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By Ashlyn Mitchell Click here for updates on this story FOLEY, Alabama (WALA) — A Foley woman is on the hunt for an angel in disguise who helped her on what she calls one of the scariest days of her life. Cathy Collins says she was driving on Highway 59 in Foley when her car
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he’s started the process to once again pardon two politicians who were arrested earlier this week. The case is at the center of a standoff between Poland’s new government and its populist predecessor. The move Thursday came as thousands of supporters of Poland’s now opposition party Law and
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — When 2-year-old Clara dons her four rubber booties to go out into the intense cold of a Helsinki winter morning, she typically does a hop and a skip before she settles down. “Clara does the hilarious boot walk — lifting legs super high — but soon forgets them when
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Congress is quickly approaching the first of two deadlines to fund the government and avert a shutdown. And as negotiators and staff continue to hash out a funding plan, it’s become clear to lawmakers that a short-term solution is needed to buy more time for the
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The largest ape on record stood almost 10 feet tall (3 meters) and weighed nearly twice as much as a gorilla. Why and when the legendary colossus — which has captivated the popular imagination as “the real King Kong” — disappeared is one of the biggest mysteries in paleontology. German-Dutch paleontologist
Continue Reading By Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — Israel is appearing before the International Court of Justice in a high stakes case that could change the course of the brutal war in Gaza. It is an unprecedented case. Experts say it is the first time that the Jewish state is being tried under the United Nations’ Genocide
Continue ReadingQUITO (AP) — A fake bomb threat has rattled the capital of Ecuador and sparked the mobilization of an anti-explosives unit to a bustling area. Police said they were forced to evacuate people from Playón de la Marín on Thursday. The event happened a day after explosives placed in five different areas around Quito caused
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump arrived for closing arguments Thursday in his New York civil fraud trial after authorities responded to a bomb threat at the home of the judge who moved this week to prevent the former president from delivering his own closing statements.
Continue ReadingBy Zamira Rahim, CNN (CNN) — Roya Shariat doesn’t think of her cookbook “Maman and Me” as a Middle Eastern book. She co-wrote it with her mother, Gita Sadeh, and each page unfolds an Iranian-American recipe with gentle, firm affection. Some of the dishes are classically Iranian, such as the tahdigs that helped the pair
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. The winter surge of respiratory viruses is underway. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to record rising levels of hospitalizations associated
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Original scripts from the long-running sitcom “Friends” that were found in a trash can 25 years ago are going under the hammer. Fans of the hit show can bid online for the scripts of two episodes, both of which focused on Ross’ wedding and were filmed in London. The
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland says it will extend the closure of its border with Russia for another month because it suspects that Moscow is trying to undermine the Nordic country’s security by sending undocumented migrants across the frontier. Finland closed the border late last year after 1,300 migrants without proper
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting near its record Thursday after a report showed U.S. inflation is warmer than expected, but maybe not by enough to dash traders’ dreams of lower interest rates later this year. The S&P 500 was close to flat in early trading at
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up his latest urgent Mideast tour in talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. American officials claim modest success in getting regional leaders on board with general planning for construction and governance in Gaza after Israel’s war with
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The first known piece of mail sent using a prepaid stamp — “one of the greatest leaps forward in human communication” — could fetch between $1.5 million and $2.5 million when it comes up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York next month. If the piece realizes its estimate,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is holding relatively steady after a report showed U.S. inflation is warmer than expected, but maybe not by enough to dash traders’ dreams of lower interest rates later this year. The S&P 500 was up 0.3% early Thursday, briefly touching the record high it reached two years ago. The
Continue ReadingBy ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Tons of garbage floats down a river at least twice a year and ends up near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad behind a barrier installed by a local hydroelectric plant. An environmental activist said “new year, new problems or rather old problems with new garbage
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government agency in Jamaica says it is investigating four fatal shootings by police officers in the span of 24 hours, including that of a 14-year-old boy. The Independent Commission of Investigations says police killed three people on Tuesday and another on Wednesday. Authorities allege all four victims opened
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman, Frederik Pleitgen and Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — In the snow-filled skies above Ukraine, a deadly game is playing out. Russia began the new year with a barrage of air attacks, including the heaviest night of missile strikes since the war began, as Ukraine battles to meet an evolving threat with its limited supply of
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MA Associated Press The United Negro College Fund announced a donation of $100 million from the Lilly Endowment Inc., the single largest unrestricted gift to the organization since its founding 80 years ago. The gift announced Thursday will go toward a pooled endowment for the 37 historically Black colleges and universities that form
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