By BETTY YU Click here for updates on this story PIEDMONT, California (KPIX) — It’s been five days since 36-year-old Piedmont resident and mother of two Danielle “Dani” Friedland vanished in Houston. A photo of her taken the day before Thanksgiving at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston where she was last seen shows her
Continue ReadingBy JUAN ARRÁEZ and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SURAMA, Guyana (AP) — Congregants of an Anglican church in a sparsely populated rainforest village in Guyana are asking for peace for their community amid what they see as an existential threat. Their village, Surama, is part of Guyana’s Essequibo region — a territory that Venezuela
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By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) — Though home to the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park is known for being green. It’s hard not to associate the two, considering the “Green Monster,” the stadium’s massive outfield wall that has towered over the field since it opened in 1912. The ballpark and its famed wall
Continue ReadingCNN By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) — Though home to the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park is known for being green. It’s hard not to associate the two, considering the “Green Monster,” the stadium’s massive outfield wall that has towered over the field since it opened in 1912. The ballpark and its famed
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Parece que la secuela de la película “Barbie” no llegará tan pronto, si es que llega a producirse… Aunque su directora Greta Gerwig no lo descarta por completo. “Quiero decir, en este momento estamos en cero”, respondió Gerwig a Entertainment Tonight en la alfombra roja de los Premios Gotham este lunes
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — International mediators appeared to make progress Wednesday on extending the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Elton John is to address Britain’s Parliament on his work fighting HIV at an event to mark World AIDS Day. The British star’s AIDS Foundation has led campaigns to extend a pilot government program to test people visiting hospitals’ emergency rooms for HIV. The program was recently introduced in London and other
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges. Across most of the U.S., wolverines were wiped out by the early
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By BETTY YU Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — UC Berkeley was sued Tuesday by Jewish groups who said longstanding unchecked antisemitism has spread on campus, including at its law school. The lawsuit said law school groups have anti-Jewish policies. The complaint filed in San Francisco federal court is among
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW RODRIGUEZ Click here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, California (KCAL) — Prosecutors charged a Westminster mother with murder after she allegedly drowned her 9-year-old daughter in a bathtub. The girl used a wheelchair and could not speak. Authorities said the 32-year-old left her daughter’s lifeless body in the bathtub for several
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW RODRIGUEZ Click here for updates on this story VENTURA COUNTY, California (KCAL) — An imposter is posing as a Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Captain in a scam aimed at stealing money from residents with fraudulent warrants. Deputies issued a warning about the grift on Tuesday after receiving multiple reports. It allegedly starts with
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — Your True Love’s lavish — and stunningly bird-laden — holiday gift-giving ritual is more expensive than ever before. But at least this time around, inflation’s not as piping hot. The cost of the dozen gifts outlined in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song rang in at an all-time
Continue ReadingBy MARYBEL GONZALEZ Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Migrants who were staying at the Calumet (5th) District police station in the Pullman community say they were left to spend the night outside in frigid temperatures Tuesday night. They told us they were forced to leave and take their belongings with
Continue ReadingOpinion by Nicole Hemmer (CNN) — Picking through the rubble of the 2016 election, journalists not only peered deep into the rural red counties of Trump country and the ragged remains of the Clinton campaign, but also turned inward, toward themselves. There had been so much newsprint acreage devoted to Hillary Clinton’s emails and so many hours devoted
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street was poised to open with gains on Wednesday despite a gloomy global economic forecast and oil prices rose ahead of an OPEC meeting later this week. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4% before the bell while futures for the S&P 500
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges. Across most of the U.S., wolverines were wiped out by the early
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military government has announced an investigation into the Tuareg rebel leaders who signed a peace agreement in 2015 and now accuse the government of failing to comply with it. Experts worry that the deal crucial to establishing a measure of stability in the country’s north is collapsing. The
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By Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Ryan Fournier, a co-founder of the political organization Students for Trump, was arrested and charged with assault last week in North Carolina after allegedly hitting a woman with a gun, court records show. Fournier was charged with misdemeanor assault on a female and assault with a deadly weapon on November 21,
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — US says wolverines are threatened with extinction as climate change melts their snowy refuges in the Rocky Mountains.
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS. Since the bloody Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that triggered the war, Israeli leaders and commanders have likened the Palestinian militant group to the Islamic State group. They point to Hamas’ brutal
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