By AAMER MADHANI and PARKER PURIFOY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A winter storm packing heavy snow has closed government offices and schools in the nation’s capital and surrounding suburbs. Monday’s storm dumped between 6 and 11 inches of snow six and grounded the president’s helicopter. Travel was treacherous and more than 500,000 customers lost
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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Milwaukee’s acting mayor, Cavalier Johnson, has tested positive for COVID-19. Johnson said he tests for the virus every Friday, and he found out he was positive from a routine test taken on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. Johnson said he is vaccinated and
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By DAVID KOENIG and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press A winter storm hitting the mid-Atlantic combined with the pandemic to further frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first few days of the new year. According to tracking service FlightAware more than 3,000 U.S. flights and more
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By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House on Monday announced it would allocate $1 billion in funding from the American Rescue Plan to independent meat and poultry producers as part of an effort to boost competition in the meat-processing industry and lower prices for consumers. President Joe Biden met virtually with family
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Forecasting economic change in a pandemic was always going to be hard. Now omicron, the new COVID-19 variant sweeping across the globe, has made it even harder. Economists and policymakers, after all, have no real-world experience contending with the economic fallout from a worldwide pandemic. In
Continue Reading By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Colorado search teams are looking for two missing people in the smoldering debris from a massive wildfire while people who escaped the flames are sorting through what didn’t burn. Investigators are still trying to pinpoint what caused flames to tear through at least 9.4 square miles.
Continue Reading By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Colorado search teams are looking for two missing people in the smoldering debris from a massive wildfire while people who escaped the flames are sorting through what didn’t burn. Investigators are still trying to pinpoint what caused flames to tear through at least 9.4 square miles.
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By Hannah Ryan and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Aoife Beary, one of the survivors of the 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse that killed six people, has died aged 27. She was left with life-altering injuries after the fourth-floor balcony of an apartment building in Berkeley, California collapsed and plunged 40 feet to the ground while she and
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Disney did not have a magical 2021. Even as Covid-19 vaccines allowed countries around the world to lift restrictions, the company’s business struggled. Attendance at its parks disappointed, and momentum from its Disney+ streaming service, once a bright spot, cooled off. The company’s stock dropped almost 15%, making it the
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Not even Little Caesars is immune from price increases: The chain’s signature $5 Hot-N-Ready pizza now costs 11% more. Little Caesars is selling a “new and improved” version of the recognizable pizza, which has 33% more pepperoni and a new price of $5.55 — its first price increase in nearly
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El presidente de Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, anunció este domingo que el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Mauricio Montalvo, dejará el cargo y que este lunes asumirá en su reemplazo el empresario Juan Carlos Holguín. “El reforzamiento en el equipo tiene por objeto apuntalar la principal meta del gobierno en su política
Continue Reading By Ben Morse, CNN The Green Bay Packers clinched the No. 1 seed in the National Football Conference (NFC) with an emphatic 37-10 victory over division rivals the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. Superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw for 288 yards and two touchdowns, wide receiver Davante Adams hauled in 11 catches for 136 yards and
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Chile ofrecerá la cuarta dosis de refuerzo de la vacuna contra el covid-19 a los ciudadanos de alto riesgo en febrero, según anunció el presidente chileno Sebastián Piñera en un comunicado. “Probablemente, en el mes de febrero, o cuando sea necesario, iniciaremos la vacunación con la cuarta dosis, porque nuestra
Continue Reading AMSTERDAM (AP) — Rembrandt van Rijn’s iconic and huge painting “The Night Watch” is now also a supersized museum photo delivered right to your laptop in unsurpassed detail. The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum on Monday put on its digital portal what it called “the most detailed photograph of any artwork,” ready for assessment by scientists and art
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN I’m really tired. No, seriously. I don’t think I’ve slept through the night in four years. What could be causing my sleep issues, you ask? I’m the mom of two young boys, ages 2 and 4, and they haven’t ever slept through the night except for a few months when they
Continue Reading By Dr. Neha Chaudhary, CNN When I found out I was expecting my son a couple of years ago, it wasn’t the process of labor I was most terrified of — it was the sleep deprivation I knew I’d be facing with a newborn for months on end, without respite. As a physician, I had
Continue Reading By Kerry Flynn, CNN Business The word “metaverse” is popping up everywhere. Facebook recently changed its name to Meta Platforms. Nike bought a virtual shoe company to help it expand to the metaverse. And other brands like Gucci and Ralph Lauren have been considering the future of fashion with digital personas. With all the attention,
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say a St. Louis man was street racing before a deadly crash. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 22-year-old Traveon Randell was charged last month with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of 55-year-old William Moore. Charges said Randell was racing two others in February when
Continue Reading By Jamie Gangel, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection has information from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge that describe what then-President Donald Trump was doing during the riot, according to a person familiar with the investigation. “There’s a collection of people with relevant information,” the source said. One key
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By Jamie Gangel, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection has information from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge that describe what then-President Donald Trump was doing during the riot, according to a person familiar with the investigation. “There’s a collection of people with relevant information,” the source said. One key
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