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By Katie Hunt and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Scientists have discovered that female snakes have a clitoris — a previously overlooked or dismissed part of their anatomy (and that of many other animals), according to a new study. “It’s quite a taboo area. Female genitalia is not an easy subject to bring up sometimes and I
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CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Undisclosed personal issues between three men led to a deadly shooting outside an Amazon delivery station in Arizona, according to police. A man with a gun shot and critically wounded an unarmed Amazon contract worker Wednesday morning before another contract worker shot the suspect in the station’s parking lot, Chandler police
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN The next time you order a meal from Uber Eats, it may be delivered by a robot — at least if you live in Miami. Starting on Thursday, some Miami residents can order their Uber Eats takeout to be delivered via autonomous, sidewalk-trotting robots thanks to a new partnership between the
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Christmas is just 10 days away, and investors hoping for a Santa Claus rally have found little holiday cheer on Wall Street this month — especially Thursday. The Dow plummeted nearly 765 points, or 2.3%, Thursday, and it is down 4% in December following solid gains the previous two
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German official who won a defamation case against Twitter this week has dedicated his legal victory to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert recently targeted by Elon Musk. A Frankfurt regional court ruled Wednesday that Twitter has to remove false or defamatory tweets
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lenore Angey never imagined she’d have to go back to work at age 76. With an ailing husband and the highest prices she can remember for everything from milk to gasoline, the retired school lunch worker from Cleveland, Ohio, now works part time as a salesperson at
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lenore Angey never imagined she’d have to go back to work at age 76. With an ailing husband and the highest prices she can remember for everything from milk to gasoline, the retired school lunch worker from Cleveland, Ohio, now works part time as a salesperson at
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Quinn Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Last Tuesday morning, a Marietta woman fought off an alleged armed kidnapper in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store. According to Marietta Police, Tomeka Harris, 48, had just put bags of groceries in her car when a stranger approached
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN And just like that, after 62 matches over nearly a month, the stage for Qatar 2022’s showpiece final was set. Two-time champion Argentina overpowered Croatia in the first semifinal earlier in the week, while defending champion France ended Morocco’s 2022 World Cup dream with a 2-0 win on Wednesday. Attention now
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Black Friday may have been back in fashion this year, but the strong turnout at the start of the holiday shopping season last month wasn’t enough to counter a broader consumer pullback in spending. US retail sales fell sharply at the start of the holiday shopping season, dropping by 0.6% during
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Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — En Estados Unidos, un país cuya historia forjaron en buena medida los inmigrantes, el discurso contra los extranjeros que llegan en busca de mejores oportunidades no cede. Sin embargo, las palabras de aquellos que presentan a los inmigrantes como una amenaza no se sostienen: los estudios, como uno publicado
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower across the board on Wall Street as traders grapple with a sharp pullback in retail spending last month and new signals from the Federal Reserve that interest rates will need to go higher than previously expected. The S&P 500 was down 1.4% in the early going Thursday,
Continue Reading By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott says her donations have yielded more than $14 billion in funding for about 1,600 nonprofits since 2019, according to her long-awaited website called Yield Giving. Unveiled Wednesday night, the site also announced plans to introduce an “open-call process” that allows nonprofits seeking donations from
Continue ReadingBy Marissa Sulek Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services said some of the most vulnerable children in the state’s care are sleeping in office buildings. According to DCS Commissioner Margie Quin, there’s more than 300 children in DCS custody using state office buildings as
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have met to seek ways to stand up to the United States over its new green technologies plan that they say unfairly discriminates against European companies. The leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday discussed means to counter fears that the EU is a waning
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has passed legislation requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul failing and outdated security systems in the wake of rampant staff sexual abuse, inmate escapes and high-profile deaths. The bill, approved by the House on a voice vote Wednesday, would force the troubled prison
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department has brought federal charges against a Washington state man who allegedly made multiple threats against members of Congress, using antisemitic slurs and saying he would “murder” lawmakers. In announcing the charges, the department said Mark Leonetti, 48, left “more than 400 voicemails for members of Congress, several of
Continue ReadingCNN By Martha Shade, CNN Meira Va’a Nelson is a champion surfer who has known more trauma in her life than most people will ever experience. When she was just seven years old her mother died of breast cancer. On the day of her mother’s funeral, her father, unable to deal with his own grief,
Continue ReadingBy Martha Shade, CNN Meira Va’a Nelson is a champion surfer who has known more trauma in her life than most people will ever experience. When she was just seven years old her mother died of breast cancer. On the day of her mother’s funeral, her father, unable to deal with his own grief, left
Continue ReadingBy Brendan Tierney and Daniel Smithson Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A 14-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday after police said he stole a car that had a four-year-old child sitting in the backseat. Around 5:30 p.m., Metro Police said a woman left her vehicle unattended with her son in
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