By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed a young star outside the Milky Way galaxy that’s ringed by a dense disk where planets may form. The massive star, called HH 1177, and its rotating disk were spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy that’s about 160,000
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israeli leaders to respect international law as Israel wages its war against Hamas in Gaza. Blinken said Thursday the U.S. remains committed to supporting Israel’s right to self defense but he also said it is imperative
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By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — This week, the Iowa Lottery made payouts to its lucky Powerball winners – along with some lucky losers – thanks to a reporting error that led to incorrect winning numbers being posted on the state’s website. The lottery mistakenly posted incorrect winning numbers for Monday’s Powerball game online. During
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are drifting in afternoon trading on Wall Street Thursday but remain on track for their best monthly gain in more than a year. The S&P 500 was up by less than 0.1% after veering between small gains and losses. The benchmark index remains up
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — ChatGPT may not be able to perform a cake smash on its first birthday today, but it certainly managed to wow the world and create a mess of hope, hype, fear and chaos through nearly all parts of the economy in the past year. Its parent company
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — As Rep. Scott Perry was making clear he wanted to contest Donald Trump’s loss of the presidency in the 2020 election, his conversations with a Justice Department official took him inside the then-president’s management of the agency. Perry’s text messages, revealed for the first time in court filings on Wednesday, included several
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Swartz Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Kansas City Police have identified the 5-year-old boy whose death is being investigated as suspicious. Police said 5-year-old Grayson O’Connor died Monday. After going through security cameras in the area around 1000 Grand Boulevard and the Grand Boulevard Lofts, investigators
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a Gambian man of murder and crimes against humanity for involvement in the killing of government critics in his West African homeland. The killings took place nearly two decades ago when, the court found, the man was a driver for a military
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed at the last minute Thursday to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day to allow more hostages and prisoners to be released. But any further renewal of the truce, now in its seventh day,
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish court has ruled that the human rights of a Danish man who was convicted of murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine were not violated as he had claimed. In 2018, Peter Madsen was sentenced to life in prison for killing a 30-year-old freelance reporter, after bringing her
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CNN By Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Lauren Fox, CNN Embattled GOP Rep. George Santos continues his refusal to resign one day ahead of an expulsion vote, instead arguing that he is being bullied in the wake of a scathing ethics report on his conduct. At a combative news conference outside the Capitol, Santos remained
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four decades into his career, which includes 20 studio albums, a Grammy, and the Guinness World Record for bestselling jazz artist, saxophonist Kenny G is nowhere near done. Up next: an album of lullabies titled “Innocence,” out Friday. It is a collection of lullabies —
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Every three weeks, the United States experiences an extreme weather event that produces $1 billion worth of damage, according to the latest US National Climate Assessment report, released earlier this month. Compare that to 40 years ago, when extreme weather episodes that cost an inflation-adjusted $1 billion
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY (KMBC) — Police have revealed the cause of death for a child whose body was found in an alley mid-day Monday in downtown Kansas City. On Tuesday, the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department confirmed that a “young male under 12 years old” is
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By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s renewed focus on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, has alarmed some Republicans scarred by the GOP’s failure to deliver on promises to dismantle the law and who view the issue as a political loser
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN (CNN) — Key Supreme Court justices expressed deep reservations Wednesday with how the Securities and Exchange Commission brings some enforcement actions for securities fraud, suggesting the court could be poised to pare back on the agency’s power in the latest dispute concerning the so-called administrative state to come before the
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CNN By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk, in his first interview with mainstream media since his antisemitic post on X earlier this month, apologized Wednesday for what he called his “dumbest” ever social media post. But he lashed out at advertisers leaving his platform because of rising antisemitism on X. “I
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk, in his first interview with mainstream media since his antisemitic post on X earlier this month, apologized Wednesday for what he called his “dumbest” ever social media post. But he lashed out at advertisers leaving his platform because of rising antisemitism on X. “I don’t
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — US pending home sales fell to their lowest level in 20 years in October as mortgage rates surged to their highest levels of the year, according to a report released Thursday. Pending home sales dropped 1.5% last month from September, monthly data from the National Association of
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By Niamh Kennedy and Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Shane MacGowan, the lead singer of Anglo-Irish band The Pogues, has died, according to a statement from his wife, Victoria Mary Clarke. Clarke announced the death of the 65-year-old on Instagram, saying: “There’s no way to describe the loss that I am feeling and the
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