Today: Wind chill in the teens early in the morning. Highs only reach the mid-30s with a feels-like below freezing all day. Tomorrow: A slight rebound in temperatures as we start out in the 20s. Highs will reach the lower 40s but expect the wind chill to remain in the 30s. Extended: High pressure moving
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By Lianne Kolirin and Ivana Kottasová, CNN When Alice Grusová was a baby, her parents left her on a train station bench, with no idea of what would become of her. It was June 1942 and this was the last desperate act by Marta and Alexandr Knapp to save their daughter as their attempt to
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Replacement winger Ayesha Leti-I’iga scored her second try in the 72nd minute as defending champion New Zealand rallied to beat top-ranked England 34-31 in a breathtaking final to the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Hooker Amy Cokayne earlier had scored three tries at the heart of England’s trademark rolling maul as
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter has been a bit of a mess since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm, cutting the company’s workforce in half, upending the platform’s verification system, sparring with users over jokes and acknowledging that “ dumb things ” might happen as he reshapes one of the world’s
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Deebo Samuel spends plenty of time going back to his hometown for a purpose. The All-Pro wide receiver grew up in a tough environment in South Carolina. Football became his path to success. Samuel played at Chapman High School in Inman, then was a star at the University
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer DeVonta Smith is more concerned with wins than catches. The 2020 Heisman Trophy winner was expected to be an elite wide receiver. And he did have an outstanding rookie season with the Philadelphia Eagles. This year he is on pace for 85 catches, 939 yards and four TDs
Continue Reading AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Replacement winger Ayesha Leti-I’iga scored her second try in the 72nd minute as defending champion New Zealand rallied to beat top-ranked England 34-31 in a breathtaking final to the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Hooker Amy Cockayne earlier had scored three tries at the heart of England’s trademark rolling maul as
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, CNN After wreaking havoc in Florida, Nicole weakened into a post-tropical cyclone, bringing severe thunderstorms to the Carolinas and Virginia Friday before striking the Northeast. Nicole — the first hurricane to hit the US in the month of November in nearly 40 years — walloped coastal homes in Florida’s Daytona area early
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN Bring out the candles — 115 of them. Bessie Hendricks, the oldest living person in the United States, has celebrated yet another turn around the sun. The Iowa supercentenarian turned 115 on November 7, according to CNN affiliate KCCI. Hendricks was born in 1907. Her lifetime has seen 21 presidents, two
Continue Reading By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Tottenham forward Son Heung-min is headlining South Korea’s squad for the third straight World Cup as coach Paulo Bento places his hopes on the superstar captain who is recovering from a fractured eye socket. Bento also selected Napoli defender Kim Min-jae and Mallorca attacking midfielder
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN and CARA ANNA Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. body devoted to promoting broader and better access to the internet is about to hold its annual gathering in Ethiopia. The Internet Governance Forum had scheduled this year’s meeting in Ethiopia well before the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spearheaded a
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jake Haener passed for 313 yards and three touchdowns — including two long ones to Jalen Moreno-Cropper — and Fresno State held off UNLV 37-30. The Bulldogs grabbed a 17-16 lead on their first drive of the third quarter when freshman Dylan Lynch capped a 12-play, 67-yard drive with a 26-yard
Continue Reading By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — President Joe Biden joined a conference of southeast Asian nations on Saturday, looking to emphasize the United States’ commitment in the region where a looming China is also working to expand its influence. Biden’s efforts at the Association of Southeast Asian
Continue Reading By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia looks set to have its first female head of state. Opinion polls suggest 54-year-old human rights advocate and lawyer Natasa Pirc Musar is poised to win the small, central European country’s runoff presidential election runoff on Sunday. Center-right former Foreign Minister Anze Logar. is the
Continue Reading HONOLULU (AP) — Noel Coleman totaled 22 points, Samuta Avea scored 20 and Hawaii pulled away in the second half to beat Mississippi Valley State 72-54 in the Rainbow Warriors’ season opener on Friday night. Coleman and Avea both scored 11 in the second half to help Hawaii turn a 30-28 lead at intermission into
Continue Reading By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press BATABANO, Cuba (AP) — Like the rest of the Caribbean, Cuba is suffering from longer droughts, warmer waters, more intense storms, and higher sea levels because of climate change. The rainy season, already an obstacle to Cuban agricultural production, has gotten longer and wetter. Agriculture had been a bright spot
Continue Reading MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Arsenal forward Caitlin Foord has scored two goals to lead Australia to a 4-0 win over Sweden in an international women’s soccer friendly. Foord has five goals in her past three internationals. Skipper Sam Kerr’s 37th-minute toe-poke, her first international goal since playing New Zealand in April and her first against
Continue Reading LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Allison Weidner scored 20 points and No. 22 Nebraska cruised to a 79-48 win over Houston Christian. The Cornhuskers (2-0) steadily pulled away, leading 35-18 at the half as three players had six points and two more had five. Weidner had 14 points in the second half when Nebraska shot 52%.
Continue Reading By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba pressed Southeast Asian countries for political and material support in his county’s fight against Russia, while accusing Moscow on Saturday of playing “hunger games” with the world by holding up shipments of Ukrainian grain and other agricultural
Continue Reading By SIBI ARASU Associated Press ANANTAPUR, India (AP) — Ramesh Hanumaiya digs a few inches into his field with his hand and examines the soil. There is movement in the thick, brown earth: Tiny earthworms being disturbed from their homestead. A handful of dirt filled with earthworms might not seem like much, but it’s the
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