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By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Sales of existing homes in the US climbed in January, pushed up by buyers who were encouraged to make a purchase by falling mortgage rates. But the surge may be short-lived if rates extend a post-January climb. Existing home sales (not newly-constructed homes) — which include single-family
Continue ReadingBy Julia Avery Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (KCTV) — The Independence teen who wears a size 23 shoe is finally comfortable thanks to the Kansas City community and one big-name celebrity. Jor’el Bolden first sat down with KCTV 5 in January to discuss his struggle to find shoes. To find
Continue ReadingSRINAGAR, India (AP) — An avalanche that hit a popular Himalayan ski resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir has killed a Russian skier while five others were rescued. Officials said earlier that at least four foreigners who were skiing and their local guide were hit by the avalanche on Thursday and buried in snow high in the
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — As a proposed mine on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp nears final approval, Georgia lawmakers are considering a three-year pause on further permits that would allow the mine to expand. The bill approved by a House committee Thursday won’t affect plans by Twin Pines Minerals
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Consider the toilet — that humble porcelain bowl that spirits away our waste several times a day. It’s not a piece of technology that often gets flashy updates (though dual flushing, seat warming and electronic bidet features can certainly elevate it), nor is it a darling of the design
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Natalie Portman has been working to keep her private life separate from her public life as an actor since she began working at age 13. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Portman explained, “I got very protective of it very early on. I chose a different name when
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story FOX POINT, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A special reading was held for students at St. Eugene School in Fox Point on Wednesday, Feb. 21. A resident at Azura Memory Care and Assisted Living, Wilma, read her published children’s book, “Sneakers”, to 4th and 5th grade students
Continue ReadingBy Sara Powers Click here for updates on this story KEEGO HARBOR, Michigan (WWJ) — Authorities in Michigan are searching for a couple who left a restaurant without paying their bill and then ran over a waitress when she tried to confront them, police said. At 7:40 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16, a couple in
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A European Space Agency satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii Wednesday afternoon and there have been no reports of damage, according to the agency. The agency’s Space Debris Office, along with an international surveillance network, monitored and tracked the Earth-observing ERS-2 satellite
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party was deep in debt when a longtime party donor who had given more than $1 million over the past decade asked for a meeting with its chairwoman. Kristina Karamo turned down the donor. Her reasoning, according to two
Continue ReadingBy CAROLINA BORGES Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WSVN) — A Nevada man was on his way to San Francisco from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport when he jokingly said, “the TSA had missed a bomb in his bag.” Mack Bjorn was celebrating his 27th birthday when he was on the flight
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing the civil fraud case to delay enforcing the $355 million judgment against him for one month. In a letter to Judge Arthur Engoron, Trump’s attorneys accuse New York Attorney General Letitia James of an “unseemly rush” to enforce the judgment by
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in January as homebuyers seized upon easing mortgage rates and a modest pickup in properties on the market. Existing home sales rose 3.1% last month from December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million, the National
Continue ReadingBy CAROLINA BORGES Click here for updates on this story CORAL SPRINGS, Florida (WSVN) — Shakira’s hips don’t lie and neither do the officers of Coral Springs after they posted a photo on their Instagram page with the Latina artist herself. The Coral Springs Police Department shared the post showing the singer taking a photo
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster and Kaitlyn Schwanemann, CNN (CNN) — Nelva Williamson has been a teacher in Houston for more than 40 years. Two years ago, she began teaching AP African American studies and Williamson told CNN during her lectures she can see her students have “lightbulb moments.” “I teach that [African Americans] did not start
Continue ReadingBy JOE ROETZ, KEVIN BOULANDIER, CAROLINA BORGES Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — An argument between family members took a deadly turn after a father fatally shot his son. Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue units responded to a domestic dispute along the 19000 block of West Lake Drive in Northwest
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — In the dry expanse of the Bolivian city of El Alto, the green pitch and blue trim of El Alto Municipal Stadium stands out like an oasis in a desert. Standing 4,150 meters (more than 13,500 feet) above sea level, it is one of highest soccer stadiums in the
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Translating kids’ animation to live-action is a tricky proposition, as Disney and the 2010 movie version of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” can attest. Netflix gets the look and action right in a lavish series based on the Nickelodeon show, but too-elemental dialogue and uneven performances make this eight-episode
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The way prosecutors tell it, Joseph Bongiovanni went to work for years with a “little dark secret.” Behind the veneer of a veteran U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, they alleged, was a turncoat on the take from the Buffalo Mafia, offering an “umbrella
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden called out Republicans in Congress as “the party of chaos and division” and said they are “worse” than Strom Thurmond, a former South Carolina senator who ran for president as a segregationist in 1948. “I’ve been a senator since ‘72. I’ve served with real racists. I’ve served
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