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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The only child of Alfred Hitchcock has died. Pat Hitchcock, who made a memorable appearance in her father’s “Strangers on a Train,” was 93. Hitchcock was a lively, witty actor whose other acting credits included the TV sitcoms “My Little Margie” and “The Life of
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By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The owner of a shuttered pharmaceutical plant that recently idled hundreds of workers has entered into talks to potentially transfer the facility to West Virginia University. Drugmaker Viatris says that the company and the university are in negotiations for the facility in Morgantown. Viatris announced in
Continue Reading By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The owner of a shuttered pharmaceutical plant that recently idled hundreds of workers has entered into talks to potentially transfer the facility to West Virginia University. Drugmaker Viatris says that the company and the university are in negotiations for the facility in Morgantown. Viatris announced in
Continue Reading By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The unprecedented heat wave that swept the Pacific Northwest this summer killed scores of the region’s most vulnerable who couldn’t leave their homes, afford air conditioning or get a ride to public cooling centers. Consecutive days of temperatures as high as 116 degrees in Portland, Oregon,
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former NFL player Nate Burleson will join “CBS This Morning” as one of the show’s three co-hosts next month. Burleson will team with Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil on the show, replacing Anthony Mason. Mason is becoming a roving cultural reporter for CBS News. Burleson comes to CBS from the NFL
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Former NFL player Nate Burleson will join “CBS This Morning” as one of the show’s three co-hosts next month. Burleson will team with Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil on the show, replacing Anthony Mason. Mason is becoming a roving cultural reporter for CBS News. Burleson comes to CBS from the NFL
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer Former Baylor football coach Art Briles has avoided NCAA penalties. But the former coach was far from unscathed in an NCAA infractions report. The committee says he failed to report information or personally look further into allegations of potentially criminal conduct by his players. Briles was fired in May
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN Dolly Parton sings, funds vaccines and provides children with free books. Now she’s writing her own novel. The country music queen has teamed up with bestselling author, James Patterson, to publish a novel that they co-wrote, they announced Wednesday. Set in Tennessee, the novel titled “Run, Rose, Run” is about a
Continue ReadingHeart Aerospace CEO Anders Forslund discusses how the company plans to decarbonize air travel as United Airlines announced it will purchase 100 electric planes from the company.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Stelter, CNN Business When the new season of “Jeopardy!” debuts on September 13, executive producer Mike Richards will be behind the host lectern. Richards was named the official new host on Wednesday, as expected, but Sony Pictures Television also announced a surprise: Mayim Bialik will be the host of occasional prime time episodes
Continue ReadingThe new season of “Jeopardy!” will debut with two new hosts, executive producer Mike Richards and Mayim Bialik, replacing the late Alex Trebek. CNN’s Pamela Brown reports.
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Decades after Lupe Alemán was forced to repeat the first grade three times, her son is making it his life’s work to reverse racial inequity in schools. Enrique Alemán Jr., 50, has spent the past few years talking with numerous students in Texas and across the United States about how his
Continue Reading By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are ratcheting up efforts to end a 31-day standoff with Democrats over new voting measures. Civil arrest warrants were delivered Wednesday to the offices of absent Democrats by officers of the Texas House. But there remained few signs the stalemate
Continue Reading By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police officials have reported a massive amount of information has been lost from its computer database on criminal investigations dating to July 2020. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said the loss occurred over in early April during the data migration of a police computer network
Continue Reading By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police officials have reported a massive amount of information has been lost from its computer database on criminal investigations dating to July 2020. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said the loss occurred over in early April during the data migration of a police computer network
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN Right-wing media figures have reveled in ridiculing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to the pandemic, whether over changing guidance, confusing statements or seeming contradictions. Some of these attacks, however, are based on pure fantasies. Candace Owens, who hosts a show with the right-wing media company the Daily
Continue ReadingCNN By Holmes Lybrand, CNN Right-wing media figures have reveled in ridiculing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to the pandemic, whether over changing guidance, confusing statements or seeming contradictions. Some of these attacks, however, are based on pure fantasies. Candace Owens, who hosts a show with the right-wing media company the
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Ángela Reyes (CNN) — En medio de un verano mortal por las inundaciones en diferentes partes del mundo, un grupo de científicos encontró que la cantidad de personas en riesgo de inundaciones extremas ha aumentado significativamente en las últimas dos décadas. En Alemania, las inundaciones graves se cobraron la vida de al menos 173 personas.
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Researchers report a third dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine substantially improved protection for organ transplant recipients. Their weak immune systems don’t always rev up enough with the standard two shots. Canadian researchers divided 120 transplant recipients, giving half a third dose and the rest a dummy shot two months
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week’s sampling fiasco on Mars. The Perseverance rover came up empty after attempting to collect its first core sample on the red planet. Data beamed back last Friday showed that the rover drilled to the proper
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