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CNN By Stephanie Elam, CNN The West is in its worst drought in centuries, scientists reported Monday. A study published in Nature Climate Change found the period from 2000 to 2021 was the driest in 1,200 years. Last year’s drought severity was “exceptional,” researchers said, and all indications are the extreme conditions will continue through
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer The Texas Attorney General is suing Facebook parent Meta. The lawsuit claims the social media giant has been unlawfully collecting biometric data on Texans for commercial purposes, without their informed consent. Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday filed the lawsuit that claims Facebook has been storing millions of biometric
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer The Texas Attorney General is suing Facebook parent Meta. The lawsuit claims the social media giant has been unlawfully collecting biometric data on Texans for commercial purposes, without their informed consent. Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday filed the lawsuit that claims Facebook has been storing millions of biometric
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Era el día de San Valentín de 1996 cuando Lee Green entró en un albergue de montaña en Nepal, rodeado por el Himalaya nevado, y se encontró con Mandy Halse por primera vez. Green y Halse estaban a miles de kilómetros de sus respectivos hogares en Inglaterra y Nueva Zelandia. Ambos
Continue ReadingOpinion by Tim Calkins for CNN Business Perspectives The Super Bowl is the biggest single advertising event of the year. Companies line up to spend millions of dollars buying commercial time during the game, and they spend months working on the ads, surveying consumers and testing different creative ideas. But unlike most advertising these days,
Continue ReadingBy KCAL KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — Some celebrations turned violent and destructive following the Los Angeles Rams thrilling win over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI Sunday night. Large crowds gathered in downtown L.A., surrounding passing vehicles, setting off fireworks and shutting down streets. Los
Continue Reading By Stephanie Elam, CNN The West is in its worst drought in centuries, scientists reported Monday. A study published in Nature Climate Change found the period from 2000 to 2021 was the driest in 1,200 years. Last year’s drought severity was “exceptional,” researchers said, and all indications are the extreme conditions will continue through 2022.
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is weighing whether to invoke emergency powers to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralyzed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. For the past two weeks, hundreds and sometimes thousands
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The megadrought bedeviling the American West got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in more than 1,200 years. Monday’s study says the megadrought is now the worst-case scenario officials and scientists worried about in the 1900s. The drought deepened so much in 2021 that
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The megadrought bedeviling the American West got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in more than 1,200 years. Monday’s study says the megadrought is now the worst-case scenario officials and scientists worried about in the 1900s. The drought deepened so much in 2021 that
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The megadrought bedeviling the American West got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in more than 1,200 years. Monday’s study says the megadrought is now the worst-case scenario officials and scientists worried about in the 1900s. The drought deepened so much in 2021 that
Continue ReadingBy Michael Abeyta Click here for updates on this story WELD COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) — In Colorado oil and gas companies don’t have to disclose what chemicals they use in their fracking operations and a physician’s advocacy group says that’s a problem. Dusty Horwitt, a consultant with Physicians for Social Responsibility, says his group has
Continue Reading By Holly Yan and Aileen Graef, CNN Once again, a bomb threat has derailed classes at Howard University — one of more than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities targeted with bomb threats during Black History Month. “A shelter-in-place order has been issued following a bomb threat against the main campus,” the university’s Department
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business If Russia invades Ukraine, global stock markets could be in for a rough ride — much worse than most other geopolitical events of the past several decades. A Russian invasion of Ukraine could further disrupt supplies of crude, potentially leading prices that are already their highest in seven
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By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Van Jefferson won the Super Bowl on Sunday, and it wasn’t even the best part of his weekend. The Rams receiver welcomed a newborn son hours after Los Angeles beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20. Jefferson’s wife, Samaria, attended the Super Bowl, but left on a
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Van Jefferson won the Super Bowl on Sunday, and it wasn’t even the best part of his weekend. The Rams receiver welcomed a newborn son hours after Los Angeles beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20. Jefferson’s wife, Samaria, attended the Super Bowl, but left on a
Continue ReadingBy Kennedi Walker Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — Flowers rest on the new statue of Santos Rodriguez in Pike Park. The 12-year-old was shot and killed nearly 50 years ago by a Dallas Police Officer in a game of Russian roulette. “What had happened here in Dallas did not only
Continue ReadingBy Tim McNicholas Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Here’s a Valentine’s Day tale of an entire town’s love, not for their significant others but for a 99-year-old World War II veteran. His neighbors in northwest Indiana came together to make a special day even more special. CBS 2 Morning Insider
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Iowa State has climbed to No. 6 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll. That is the best ranking for the program in 20 years and it comes with big games against No. 14 Texas and No. 15 Oklahoma this week. South Carolina remained a unanimous No 1 in
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — Está en marcha la búsqueda de un avión que se cree cayó a unos 6,4 kilómetros al este de Drum Inlet, en Outer Banks, Carolina del Norte, en la noche de este domingo, informó la Guardia Costera de EE.UU. Ocho personas estaban a bordo del avión monomotor Pilatus PC-12, según funcionarios de
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