By JAMES FELTON, BRIANNA OWCZARZAK Click here for updates on this story HOLLY, Michigan (WNEM) — Monday morning’s snow was welcome news for skiers and snowboarders across the state who were waiting for some fresh snow to hit the slopes. “It is a great day today. Mother nature shined on us overnight and gave us
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SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have found 53 people crammed into a truck, and have arrested the vehicle’s driver. Police said in a statement that the migrants — 34 from India and 19 from Cuba — were discovered during a routine control at a highway toll station near the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La variante ómicron del coronavirus dificultará el comienzo de 2022, dicen los expertos. Y a medida que surjan nuevas infecciones, los recursos de atención médica se agotarán y las agencias gubernamentales se adaptan para enfrentar las condiciones cambiantes. “Enero va a ser un mes muy, muy difícil y la gente
Continue ReadingBy Ken Corn Click here for updates on this story BREVARD, North Carolina (WLOS) — The North Carolina Humanities awarded the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas a grant from the American Rescue Plan Act passed by Congress this year. The museum will use the $20,000 grant to pay for operations costs for 2021. The
Continue ReadingBy ZAC SUMMERS Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — An Atlanta-based company will soon install gun detection technology in communities in metro Atlanta. It’s called Raven. The rollout of the audio technology from Flock Safety comes as cities across America are grappling with gun violence. “We think about audio as
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Following decades of talk about failing infrastructure, the country finally took a major step toward repairing it in 2021, transportation experts say. The year will likely be remembered in part for the unprecedented investment in infrastructure, including highways, bridges, airports, tunnels and trains. President Biden’s signing of the $1.2 trillion
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — The humanitarian group Save the Children says it has confirmed that two of its staff were among at least 35 people who were killed in eastern Myanmar on Christmas Eve in an attack it blamed on the country’s military. It says the two men were caught up in the attack in Kayah
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By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — An expected decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming year to severely restrict abortion rights or overturn Roe v. Wade entirely is setting off a renewed round of abortion battles in state legislatures across the U.S. Republican-led legislatures are likely to press for full
Continue Reading By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — An expected decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming year to severely restrict abortion rights or overturn Roe v. Wade entirely is setting off a renewed round of abortion battles in state legislatures across the U.S. Republican-led legislatures are likely to press for full
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Una avioneta se estrelló este lunes por la noche en la zona de El Cajón, en el sur de California, sin dejar supervivientes, según las autoridades. El Learjet estaba programado para aterrizar en un aeródromo local cuando cayó justo después de las 7 p.m., según el Departamento del Sheriff del
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that people should now be able to isolate for only five days as opposed to the original 10 days. This announcement comes as the Omicron variant spreads across the United States at a faster rate than previous variants. The CDC said its guidance keeps up with
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NAPLES, Italy (AP) — The younger brother of Diego Maradona has died. Hugo Maradona was 52. Italian club Ascoli says he died at his home near Naples of cardiac arrest. The younger Maradona was purchased by Napoli in 1987 on Diego’s urging and loaned to Ascoli. He also played for Rayo Vallecano, Rapid Vienna and
Continue Reading BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona has completed the signing of Spain forward Ferran Torres from Manchester City. Neither club disclosed the transfer fee when announcing Torres’ move on a five-year deal. Barcelona said Torres will have a buyout clause of $1.13 billion. The 21-year-old Torres left Spanish club Valencia to join City in the offseason
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By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN The judge overseeing Ghislaine Maxwell‘s federal sex trafficking trial expressed her concern that Covid-19 could upend deliberations and requested the panel to stay later each day, but the jury Tuesday asked to go home at its regular time. The 12-member panel has now deliberated for parts of
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Una mujer de Los Ángeles se enfrenta a un cargo federal de agresión después de haber golpeado y escupido supuestamente a otro pasajero en un vuelo de Delta del 23 de diciembre de Tampa a Atlanta. El incidente ocurrió después de que la pasajera encontrara el pasillo desde uno de
Continue Reading LIENZ, Austria (AP) — French skier Tessa Worley won a women’s World Cup giant slalom in the absence of Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin and world champion Lara Gut-Behrami. Worley held on to her first-run lead to beat defending overall champion Petra Vlhova by three-tenths of a second. Worley became only the third female skier with
Continue ReadingCNN By Anna Chernova, Jack Guy and Niamh Kennedy, CNN A court in Moscow ordered the closure of the Memorial Human Rights Center on Wednesday, in the latest blow to Russian civil society groups. The center was charged with multiple violations of Russia’s “foreign agent” law and “justifying terrorism and extremism” in its publications, a
Continue ReadingBy Celine Alkhaldi, Aqeel Najim, CNN and Reuters Iraq’s Supreme Court has ratified the results of October’s parliamentary election, dealing a blow to Iran-backed factions who have staged protests against the outcome of the vote. The results pave the way for Moqtada al-Sadr — a firebrand cleric opposed to both Iranian and US influence in
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) –El exfutbolista Hugo Maradona, uno de los hermanos de Diego Armando Maradona, falleció este martes a los 52 años en la provincia de Nápoles, Italia, según informó a CNN su sobrino Diego López Maradona. En un comunicado, el presidente del club Nápoli, Aurelio de Laurentiis, demás autoridades y equipo expresaron
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Tres hombres y dos mujeres, presuntamente involucradas con el ataque cerca del aeropuerto de Cúcuta, fueron capturadas en la noche de este martes tras cinco allanamientos simultáneos en Medellín, informó la Dirección de Investigación Criminal e Interpol (Dijin) de la Policía Nacional de Colombia. El hecho ocurrió en la
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