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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter is in chaos. Elon Musk, its new owner, has decimated its staff and this week gave those remaining an ultimatum — work grueling hours and be “extremely hardcore ” or leave. Hundreds chose the latter and headed for the door. There are already signs that the exodus is
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Seasonal flu activity is “elevated across the country,” with “high” or “very high” respiratory virus activity in more than half of US states, according to an update published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And health care systems nationwide continue to feel the strain of a respiratory
Continue ReadingBy Shelby Lofton Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — As national lawmakers prepare to pass same-sex marriage protections, two gay couples in Utah feel unsafe after crimes were committed on their properties. Zach Hutchings and his partner said the pride flag outside their house was stolen Tuesday night. “Came
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN “Disenchanted” asks the existential question, “What comes after ‘Happily Ever After?,’” which is, naturally, a sequel … only (because it’s 15 years later) for streaming. Amy Adams nimbly steps back into the role of an animated princess trying to adapt to the live-action world, in an epilogue to “Enchanted” that
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Your Thanksgiving dinner is going to cost you more this year. Thanksgiving shopper Victoria Hiraoka is hosting her family’s holiday feast this year but plans to keep things simple. “Just stick with the basics like don’t go overboard,” said Hiraoka. “The more over the top you get, the more that price is going to double and triple
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Evan Perez, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed a special counsel to oversee the criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Both investigations implicate the conduct of Trump, who on Tuesday declared
Continue Reading By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group of environmental and racial justice are suing the U.S. Department of Transportation and its secretary, Pete Buttigieg, seeking to halt a Gulf Coast road project that the group says will harm the environment near historic Black neighborhoods in north Gulfport, Mississippi. The
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business As #RIPTwitter continues to trend on Twitter itself and a legion of engineers and other staffers exit the company, some users are preparing for a world without their accounts. For those who have lived their lives on the platform for the past decade or more, Twitter going dark could mean
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, Jessica Schneider, Devon M. Sayers and Nick Valencia, CNN A judge in Georgia on Friday ruled to allow early voting on November 26 in the state’s US Senate runoff election. In a written ruling, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox said that after he “considered the moving papers, arguments of counsel,
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The government and two major airlines are giving starkly contrasting views about the impact of an alliance between the airlines. Closing arguments were held Friday in federal district court in the government’s lawsuit to break up a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue. The partnership lets the airlines coordinate
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — A raíz de un éxodo masivo de empleados de Twitter el asediado CEO Elon Musk convocó el viernes a los ingenieros de software de la compañía a su sede de San Francisco para una reunión vespertina urgente. “Cualquiera que realmente pueda escribir software, por favor preséntese en el piso 10 hoy a
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin, CNN A sports psychologist who was under contract with the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit she had recently filed against the organization and 19-year-old former Spurs player Joshua Primo. “The parties have agreed to resolve this matter. The entire case is over and we have no
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Meredith Grey is saying goodbye to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital when “Grey’s Anatomy” returns in February, but Ellen Pompeo has already started the farewell parade. On Thursday, one week after the show aired its fiery fall finale, Pompeo took to Instagram to pen an emotional note to viewers. “I am eternally
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By Kate Golembiewski, CNN Around the world, a parasitic fungus transforms ants into “zombies.” The fungus is like something out of a horror movie: The organism hijacks the body and brain of its ant host, mind-controlling it into abandoning its nest and climbing a nearby tree. There, the infected ant clamps its jaws around a
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Taylor Swift habló este viernes sobre la crisis en la venta de boletos que tuvo lugar esta semana, que provocó que muchos de sus seguidores no pudieron comprar boletos para su próxima gira en Ticketmaster. “No hace falta decir que soy extremadamente protectora con mis seguidores”, escribió Swift en Instagram este
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El casino Morongo de Cabazon realizó la distribución de 15 mil pavos para organizaciones no lucrativas que ayudan a las familias mas necesitadas en nuestro Valle de Coachella. El objetivo es dar cena a unas 300 mil personas en la Coachella Valley Rescue Missión de Indio, Galilea Center de Mecca, Iglesias, albergues y organizaciones para
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Ayer el alcalde de Desert Hot Springs anunció que se aprobaron $15 millones de dólares que serán invertidos en la construcción de una nueva estación de bomberos en el área de Hacienda Avenida y según dijo la ceremonia del primer palazo de tierra se realizará en mayo del 2023. Además, informó que realizarán mejoras en
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CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago college student has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in federal prison for attempting to help the Islamic State group. Thomas Osadzinski designed, used, and taught a computer program to disseminate violent propaganda online, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The 23-year-old from suburban Chicago was convicted last
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LISA MASCARO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would step aside, congressman Hakeem Jeffries of New York has announced his history-making bid to become the first Black person to helm a major political party in Congress as leader of the House
Continue ReadingBy Mia Alberti IKEA furniture was allegedly produced by prisoners in Belarus penal colonies under forced labor conditions, according to a new report by the French non-profit investigative journalism network Disclose. Disclose alleges that at least ten of IKEA’s subcontractors in Belarus “had ties with penal colonies over the past 10 years,” according to accounting
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