WLS By Rob Hughes and WLS Digital Team Click here for updates on this story NAPERVILLE, Illinois (WLS) — Maybe you’ve heard of her. Taylor Swift is kind of a big deal. She’s everywhere, including, right now, in our news, thanks to a Naperville family who put its own spin on the holiday season. Are
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — If you snore the house down, you may be suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA — a potentially dangerous condition in which people stop breathing for 10 seconds or more at a time. The condition has been linked to smaller brain volume, damage to the white matter communication
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By Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — In the days following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Lisa Kaplan-Miller’s WhatsApp group fell uncharacteristically silent. Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has reached a deal with senior doctors in England that could potentially end a series of strikes. The Department of Health and Social Care said Monday that it has put forward a pay offer to doctors’ unions after weeks of talks. Union leaders agreed to
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Rachel Ramirez, CNN New York (CNN) — Tomato growers in central India have been increasingly worried about the volatility that extreme weather events have brought to the region. For much of the area, the last decade has been punctuated by severe droughts that led to significant crop loss, impacting the livelihoods
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A powerful weekend storm in the Black Sea region toppled trees, tore down power lines and caused coastal flooding, and government officials and media reports said more than half a million people were without power in southern Russia and Ukraine. The storm caused several regions of Crimea, which was annexed by
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This entire month, we’ve taken you to the Rocky Mountains, followed the water, and dived into the intricacies of the crisis of the Colorado River. Experts have said we are at a critical juncture. A wet winter has eased some pressure on policymakers, but the overarching issue of chronic overuse is still a problem waiting in the
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU and KEMO CHAM Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s president says most of the leaders of weekend attacks on the nation’s main military barracks and prisons have been arrested, but the capital remains tense. Many streets are empty after a 24-hour curfew was relaxed to a dusk-to-dawn lockdown. The
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state via Sweden’s Transport Agency after striking postal workers in the Scandinavian country stopped delivering license plates for new vehicles manufactured by the Texas-based automaker. Tesla says it’s suing because not accessing the registration plates “constitutes an unlawful discriminatory attack directed at Tesla.” In
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is turning his attention to Ukraine, NATO and the Western Balkans after weeks of intense focus on Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Amid signs that a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas due to expire on Monday may be extended,
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Increasing numbers of ships are streaming toward Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and heading out loaded with grain, metals and other cargo despite the threat of attack and explosive mines. It’s happening under a fledgling shipping corridor launched after Russia pulled out of a
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Highs will only span the lower 70s this afternoon, running a degree or two below our seasonal norms through most of the week. Modest offshore winds continue into this afternoon and gradually relax into tomorrow, with a trough well off the coast that will impact SoCal later in the week. Cooler than normal temps will
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The mayor of future Olympic host city Paris says she is quitting X. Mayor Anne Hidalgo is accusing Elon Musk’s platform, previously known as Twitter, of spreading disinformation and hatred and of becoming a “gigantic global sewer” that is toxic for democracy and constructive debate. Hidalgo’s office said posts on Monday in
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — One of Puerto Rico’s biggest political parties will hold a gubernatorial primary after Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz of the Popular Democratic Party announced his candidacy. Ortiz will face Puerto Rico Sen. Juan Zaragoza, who previously served as the U.S. territory’s treasury secretary. Ortiz is president of the Popular Democratic
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street retreated modestly early Monday as investors look ahead to updates on consumer spending and inflation in the U.S. and other nations. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials and the S&P 500 each ticked down less than 0.2% before the bell. Markets were mostly quiet
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — National and regional authorities in Spain have signed an agreement to invest 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in areas around the treasured national park of Doñana in a bid to stop the wetland from drying up. The ecological transition minister says the plan aims to encourage farmers
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to cap off the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of our everyday lives and much of the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined back in
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish Transport Agency as striking workers in the Scandinavian country halted the delivery of license plates of new vehicles manufactured by the Texas-based automaker. According to a report by Sweden’s Dagens Industri on Monday, Tesla was suing the government agency because not accessing the registration
Continue ReadingBY BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A German priest who was abducted by rebels in Mali’s capital in November 2022 has been released by his captors, a church member and a former colleague tell The Associated Press. The former colleague says church members in the capital learned of the release of Rev.
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The deal seemed on the verge of unraveling. Hamas had accused Israel of failing to keep its side of the bargain and Israel was threatening to resume its lethal onslaught on the Gaza Strip. That was the point at which a Qatari jet landed at Israel’s Ben-Gurion
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