NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” is ready to make its return, five months after ending its season early due to the writers strike. NBC announced in a press release Wednesday that Pete Davidson will host the season 49 premiere on Oct. 14 with musical guest Ice Spice. Davidson had been scheduled to host
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Meaningful progress has been made in the negotiations between the striking United Auto Workers union and Detroit’s three auto companies. That’s according to a person with direct knowledge of the talks, who said some offers had been exchanged. Another said there was more movement in talks
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Henderson and Amir Vera, CNN (CNN) — Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, one of the many characters in Netflix’s “Tiger King,” has been indicted on wildlife trafficking charges after an investigation by Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. Antle owns a private zoo in South Carolina called Myrtle Beach Safari, which was featured in “Tiger King.”
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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Live from New York, “Saturday Night Live” is coming back after a months-long delay. The NBC comedy show will debut its 49th season on Saturday, October 14 with Pete Davidson as host, the network announced Wednesday. The musical guest for the show will be Ice Spice. Davidson, a former
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — The Anti-Defamation League on Wednesday said it plans to resume advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, following a spat with owner Elon Musk. Musk last month threatened to sue the ADL for defamation, claiming that the nonprofit organization’s statements about rising hate speech on
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State election officials and privacy advocates are raising alarms about a push by several conservative groups to gain access to state voter rolls. One goal is to create free, public online databases of registered voters so other groups and individuals can take
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The day before he was ousted, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was doing what he loved — stopping to greet tourists at the Capitol and gushing over its place in American democracy. But on Wednesday, McCarthy’s House was shuttered, his Republican majority in chaos for the foreseeable
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing particularly new about Google’s latest-generation Pixel 8 smartphone hardware. That’s why the company is pushing hard to tout its AI-powered new software, which Google says was built specifically for the “first phone of the generative AI era.” At a press event in New York City, Google
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CNN By Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Kevin McCarthy was behind interim Speaker Patrick McHenry’s move to kick former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer out of their office spaces, two Republican sources told CNN. GOP Rep. Garret Graves told reporters on Wednesday that McCarthy is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pair of informational meetings will be hosted by the Missouri Department of Transportation later this month to give an update on a study of Highway 54 improvements between Mexico and Louisiana, according to a Wednesday press release. The open-house meetings will be held: 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17 at the Community
Continue ReadingAPOPKA, Fla. (AP) — A judge in Florida has decided to keep an 11-year-old in custody two days after he was accused of taking a gun from his mother’s vehicle and shooting two teens during an argument at football practice. Orlando TV stations reported Wednesday that the youth sobbed when the judge ruled against a
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with another round of showers and storms moving in late. Lows in the low to mid-60s. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with showers exiting by midday. Gradual clearing with highs in the mid-upper 70s. EXTENDED: As low level winds increase from the southwest along the cold front tonight, we can expect another round that
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Estados Unidos entregará a Ucrania miles de armas y municiones que incautó de Irán, en una decisión que podría contribuir a resolver algunos de los graves problemas que enfrentan las fuerzas armadas de Kyiv, mientras esperan recibir más dinero y material de Estados Unidos y sus aliados, informaron fuentes oficiales estadounidenses.
Continue ReadingOpinion by Kara Alaimo (CNN) — Americans were jolted Wednesday by the sound of loud noises from our electronic devices, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted a test of the country’s Wireless Emergency Alerts for cell phones and Emergency Alert System for television and radio at 2:20 pm ET, in coordination with the Federal Communication
Continue ReadingBy DEEPTI HAJELA and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Julia Ormond has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 1995 and then hindering her career. She also accuses The Walt Disney Co., Miramax and her former talent agency, Creative Artists Agency,
Continue ReadingBy GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — There’s no denying that passing the football is exciting to watch if done right. That success depends on having a good running game, as most coaches will tell you. Five of the Southeastern Conference’s seven ranked teams are doing their part toward establishing that
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — The United Auto Workers union strike has cost General Motors $200 million since the work stoppage began two weeks ago, the company said Wednesday. The loss runs through the end of the third quarter, which closed on September 30. GM was relatively flush with cash heading into
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German police say a leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was given medical treatment and then taken to a hospital shortly before he was due to speak at an election rally in Bavaria. There were few details about what exactly happened at Wednesday’s event in Ingolstadt before a state election
Continue ReadingBy SHARDAA GRAY, JERMONT TERRY Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — An uproar has erupted in the West Side’s Galewood neighborhood, as residents prepare for migrants to move in. A total of 10 more buses full of migrants were set to arrive in Chicago on Tuesday. The city reports there are
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