Body discovered after southwest Columbia house fire
Firefighters found a person dead at a southwest Columbia house as they were investigating for hot spots Friday morning.
Continue ReadingMonth: January 2024
Japan joins an elite club by landing on the moon. What are others doing?
By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.” Saturday’s milestone puts Japan in a club previously occupied by only the United States, the Soviet Union, India and China. A raft of countries and companies are also plotting moon
Continue ReadingSpelman College receives $100 million gift believed to be single-largest donation to an HBCU, school says
By Maxime Tamsett, CNN (CNN) — Spelman College, a private women’s college in Atlanta, will receive a $100 million gift, which the school says is the largest single donation to a historically Black college or university. The donation comes from longtime Spelman trustee Ronda Stryker and her husband, William Johnston, the chairman of the wealth
Continue Reading
Palestinians are documenting the war for millions on social media. Their followers have come to see them as family.
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Early on Christmas Day in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, Motaz Azaiza shared a terrifying update on X. A quadcopter was flying low above the door of his house, he said, and he feared he was about to be targeted in an Israeli airstrike. As a highly
Continue ReadingAuxiliar de vuelo de American Airlines enfrenta cargos de pornografía infantil por supuestamente filmar a menores en los baños de un avión
Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un auxiliar de vuelo de American Airlines enfrenta cargos federales de pornografía infantil, acusado de intentar filmar en secreto a una niña de 14 años en el baño de un avión y de tener videos de otras niñas usando los baños a bordo de los aviones en los que trabajaba,
Continue Reading
TSMC says its $40 billion chip project in Arizona faces a further delay
By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — TSMC says its second factory in Arizona will be delayed, marking another setback for the world’s largest chipmaker and its role in US President Joe Biden’s bid to boost American manufacturing. The facility will now be operational in 2027 or 2028, compared to previous expectations of a
Continue ReadingNúmero de desertores norcoreanos casi se triplicó en 2023; en la lista hay diplomáticos de “élite”, según Corea del Sur
Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Seúl, Corea del Sur (CNN) — El número de desertores norcoreanos que ingresaron a Corea del Sur casi se triplicó en 2023 en comparación con los dos años anteriores, dijeron las autoridades este jueves. La cifra incluye un mayor número de jóvenes y miembros de la élite norcoreana. El Ministerio de Unificación
Continue Reading
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you feel that you are prepared for another round of frigid weather?
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The cold is coming back. After a short break from the bitter cold earlier this week that saw school closings and pipe bursts around Mid-Missouri, the ABC 17 News Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day as subzero wind chills are expected to go through Mid-Missouri the next few days.
Continue ReadingUcrania está presionando a China para que ayude a poner fin a la guerra. Pero los planes de paz de Beijing están enfocados en otro lado
Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Mientras Ucrania lucha por mantener el apoyo internacional frente a la invasión rusa que llega a su tercer año, su líder ha dejado claro un país que le gustaría que se uniera a su impulso por la paz: China. Aumentar la presión sobre Beijing, el aliado político más poderoso de
Continue ReadingJapan’s imperial family hosts a poetry reading with a focus on peace to welcome the new year
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A mother’s love and a yearning for peace flowed from Japanese Empress Masako’s poem, read Friday at an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The poem sings of how Masako was touched by what her daughter, Princess Aiko, wrote after her school trip
Continue ReadingMore snow is hitting the Great Lakes and Northeast, closing schools and hampering travel
By Aya Elamroussi, Sara Tonks, Paradise Afshar and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Another round of snow is covering the Northeast Friday, triggering emergency protocols in several areas as officials warn the conditions could make for dangerous travel through the evening. More than 100 million people, nearly 30% of the US population, are under winter
Continue ReadingAngst over LGBTQ+ stories led to another canceled show. But in a Wyoming town, a play was salvaged
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press WHEATLAND, Wyo. (AP) — Oliver Baez spent two months rehearsing a scene for a school play in which his character confronts another student about bullying a gay student who takes his own life. After much preparation, the 12-year-old’s small scene turned into a big problem among school officials in Wheatland,
Continue ReadingAmerican Airlines flight attendant faces child porn charge after allegedly filming minors in airplane bathrooms, DOJ says
By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — An American Airlines flight attendant faces federal child pornography charges as he is accused of trying to secretly film a 14-year-old girl in an airplane bathroom and having videos of other young girls using lavatories aboard the planes he worked on, prosecutors said. Estes Carter Thompson III was arrested
Continue ReadingStock market today: Wall Street hits record high following a 2-year round trip scarred by inflation
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street returned to record heights Friday to cap a punishing, two-year round trip dogged by high inflation and worries about a recession that seemed inevitable but hasn’t arrived. The S&P 500, which is the centerpiece of many 401(k) accounts and the main measure that
Continue ReadingLa primera nave espacial estadounidense que intentó alunizar en décadas se quema después de una misión fallida
Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Después de volar cientos de miles de kilómetros a través del espacio y luchar contra un problema de propulsor que arruinó sus planes, el módulo de aterrizaje lunar Peregrine probablemente haya encontrado su final. Se esperaba que la nave espacial concluyera su viaje truncado de 10 días alrededor de las
Continue ReadingNevada Republican Senate primary candidates take aim at absent front-runner in debate
By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Seven Republicans vying for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Nevada circled the familiar talking points of GOP politics at a debate, while also taking shots at the front-runner, who made an apparently strategic decision not to attend. The debate in a Reno casino
Continue ReadingConclusiones del foro de CNN en Nueva Hampshire con Nikki Haley
Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La meta de Nikki Haley en las primarias presidenciales republicanas de Nueva Hampshire este martes es “ser fuerte”, dijo en un foro de CNN el jueves por la noche. Pero la exgobernadora de Carolina del Sur no llegó a decir que necesita derrotar al expresidente Donald Trump en las primarias
Continue Reading2 weeks of winter storms kill dozens and cause cold chaos in parts of the US but a thaw is coming
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two weeks of storms that have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death from Oregon to Tennessee and caused power outages that could take weeks to fix continued to sock both coasts with another round of weather chaos on Friday. The rain, snow,
Continue ReadingGisele Bündchen habla sobre la crianza de sus hijos tras la separación de Tom Brady
Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Aunque Gisele Bündchen “no puede preocuparse realmente” por lo que el mundo en general tiene que decir sobre ella, cuando se trata de su familia y la educación de sus hijos tiene algunos sentimientos fuertes. En una entrevista con Harper’s Bazaar publicada el jueves, la supermodelo habló con franqueza sobre
Continue Reading
2000-year-old beach house discovered during building work
By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Naples, Italy (CNN) — A three-year project to build a children’s playground and recreation area south of the Italian city of Naples has unearthed the ruins of a 2000-year-old clifftop beach house. Built in the first century, the panoramic mansion — which overlooks the islands of Ischia and Procida — is
Continue Reading