By Olivia Bowden, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — During the winter months, parents may be particularly worried about their children falling ill, especially as flu season arrived early last year in Canada, and COVID-19 causes continuing concerns. Doctors from the University of Michigan say a new survey
Continue ReadingBy Paul Workman, Chief International Correspondent, CTV National News Click here for updates on this story UKRAINE (CTV Network) — Ukraine’s national railway company has a catchy slogan, delivered with considerable pride: “Trains on time.” It’s a remarkable achievement considering the airborne terror unleashed on this country by Russia. Through it all, with stations bombed,
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By Danica Sauter Click here for updates on this story MOUNT JULIET, Tennessee (WSMV) — A person was charged with animal cruelty and evidence tampering after two puppies tested positive for cocaine, according to officials. Shanchez Beddingfield, 22, of Nashville, was initially arrested on Feb. 15 after she allegedly led Mount Juliet Police officers on
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — Daniel Riley, 21, ran a yield sign in downtown St. Louis on Saturday, striking and critically injuring a teenage girl. News 4 Investigates looked into Riley’s background and found 51 bond violations and that he never had a driver’s license.
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden barely slept as he rolled in the dark toward Kyiv earlier this week, sitting awake as his curtained-off train car crossed into the warzone that has come to shape so much of his presidency. Biden departed Europe three days later having loudly recommitted to backing Ukraine as it
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By The Associated Press One year after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russia’s reintegration into the world of sports threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War. Russia remains excluded from many international sporting events, but that could soon change. Next year’s Paris Olympics are fast approaching and qualifying
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By The Associated Press One year after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russia’s reintegration into the world of sports threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War. Russia remains excluded from many international sporting events, but that could soon change. Next year’s Paris Olympics are fast approaching and qualifying
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By AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm knocked out power in California, closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming and prompted more than 1,500 flight cancellations Wednesday — and the worst won’t be over for several days. Few places were untouched by the wild weather, some
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Kelsey Grammer is paying tribute to his friend and former costar Kirstie Alley, who died from cancer in December at age 71. During an appearance on “The Rachael Ray Show,” Grammer said Alley was “radiant.” “I loved Kirstie,” he said. “She was always beautiful. She just had that thing about her.
Continue ReadingBy ‘A’ali’i Dukelow Click here for updates on this story MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii (KITV) — A day after a luxury yacht was found stuck in Maui’s Honolua Bay, the boat reportedly began leaking fuel into the water Tuesday morning. Many Valley Isle residents voiced concerns over the possibility of a spill since the vessel was
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN The US will likely start to default on its obligations over the summer or in the early fall if Congress doesn’t address the debt ceiling before then, according to a new analysis released Wednesday. The timing should become clearer after the 2022 tax revenues come in this spring. The new projection
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday announced the first-ever US offshore wind energy lease sale for the waters in the Gulf of Mexico, an area long dominated by oil and gas production. The White House and US Department of Interior said they are proposing to open up more than 300,000 acres of
Continue Reading By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly wouldn’t be eligible for release until 2066, a year shy of his 100th birthday, if a federal judge accepts prosecutors’ recommendations at his upcoming sentencing hearing. The 56-year-old singer will be sentenced Thursday on his convictions last year in Chicago of child pornography
Continue ReadingBy Paula Hancocks, Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo, David Hawley, and Charles Miller, CNN North Korea is a “clear and present danger,” the foreign minister of South Korea has told CNN in an exclusive interview. Kim Jong Un’s frequent missile tests and repeated warnings that he would consider using tactical nuclear weapons were a display of
Continue ReadingBy Paula Hancocks, Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo, David Hawley, and Charles Miller, CNN North Korea is a “clear and present danger,” the foreign minister of South Korea has told CNN in an exclusive interview. Kim Jong Un’s frequent missile tests and repeated warnings that he would consider using tactical nuclear weapons were a display of
Continue ReadingBy TW STARR Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — A woman who was in the area where a teenager was killed Saturday during the Krewe of Gemini parade said she is reconsidering whether she and her family will attend any more of the events. The shooting claimed the life of
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI Associated WARSAW (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin made a “mistake” by suspending his country’s participation in the the last remaining U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaty. In his first comments since Putin’s announcement Tuesday, Biden, who is in Poland to meet with NATO’s eastern flank allies,
Continue Reading By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan are defying a ban on rallies in a commercial area of the city of Lahore, taunting police and asking to be arrested en masse. The protest is part of the ex-premier’s latest campaign
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee says that 305 candidates — 212 individuals and 93 organizations — have been nominated for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize by the Feb. 1 deadline. The very secretive board in Oslo said Wednesday that “who nominates, and who is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is a
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A climate center says the trends in a historic Horn of Africa drought are worse than they were in a 2011 drought in which at least a quarter-million people died. The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center said on Wednesday that below-normal rainfall is expected in
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