MILPITAS, Calif. (AP) — A Silicon Valley hang glider crash killed one person and injured another during the Memorial Day weekend, authorities said. The tandem hang glider crashed around noon Monday in Ed R. Levin County Park in Milpitas. The Milpitas Fire Department said the survivor had critical injuries and was flown by air ambulance
Continue ReadingBy Chuck Morris and Courtney Allen Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Emergency personnel have ended their search for a man reported possibly missing after jumping from a cliff into Percy Priest Lake on Monday afternoon. The Nashville Fire Department and Office of Emergency Management ended their search just before
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By ZEKE MILLER, JOSH BOAK and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as soaring inflation takes a bite out of Americans’ pocketbooks and the president’s public approval. Tuesday’s meeting is the first since Powell was renominated in November by Biden to
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence edged lower in May as Americans’ view of their present and future prospects dimmed in the midst of persistent inflation. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dipped to 106.4 in May — still a strong reading —
Continue Reading By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury continued deliberating Tuesday to decide defamation claims by Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage. The seven-person civil jury heard closing arguments Friday and deliberated for about two hours before leaving for the long Memorial Day weekend. Jurors
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story Toronto (CTV Network) — Supermassive black holes may have the power to “quench” star formation in their galaxies, according to a new study that detected numerous supermassive black holes from early on in our local universe’s life. An international team of astronomers combined data
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story Toronto (CTV Network) — Assessing the health of coral reefs can be a labour-intensive project, undoubtedly leaving many researchers wishing the reefs could just tell us how they were doing. Well, according to new research, they can tell us – if we listen carefully.
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an emergency request from three Texas state legislators seeking to quash subpoenas from the US Justice Department and voting rights groups related to a challenge to state legislative maps. There were no noted dissents to the Supreme Court order. The state’s
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police are investigating after a man was found shot to death just outside a landfill. Sgt. Philip Krynsky says officers responded to reports of a shooting Sunday around 7 a.m. near 7th Avenue and Magnolia Street. They found a man with a gunshot wound lying near the entrance to a landfill.
Continue ReadingBy Joshua Robinson Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — Rescue crews responded to Castlewood State Park Monday after a 19-year-old was found in the Meramec River. The incident happened around 1:45 p.m. Officials say the man slipped and fell into the river and was underwater for at least 15
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Some lucky night sky watchers caught a glimpse of a brand new meteor shower on Monday night, as Earth passed through the debris trail of a crumbling comet. The meteor shower peaked around 1 a.m. ET, with 10 to 25 meteors an hour spotted falling through the night sky, according to
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, Kate Sullivan and Nikki Carvajal, CNN Korean pop supergroup BTS appeared at the White House press briefing on Tuesday and will meet with President Joe Biden as part of a visit aimed at discussing Asian inclusion and representation and addressing anti-Asian hate crimes and disinformation. “While many of you may know BTS
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business US home prices continued to surge higher in March, as buyers raced to lock in homes before the average mortgage rate hit 5%. Home prices rose 20.6% in March from the year before, an even higher rate than the 20% growth seen in February, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller
Continue ReadingCNN By Alex Rogers, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote as soon as Thursday on wide-ranging gun control legislation after a number of mass shootings in America, including at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed. The bill would raise the
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rogers, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote as soon as Thursday on wide-ranging gun control legislation after a number of mass shootings in America, including at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed. The bill would raise the lawful
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Bobby Brown is happily married, but he still sounds a bit smitten with Janet Jackson. “Janet was the crush of my life,” Brown said during his A&E two-night documentary, “Biography: Bobby Brown.” “What was it about Janet?,” he said. “Everything. Her little smile, body, her dance moves, her little laugh.”
Continue ReadingVictoria Fernandez (CNN) — Todos los días, Hillary Demmon ha estado leyendo con horror las noticias sobre la escasez de fórmula láctea para bebés en todo el país. “Es un escenario de pesadilla en el que pensar”, dijo Demmon, quien tiene un hijo de 1 año y trabaja en la Universidad de Pittsburgh. En la semana
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence edged down in May as Americans’ view of their present and future prospects dimmed in the midst of persistent inflation. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dipped to 106.4 in May from 108.6 in April. The business
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are falling Tuesday as Wall Street nears the end of a tumultuous month, bruised by worries about a possible recession, inflation and rising interest rates. The S&P 500 was 1.1% lower in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 421 points,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Just before welcoming a child with Rihanna was earlier this month, A$AP Rocky shared some thoughts about how he planned on approaching fatherhood. In a recently published interview with Dazed just before Rihanna gave birth, the rapper said he “will always remind my children to never lose their imagination, even
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