The First Alert Weather Team is very closely monitoring Hurricane Helene and its imminent impacts on the United States. As of 5 PM Wednesday, Helene is a category 1 hurricane and has entered the Gulf of Mexico. Helene is expected to grow in both size and strength in the coming hours as it moves through
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of civil rights activist and clergyman Jesse Jackson. Personal Birth date: October 8, 1941 Birth place: Greenville, South Carolina Birth name: Jesse Louis Burns Father: Noah Robinson, cotton grader Mother: Helen (Burns) Jackson, hairdresser Marriage: Jacqueline Lavinia (Brown) Jackson (December 31, 1962-present) Children: with
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Next year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup will not have any sites on the U.S. East Coast, a sign FIFA may place games along the Eastern Seaboard in its expanded 32-team Club World Cup. CONCACAF said Wednesday that BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, PayPal Park in San Jose, California, and U.S. Bank Stadium
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer has been convicted of murder in the 2019 deaths of a couple during a drug raid at their home. A jury found Gerald Goines guilty Wednesday of two counts of murder in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and his wife Rhogena Nicholas. An
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The mayor of a central Wisconsin city who ran for office on his opposition to absentee ballot drop boxes says he did nothing wrong when he removed a drop box outside City Hall. Wausau Mayor Doug Diny put on work gloves, donned a hard hat and used a dolly
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is warning that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country under two key Biden administration programs if he’s reelected. Trump railed against the programs in an interview Wednesday with Fox News. One allows migrants to use an app while in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The aurora borealis is continuing to dazzle viewers across the northern United States and Canada. It’s been a good year for seeing auroras — the colorful sky displays also known as northern lights — even in lower latitudes. That’s because of increased electromagnetic activity as the sun approaches the height of its 11-year
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Pop star Chappell Roan announced Wednesday in a post to social media platform TikTok that she plans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, ending days of speculation after she told the Guardian in an interview published Friday that “there’s problems on both sides.” Roan, whose
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Facebook and Instagram users will now be able to talk to voices that sound a lot like John Cena and Judi Dench. They won’t be the real actors, though, but an artificial intelligence chatbot. Parent company Meta (META) announced Wednesday that it is adding voice conversations and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The remains of 49 freedom fighters who died while exiled in Zimbabwe and Zambia during the struggle against white minority rule in South Africa have been returned to the country. The bodies were received Wednesday by government officials and family members at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in the capital
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Mientras que tachar lugares famosos de tu lista de deseos siempre es un punto culminante de una escapada a la ciudad, hay algo especial en tropezar al azar con un vecindario local que ofrece acogedoras cafeterías, librerías de ensueño y elegantes lugares para cenar. Esa es la premisa detrás de la
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Decenas de soldados estadounidenses fueron desplegados en Chipre en medio de una marcada escalada de tensiones entre Israel y Hezbollah, y se preparan para una serie de contingencias, incluida una posible operación de evacuación del Líbano para ciudadanos estadounidenses en caso de que estalle una guerra en toda regla,
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say the executive board of the International Fund has approved a new $7 billion loan for the country. The loan is aimed at boosting Pakistan’s ailing economy. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a statement hailed the deal that his team had been negotiating with the IMF since June. The fund’s
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, Elizabeth Wagmeister and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Diddy’s legal troubles keep growing. In the past 11 months, music magnate Sean “Diddy” Combs has faced crescendoing allegations of abuse and sexual assault, culminating in at least 10 civil lawsuits, a federal human trafficking probe and his arrest and indictment. Prosecutors unsealed the
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Adam Pearson is an ardent believer in the old adage: Nothing wagered, nothing gained. For Pearson, that means something a little different than most. Since he was a young boy, Pearson has had neurofibromatosis, a condition that covers much of his face with benign skin tumors. But far
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer MENLO PARK, California (AP) — Meta unveiled updates to the company’s virtual reality headset and Ray Ban smart glasses on Wednesday as it tries to demonstrate its artificial intelligence prowess and the next generation of computing platforms beyond smartphones and computers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg also showed off Orion, a prototype he called
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El excandidato presidencial Rodolfo Hernández murió este lunes en la ciudad colombiana de Bucaramanga debido a las complicaciones derivadas de un cáncer de colon, de acuerdo con un comunicado del Hospital Internacional de Colombia. Hernández falleció a los 79 años. Fue ingeniero de profesión y estuvo en cuidados intensivos
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — One of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ biggest critics has announced he has a docuseries coming about the embroiled producer’s legal issues. Rapper and actor 50 Cent shared on social media Wednesday a Variety report that states his project about Combs has found a home at Netflix. “I been telling
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Italy’s antitrust watchdog is investigating the online fastfashion giant Shein for potentially making misleading claims about its sustainability practices. The country’s independent competition authority said in a statement that the probe would focus on Infinite Styles Serves Co. Limited. That’s a Dublin-based company that does business as Shein and operates the online
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — When Christopher Reeve was thrown from a horse during an equestrian event in Virginia in 1995, resulting in the “Superman” actor becoming paralyzed from the neck down, the immense irony was lost on no one – a once-invincible-seeming giant of Hollywood was now laid vulnerable and prone. That was
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