By Marianne Garvey The 2022 Golden Globe Awards are happening, but also not really happening. There will be a ceremony thrown by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) on Sunday, Jan. 9, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles — the traditional location for the event — but it will not be televised, there
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By JASMINA ALSTON Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A train that departed from Atlanta late Sunday night has been stuck on the track in Virginia for more than 35 hours because of winter storms. Sean Thornton and his daughter, Isabella, expected a quick overnight trip up North, but it was
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By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she will seek reelection in a new Detroit-area seat created through redistricting, an announcement that came hours after fellow Democratic Rep. Brenda Lawrence said she will retire from Congress. The new 12th District includes portions of Detroit along with suburbs including Dearborn
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s health authorities have recommended that the use of the country’s digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate be expanded to include restaurants, cultural activities and other venues starting next week. The move was announced Wednesday and it will take effect on Jan. 12. It is a step up from previous guidance to only
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Niamh Kennedy and Amy Woodyatt, CNN At least 164 people have been killed and more than 5,000 detained during violent upheaval in Kazakhstan this week, as unrest swept the nation and the death toll ticked even higher. Deadly protests that erupted in in the Central Asian country in recent days have seen the government resign
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis deputy is being treated for a broken pelvis and a broken ankle after he was struck early Wednesday by a sport utility vehicle that fled a police stop. The incident happened around 4 a.m. after members of the county’s auto theft task force stopped the SUV.
Continue Reading By RON TODT and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The deadliest single fire in Philadelphia in at least a century has killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals. Officials say those numbers could grow. At a news conference hours after the early Wednesday fire, officials said 26 people
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say two construction workers have been killed after being buried under the roof of a school that collapsed. No students were in the building in the northern city of Gijón with Spain’s children still enjoying their winter holidays. Emergency workers took several hours to recover both bodies from under the
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, Kate Sullivan and Nikki Carvajal, CNN The Biden administration is opening additional federally run free Covid-19 testing sites this week in six states across the country — Maine, Maryland, Nevada, Delaware, Texas and Washington — as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to surge in the US. “We have the tools
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By Betsy Klein, Kate Sullivan and Nikki Carvajal, CNN The Biden administration is opening additional federally run free Covid-19 testing sites this week in six states across the country — Maine, Maryland, Nevada, Delaware, Texas and Washington — as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to surge in the US. “We have the tools
Continue Reading By COURTNEY ALLEN Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — In one month, people in Davidson County will no longer have to wait in line and pay to get their emissions tested. On Tuesday night, Metro Council voted unanimously to end the program. That means this decision impacts anyone who drives
Continue Reading By FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the Jan. 6 attack, the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police says he is working to resolve “critical deficiencies” despite major staffing shortages and thousands of new threats to members of Congress. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger appeared at
Continue Reading By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Experts in South Africa say President Cyril Ramaphosa is challenged to take decisive action against the corruption documented in a judicial report presented to the leader and made public. Legal specialists and Amnesty International say the damning findings by the state commission of inquiry — chaired by
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMOV) — A Kansas City, Kansas, man is accused of using his position as a hotel front desk clerk to make a duplicate key to get inside a woman’s hotel room to assault her. Fletcher Clardy, III is charged with attempted rape.
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — Los premios Golden Globes o Globo de Oro regresan este año para —a pesar de las controversias— para celebrar a las mejores películas y series del cine, televisión y las plataformas de streaming. Los premios Golden Globes, que celebrarán su 79 entrega el domingo 9 de enero, será una premiación
Continue Reading IRONTON, Mo. (AP) — Iron County officials say a man and woman and two infant children were found dead in a home in southeast Missouri. The cause of death has not been determined but investigators believe an alternative heating source in the living room of the home could be a factor. The bodies of 33-year-old
Continue Reading By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A blood test may one day be able to predict whether someone who is pregnant will develop a serious blood pressure disorder months before symptoms show up. Preeclampsia happens in around one of 20 pregnancies, usually in the third trimester, and can cause organ damage,
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By Barbara Starr and Devan Cole, CNN Military bases in Iraq and Syria that hold American troops were attacked Wednesday, though no US forces were killed in the strikes, according to Iraqi officials and the US-led coalition. There have been multiple attacks this week coinciding with Monday’s second anniversary of the US assassination of a
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Novak Djokovic llegó a Melbourne antes del Abierto de Australia, pero un error de visa reportado generó dudas sobre su participación en el Grand Slam de apertura de temporada. Los organizadores del Abierto de Australia anunciaron el martes que a Djokovic se le había otorgado una exención médica, una decisión
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By Kate Bennett and Ryan Nobles, CNN Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham met Wednesday on Capitol Hill with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting. “I cooperated fully with the committee,” Grisham told reporters as she left the panel’s office Wednesday evening. The
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