By Luke Hajdasz Click here for updates on this story UNCASVILLE, Connecticut (WFSB) — Palmer Noe is demonstrating his potentially life-changing invention. “I’m going to put this in the back of the helmet it does not matter where it goes,” he said. The small module tracks exactly how hard a football player is hit. The
Continue ReadingWFSB By Luke Hajdasz Click here for updates on this story UNCASVILLE, Connecticut (WFSB) — Palmer Noe is demonstrating his potentially life-changing invention. “I’m going to put this in the back of the helmet it does not matter where it goes,” he said. The small module tracks exactly how hard a football player is hit.
Continue ReadingSALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma highway has been reopened following its closure for a few hours on Saturday after a bridge over the Arkansas River was struck by a barge. Troopers with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol closed a portion of U.S. Highway 59 south of Sallisaw at around 1:25 p.m. after the barge hit
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — The massive cargo ship crash that destroyed the Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday will probably cost various shipping companies and insurers billions of dollars in damages. But lawyers, legislators and business owners will need to turn to one of the oldest subjects of law to
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CNN By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — The massive cargo ship crash that destroyed the Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday will probably cost various shipping companies and insurers billions of dollars in damages. But lawyers, legislators and business owners will need to turn to one of the oldest subjects of law
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER and CINAR KIPER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Voters in Turkey cast ballots on Sunday in local elections that will decide who gets to control Istanbul and other key cities. The vote is also a barometer of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity as he seeks to win back control of
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp in the courtyard of a crowded hospital in central Gaza on Sunday, killing two Palestinians and wounding another 15, including journalists working nearby. An Associated Press reporter filmed the strike and aftermath at Al-Aqsa
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli leader will undergo surgery on Sunday for a hernia. Netanyahu’s office said the hernia was discovered during a routine checkup, and that the prime minister will be under full anesthesia and unsconcious for the procedure. Justice Minister Yariv Levin, a close confidant who also
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Republicans are taking aim at President Joe Biden for proclaiming Easter Sunday as the Transgender Day of Visibility, though the two days only coincided this year by chance. The Transgender Day of Visibility, which was started in 2009 as a day of awareness to celebrate the successes of transgender and
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of people have attended a rally by an alliance of India’s opposition parties that criticized the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of stifling opponents and undermining democracy ahead of a national election next month. The “Save Democracy” rally in New Delhi on Sunday is the first major show of strength by
Continue ReadingOpinion by Zaher Sahloul (CNN) — Imagine having to choose between death by starving or by drowning. That is the unspeakably desperate choice that some Gazans have been confronted with in their daily struggle to survive. Most of us would not choose for one day to live the nightmare that Gazans have experienced for months
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By Christopher Lamb and Sophie Jeong, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in his traditional Easter message delivered following renewed concerns over the health of the 87-year-old pontiff. In the message, delivered in front of tens of thousands gathered at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Francis addressed
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp in the courtyard of a crowded hospital in central Gaza on Sunday, killing two Palestinians and wounding another 15, including journalists working nearby. An Associated Press reporter filmed the strike and aftermath at the
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Hoy, las personas transgénero y no binarias de todo el mundo conmemoran el Día Internacional de la Visibilidad Transgénero. Esto es lo que debes saber. ¿Cómo comenzó? El Día de la Visibilidad Transgénero fue fundado en 2009 por Rachel Crandall, una activista transgénero con sede en Michigan y directora ejecutiva de Transgender
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — España cambia al horario de verano este domingo 31 de marzo. En este día, los relojes en España se adelantarán una hora, una tradición histórica que data de la Segunda Guerra Mundial cuando los países hacían un esfuerzo por conservar energía. Según el Boletín Oficial del Estado de España
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said France is going to deliver “hundreds” of armored vehicles by the beginning of next year to Ukraine. In an interview with the French newspaper La Tribune’s Sunday edition, Lecornu said the Ukrainian army needs armored personnel carriers that are “absolutely key for troop mobility.” France is
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s presidential primary this Tuesday will clear the way for a general election campaign that Democrats see as an opportunity unlike any in recent state history. New state legislative districts adopted last month erase Republican advantages that gave the GOP dominance of the
Continue ReadingOpinion by Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) — There is “one English book and one only, where … perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible,” cultural critic Matthew Arnold said in one of his three 1860 lectures at Oxford University on the challenges of translating Homer. He described
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — For Southside Blooms owners Quilen and Hannah Blackwell, who run the Chicago floral nonprofit staffed by at-risk youth and young adults, their biggest competition isn’t other flower shops. It’s the constant draw of the streets. “(There were) kids that were in our after-school program that we heard joined
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is facing criticism from Donald Trump and religious conservatives for proclaiming March 31 — which corresponds with Easter Sunday this year — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.” The Democratic president issued the proclamation on Friday. It calls on “all Americans to join us in
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