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By Amanda Shaw Click here for updates on this story COLUMBIA, South Carolina (WHNS) — The University of South Carolina said an experiment involving cocaine-addicted rats being electrically shocked has been stopped for now. In November, the university received an anonymous complaint about a research project conducted by the psychology department that involved shocking the
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials are investigating Twitter after six former employees allege that owner Elon Musk’s leadership team broke laws by turning the company’s headquarters into a “Twitter Hotel” for workers who were pushed to stay up late to transform the social media platform. The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Shaw Click here for updates on this story ANDERSON, South Carolina (WHNS) — The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office released images from the body camera footage of a traffic stop on Interstate 85 that led to the discovery of a fake pregnancy – and a large amount of cocaine. When deputies stopped Anthony Miller
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, will join NASA’s lunar lander program — competing against Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop spacecraft intended to ferry astronauts to the moon’s surface. NASA announced Friday that Blue Origin will work to prepare its Blue Moon lander concept for a mission
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By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Friends, family members and civil rights leaders gathered at a Harlem church on Friday to mourn Jordan Neely, whose chokehold death on the New York City subway set off a debate about vigilantism, homelessness and public safety. A former Michael Jackson impersonator who had been struggling
Continue Reading By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — While the world awaits Ukraine’s spring battlefield offensive, its leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has launched a diplomatic one. In the span of a week, he’s dashed to Italy, the Vatican, Germany, France and Britain to shore up support for defending his country. On Friday, he was in
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The European Union is poised to impose a ban on imports of Russia’s diamonds — cutting off the world’s biggest diamond producer from one of its key markets. “Russian diamonds are not forever,” European Council President Charles Michel said on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima,
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Niamh Kennedy and Jessie Gretener, CNN Business (CNN) — A US photo agency says it has refused to hand over pictures and video of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex taken in New York on Tuesday night during what the royal couple called a “near catastrophic” car chase by “a ring of
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Niamh Kennedy and Jessie Gretener, CNN Business (CNN) — A US photo agency says it has refused to hand over pictures and video of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex taken in New York on Tuesday night during what the royal couple called a “near catastrophic” car chase by “a ring
Continue Reading By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer When Kamryn Yanchick graduated, she hoped to decorate her cap with a beaded pattern in honor of her Native American heritage. Whether she could was up to her Oklahoma high school. Administrators told her no. Yanchick settled for wearing beaded earrings to her 2018 graduation. A bill vetoed earlier
Continue Reading By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the Tyre Nichols investigation. But during a court hearing Friday, he said he does want to make public as much information as possible that would not interfere with the
Continue Reading By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people rallied in Serbia on Friday for a third time in a month in protests following two mass shootings, even as government officials in the Balkan country rejected opposition criticism of the way they handled the crisis. The protesters
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street turned lower after talks on raising the nation’s debt limit came to a sudden halt, raising worries that the country could edge closer to risking a highly damaging default on U.S. government debt. The S&P 500 went from a gain of 0.3% to
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street turned lower after talks on raising the nation’s debt limit came to a sudden halt, raising worries that the country could edge closer to risking a highly damaging default on U.S. government debt. The S&P 500 went from a gain of 0.3% to
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday named Gabe Gore, a former assistant U.S. attorney, as the new chief prosecutor in St. Louis, three days after Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s sudden departure. Gardner had been the subject of an ouster effort by Republican Missouri Attorney General
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Honduras identificó a la niña de 8 años que murió bajo la custodia de la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos en Harlingen, Texas, como Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez. Reyes murió este miércoles en un hospital de Harlingen y su familia está
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian branch of the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday says it is closing after authorities declared Greenpeace International to be an undesirable organization. A statement from the national prosecutor-general’s office said it had determined that Greenpeace posed “a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the Russian
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La policía investiga la muerte de una persona que fue encontrada dentro de un canal de agua de riego por la Avenida 52 en Coachella, el hallazgo fue ayer a las 12:20 del mediodía. Las autoridades no han dado a conocer si es un hombre o una mujer y no han dicho si sospechan que
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La policía realizó un operativo ayer desde las 2:30 de la tarde en un vecindario ubicado cerca de las calles Deep Canyon y Fred Waring en Palm Desert donde trataban de arrestar a un peligroso individuo que se atrinchero en una casa por varias horas hasta que se entregó, pero no dijeron el motivo por
Continue Reading CNN By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Smoke from wildfires in Canada is moving into parts of the central US and could linger in the days ahead, health and weather officials warned Thursday. Air quality alerts have been posted as of early Friday across several states, including Nebraska, Washington, Montana and Wisconsin, with a special
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