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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California utility regulators are set to vote Thursday on changes to the state’s booming rooftop solar market that they say will more evenly spread the cost of energy and help reduce reliance on fossil fuels in the evening. California has long led the nation in adoption
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Alicia Wallace, CNN Last year, bonuses were bountiful. This year, economic uncertainty is bringing a chill to the holiday-season perk, according to survey data released Thursday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. More than 81% of the 252 employers surveyed by the outplacement firm said they planned to freeze the value of holiday
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN A typical morning at the Schnitzler household starts with David and Allison feeding their 17-month-old Winston. Allison, 33, and David, 32, play with Winston as they both get ready to go to work. Allison heads out the door — to her family medical practice — and David, an insurance underwriter, starts
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Para las mujeres, las consecuencias de un accidente automovilístico suelen ser mucho más mortales que para los hombres. Según Verity Now, un grupo de campaña estadounidense que lucha por la igualdad en la seguridad de los vehículos, las mujeres tienen un 73% más de probabilidades de sufrir lesiones –y un 17%
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Humans weren’t the only ones that lost their lives after being exposed to an aromatherapy spray linked to fatal cases of a rare tropical disease. The disease also killed a family’s pet raccoon in Texas. Exposure to a room spray containing “gemstones” that was sold at Walmart last year led to
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has banned TikTok and two popular messaging applications from all computer devices controlled by Georgia’s state government. The Republican issued the order Thursday, also banning messaging apps WeChat and Telegram. Kemp says there’s too much risk that the Chinese government can access the
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CNN, WHAM By Melissa Bell, Saskya Vandoorne and Christina Maxouris, CNN The woman who hosted an American college student studying in France before he went missing told CNN she thinks he may have left voluntarily — a claim echoed by a French prosecutor. But the young man’s parents don’t believe that’s the case and on
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billie Moore, who coached the first U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team to a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Games, has died. She was 79. UCLA, where Moore was the women’s head coach from 1977-93, announced Thursday that she died from cancer at home Wednesday night in Fullerton, California, surrounded by
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El Real Madrid fichó al cotizado delantero brasileño de 16 años Endrick, procedente del Palmeiras brasileño, según anunciaron este jueves ambos clubes. “El Real Madrid C. F., la Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras y Endrick y su familia han llegado a un acuerdo que permite al jugador incorporarse al Real Madrid cuando
Continue ReadingBy WYFF Staff Click here for updates on this story HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina (WYFF) — A rare warning Wednesday for anyone headed to the South Carolina beach for the holidays: watch where you step. Shore Beach Service, a beach patrol and equipment rental service for Hilton Head Island, posted photos on Facebook of
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Ayestas Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — Ring camera footage appears to show a California Highway Patrol captain, whose death is being investigated along with the murder of her husband, stealing his dog from the Tennessee home of his girlfriend. Julie Harding, the CHP Yuba-Sutter commander, was found
Continue ReadingBy WMTW Staff Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (WMTW) — The mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, is putting the city of Sanford on blast after she says police drove a homeless woman to a shelter that did not have beds available. Sanford police, however, tell a different story. Sanford police
Continue ReadingBy Fletcher Keel Click here for updates on this story ROSS TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WLWT) — Colerain Fire and EMS says a woman was saved from a residential fire after being administered a Cyanokit treatment after inhaling toxic smoke. According to Colerain Fire officials, the Ross Township Fire Department arrived at a house fire in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official. The Pentagon’s plan still needs to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El pleno de la Cámara de Senadores de México aprobó el “Plan B” de la reforma electoral impulsada por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador. El proyecto obtuvo luz verde en el recinto a pesar del voto en contra del senador y líder de la bancada del partido oficialista Morena,
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By COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday said he will soon make a visit to sub-Saharan Africa, announcing bare details of his travels plans as he wrapped up the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. He told the visiting leaders that he’s serious about increasing U.S. attention on the
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Taco Bell is spinning up new varieties of its popular Mexican Pizza. The chain revealed that it’s testing two new types of the beloved menu item, which came back in May following a two-year absence because of pandemic-induced menu changes. For the unfamiliar, the Mexican Pizza consists of a flat,
Continue Reading LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal coach Fernando Santos has quit after eight years in the job and five days after Portugal’s exit from the World Cup in the quarterfinals. The Portuguese soccer federation announced Thursday that it reached an amicable agreement with the 68-year-old Santos to leave two years before his contract ends. The federation
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Mortgage rates fell once again this week, dipping for the fifth straight week. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.31% in the week ending December 15, down from 6.33% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. A year ago, the 30-year fixed rate was 3.12%. Mortgage rates have risen throughout most of
Continue ReadingBy Homero De La Fuente, CNN Real Madrid has signed the highly-touted 16-year-old Brazilian forward Endrick from Brazilian club Palmeiras, both clubs announced on Thursday. “Real Madrid C. F., Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, and Endrick and his family have reached an agreement that allows the player to join Real Madrid when he reaches legal age in
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