CNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Why flight attendants want you to stop ignoring them, what Brits don’t want in their tea and Italians don’t want on their pizza, plus how to stay safe if you ever encounter a lion in the wild. Plane safety What the recent incidents
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The decision by President Joe Biden, announced as the 2024 presidential election year
Continue ReadingBy Brian Maass Click here for updates on this story DENVER, Colorado (KCNC) — A man wanted in Arkansas for allegedly violating his probation in a 2017 murder case has twice been arrested and jailed in Denver since 2021, and both times, Denver authorities have had to release him from custody. In the most recent
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Washington, DC, is on a weather rollercoaster and there’s no getting off. Just a week after the nation’s capital got clobbered by snow and highs struggled to reach the low 30s, two of the area’s main weather reporting stations smashed records on Friday afternoon as temperatures surged to
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department concluded Friday that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed state employees, supporting the findings of a previous state civil review of allegations against the former governor. The department reached an agreement with the New York State Executive Chamber resolving the claims
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Paulina Nares (CNN) — Un retrato de Gustav Klimt, del que no se supo nada durante casi un siglo, podría alcanzar varios millones cuando salga a subasta esta primavera. Se espera que el “Retrato de Fräulein Lieser”, que se cree es una de las últimas obras del pintor austriaco, llegue a los US$ 54 millones
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The manslaughter retrial of a man who fatally shot former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith is nearing its end. Prosecution and defense attorneys spent Friday afternoon delivering closing arguments to the jury that will decide 36-year-old Cardell Hayes’ fate. Hayes shot Smith following a traffic
Continue ReadingBy Luzdelia Caballero Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES, California (KCAL) — Beverly Hills residents are up in arms over a multi-million dollar home in their neighborhood was taken over by a group of alleged squatters, who have instead turned the property into a problematic party house. They say that the issue
Continue ReadingBy Amy Maetzold Click here for updates on this story BIG BEAR VALLEY, California (KCAL) — Big Bear’s famous eagles, Jackie and Shadow, welcomed their first egg of 2024. Jackie laid the egg Thursday afternoon around 4:55 p.m., according to Friends of Big Bear Valley. Experts say the eggs will hatch in about 35 days.
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba recommended 23 years in detention Friday for two Malaysian men in connection with deadly 2002 bombings in Bali, a spokesman for the military commission said. The recommendation, following guilty pleas earlier this month under plea bargains for longtime Guantanamo detainees
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Investigators believe a toddler accidentally shot a man to death in 2022 in the Twin Cities, and the child’s father is now facing criminal charges. Marlon Jermaine White, 22, was charged Wednesday with two counts of second-degree manslaughter in connection to the
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — The circulation of explicit and pornographic pictures of megastar Taylor Swift this week shined a light on artificial intelligence’s ability to create convincingly real, damaging – and fake – images. But the concept is far from new: People have weaponized this type of technology against women and girls
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors are portraying the mother of a Michigan school shooter as an aloof parent more interested in horses than the mental health of her teenage son. They said Friday that Ethan Crumbley was apparently having hallucinations months before killing four students at Oxford High School in
Continue ReadingBy Juliette Goodrich Click here for updates on this story OAKLAND, California (KPIX) — Eleanor Wikstrom graduated from Skyline High School in Oakland in 2020 and is now the recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. “I graduated in the pandemic. Tom Hanks was my commencement speaker. It was a virtual graduation,” said Wikstrom. A proud
Continue ReadingBy Janice Limon Click here for updates on this story SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (WYFF) — Construction crews in South Carolina have ‘unearthed’ a piece of history while preparing for the future in one city. The city of Spartanburg posted a photo on social media showing an ornate piece of what city officials called “an iconic
Continue ReadingBy Jason Burger Click here for updates on this story OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Imagine getting a huge bonus sent to your bank account, and then you’re told to pay it back. It’s a situation several Oklahoma teachers now face. Oklahoma Watch and StateImpact Oklahoma report that at least nine teachers are being ordered
Continue ReadingBy Dave Pehling Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — San Francisco 49ers fan Sean Inglis may have gone to the same high school in Kentfield as Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff, but that isn’t going to dampen his enthusiasm as he cheers on the Niners from the stands at Levi’s
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A judge has given a green light to a controversial plan to reduce the width of Atlantic City’s main street from four lanes to two. Superior Court Judge Michael Blee rejected arguments Friday from five casinos and a hospital that the half-finished project to narrow
Continue ReadingNORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have seized about a hundred animals from a Long Island home packed with exotic species — including a giant African snail, degus, a sulcata tortoise and a South American ostrich. The animals were discovered by state and local authorities Tuesday night in the basement and backyard shed of a
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Goodman Click here for updates on this story HILLSBORO, West Virginia (WLKY) — A Kentucky man was saved from freezing to death at a state park in eastern West Virginia by a group of Boy Scouts. Greg Painter, 67, said he has camped at Cranberry Glades State Park many times before, but he
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