By Hannah Ryan, CNN The discovery of a giant marine reptile skull in the United States has revealed new theories about the speed of evolution and how quickly the process can produce diversity. The giant ichthyosaur fossil — with a skull measuring almost two meters (6.6 feet) in length, an estimated body length of more
Continue ReadingCNN By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The judge presiding over Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial justified the former policewoman’s two-year sentence Friday by comparing the case to two other local police killings — one of them George Floyd’s. The law permits a judge to use her discretion depending on the facts, Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan, CNN A woman who punched a flight attendant on a May Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to San Diego pleaded guilty to interfering with a flight attendant, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. A flight attendant asked Vyvianna Quinonez, 28, to buckle her seatbelt, stow her tray table, and wear her
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on the launchpad. The space observatory, safely tucked inside an Ariane 5 rocket, is expected to launch on December 25. The rocket and its precious cargo rolled out to the Arianespace ELA-3 launch complex at Europe’s Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana on Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story CALIFORNIA (KCRA) — A Southern California woman has pled guilty to Employment Development Department fraud in a scheme involving her boyfriend and other prisoners. Nyika Gomez was a contract employee with EDD in San Diego working as a call center agent. Court records show that
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The Oregon School Activities Association Executive Board is considering allowing high school athletes to benefit from Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Revelers will still ring in the new year in New York’s Times Square next week, there just won’t be as many as usual under new COVID-19 restrictions. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday that viewing areas that normally accommodate about 58,000 people
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Southeastern Conference and Big East Conference have updated their policies for basketball game postponements, cancellations and rescheduling to give more leniancy to teams that are unable to play because of spiking COVID-19 cases. The policies for both conferences establish that men’s and women’s teams will be required to play if
Continue ReadingBy Laura Ly and Jason Hanna, CNN Next week’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “scaled back,” with fewer revelers and everyone required to wear a mask, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said Thursday. The celebration in Times Square typically holds around 58,000 people in viewing areas, but this year
Continue ReadingBy Brittany Hope Click here for updates on this story CAMERON PARK, California (KCRA) — Andrea Arriaga Borges tested positive for COVID-19 on May 19, 2021. The mother of five told KCRA 3 she had no underlying health issues, does not have asthma and does not smoke. Six days later, the Cameron Park woman asked
Continue ReadingCNN By Gregory Lemos, Paul P. Murphy and Judson Jones, CNN Icy road conditions have caused vehicle crashes and runoffs on Interstate 94 in west-central Wisconsin on Thursday morning, and one set of incidents closed a long stretch of the highway for hours, police said. About 40 vehicles, including tractor-trailers, were in crashes on the
Continue ReadingBy Infinite Scroll Enabled Lisa Robinson Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — There are new details about one of the men charged in the shooting of Officer Keona Holley and the shooting death that procced. As of Tuesday, Elliot Knox still has a no-bail status. His attorney asked the judge
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making two final nominations to the federal bench this year as he caps his first year in office with 40 judges confirmed. That’s the most since Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Nancy Gbana Abudu, his nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo and Scottie Andrew, CNN Acclaimed American writer Joan Didion, an essayist and novelist who rose to prominence in the 1960s, has died at age 87, her publisher confirmed to CNN on Thursday. “We are deeply saddened to report that Joan Didion died earlier this morning at her home in New York due to
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected in the shooting death of a rising Texas rap artist on an Atlanta area interstate was arrested as he was exiting a plane at Atlanta’s airport. The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that James Edward Thomas was taken into custody at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on
Continue ReadingCNN By Katelyn Polantz and Whitney Wild, CNN The House select committee investigating January 6 has stood down on its requests for some documents from the Trump White House, after the Biden administration convinced the panel to scale back its pursuits. As a result, the committee won’t be getting hundreds of pages of National Security
Continue ReadingBy EMMA LOCKHART Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX, Arizona ( KPHO/KTVK) — Victoria Arviso is heartbroken and waiting helplessly as her 35-year-old brother fights a severe case of COVID-19 pneumonia at the VA Medical Center in Phoenix. “I am just praying to God if there is a machine or bed in Arizona
Continue ReadingBy BOBBI JO KELLY Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX, Arizona ( KPHO/KTVK) — A man was killed in a crash involving multiple vehicles on the I-10 near 27th Avenue in Phoenix early Thursday morning. Sgt. Jacob Melki with the Arizona Department of Public Safety said the crash happened around 1:30 a.m. Melki
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Una Corte federal de Argentina avaló la extradición a México del empresario Carlos Ahumada, quien es requerido por presunto fraude contra el gobierno de la capital mexicana, según se explica en la resolución que CNN obtuvo este jueves. En el documento, de 105 páginas y con fecha de 21
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi and David Wright, CNN Former President Donald Trump pushed back on a questioner’s skepticism about the effectiveness and safety of the Covid-19 vaccine in a new interview, saying that the “vaccine works” and “people aren’t dying when they take the vaccine.” “Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if
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