By Wayne Sterling, CNN Mickey Guyton, a multi-Grammy-nominated artist, will sing the National Anthem at Super Bowl LVI in Inglewood, California, the National Football League (NFL) announced Tuesday. Guyton’s 2021 debut album, “Remember Her Name,” earned her a Grammy nomination for best country album, the first-ever for a Black artist. “👏🏾Look👏🏾at👏🏾God,” Guyton wrote on Twitter.
Continue ReadingBy Grace Zokovitch Click here for updates on this story JEFFERSON CITY, Mssouri (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — With a winter storm on its way and the state down 400 snowplow operators, the director of the Missouri Department of Transportation on Monday defended staffing decisions to an audience of dubious lawmakers. MoDOT director Patrick McKenna presented
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN After apologizing on social media for her comments about the Holocaust, Whoopi Goldberg opened “The View” on Tuesday by addressing the situation again. “Yesterday on our show, I misspoke. I tweeted about it last night but I want you to hear it from me directly,” the comedian and actor said. “I
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Vanessa Bryant will be recognized as one of the leading women in sports at an event during Super Bowl week. Bryant is the widow of Kobe Bryant and will be honored at the Sports Power Brunch: Celebrating the Most Powerful Women in Sports on Feb. 8 in Beverly Hills, California. She
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Flowers discovered perfectly preserved in globs of amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs, suggesting that some flowering plants in South Africa today have remained unchanged for 99 million years, a new study reveals. The two flowers once bloomed in what is now Myanmar and may shed light on how flowering
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Continue ReadingBy Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Spotify wants to be the everything-for-everyone audio company. But it’s 2022, and that’s proving impossible. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell asked Spotify last week to pull their music from the platform because of Joe Rogan, who has made frequent false and inaccurate claims about Covid-19 and vaccines on his very
Continue ReadingBy Chris Hubbuch Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — Madison Gas and Electric says it is accelerating its plans to cut carbon emissions while proposing new investments in fossil fuel generation. The utility announced Monday that it has a deal to purchase up to 50 megawatts of capacity
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin says that President Joe Biden’s vast social and environment bill is “dead.” It’s the strongest language to date that the pivotal West Virginia Democrat has used to underscore that any revival of Democrats’ top domestic priorities would have to arise from fresh negotiations. When
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Jennifer Garner is coming back to television. Starz has announced that Garner has been added to the revival of “Party Down” as a regular. The actress is set to play play Evie, a producer in a relationship with Henry Pollard (played by Adam Scott). Her last major TV role was
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three distributors. A federal court filing Tuesday in Cleveland describes $590 million in settlements with the New Jersey-based drugmaker along with distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. Some tribes
Continue ReadingBy Carlton Fletcher Click here for updates on this story ALBANY, Georgia (Albany Herald) — Move over, Dwight Schrute. The real Recyclops is coming to town. Unlike the superhero character assumed by one of the TV show “The Office’s” most beloved characters, the Recyclops environmental firm set to open in Albany uses the latest technology
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials have fallen far short of a goal to get COVID-19 booster shots into the arms of an additional 1 million Oregonians by the end of January. Gov. Kate Brown announced the goal in December as Oregon braced for a surge in cases and hospitalizations from the highly contagious
Continue ReadingBy Umaro Djau, Stephanie Busari and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló said an attempted military coup to overthrow him had failed on Tuesday, and called for calm across the country during a national address broadcast on Radio TV Bantaba. “I have never imagined that we would arrive to this type of situation,”
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press With a settlement possibly near, a judge is giving the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma 16 more days of protection from lawsuits over the toll of opioids. The legal protections for members of the Sackler family were set to run out on Tuesday. That would have opened the
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business Energy prices remain uncomfortably high, and OPEC and its allies are under pressure to come to the rescue. The good news for consumers grappling with elevated pump prices is that Goldman Sachs is warning clients that OPEC+ could announce during Wednesday’s virtual meeting it plans step up production. Noting that
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Evan Perez, CNN FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday defended the bureau against right-wing claims that it is pursuing cases against people who participated in the January 6, 2021, insurrection more aggressively than it is for rioters who attacked private and public buildings during racial justice protests in 2020. Wray, noting
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, Ryan Nobles and Annie Grayer, CNN Greg Jacob, a top aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot on Tuesday. CNN spotted Jacob leaving a meeting room on Capitol Hill used by the committee to conduct witness interviews, and a
Continue ReadingMANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United player Mason Greenwood remains in police custody as officers investigating an attack on a woman also started to question him on suspicion of sexual assault and threats to kill. The 20-year-old forward was arrested initially on Sunday on suspicion of rape and assault after police said they became “aware
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Máximo Carlos Kirchner, hijo de los expresidentes de Argentina Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, renunció este lunes a la presidencia del bloque de Diputados del Frente de Todos en rechazo a los términos del entendimiento entre el Gobierno de Argentina y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI). El anuncio
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