By Matt Egan The federal government isn’t going to take away your gas stove, a top consumer regulator told CNN on Wednesday. Richard Trumka Jr, a US Consumer Product Safety commissioner, set off a firestorm this week by suggesting the agency could ban gas stoves because they have been linked to childhood asthma. Trumka confirmed
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House on Wednesday asserted that President Joe Biden does not support a ban on gas stoves after a federal consumer safety official suggested that such a proposal was on the table. The White House response follows a recent Bloomberg interview with Biden-appointed US Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka
Continue ReadingToday: Afternoon highs warm into the upper 50s with mostly cloudy skies. Winds remain out of the west at 4-8 mph. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the mid-30s with late showers beginning by midnight. Just after 4 AM, showers switch to a wintry mix becoming light snow showers. Extended: Light snow pushes out by 10
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Christopher Hickey, CNN More than half of all US states have partially or fully banned TikTok from government devices, according to a CNN analysis, reflecting a wave of recent clampdowns by governors and state agencies targeting the short-form video app. The accelerating backlash by states against TikTok, which has at least
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg and Shania Shelton, CNN Leaders of the Nassau County Republican Party on Wednesday called for Rep. George Santos, elected to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District in November, to resign from office over his lies to voters and fabrications about his personal life. Santos, however, swiftly rejected the calls to resign, and
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and David Close, CNN Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin has been discharged from a Buffalo medical center, his club said Wednesday, after more than a week of hospitalization due to a cardiac arrest he suffered during a “Monday Night Football” game this month. The 24-year-old Bills safety had been showing signs of
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The Columbia Police Department has arrested 27-year-old Jawan Avant in connection with the robbery at Passions Adult Boutique on Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN As Prince Harry’s accounts of a troubled relationship with his brother, Prince William, in his new memoir “Spare” make waves, you may be wondering if there’s any hope for a relationship so fraught — especially if you’re navigating a similar sort of rift. Though strong relationships among siblings have been linked
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Before he gave his speech for best actor in a musical or comedy at the 2023 Golden Globes, Colin Farrell took a moment to praise presenter Ana de Armas. After he took the stage for his win as Pádraic Súilleabháin in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Farrell turned to de Armas and
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business A critical Federal Aviation Administration computer system that experienced an outage Wednesday and briefly halted all US flights provides airlines with a digital bulletin board of crucial safety updates. The system is known as the Notice to Air Missions or NOTAM. It send alerts to pilots to let them know
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN The world’s oceans were the warmest on record for the fourth year in row in 2022, a troubling sign of the climate crisis caused by humans pumping heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. A study by an international team of scientists from 16 institutes worldwide found that the five hottest years for
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By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN The airline industry slowly resumed service after a Federal Aviation Administration system outage caused thousands of flight delays and cancellations across the United States Wednesday. The FAA briefly halted all domestic flight departures across the US Wednesday morning, lifting the ground stop around 9 a.m. ET after it
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan and Monica Garrett, CNN The historic storms devastating much of California have turned entire neighborhoods into lakes, unleashed sewage into floodwater and killed at least 18 people. And there’s more to come. About 5 million people were under flood watches Wednesday as yet another atmospheric river is bringing more rain
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Watts, CNN Brian Walshe, the husband of the missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe, was described as a “sociopath” and “not a trustworthy person” in affidavits filed during a legal dispute over his father’s estate, according to court documents. Dr. Thomas Walshe, who headed the neurology division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN The Federal Aviation Administration halted all domestic flight departures across the United States Wednesday after the system providing pilots with pre-flight safety notices went offline. The FAA said in a statement it had ordered airlines to stand flights down until at least 9 a.m. Eastern Time while it
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN In recent months, back-to-back extreme weather events like floods, tornados and hurricanes have caused catastrophic damage across the US — costing at least $165 billion last year alone. Scientists are saying the fingerprints of climate change are all over these weather disasters and underscore the urgency to cut planet-warming emissions. Here’s
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TODAY: Wednesday’s winds will be somewhat variable through the day. The will start from the southwest, but as a trough of low pressure sits at the surface, it will shift to the north for many through the day as the trough meanders southeast. This won’t do much for temperatures other than keep many of us
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen and Naomi Thomas, CNN Some vaccine advisers to the federal government say they’re “disappointed” and “angry” that government scientists and the pharmaceutical company Moderna didn’t present a set of infection data on the company’s new Covid-19 booster during meetings last year when the advisers discussed whether the shot should be authorized and
Continue ReadingBy Brian Lowry, CNN Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical “The Fabelmans” and the understated Irish period piece “The Banshees of Inisherin” claimed the top prizes at the Golden Globe Awards, on a night that saw the event return to television and directly address the controversy that prompted its TV absence in 2022. Host Jerrod Carmichael reminded the
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan and Monica Garrett, CNN Storm-ravaged California must endure one more round of ferocious winds, torrential rain and possible flooding as the latest atmospheric river pummels the state Monday. About 8 million people are under flood watches until midnight Monday for coastal Central California, including the Bay Area. Fresh rainfall could
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