By Tim McNicholas Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Taking your pet for a walk in the city used to be a simple chore, but not anymore; more pets are getting sick after eating products containing pot that have been dropped on the ground. Dazzle, a 2-year-old Golden Doodle, helps
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces shot and killed a teenager in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian media say the shooting on Friday came during confrontations between Israeli forces and stone-throwing Palestinians in a village near the town of Bethlehem. The ministry identified the teenager as 16-year-old Mustafa Sabah.
Continue Reading By CARLA BRIDI and FABIANO MAISONNAVE BRASÍLIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has approved the creation of six Indigenous territories, the first such move after a five-year hiatus in Indigenous demarcation. Lula’s action delivers in part on a campaign promise and also serves to help protect critical Amazon rainforest from
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — 6lack was on a hot streak, dishing out Grammy-worthy work and being featured on songs with music’s elite including Elton John, Calvin Harris and J Cole. But while the singer-rapper was riding high, he neglected one important element: His mental health. As a result,
Continue ReadingBy Meghan McRoberts Click here for updates on this story STUART, Florida (WPTV) — As South Florida heads into another rainy season, there is still no change to the water release schedule from Lake Okeechobee. Residents and environmentalists were hopeful that the changes would nearly stop all harmful releases into the St. Lucie Estuary. The
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Italian state TV says Milan prosecutors have dropped their investigation of lobbyists allegedly seeking Russian money for right-wing leader Matteo Salvini’s pro-Moscow party. It reported Thursday evening that the investigators found they had no grounds to continue the probe against three Italians, including a close associate of Salvini. Salvini is the leader
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz, Kevin Liptak and Fredreka Schouten, CNN President Joe Biden will convene more than 150 of his biggest donors at a lux Washington, DC, hotel over the next two days, a sign, even in the campaign’s earliest stages, of the importance he will place on raising a war chest to take on Republicans
Continue Reading By MARGERY A. BECK and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Abortion bans in Nebraska and South Carolina fell short of advancing in close votes amid heated debates among Republicans, confounding conservatives who have dominated both legislatures and further exposing the chasm on the issue of abortion within the GOP. In Nebraska, where
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting higher Friday, as the market winds down a week of sharp swerves with another batch of corporate profit reports that mostly topped expectations. The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher in midday trading. Despites its big swings earlier this week, it’s still
Continue ReadingAmarachi Orie, CNN The auction of the late Austrian billionaire Heidi Horton’s jewelry collection is expected to break the record set more than a decade ago by the late actress Elizabeth Taylor. In 2011, Taylor’s gems racked up nearly $116 million at auction, with her admirer Kim Kardashian shelling out $64,900 for three Lorraine Schwartz
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN “Every saga has a beginning.” That’s part of the message in the newly released trailer for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” The prequel for the “Hunger Games” franchise tells the story of Lucy Gray Baird, played by “West Side Story” star Rachel Zelger, and a teenage
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A key index of underlying inflation that is closely followed by the Federal Reserve remained elevated last month, keeping the Fed on track to raise interest rates next week for the 10th time since March of last year. The index, which excludes volatile food and energy
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una nueva investigación reveló hasta qué punto Irán ha construido una poderosa industria de armas basada en tecnología occidental, y cómo Rusia está utilizando esa tecnología contra ciudades ucranianas. La Conflict Armament Research (CAR), una organización con sede en el Reino Unido que investiga los componentes de las armas, concluyó
Continue Reading By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Portland General Electric, the utility serving Portland, Oregon, announced Friday it is putting in the second-largest battery storage installation in the United States, at 400 MW of power. The significance of such projects is they diminish the need for power plants that burn fossil fuels that warm the planet. The
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Compensation for US workers picked up in the first three months of the year, showing that a major source of inflationary pressure persists and cementing the path for an interest rate hike at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week. The Employment Cost Index, released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state TV footage shows how masked Iranian navy commandos conducted a helicopter-borne raid to seize a U.S.-bound oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. The TV aired the footage on Friday. The capture took place on Thursday. The taking of the Turkish-managed, Chinese-owned Advantage Sweet represents the latest
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As we’ve been reporting all week, a ridge of high pressure will keep our temperatures about 15 degrees above average all weekend long. Highs today will likely beat yesterday’s 103 reading. Please take the heat seriously, this is the hottest stretch of days we’ve seen so far this year. The Jetstream will remain far to
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN When Loni Philbrick-Linzmeyer decided to walk the Camino de Santiago, she was adamant this was something she had to do alone. It was 2013. Loni was a 29-year-old Californian school teacher who was “at a crossroads.” She’d just endured a tough break-up and was feeling adrift. “It really spun me into questioning
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Continue Reading By AMANDA SEITZ and ANITA SNOW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Days out from a surgery and with a young son undergoing chemotherapy, Kyle McHenry was scrambling to figure out if his Florida family will still be covered by Medicaid come Monday. One form on the state’s website said coverage for their sick 5-year-old son,
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