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A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?

DURHAM, N.H. | After outliving Booker T. Bones, their second service dog, Brenda and Brian Marquis still needed help with some of the more difficult parts of daily life. They found Robbie, a robot that rolls out of a hallway into their living room several times a day. “Do you want to exercise now? Please […]

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Ayesha Curry’s Cast-Iron ‘Fruit Cake’ is foolproof when dessert time is tight

While I’m not sure how or when it started, there is no denying that I have an extremely mean sweet tooth. It shows up all the time in the way I cook savory food — but it goes bananas when I get to dessert. None of this means that I need my sweets to be […]

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Toon in Tuesday

Read more TUESDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today’s NewsMinute video Read more Goodman’s 3-run homer and Rumfield’s sac fly help Rockies rally for 9-8 win over Angels Read more Colorado students improve in math, but literacy results are mixed in statewide testing scores

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Goodman’s 3-run homer and Rumfield’s sac fly help Rockies rally for 9-8 win over Angels

ANAHEIM, Calif. | TJ Rumfield hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the Colorado Rockies used a five-run eighth to rally past the Los Angeles Angels 9-8 on Monday night. Hunter Goodman put Colorado ahead 8-6 with a three-run homer in the eighth. Jake McCarthy homered earlier for the Rockies, who have […]

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Colorado students improve in math, but literacy results are mixed in statewide testing scores

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. DENVER | The share of Colorado students who met or exceeded state standards on state math tests rose from last year to this year in nearly every grade. But when it comes to literacy, it’s more of a mixed bag. Those are two major takeaways from the preliminary […]

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After Supreme Court ruling, Gov. Polis signs bill allowing lawsuits over conversion therapy harm

This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | Coloradans who have been harmed by the discredited psychological treatment known as “conversion therapy” can sue for damages through the state’s medical malpractice law under a bill signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Monday. Polis also signed an executive order prohibiting state funds from being […]

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Scott Pelley of ’60 Minutes’ accuses CBS News head Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ the show, report says

NEW YORK | In a remarkable sign of the turmoil at CBS’s top-rated “60 Minutes,” correspondent Scott Pelley said CBS News head Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job, according to reports. Pelley made his accusations in an introductory meeting Monday between the newsmagazine’s […]

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Pentagon bars journalists from its press office, saying it has become a ‘classified space’

NEW YORK | In another of a series of moves restricting media access at the Pentagon, the Defense Department has declared that its press office is now a classified space inaccessible to journalists. On X, acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez confirmed the move, saying there was “nothing controversial” about it and that it came […]

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5 American cruise ship passengers leave Nebraska quarantine facility

OMAHA, Neb. | Five of the 18 American cruise ship passengers who have been staying at a national quarantine facility in Nebraska after being exposed to hantavirus are going home, U.S. health officials said Monday. The five people will complete their monitoring at home after remaining symptom-free and meeting criteria for monitoring outside the quarantine […]