More chain stores say they will close on Thanksgiving
The closures include Target, which said this week that it plans to permanently close on the holiday.
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Local health officials share cooking tips to avoid foodborne illnesses
Before you roast the bird, dress the greens and set the table, make sure you’re following all the necessary food preparation and storage precautions.
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How to keep your packages safe from porch pirates
Package thefts are the most common form of theft during the holidays, and this problem has only grown over the past year with more online purchases during the pandemic.
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Ahmaud Arbery’s mother expresses gratitude Thanksgiving morning, saying, ‘We finally got justice’
By Gregory Lemos The mother of Ahmaud Arbery expressed gratitude Thanksgiving morning for the guilty verdicts of the three men who killed her son, calling the moment “bittersweet.” “This is the second Thanksgiving that my family and I will share without Ahmaud,” Wanda Cooper-Jones said in an interview on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday. “But this
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Jamie Dimon says he regrets joking about the Chinese Communist Party
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Jamie Dimon is trying to take back a joke about China and its powerful political machine. Speaking at an event in Boston on Tuesday, the JPMorgan CEO said he “made a joke” during a recent trip to Hong Kong, referencing the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary. “The Communist Party
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New Swedish Prime Minister resigns hours after being voted in
By Amy Cassidy and Niamh Kennedy, CNN, and Reuters Sweden’s first female Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, has resigned from office only hours after being voted in, Sweden’s official Twitter account announced Wednesday. The dramatic move came before Andersson was fully in office as she had not yet had counsel with the King, a spokesperson told
Continue Reading‘Nothing about this is normal’: RNC payments to Trump attorneys irk GOP officials
By Gabby Orr, CNN A pair of payments the Republican National Committee made to a law firm representing former President Donald Trump is raising questions among former and current GOP officials about the party’s priorities in a critical election year and its ability to remain neutral — as long-standing RNC rules require — in the
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By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday directed federal prosecutors to prioritize cases involving violence on flights amid a sharp increase in assaults and disruptions of airline workers. Garland issued a memo that cites dozens of cases referred by the Federal Aviation Administration to the FBI for investigations of violent
Continue ReadingGuilty verdicts in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers met with relief and joy in Georgia and beyond
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Devon M. Sayers, Alta Spells and Steve Almasy, CNN A jury Wednesday found three White men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, guilty on multiple murder counts, as well as other charges. The verdict, delivered by nine White women, two White men and one Black man, came after more than 11
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This startup wants you to like coffee-free coffee
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have persuaded customers to dig into cow-free burgers. Atomo Coffee wants to do the same for coffee. The startup, which launched in 2019 and offered a limited release to the public in September, makes a canned cold brew designed to taste like coffee and give
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Thousands of people have raised more than $1 million for a man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Thousands of people are raising money online for a Missouri man who served 43 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Kevin Strickland, 62, was exonerated Tuesday morning after serving decades at Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri. Strickland was convicted in 1979 of one count of capital
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Heather Heyer’s mom on Unite the Right verdict: Free speech is protected, but violent actions are not
By Theresa Waldrop, CNN After a jury awarded more than $26 million in damages in a lawsuit against White nationalists who organized and participated in a violent rally in 2017, the mother of a woman who was killed there said the verdict proves speech may be protected but violent actions are not. Heather Heyer was
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Dozens dead in Channel tragedy, after inflatable boat sinks off French coast
By Helen Regan, Pierre Bairin, Dalal Mawad and Xiaofei Xu, CNN A young girl was among 27 people who drowned in bitterly cold waters off the coast of France on Wednesday, after an inflatable boat carrying migrants bound for Britain capsized, in one of the deadliest incidents in the English Channel in recent years. French
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Roads likely to be busy during peak Thanksgiving travel times
AAA says it is expecting 53.4 million people to travel this holiday — 48.3 million by car and 4.2 million by air.
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WHO urges countries to consider the benefits of vaccinating children against Covid-19, but prioritize sharing shots globally first
By Naomi Thomas and Jacqueline Howard, CNN In a new interim statement, the World Health Organization on Wednesday called for nations to consider the benefits of vaccinating children and adolescents against Covid-19 — but to prioritize sharing vaccines globally before proceeding to vaccinate children. “Countries should consider the individual and population benefits of immunising children
Continue ReadingWhite House creates new climate-focused division within Office of Science and Technology Policy
By Ella Nilsen and Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House announced Wednesday it has created a new climate-focused division within its Office of Science and Technology Policy and tapped Stanford professor Sally Benson to lead it. Benson will serve as deputy director for energy and chief strategist for the energy transition at OSTP, the White
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More Native American chefs are opening restaurants — with future generations and sustainability in mind
By Noah Sheidlower and Radhika Marya, CNN Crystal Wahpepah has made it her mission to share her Indigenous community’s rarely seen foods with the world. Wahpepah, who is Kickapoo and Sac and Fox, recently opened Wahpepah’s Kitchen, the newest Indigenous restaurant in Oakland, California — and likely the newest in the country. “When I was
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Murder plots and threats from anti-vaxxers pose challenge for Germany’s new chancellor
By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Just a week into the job, new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz finds himself confronting an increasingly radical anti-vaccination movement that, according to police, has plotted to murder elected officials and is actively threatening others. Authorities arrested six suspects and raided several properties in Dresden on Wednesday
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Russia’s Putin tests experimental intranasal Covid-19 vaccine
By Anna Chernova and Lindsay Isaac, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has tested an experimental Covid-19 nasal vaccine that is not yet in clinical trial phase, his fourth vaccination in total, he said Wednesday. Putin also received a Russian-made Sputnik Light booster on Sunday, six months after his second dose of Sputnik V. After receiving
Continue Reading‘Nothing about this is normal’: RNC payments to Trump attorneys irk GOP officials
By Gabby Orr, CNN A pair of payments the Republican National Committee made to a law firm representing former President Donald Trump is raising questions among former and current GOP officials about the party’s priorities in a critical election year and its ability to remain neutral — as long-standing RNC rules require — in the
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