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The Perseverance Rover has just successfully landed on Mars after traveling almost 300 million miles. The rover, nicknamed “Percy” by mission control, left Earth around 6 months and finally touched down onto the surface of mars, sending back this photo: Hello, world. My first look at my forever home. #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/dkM9jE9I6X — NASA’s Perseverance Mars […]
Yesterday, the Cinema Theater on South Clinton Ave. made an announcement on their website that said they’d be closing their doors for good: Hello friends, We (Audrey and Alex) have made the difficult decision to close the Cinema Theater. Our lease was up for renewal in January, and given the current climate, we couldn’t see […]
There will be a mass vaccination site coming in the next few weeks in Rochester. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday there will be multiple pop-up sites across the state. There will also be four mass vaccination sites that will be run jointly with FEMA next month across the state. There will be a location in […]
The University of Rochester said it plans to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2022. The university made the announcement on Wednesday and said the goal is to raise the wage by December 2022. They plan to implement the increase through two stages the first will be this year in December. The second phase […]
President Joe Biden has recognized that a majority of the nation that is still under economic hardship from the COVID-19 pandemic and decided to extend the ban on home foreclosures for federally backed mortgages by another three months. Instead of ending on March 31, the program will extend to the end of June instead. This […]
Yesterday, a man was rescued at sea by a good Samaritan two days after his boat capsized 23 miles off the coast of Florida. After the Coast Guard took him to a hospital, they went off looking for the 6 other people who were on board when the boat capsized. The boat was on its […]
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo recently adjusted the business curfew, letting bars and restaurants stay open until 11 pm instead of 10. The change went into effect on Valentines Day and local restaurants are getting optimistic about the future. Shelby Griswold, a server at Lemoncello, said: “People are so excited to get out and […]
A man posing as Bruno Mars allegedly conned $100,000 from a Texas woman. Chinwendu Azuonwu, 38, is accused of pretending as the Bruno Mars on social media to cheat a 63-year-old woman out of tens of thousands of dollars. The pair allegedly met on Instagram in 2018. Over the course of several weeks, she and […]
After Black History Month is done ABC News is just getting started. “Soul of a Nation,” is coming to ABC News a new six-episode series and show black life in America. The episodes will touch on themes such as spirituality, Black joy and activism in sports, as well as the nation’s racial reckoning after the death […]
The U.S. Senate is awarding Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal for his actions on Jan. 6. Goodman led rioters who broke into the capitol away from the senate chamber, putting his own life at risk. Footage of his deed was even aired during the impeachment trial of former president Donald […]
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