TODAY: Temperatures will still be warm Friday but only reach the upper 50s as clouds put the brakes on our warmup. Rain returns to the forecast this afternoon, but will be isolated and light for most of the daytime. More heavy showers move in after sundown with a few rumbles of thunder possible. This will
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s state media say top leaders held an annual planning meeting where they agreed to step up spending to help rev up the economy. The official Xinhua News Agency said leader Xi Jinping chaired the meeting that was aimed at boosting growth, defusing risks and ensuring stability. The report gave few details
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By Ubah Ali Click here for updates on this story NOWTHEN, Minnesota (WCCO) — Dramatic footage shows a deputy making a brave save on some thin ice. Anoka County Deputy Chris Fjeld tied a rope around his waist and slowly made his way out to a pair of people who had fallen into the dangerously
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the newest member of the faith’s top governing body to fill a vacancy when a member died last month. Patrick Kearon becomes the first new member since 2018 named to the Quorum of the Twelve
Continue ReadingBy Courtney Carpenter Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police say a man was on a FaceTime call with his girlfriend when he was shot and killed in northeast Houston overnight. Investigators are now trying to piece together what the motive was in the man’s death. The shooting happened around
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Debut “Bachelorette” Trista Sutter and husband Ryan Sutter are marking 20 years of marraige. The couple, who got engaged on the series and later wed in a televised special, are among the few marriage success stories in the franchise. Ryan Sutter marked their anniversary on Instagram, writing, “They
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin and Assembly Republican Speaker Robin Vos have reached a sweeping deal that would freeze hiring for diversity positions across the system in exchange for lawmakers approving employee pay raises and funding for a new engineering building at the flagship campus. Vos blocked
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By Gracee Mattiace Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Business owners on Sardis Road are asking for answers as a sinkhole keeps growing in their parking lot. On Dec. 8, 2023, the owners of Crust Never Sleeps Bakery and 1 on 1 Physical Therapy said an excavator had been
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York can continue to enforce laws banning firearms in sensitive locations, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in its first broad review of a host of new gun rules passed in the state after a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year. The
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, saying it repeatedly subjected LGBTQ+ events and facilities sheltering migrant families to intimidation and harassment. The complaint filed Thursday against NSC-131 and two of its leaders accuses the group of engaging
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — University of Nebraska officials have unveiled a plan for a $450 million renovation of its football stadium in Lincoln. That comes as the four-campus NU system faces a $58 million budget shortfall that threatens to cut academic programs. Critics say that sends the message that
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Un alud provocó el miércoles el colapso de una mina de oro en Paraiba de San José de Wadamapa, en la Gran Sabana, dejando un saldo de al menos 10 personas muertas, informó este jueves la Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana del estado Bolívar. A través de su cuenta oficial de
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Republican Missouri lawmakers are renewing their call to allow homicide charges against women who have abortions. Measures that would do so have been introduced in both chambers of the state’s legislature for consideration in the session that begins in January.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Republican Missouri lawmakers are renewing their call to allow homicide charges against women who have abortions. Measures that would do so have been introduced in both chambers of the state’s legislature for consideration in the session that begins in January.
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Quizás en ningún lugar del universo un tomate fresco y maduro sea más valioso que en la Estación Espacial Internacional, donde los astronautas viven durante meses subsistiendo principalmente de productos preenvasados y no perecederos. Es por eso que el astronauta Frank Rubio se convirtió en la figura central de una desenfadada
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Now is the time to get vaccinated to stay safe and healthy amid holiday gatherings and rising levels of respiratory viruses, including the flu, Covid-19 and RSV, experts say. “To protect yourself and your family this holiday season, take the steps that we do every year to protect ourselves,”
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Pennsylvania man described by authorities as the lead defendant in a drug distribution and human smuggling case has pleaded guilty to federal crimes in Louisiana. Court records show that 47-year-old Carl Allison of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty Thursday in New Orleans. Sentencing was scheduled for March 28. The U.S. Justice Department
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By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Rabbi David Wolpe, a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Divinity School, announced his resignation on Thursday from the university’s Antisemitism Advisory Group. Wolpe, who had been instated earlier this year as the Anti-Defamation League’s first rabbinic fellow, wrote in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, that
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has found the New Hampshire publisher of a weekly community newspaper guilty of five misdemeanor charges that she ran advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising. The judge acquitted Debra Paul, publisher of the Londonderry Times, of a sixth misdemeanor
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: el siguiente reportaje incluye contenido explícito. Se recomienda la discreción del público. (CNN) — La escena en la unidad de cuidados intensivos del hospital Al-Nasr es escalofriante. Los diminutos cuerpos de bebés, varios de ellos aún conectados a los cables y tubos que debían mantenerlos con vida, se descomponen en
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