By Christl Dabu Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — The demand for solar eclipse glasses used to safely view the rare celestial event has been ramping up as sellers, along with astronomy and eye-care experts in Canada, warn that viewing the eclipse with the naked eye is dangerous. Jenna Hinds,
Continue ReadingBy James Felton and Hannah Mose Click here for updates on this story BEAL CITY, Michigan (WNEM) — There has been uproar from the community after story time at a mid-Michigan elementary school led to a controversial Facebook post, not because of the story that was read, but the person who read it. Dominic Thrasher
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Food writer and podcaster Dan Pashman made the unusual step a few years ago of creating an entirely new shape of pasta. The obvious next step? Writing a cookbook to highlight it. Pashman’s “Anything’s Pastable” features dishes using 34 different pasta shapes. But it especially
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El estadounidense Boyce Young se encuentra varado en Haití durante más de dos semanas y su hija le dijo a CNN que su familia hace todo lo posible para traerlo a casa. El exmarine de 75 años llegó a Haití el 15 de febrero para realizar algunas tareas de
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat says he’s pressing ahead with a plan to use the profits generated from billions of euros of Russian assets frozen in Europe to help provide weapons for Ukraine. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Tuesday that he hopes the bloc’s leaders
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — England’s first convicted cyberflasher was sentenced Tuesday to 5 1/2 years in prison after sending unsolicited photos of his genitals to a teenage girl and a woman. Nicholas Hawkes, 39, a convicted sex offender, was the first person in England and Wales convicted of violating the Online
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Reuters Washington DC (CNN) — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it has opened an investigation into a recent Ford Mustang Mach-E fatal crash in San Antonio, Texas, where authorities suspect an advanced driver assistance system was in use. Driver assistance features are being hailed by automakers as a way to reduce accidents,
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By Tony Garcia Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — The Metro Nashville Police Department tracked down and arrested a man who has been allegedly lifting phones and credit cards from bar patrons in downtown Nashville. MNPD announced on March 13 that they were looking for 32-year-old Joshua Cloyd who had
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Toby Keith will receive a posthumous honor. The late country music star, who died in February at age 62 from complications of stomach cancer, will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. “Election to the Country Music Hall of Fame is country music’s highest honor, and
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by the country’s former leader to court. It’s underscoring a fractious buildup to what could be the country’s most pivotal election in 30 years. The ANC
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By Rob Picheta, Sarah Tilotta and Bernadette Tuazon, CNN London (CNN) — Another official photograph involving Catherine, Princess of Wales was digitally manipulated, according to a leading photo agency, sparking a second royal retouching controversy just as Kate was spotted in public for the first time in months. Getty Images said the photograph of Queen Elizabeth with
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn’t hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities say that Iraq’s former defense minister, who holds dual Iraqi-Swedish citizenship, has been arrested in Sweden. He is suspected of illegally receiving benefits in the Scandinavian country. Prosecutor Jens Nilsson told Swedish broadcasters on Tuesday that Najah al-Shammari was arrested the day before at the Stockholm airport upon arrival in
Continue ReadingBy ‘A’ali’i Dukelow Click here for updates on this story WAILUKU, Hawaii (KITV) — A new organization is trying to help combat opioid overdoses across Hawai’i by providing free education and resources. End Overdose is a nationally recognized non-profit whose mission, by name, is self-explanatory. Kendra Bean, the lead of the recently established Hawai’i chapter,
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Haley Talbot, Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer, Sam Fossum and Clare Foran, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congressional leaders on Tuesday formally announced a deal to keep the rest of the government funded through the fiscal year, but with just days to go before a key deadline, members from both parties in the House and Senate will
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store. The federal police indictment released by the Supreme Court alleged that Bolsonaro and 16 others inserted
Continue ReadingBy Mika Miyashima Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Disappointed and angry. That’s how the family of a man found encased in concrete in his east O’ahu home two years ago feels after finding out his killer will not be going to trial. Juan Baron, the man accused of murdering 73-year-old
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Hollywood star Ewan McGregor has said it was “still necessary” to have an intimacy coordinator for the sex scenes in new drama series “A Gentleman in Moscow,” even though he was performing alongside his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead. “It’s still necessary, because it’s also about the crew, and it’s
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press NOORDWIJKERHOUT, Netherlands (AP) — An artificial intelligence robot is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from Dutch tulip fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color. The robot trundled on Tuesday along rows of yellow and red blooms. It checks each plant and,
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova said Tuesday it has expelled a Russian diplomat after Moscow opened polling stations for its presidential election in Moldova’s pro-Russia breakaway region of Transnistria. The sight of Moldova’s citizens voting for the president of another country was the latest in the increasingly fraught relations between Russia and Moldova, whose pro-Western
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