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Fiber optics apprenticeship suggests a promising future for broadband access in Vermont [Video]

A new apprenticeship program meant to help boost high-speed internet in Vermont is coming to Orleans County.Vermont Community Broadband Board has announced the kickoff of its new fiber optic apprenticeship program at the North Country Career Center. The idea is to get young Vermonters trained up to learn how to use fiber optics and get into the industry early.The end goal is to get high-speed internet to more rural communities across the state.NBC5 took a tour of the training center in Newport and caught up with the people who made it all happen. Christie Hallquist, the executive director of Vermont Community Broadband Board, told us the program will be a gamechanger for the future of internet access in Vermont communities.”People who are not connected in rural areas are people with poor connections. Three or four years is a long time for them. The more technicians we can get, the faster …

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OnlyFans: Women recount being held captive and forced to commit sex acts [Video]

OnlyFans says it empowers content creators, particularly women, to monetize sexually explicit images and videos in a safe online environment. But a Reuters investigation found women who said they had been deceived, drugged, terrorized and sexually enslaved to make money from the site.

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More than 600 teenagers in NC hoping for adoption [Video]

More than 2,000 children in North Carolina live in foster care, waiting and hoping for adoption, with more than 600 of them being teenagers who face tougher odds of getting adopted.Adopt US Kids says a quarter of those children are teenagers who face tougher odds of getting adopted.Now in its 20th year, Adopt US Kids has helped place more than a million kids in adopted homes.This year's campaign focuses on teens under the tagline, "You can't imagine the reward." A young man adopted as a teenager shares what kids are looking for."Wanting love, wanting to wake up in the morning and know that they're going to lay their head down at the same place because the real big problem across the US is just not having a place to call home," Taylor Durard said.Durard says until he was adopted, he didn't have the capacity to dream about opportunities."All I could think about was the easiest way to survive, the easiest way to have a roof over my head," Durard said.Now age 20, Taylor attends college with hopes of becoming an international lawyer."I stopped having this idea of surviving and I started thriving," Durard said.More than 600 North Carolina teens are waiting for that same opportunity today."When young people age out of foster care, they face far greater challenges, and it's just more difficult for them to maneuver through life alone," Kamilah Bunn, CEO of the National Adoption Association, said.Adoption officials say common misconceptions include the belief that you have to be married or wealthy to adopt, neither of which is true."It's a challenge, it's something that we're hoping that your viewers today take on and take the first step by visiting adoptuskids.org," Bunn said.Adopt US Kids is a federally funded project that helps children in foster homes find permanent homes through adoption.The project also helps parents who are looking to adopt a child into their home.

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Impossible to imagine: Ret. Gen. is skeptical Trump admin. will court martial military leaders [Video]

As he prepares his Cabinet and administration picks, President-elect Trump and his transition team have floated the idea of court martials for military leaders in charge of carrying out the countrys withdrawal from Afghanistan under the Biden administration. Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey shares his thoughts on this and the Biden administrations change of policy regarding Ukraine.