exposure

(KGW) Whether you live in Oregon or a remote community in Africa, you are being exposed to the same chemicals, according to a new study from Oregon State University. OSU researchers sent out chemical detecting wristbands to more than 240 volunteers in communities in North America, South America and Africa. The specially-prepared wristbands absorb chemicals in the same way our…

Teen accepted to 115 colleges and universities

(WDSU) A New Orleans teenager has been accepted to 115 colleges and universities across the nation. Antoinette Love was offered more than $3.7 million in scholarships. According to her high school, that’s more than any other college-bound senior in the country, so far this year. Love will be visiting schools over the next few weeks, and hopes to make a…

Flint water crisis: 5 years later

(NBC News) Thursday marked five years since officials in Flint, Michigan began to draw the city’s drinking water from the Flint River. Soon after the switch, residents complained the water was brown, the odor was awful and the taste was terrible. High levels of lead were eventually discovered in the blood of people who drank the water. News of the…

Two guilty sentenced in “Silent Sam” toppling

(WRAL) Two people were found guilty Thursday of bringing down the Silent Sam monument at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last August while similar charges for two others were dropped. Shawn Birchfield-Finn and Raul Jimenez were charged with misdemeanor injury to real property, injury to personal property, disorderly conduct and riot. Judge Lunsford Long sentenced both men…

Trump weighs in on Biden’s bid for president

(NBC News) President Donald Trump weighed in on Joe Biden’s 2020 bid for president Thursday, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that the former vice president could win the Democratic nomination. “He is not the brightest light bulb in the group, I don’t think, but he has a name that they know,” said Mr. Trump. Biden’s announcement video Thursday morning…

Varsity shift: esports on campus

(NBC News) Yohan Schwartz is treated like a star quarterback at Bradford Preparatory School in Charlotte, North Carolina…but that status was earned at a computer screen, not on the football field. He defeated hundreds of other competitors in the Fall Majors Championship. “We’re not weightlifting or running suicides, we’re constantly here training at computers,” he says, “Hand eye coordination, strategies.”…

“They just ran right over me!”

(WTLV) Florida’s Nassau County Sheriff’s Office has released the 911 calls made by the woman who was reportedly run over while relaxing on the beach in Amelia Island on Wednesday. “I just got ran over,” she told dispatchers. “My legs just got ran over by a white Jeep pulling out right now.” The sheriff’s office says the incident happened around…