By Joseph Ataman and Maya Szaniecki, CNN (CNN) — One person has died and eight people have been hospitalized after an outbreak of botulism in a restaurant in the French city of Bordeaux, according to a statement from France’s public health body on Wednesday. Two less serious cases were also identified, according to local health
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An effort to destigmatize the use of overdose reversal drugs that started as a pilot in two West Virginia counties has expanded to all thirteen states in Appalachia this year. The first-ever “Appalachian Save a Life Day” comes Thursday, on the heels of the approval of
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — A small aircraft has veered off a runway while landing in heavy rain in Mumbai in western India, injuring all six passengers and two crew members on board. Officials say the Learjet 45 was on a flight from the southern city of Vishakhapatnam to Mumbai. A video shows the aircraft lying
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By Tierney Sneed and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Georgia judge shut down the effort by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to have all 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, to be tried together in October in the Georgia election subversion case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee announced Thursday
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Surgeons were about to saw through 80-year-old Aubrey Osteen’s chest after a heart attack in December 2020 when he suddenly became conscious. “I said, ‘Wait a minute here before y’all go any further. Give me some more anesthesia, you know?’ Well, it took me a minute to realize I
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson is signing off on a new logo, more than 130 years after creating the old one. The health care giant said Thursday that it will replace the well-known signature script with a modern look that reflects its sharpened focus on pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The original
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s next book will be one for music lovers. Alfred A. Knopf announced Thursday that Ishiguro’s “The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain,” coming March 5, is a collection of lyrics written for the million-selling jazz singer Stacey Kent. Ishiguro and
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — The largest public offering since 2021 is here. After a nearly two-year drought in the IPO market, UK-based chip designer Arm made a successful Nasdaq debut on Thursday, finishing the day 25% higher and landing the company with a market cap of around $65 billion. The company
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump will not face trial next month in Georgia after a judge ruled Thursday that the former president and 16 others accused of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election will be tried separately from two other defendants in the case. Lawyers Sidney
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press The United States is sanctioning more than 150 businesses and individuals as it tries to crack down on evasion and deny Russia access to technology, money and financial channels that fuel Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The latest sanctions package announced Thursday is one of the biggest imposed by the State
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By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A 10-month-old and a dog are dead after being left in a hot car for about six hours on Tuesday in York County, Virginia, according to police – who say they found out after the child was brought to a hospital deceased and in a plastic bag. Kristen D.
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As Alex Jones continues telling his Infowars audience about his money problems and pleads for them to buy his products, his own documents show life is not all that bad — his net worth is around $14 million and his personal spending topped $93,000 in July
Continue ReadingBy MARY CONLON and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press HIGHLAND FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — New York could soon require people selling their homes to disclose whether their properties have been flooded or are at risk for future flooding. The move comes as more counties in New York experience flooding and inland areas that have been considered
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Ellen DeGeneres is coming back to television. The former talk-show host has teamed up with Discovery Channel for “Saving the Gorillas: Ellen’s Next Adventure,” which, according to a press release, leans into her “passion and commitment to animals, and admiration for world-renowned primatologist, Dian Fossey.” “What begins as
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Four F-35 fighter jets have landed at an airbase in Denmark in the first installment of the U.S.-made planes ordered by the NATO member to replace its aging fleet of F-16s, some of which have been promised to Ukraine. Dignitaries and officers clapped as the planes did several flyovers before landing
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer Scotland forward Dave Cherry is out of the Rugby World Cup in France after slipping on the stairs at the team hotel, banging his head and sustaining a concussion. He isn’t the first rugby player to get hurt in a strange way on his time off. Some of rugby’s
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — It’s hard to believe there’s a new eyewitness account from a Secret Service agent who was right there at the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This is, after all among the most investigated, revisited and argued about events in US history. But Paul Landis, who in
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — One day in 2021, Megan Clawson was walking home from a night out when she was inspired to record a video on her phone. “Yo, can you imagine that Henry VIII used to come home steaming to this, and I come home steaming to this?” she said to the
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — A group of survivors of a deadly migrant shipwreck in southern Greece three months ago is suing authorities for failing to intervene to rescue passengers before their vessel capsized in international waters. That’s according to a group of lawyers who are representing them. Hundreds of migrants are believed to have been
Continue ReadingCHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — Residents near a northern Michigan paper mill that caught fire Wednesday, prompting the closure of several roads and a lock and dam on a nearby river, have been told to shelter in place until Thursday afternoon as environmental officials continue monitoring local air quality. Plumes of thick and heavy black and
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