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In the early days of 2020, as science looked for answers to a mysterious viral outbreak in central China, a prominent Chinese virologist stepped…
Continue ReadingIn the early days of 2020, as science looked for answers to a mysterious viral outbreak in central China, a prominent Chinese virologist stepped…
Continue ReadingBy Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The United Methodist Church overturned its 40-year ban on gay clergy Wednesday, marking a historic shift in the…
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis’ school district is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a…
Continue ReadingWyoming’s favorite baby name winners for 2023 have been…
Continue ReadingAccording to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were more than 1,100 bicyclist fatalities nationwide in 2022, with more than…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC and NICK PERRY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston College students held a protest rally against the Israel-Hamas war last week.…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts prosecutor won’t seek criminal charges two years after four newborns were…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office will retry the sex crimes case against Harvey…
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least eight people and left 21 missing since…
Continue ReadingOver 120 cars rushed to the National Elk Refuge in Jackson looking for that prized shed…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Retired U.S. women’s soccer star Carli Lloyd and her husband are expecting their first child in October. The 41-year-old…
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Austin police are investigating a sudden surge in suspected opioid overdoses in the Texas capital, with…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed the skeletons of five people, missing their hands and feet, at a former Nazi military…
Continue ReadingYou can already bet real money on basketball, baseball, and football – so why not Skee-Ball, Hot Shots basketball or Dance Dance…
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — In February 2003, workers preparing the basement of a Manhattan building for demolition made a gruesome discovery:…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Volunteer searchers say they’ve found a clandestine crematorium on the edge of Mexico City. It’s the first time in…
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have given an insight into their long-term ambitions for Welsh soccer team Wrexham.…
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has secured another $1.8 billion worth of shares in Trump Media,…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she would call a vote…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Police say an accident involving a trailer in southwestern Germany has left 30 people injured, 10 of them seriously. German news…
Continue ReadingCo-founder of Carta Healthcare joins Local News 8 in the Morning today to break down the importance of having a health…
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not all moms are the same. They like and do different things. Some, gasp, don’t love the…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iranian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against activists and journalists following a BBC…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s chief rabbi says that Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs…
Continue ReadingDEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 243,000 Maverick small pickup trucks in the U.S. because the tail lights may not illuminate. The…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — “Sunderworld, Vol. 1 The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry” begins the adventures of a Los Angeles teen who after…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will stress the need for a rules-based international…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Six people have been arrested and suspensions have been issued to seven students who participated in demonstrations at Tulane…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — An exhibition of Western military equipment captured from Kyiv forces during the fighting in Ukraine has opened in the Russian…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive…
Continue ReadingIMOLA, Italy (AP) — The 30th anniversary of three-time F1 champion Ayrton Senna’s death is being commemorated with a memorial on the Imola track…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A controversial abortion law in Florida went into effect at midnight — dropping the state’s 15-week ban to…
Continue ReadingKCAL, KCBS, CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A controversial abortion law in Florida went into effect at midnight — dropping the…
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A controversial abortion law in Florida went into effect at midnight — dropping the state’s 15-week…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — A 15-year-old boy who claims to be a friend of the teen accused of stabbing a Sydney bishop recently has applied to be released from…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have a message for news organizations as they prepare to cover the 2024 election: About…
Continue ReadingBy JACK BROOK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The European Union and United Nations abruptly rescheduled the launch of an anti-human…
Continue ReadingBy IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A Rwandan official says an unsuccessful asylum-seeker in the U.K. has arrived in Rwanda.…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows months of Russian…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Police say a 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were assaulted with a sharp object…
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang, CNN (CNN) — A highway collapsed in southern China early on Wednesday, sending cars plummeting down a hill and killing dozens of…
Continue ReadingBy NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds Many car shoppers simply want a vehicle that’s practical, easy to drive and relatively inexpensive. High fuel economy is…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ecuador is defending its storming of Mexico’s Embassy in Quito last month. Lawyers…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it will cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A police watchdog says a British constable is facing terror charges for showing support for Hamas on WhatsApp. The Independent Office…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s police chief says two officers remain hospitalized a day after suffering…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Saudi Arabia has confirmed in a letter to the United Nations that a female fitness instruction…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City’s two biggest…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Dozens of people have been arrested in Georgia after police in the capital, Tbilisi, used tear gas…
Continue ReadingBy GRACEY WAKARI Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano is spewing more hot clouds after an eruption forced…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A senior Australian government minister says the bilateral relationship with India is…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press MAARAB, Lebanon (AP) — The leader of a main Christian political party in Lebanon has blasted the…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with Israeli leaders on…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel for meetings with Israeli leaders and has told the country’s ceremonial…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Workers, activists and others in Asian capitals marked May Day with rallies and marches…
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks fell Wednesday with most of the markets in the region closed for a holiday. Meanwhile,…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik says his government is considering sharing…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting targeting members of the country’s minority Shiite…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day aren’t done playing Beavis and Butt-Head yet — the pair appeared as the characters at the…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JOSEPH B. FREDERICK and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed…
Continue ReadingStacker examined academic studies and government data and talked to experts about what causes veterans to become homeless after serving in the U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — China’s newest, largest and most-advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, took a big step to…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A study says the climate phenomenon known as El Nino and not climate change was a key driver…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An agreement between anti-war protesters and Northwestern University has largely ended…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous but still…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese state broadcaster CCTV says that a section of a highway collapsed in southern China, killing at least 19 people. The area…
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is dividing a…
Continue ReadingBy TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced new funding to help women…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is due back in a New York courtroom for the first time since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals…
Continue ReadingBy RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban takeover three years ago has sent Afghanistan’s economy into a…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID FISCHER and STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy,…
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KRYO PIGADI, Greece (AP) — Skimming over miles of hills blackened by wildfires west of Athens, Fire Lt. Col.…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, SCOTT BAUER and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump will use a one-day break from his…
Continue ReadingBy KENYA HUNTER and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — No one disputes that Michelle Wierson crashed her SUV into a car stopped at a…
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, Aishwarya S. Iyer, Kunal Sehgal and Will Ripley, CNN Varanasi, India (CNN) — The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees…
Continue ReadingBy ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is lamenting the possibility that Columbia University’s…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After three straight hotter-than-expected inflation reports, Federal Reserve officials…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has launched a double-barreled antitrust attack on…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China says he has been allowed back into his lab after days of…
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in Georgia’s capital have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who rallied outside the…
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says over 7 million people in South Sudan are expected to face acute food insecurity or worse during…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who lived for six months on the country’s space station. The…
Continue ReadingWESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say one person died when a tornado ripped through the small northeastern Kansas city of Westmoreland.…
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s main opposition coalition says it won’t take part in the upcoming…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Some 40,000 meals will be served each day during the Paris Games to over 15,000 athletes from 200…
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A 98-year-old woman in Ukraine has escaped Russian-occupied territory by walking almost 10…
Continue ReadingPolice are investigating a vehicle collision that occurred Tuesday at 2:43 p.m., on US 30 and 3300 E in Twin Falls…
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says…
Continue Reading“The main thing is you shouldn’t be planting things this…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden has made a number of election-year moves intended to appeal to younger…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts will begin limiting how long homeless families can stay in shelters as the state…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House Democratic leader says a Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by…
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