By Kari Barrows Click here for updates on this story ANDERSON, South Carolina (WLOS) — An investigation is underway after a man was struck and killed while trying to assist with traffic control on an interstate in South Carolina. A press release from the Anderson County Office of the Coroner says the deadly crash happened
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Game on. Travis Kelce said the ball was in Taylor Swift’s court after he made a play for her, and the singer appears to have caught his pass. To be clear, we still don’t know what is or is not going on with Taylor Swift and the NFL
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Fresh fighting has erupted in the second-biggest town of Ethiopia’s turbulent Amhara region as militiamen clashed with the military over government plans to disarm local forces. Residents say fighters from a militia called Fano fought against military units Sunday in the town of Gondar, an important
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration meets this week to consider approval of an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease, the culmination of a yearslong lobbying effort by patients with the fatal neurodegenerative disease. Those advocates still face one giant hurdle: FDA regulators say the treatment hasn’t
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer Homophobic chanting by sections of Paris Saint-Germain fans targeting Marseille players has again marred the biggest game in French soccer, prompting calls for sanctions. Olivier Klein, the inter-ministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBTQ+ hatred (Dilcrah), posted a video on Monday of PSG supporters using insulting
Continue ReadingBy Tiarra Braddock , Jordan Nagel Click here for updates on this story BELLEVILLE, Michigan (WXYZ) — The owners of the Pumpkin Factory say the UAW workers they will be hiring will be working at their haunted house. “I figured they’re on strike, they needed the extra cash and we needed monsters,” said Amanda Bielski.
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have raided the residence of one of the country’s four deputy national police chiefs. A commander in the national police force’s Office of Legal Affairs and Litigation said the search of the home of Police Gen. Surachate Hakparn was part of an investigation into
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.” Follow him on Threads at www.threads.net/@deanobeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. Democratic US Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey faces corruption-related charges for the second time
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant appear to be a match made in creative heaven. Grant recently spoke with People magazine on the red carpet of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards and said she feels comfortable going it alone at events. “The good news about falling in
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taye Diggs is happy to talk about love stories, but only if it’s not his own. Despite social media videos of him and a certain someone (Google if you want to know), Diggs declined to talk about his love life during a recent interview with CNN. “I like
Continue ReadingWJZ, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER, CNN By Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine performed its second groundbreaking transplant of a genetically modified pig heart. The transplant was given to a man from Frederick who had been rejected from all
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine performed its second groundbreaking transplant of a genetically modified pig heart. The transplant was given to a man from Frederick who had been rejected from all other transplant centers because of pre-existing conditions.
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By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Amazon said on Monday that it’s investing up to $4 billion into the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in exchange for partial ownership and Anthropic’s greater use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing platform. The deepening partnership between the two companies highlights how some large tech
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Getty Images has a huge collection of stock photographs. But now it also has an artificial intelligence image-generator to make new images on the spot. The Seattle-based photo stock company is taking a two-pronged approach to the threat and opportunity that AI poses to its business. First, it sued
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By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles said it “broke my heart” to see a young Black girl passed over for a medal at a gymnastics ceremony in Ireland, footage of which has gone viral. In the video of a GymStart event from March 2022, which has recirculated on social media in recent days, a line of
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A growing movement opposing a highly controversial redevelopment of a historic Tokyo park has submitted a fresh petition in its campaign to get the national government to intervene and revise the plan to save more trees. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike in February approved the plan, giving a
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — US employers are planning smaller pay raises and fewer promotions next year, compared to what they gave this year. That’s according to a new survey from human resources consulting firm Mercer. The survey was taken by more than 900 of its clients, who are employers of varying
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Legacy college admission is an advantage given at birth, in which the children of a school’s alumni receive special consideration in the college admissions rat race. But after the US Supreme Court overturned race-based admissions over the summer, attention toward this already criticized practice intensified. While many
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They’d always dreamed of owning a home in Italy, but opening a restaurant there was never part of the plan. But Dalip and Amber Tibb, who are based in North Carolina, have ended up doing both over the last few years. The Tibbs, who’ve been married for 18 years,
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At least one Molotov cocktail has been thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured. U.S. law enforcement officials are investigating. U.S. Secret Service officers were called Sunday night to respond to the attack
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