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CNN By Brenda Goodman, CNN Influenza is continuing its early and severe rampage through the United States, but there’s some hopeful news for flu seasons of the future. In a significant step, researchers recently said they’ve been able to immunize animals against all 20 known influenza A and B virus strains, marking an important step
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Duffy, CNN TikTok parent company ByteDance has fired four employees who improperly accessed the personal data of two journalists on the platform, TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter confirmed to CNN Thursday. TikTok user data from the two journalists, who worked for the Financial Times and BuzzFeed, was accessed while ByteDance employees were investigating
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN In a matter of days, the United States is expected to ban federal employees from downloading or using TikTok on government-issued phones or tablets, marking the country’s broadest crackdown on the short-form video app to date. The looming ban is the result of a bill that’s moved through Congress in the
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A bear escaped an exhibit at a Florida zoo and attacked a zookeeper before being fatally shot by workers, officials said. The escape in a behind-the-scenes area happened just after 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. Zoo officials said in a Facebook post that an emergency call was
Continue Reading KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has met in Moscow with officials from Russia’s state atomic energy company as he tries to get a protection zone set up around a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Russian company Rosatom described Thursday’s talks on safeguarding the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russian state media say a fire broke out onboard Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, in the latest of a string of incidents incidents marring the Admiral Kuznetsov’s ongoing refit. The carrier suffered a “minor” fire while undergoing repair work in the Arctic port of Murmansk, Russia’s state news agencies Tass and Ria Novosti
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Lawyers for the former European Parliament vice-president suspected of being at the center of one of the European Union’s biggest corruption scandals are seeking her release from prison. Andre Risopoulos says lawyers want Eva Kaili to “be put under a system of electronic surveillance, with a bracelet.”
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Court of Justice says online retail giant Amazon may be in breach of luxury shoemaker Christian Louboutin’s trademark rights over the sale of counterfeit red-soled high-heeled shoes on its platform. Third-party sellers on Amazon regularly advertise red-soled shoes, and Louboutin brought cases against Amazon in Belgium and Luxembourg arguing that
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WBNS By Nouran Salahieh and Emma Tucker, CNN Kason Thomass, the 5-month-old baby who was kidnapped with his twin while inside a car that was stolen Monday, was found safe and alive in Indianapolis Thursday, just hours after the suspect was taken into custody, according to a statement from the Columbus Division of Police. Kason
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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s only nuclear plant has signed a deal with Westinghouse Electric Sweden to provide nuclear fuel for one of its reactors, in a bid to diversify its energy supplies. The Kozloduy plant currently uses nuclear fuel supplied by Russian firm Rosatom to operate the two Russian-designed VVER-1000 nuclear reactors that generate
Continue Reading SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s only nuclear plant has signed a deal with Westinghouse Electric Sweden to provide nuclear fuel for one of its reactors, in a bid to diversify its energy supplies. The Kozloduy plant currently uses nuclear fuel supplied by Russian firm Rosatom to operate the two Russian-designed VVER-1000 nuclear reactors that generate
Continue Reading By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s defense ministry says that Indian and Chinese military commanders have met in yet another attempt to end a more-than-two-year-old standoff between tens of thousands of their soldiers along their disputed border that triggered bloody clashes in 2020. A ministry statement on Thursday said the meeting
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN The International Space Station got its second solar power boost in a month as two NASA astronauts carried out a spacewalk to install a new solar panel. The event comes after a piece of wayward space garbage interfered with plans to carry out the spacewalk Wednesday. NASA was
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Una gran tormenta invernal que azota gran parte del centro y el este de EE.UU. está provocando descensos de temperatura sin precedentes y duras condiciones de nieve que han dado lugar a cancelaciones de vuelos, cierres de carreteras y varias declaraciones de emergencia estatales. La tormenta está afectando a casi
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Severe winter weather is threatening holiday travel on some of the busiest days of the year, but there are ways you can avoid a fiasco if you have a trip coming up. Arrive at airports early, pack light and consider rerouting your itinerary if your flights are in the path
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Franco Harris, estrella de los Steelers de Pittsburgh, quien posiblemente fue mejor conocido por una de las jugadas más icónicas en la historia de la NFL, apodada la “Recepción Inmaculada”, murió a los 72 años, anunció el miércoles el Salón de la Fama del Fútbol Americano Profesional. Harris murió durante la noche,
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Severe winter weather is threatening holiday travel on some of the busiest days of the year, but there are ways you can avoid a fiasco if you have a trip coming up. Arrive at airports early, pack light and consider rerouting your itinerary if your flights are in the path of
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Court of Justice says online retail giant Amazon may be in breach of luxury shoemaker Christian Louboutin’s trademark rights over the sale of counterfeit red-soled high-heeled shoes on its platform. Third-party sellers on Amazon regularly advertise red-soled shoes, and Louboutin brought cases against Amazon in Belgium and Luxembourg arguing that
Continue Reading WSOC, COJOCARI FAMILY, SCHOOL DISTRICT, CNN By Sharif Paget, CNN Authorities in North Carolina have released a school bus surveillance video they say shows missing 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari just days before her mother and stepfather said they last saw her. “Today, we are releasing surveillance video from her school bus as Madalina got off at
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Stacker compiled a list of counties with below average life expectancy in California using data from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
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