By Brendan Kirby Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A woman who admitted to embezzling more than $276,000 will go to prison for 2½ years, a federal judge decided Monday. Elisabeth Dawn Williams, of Mobile, pleaded guilty in May to unauthorized use of business purchase cards and mail fraud. Williams
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera, Rosa Flores, Priscilla Alvarez and Gustavo Valdes, CNN Federal agents shot pepper balls at Venezuelan migrants who were protesting along the Rio Grande River International Boundary near downtown El Paso, Texas, on Monday after an agent was injured, according to US Customs and Border Protection. The agency issued a statement on the
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Despite a stock-market bounce in October that gave the Dow its biggest monthly gain in more than 45 years, economists are warning that there’s a very real danger of recession in the United States. Mortgage rates are at their highest levels since 2002, consumer spending and business investment is falling
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By KWIYEON HA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The family of Egypt’s most prominent imprisoned activist says he has gone on a “full hunger strike.” The family says Alaa Abdel-Fattah began the strike on Tuesday and plans to stop drinking water as of Sunday, the first day of the global climate summit, or COP27, that
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN. Photographs by Elijah Nouvelage for CNN. Aaron Bethea says he has voted election after election for US presidents, governors and senators — and yet those lawmakers have done little to nothing to improve life for him, his family or his community. Bethea said he believes the issues he cares about,
Continue ReadingBy Christian Colón Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Seventeen dancers from the YMCA performed at a home in Plainville to gather donations for a local food bank. The dancers performed Michael Jackson’s hit song – “Thriller”. The performers say they have been rehearsing since the summer. The homeowner says
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood, CNN Iran is preparing to send approximately 1,000 additional weapons, including surface-to-surface short range ballistic missiles and more attack drones, to Russia to use in its war against Ukraine, officials from a western country that closely monitors Iran’s weapons program told CNN. The shipment is being closely monitored because it would be
Continue ReadingBy Tara De Boer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Vivid documentation of an 11,000-year-old star “ghost” was captured via telescope this Halloween. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) was able to take an image of the vibrant aftermath of a massive Vela Supernova star after it exploded, even though the
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — While the Canadian government and military usually don’t respond to reports of unidentified flying objects, there have been some recent exceptions, including cases where CF-18 fighter jets were scrambled. This week, the U.S. intelligence community is set to release a new
Continue ReadingBy Justina Latimer Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — The owners of an animal sanctuary in Whites Creek believe the rescue turkeys stolen from the facility may have been taken for breeding purposes. “We try so hard to give these animals a good life,” Bonnie Glueck with Piccolo Farms Animal
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN He’s been trekking through wilderness areas around the world for over five decades, and veteran Black explorer J.R. Harris says his thirst for adventure is still as strong as ever. Now aged 78, Harris has visited well over 50 countries on every continent except Antarctica, exploring some of the most remote areas
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A statewide rule that protects utility customers from disconnection during the winter months went into effect on Tuesday. The Missouri Public Service Commission’s cold weather rule stops a utility provider from disconnecting the heat if the temperature outside is below 32 degrees the day prior to disconnection. Under the rule, utility
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa and Amanda Watts, CNN A New York man has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct charges in Michigan, more than 20 years after he began abusing two minors while he was involved with the Boy Scouts of America, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said. Mark Chapman, 52, pleaded guilty to one count
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI and STANLEY CHOE Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The political fight is only getting fiercer over whether it’s financially wise or “woke” folly to consider a company’s impact on climate change, workers’ rights and other issues when making investments. Republicans from North Dakota to Texas are ramping up their criticism
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By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Cristiano Ronaldo has come under a lot of criticism this season and he’s clearly been listening. On Sunday, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner snubbed former teammate Gary Neville ahead of Manchester United’s Premier League match against West Ham following recent criticism from the television pundit. Neville had criticized Ronaldo’s “unacceptable” behavior
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Owais Durrani sees this issue regularly first-hand: When he clamps a pulse oximeter onto a patient’s fingertip to measure their blood oxygen levels, the small device can yield less accurate readings in people with darker skin tones, reporting levels higher than what they actually are.
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy — a towering, three-pronged vehicle that is the most powerful operational rocket in the world — returned to the skies on Tuesday for the first time since mid-2019. The rocket launched at 9:41 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, hauling satellites to space for the
Continue Reading By Diksha Madhok, Michelle Toh and CNN’s Beijing bureau Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, is wrestling with major disruption at its biggest iPhone assembly factory in China, as anxious workers reportedly flee the locked-down facility, according to social media videos. The Taiwanese company is racing to control a Covid outbreak at its campus in
Continue Reading By Diksha Madhok, Michelle Toh and CNN’s Beijing bureau Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, is wrestling with major disruption at its biggest iPhone assembly factory in China, as anxious workers reportedly flee the locked-down facility, according to social media videos. The Taiwanese company is racing to control a Covid outbreak at its campus in
Continue Reading By Dan Merica, CNN Pennsylvania Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman anticipated that his debate against Republican Mehmet Oz “wasn’t going to be easy” following a stroke earlier this year but “thought it was important that I show up,” he told CNN’s Don Lemon in an interview that aired Tuesday on “CNN This Morning.” Fetterman’s first
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