By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Life expectancy in the United States took another hit in 2021, furthering a dramatic decline from 2020 that was the largest since World War II, according to a new report. The study — published Thursday on the preprint server medRxiv, which means it has not been peer-reviewed — found that after
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A DHL cargo jet has broken in half after sliding off the runway while landing at San Jose’s international airport. The crash Thursday shut down the airport, but the two crewmen aboard were reported uninjured. The fire department saiys the Boeing 757 had taken off from Juan Santamaría Airport
Continue Reading By AMY TAXIN Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a boy accidentally hit in the head with a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels pitcher warming up before a game has filed a lawsuit against the team. Beatrice Galaz says in the lawsuit announced Thursday that the team’s negligence led to
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Max Scherzer says he is “good to go” for his New York Mets debut in Friday’s second game of the season against the Washington Nationals. This is Scherzer’s return to Nationals Park after he played 6 1/2 seasons with Washington and helped the club win the
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A Jefferson City man is charged with a sex crime against a child after a foster parent found an explicit photo in an online account.
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By Gregory Wallace, CNN Thunderstorms and low clouds over the East Coast are complicating air travel as many Americans are heading to airports during the busy spring break season. Thousands of flights are delayed, with some delays stretching up to two hours, according to Federal Aviation Administration data. By 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, more than
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By Eliza Mackintosh, Oleksandra Ochman, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, Teele Rebane and Anastasia Graham-Yooll, CNN Lviv, Ukraine — When Russian forces and allied separatist soldiers arrived offering a path to safety, it felt like a sick twist of fate. It was mid-March and residents in Mariupol had spent weeks in freezing, damp basements, hiding from
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By Ben Morse, CNN Golf can be an extremely frustration sport, and this applies to professionals, too. And Matthew Wolff certainly didn’t endure the opening round at the Masters as he wanted to on Thursday. The 22-year-old golfer began his round with a double bogey on the opening hole, followed by two consecutive bogeys as
Continue Reading By AMY TAXIN Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a boy accidentally hit in the head with a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels pitcher warming up before a game has filed a lawsuit against the team. Beatrice Galaz says in the lawsuit announced Thursday that the team’s negligence led to
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TONIGHT: Breezy, cloudy, and cold, with lows in the lower 30s. Flurries possible overnight. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy and windy with highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Spotty showers or flurries early. EXTENDED: With low pressure spinning north of us, colder air will continue to have a grip on the Midwest, along with cloud
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Three-time Olympian Resi Stiegler will make a comeback to the ski racing scene this weekend at the World Pro Ski Tour championships in Taos, New Mexico. Stiegler retired a year ago and had a daughter eight weeks ago. She has big expectations. With lucrative prize money, the field is
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By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday in a historic vote that paves the way for her to become the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the nation. The tally was 53-47, with Republican Sens.
Continue Reading SEATTLE (AP) — A Ukrainian man who served as a high-level hacker in a ring that stole more than 20 million credit and debit card records, causing an estimated $1 billion in losses, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Denys Iarmak, 32, is the third member of the hacking group FIN7 to be
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Al menos 10 personas han muerto, otras 10 han resultado heridas y siete siguen desaparecidas tras un deslizamiento de tierra en una zona minera en el noroeste de Colombia, informaron este jueves las autoridades. El Departamento Administrativo de Gestión del Riesgo de Antioquia-GobAntioquia (Dagran) dijo que el evento en el municipio
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Singer and actress Camila Cabello is opening up about the “crippling” anxiety she felt while making her new album, “Familia.” In an interview with People, Cabello described it as “the worst mental health state ever.” “I was cripplingly anxious … I took a break at the beginning of the pandemic. I
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla held a party Thursday night to mark the opening of its new manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas. Tesla’s new factory will initially produce the Model Y SUV and, next year, the Cybertruck, which has been delayed since being first revealed in 2019. The Texas factory, Tesla’s fourth assembly plant
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Americans got into a lot more debt in February as rampant inflation kept up the pressure, the Federal Reserve’s consumer credit report showed Thursday. Debt levels jumped by nearly $42 billion to a total of almost $4.5 trillion. That’s an annual increase of 11.3%, seasonally adjusted, far outperforming economists’ expectations
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: HP, Lamb Weston rise; JD.com, AvalonBay fall.
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By Virginia Langmaid, CNN The chief of the embattled Aurora, Colorado, police department — who took over during the fallout over death of Elijah McClain — was fired Wednesday amid concerns that the city’s manager said were about management and leadership. “There are two main themes that continue to rise up as top of concerns:
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s investors will consider a proposal for a civil rights audit of the company. Shareholder advocacy group SOC Investment Group __ which successfully submitted a similar measure at Apple last month __ wants McDonald’s board to oversee a third-party audit that would analyze the company’s civil rights record and
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