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By WNEM Staff Click here for updates on this story GENESEE TWP., Michigan (WNEM) — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) has entered an informal resolution agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resolve a civil rights complaint. The Title VI Civil Rights complaint was filed by a coalition
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Russian ruble, steadily losing exchange value in a long fall since the beginning of the year, has hit 99 to the dollar. The ruble’s level in Friday trading was its lowest since the early weeks of the Ukraine war. In January, the ruble traded at about 66 to the dollar
Continue ReadingBy Mariya Murrow Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — The Clayton County District Attorney’s Office has called a news conference to discuss a 2022 officer-involved shooting case that resulted in the death of a teenager. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, an officer showed up in Morrow on Nov.
Continue ReadingBy Giri Viswanathan, CNN (CNN) — Playing football might increase the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, new findings from the Boston University CTE Center suggest. Using data from a large online survey sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, researchers found that participants who had a history of playing organized tackle football
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By Victoria Butenko and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed all officials in charge of regional military recruitment centers amid a widespread corruption scandal. A scandal linked to the procurement of war-time supplies had already led to Zelensky firing a slew of senior Ukrainian officials at the start of the
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Walls of bright orange flames. Harrowing escapes. The charred shells of what’s left behind. It’s hard not to be terrified by images of deadly wildfires like those that tore through parts of Hawaii this week. Jon Heggie – formerly public information officer and now a division chief with the
Continue Reading CNN, KABC, KGMB, KHNL By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The day began windier than usual in Lahaina, a Hawaiian sunrise painting the sky enchanting colors, a powerful breeze carrying the salty scent of the North Pacific Ocean inland. The fire that had started on the mountain early that morning had crept a little closer
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey (CNN) — Olivia Rodrigo dropped her second “Guts” single, “Bad Idea Right?,” on Friday. Petra Collins directs the accompanying music video, which sees Rodrigo partying with friends and mulling over getting back together with an ex. “Haven’t heard from you in a couple of months/ But I’m out right now and I’m
Continue ReadingLAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Before-and-after satellite images show in unmistakable and stark contrast the devastation that wildfires brought to the historic Maui community of Lahaina. Images taken before this week’s fire show streets filled in and bordered by green vegetation. The images taken after the fire show a gray, barren landscape, sometimes with lingering smoke
Continue ReadingSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A man in Bosnia killed his ex-wife while streaming the slaying live on Instagram and then killed two other people while on the run before taking his own life Friday, according to police and media reports. The attack took place in the northeastern Bosnian town of Gradacac, where the assailant also
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against Donald Trump largely sided with his defense Friday in a dispute over a protective order and said she was inclined to agree to less restrictive rules than were sought by prosecutors around
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar have killed five people and displaced 60,000 since mid-July. The director of the ministry of social welfare, relief and resettlement, Lay Shwe Zin Oo, said on Friday that four children are among the dead. The official says that some parts of southern states of
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer With the Paris Olympics coming up next year, U.S. women’s water polo coach Adam Krikorian is feeling the pressure of time. As in not enough of it. There is history at stake, too. No water polo team — men or women — has won four straight gold medals at
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — US wholesale inflation rose more than expected in July, reversing a yearlong cooling trend, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The Producer Price Index, which tracks the average change in prices that businesses pay to suppliers, rose 0.8% annually. That’s above June’s upwardly revised increase of 0.2%
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on the sale or possession of the type of semiautomatic weapons used in hundreds of mass killings nationally. In a 4-3 decision Friday, the high court found that the Protect Our Communities Act does not violate
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald and Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,500-year-old Teotihuacan village in Mexico City, complete with large concentrations of ceramics and three human burials, Mexico’s National Institute of History and Anthropology has announced. Excavations between March and June unearthed several remnants of buildings within the settlement, including drainage channels, holes
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in the Far East of the Luna-25
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the 2020 election conspiracy case against Donald Trump is hearing arguments Friday over a request by prosecutors for a protective order seeking to bar the former president from publicly disclosing evidence shared by the government. The protective
Continue Reading By Ana Canizares, Sahar Akbarzai, Anna Gorzowska and Helen Regan, CNN Quito, Ecuador (CNN) — Six suspects arrested in connection with the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are Colombian nationals and gang members, authorities have confirmed, as a former vice president demanded action over spiraling levels of violence in the South American country.
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says five staff members who were kidnapped in Yemen 18 months ago have walked free. In a brief statement, a U.N. spokesperson said Friday that all “available information suggests that all five colleagues are in good health.” He says the five men worked for the U.N. Department of Security
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