When we discuss rising temperatures the focus is typically on sweltering summers and record heatwaves but some of the most warming happens when we aren’t concerned about the heat. Wintertime is warming much faster overall than the rest of the year, and this brings widespread changes to the cold season. Warming during the coldest time
Continue ReadingBy MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A humpback whale visiting the waters off Seattle dazzled onlookers Thursday morning with several breaches in the bay just beyond the city’s downtown area. The whale has been spotted for the last three days swimming around Elliott Bay. But on Thursday, the whale breached for about 40
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities in the northeast has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to launch new attacks. With Myanmar’s military falling back on almost every front, hope is rising
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — About two weeks into a major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three well-armed militias of ethnic minorities, an army captain, fighting in a jungle area near the northeastern border with China, lamented that he’d never seen such intense action. His commander in Myanmar’s
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Trevor Foley was picked as the acting director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, according to a Thursday press release from the governor’s office. Foley will begin working in the position on Wednesday, according to the release. The position became open after DOC Director Anne Precythe announced her retirement earlier this month.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Eagles-Seahawks game in Week 15 has become the first NFL game flexed to Monday night. The league moved the Kansas City Chiefs at New England Patriots to 1 p.m. on Sunday to put Philadelphia at Seattle on prime time on Dec. 18. The NFL also announced a tripleheader on Saturday,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC is shuffling its weekend schedule early next year with an eye toward juicing ratings heading into an election year. It will start “The Weekend,” a two-hour morning ensemble on Saturdays and Sundays with Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele as hosts. Two current weekend hosts, Mehdi Hasan and Yasmin
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By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius. US-based biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences, which is pursuing the “de-extinction” of multiple species, including the woolly mammoth, has entered a partnership with the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Israeli military has released 30 more Palestinian prisoners after eight more Israeli hostages were freed from captivity in the Gaza Strip under the temporary cease-fire. The army says the Israeli hostages are receiving medical care in Israel and are being reunited with their families. This marks the seventh straight night
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Según un nuevo estudio, los gemelos sanos que siguieron una dieta vegana durante ocho semanas presentaron un nivel más bajo de colesterol “malo” de lipoproteínas de baja densidad (LDL), mejores niveles de azúcar en sangre y una mayor pérdida de peso que sus hermanos que siguieron una dieta de carne y
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro convocó a un referendo para, según dice, reafirmar sus derechos sobre el territorio del Esequibo, que está en disputa con Guyana desde finales del siglo XIX. En esa consulta popular, que se llevará a cabo el 3 de diciembre, Venezuela les preguntará a sus ciudadanos
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power. That’s according to Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how hackers breached a water utility system near Pittsburgh. The attack prompted the nation’s top cyberdefense agency to warn other water and sewage-treatment utilities they may be vulnerable. In a letter
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CNN By Ibrahim Dahman and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Hamas said the attackers behind a Jerusalem bus stop shooting that killed three people on Thursday were members of its military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades. Seven people were also injured after the two attackers, identified by Hamas as two brothers, opened fire on a group of
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By Samantha Delouya and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily halted Montana’s groundbreaking statewide TikTok ban, which was set to go into effect at the start of 2024, pending a trial on the matter. In an order, US District Judge Donald Molloy said that despite the state government’s attempt to
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Más de 10 años tuvieron que esperar los ecuatorianos para que el primer sistema de metro del país comience a funcionar. El Metro de Quito arranca su operación comercial este 1 de diciembre en medio de la expectativa de usuarios y autoridades sobre los resultados de la que promete ser una
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court against incumbent Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in 2025. In his campaign launch Thursday, Schimel cast the race as a chance for conservatives to win back a majority and serve as a check on
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press The owner of two a south-central Montana precious metals mines is stopping work on an expansion project and laying off about 100 workers because the price of palladium fell sharply in the past year. Sibanye-Stillwater announced the layoffs Wednesday at its platinum and palladium mine. The company said another
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By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — The national Black Lives Matter organization on Thursday dismissed as an “imposter” an activist who identified himself as a leader of the movement in Rhode Island and declared he was backing Donald Trump for president. “This is a publicity stunt,” Black Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter Rhode Island
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Bob Iger, pulcramente vestido con un traje gris y camisa blanca planchada, sin corbata, subió al escenario el martes por la tarde en el New Amsterdam Theatre de la ciudad de Nueva York, saludando a una ansiosa multitud de empleados de Disney reunidos para su tan esperada aparición. El director ejecutivo, un
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