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8th person rescued from partial building collapse in Iowa, no deaths reported

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An eighth person was rescued overnight from a partial building collapse in Davenport, Iowa, officials said. An eighth person was rescued overnight from a partial apartment building collapse in Davenport, Iowa, officials said, adding that no one appears to remain missing. More than a dozen people self-evacuated when the six-story residential and commercial building partially collapsed on Sunday afternoon, Davenport Fire Chief Michael Carlsten said. Dust can be seen in the air moments after a building collapsed in Davenport, Iowa, on May 28, 2023. Caleb Tvedt "It felt like there was an earthquake, or somebody had rammed a bulldozer into the building," Linnea Hoover, a building resident and journalist at ABC Davenport affiliate WQAD, told ABC News. "I can't describe the shaking. It felt like the ground was going to fall out from under me," Hoover said. In this screen grab from a video, a collapsed building is shown in Davenport, Iowa, on May 28, 2023. Jacqueli...

Who is Evan Gershkovich? What friends say about the Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia

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Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen and Wall Street Journal reporter, is being held in Russia on espionage charges the U.S. government and his friends insist are false. To the rest of the world, Evan Gershkovich is a 31-year-old U.S. citizen and Wall Street Journal reporter being held in Russia. But to those who know him best, he's just Evan -- a "normal American guy" in addition to his career as a journalist deeply committed to covering Russia, a country he loved reporting from. "I knew that sweater," Pjotr Sauer, who met him five years ago when both were working at The Moscow Times, said of Gershkovich's attire in photos of his arrest. "I've seen him a million times in that sweater. I joked about the fact that he had that one sweater, so it's just surreal. There are no words to describe how you feel as a person when you see those images." Reporter for U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich, detained on suspicion of espio...