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Friday, 05 April 2019

Tom Geisler has experienced many ups and downs in his 43 years of farming, as weather sometimes helped and often hurt his livelihood. But he was not prepared for what Mother Nature brought to Nebraska this spring.

On This Day in American History
On April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain, leader of the popular grunge rock band Nirvana commits suicide in his Seattle home. Cobain, who had long struggled with drugs and alcohol, was 27. His body was found three days later by an electrician. Nirvana became superstars with the release of the 1991 song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” from their debut album Nevermind. The song and album became global chart toppers vaulting the band into celebrity. In death Cobain has become an influential icon of alternative rock. He is survived by his wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain.    

VIDEO: Andrew Yang is a former tech company executive who started “Venture for America” a group that places recent university graduates in small startup businesses across the U.S. Now, he has qualified for the first round of the Democratic primary debates after raising more than $1.7 million from more than 80,000 unique donors.

In December, Nazrawit Abera, a civil engineer, flew from Addis Ababa to Beijing to pursue a job opportunity and learn about home building materials, according to her older sister, Abby Abera. But when she landed at Beijing Capital Airport, officials detained Nazrawit and inspected her luggage. They found five shampoo bottles filled with cocaine.

U.S. health officials say that between January and March, 387 cases of measles have been reported in 15 states, exceeding the count for all of last year. In 2018, 372 cases were reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. president and the vice premier of China confirmed Thursday that while significant progress has been made, there is no new trade agreement yet between the world’s two largest economies.

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