GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… We woke up to mostly clear skies and for the most part, that is right where we will stay. We do have a very slight chance of a pop-up thunderstorm or two. Highs will be in the low to mid 50’s and NW winds will pick up to 5-15 mph, gusting
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN Janelle Monáe, the Grammy-nominated performer, actor and author, has confirmed that they identify as nonbinary in interviews tied to their new book. “I’m nonbinary,” Monáe said in an appearance this week on “Red Table Talk,” the Facebook series co-hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith. “So I don’t see myself as a woman,
Continue ReadingCOOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Baseball’s Hall of Fame is restructuring its veterans committees for the third time in 12 years. The Hall says it is revamping the panels into the Contemporary Baseball Era from 1980 on and Classic Baseball Era for before 1980. The Contemporary Baseball Era will hold a separate ballot for players and
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Andrey Rublev and Fabio Fognini will face off in the Serbia Open semifinals after they each picked up wins in Friday’s quarterfinals. Rublev held serve throughout as he swept aside Taro Daniel 6-2, 6-3 for his 21st win of 2022. Fognini went 5-2 down in the first set against Oscar Otte
Continue ReadingCNN By Brendan Buckley, CNN A couple made headlines with their wedding’s frugal price tag, police caught a pair of toddlers thrown from a burning building, and a “Britain’s Got Talent” audience member got the surprise of his life. These are your must-watch videos of the week. Bride on a budget A California couple made
Continue ReadingCNN By Brendan Buckley, CNN A couple made headlines with their wedding’s frugal price tag, police caught a pair of toddlers thrown from a burning building, and a “Britain’s Got Talent” audience member got the surprise of his life. These are your must-watch videos of the week. Bride on a budget A California couple made
Continue ReadingCNN By Brendan Buckley, CNN A couple made headlines with their wedding’s frugal price tag, police caught a pair of toddlers thrown from a burning building, and a “Britain’s Got Talent” audience member got the surprise of his life. These are your must-watch videos of the week. Bride on a budget A California couple made
Continue ReadingCNN, HLN By Brendan Buckley, CNN A couple made headlines with their wedding’s frugal price tag, police caught a pair of toddlers thrown from a burning building, and a “Britain’s Got Talent” audience member got the surprise of his life. These are your must-watch videos of the week. Bride on a budget A California couple
Continue ReadingBy Brendan Buckley, CNN A couple made headlines with their wedding’s frugal price tag, police caught a pair of toddlers thrown from a burning building, and a “Britain’s Got Talent” audience member got the surprise of his life. These are your must-watch videos of the week. Bride on a budget A California couple made headlines
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The mood was light and so was Tyson Fury who weighed-in for his WBC heavyweight title defense against Dillian Whyte 12 pounds or more than five kilograms lighter than his last fight. Fury weighed 264.8 pounds, also 120 kilograms, on Friday a day before the all-British bout at Wembley Stadium. Whyte tipped
Continue ReadingNORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who streamed himself on social media taking a woman hostage and firing on officers has been arrested after he was shot by law enforcement. Investigators say 42-year-old Nathaniel Meade was struck by several bullets during the six-hour ordeal that ended early Thursday and was treated and
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has boasted one of the nation’s stingiest defenses virtually every season since Jim Leonhard took over as coordinator in 2017. Leonhard faces perhaps his biggest test in maintaining that standard this year. Wisconsin must replace eight of the top 10 tacklers from a defense
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The leader of Myanmar’s military-installed government has offered to participate personally in proposed peace talks with ethnic minority groups that have long sought greater autonomy through armed struggle. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing said in a state television broadcast that he wants to meet the ethnic group
Continue ReadingBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz has beaten top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas in three sets to advance to the semifinals of the Barcelona Open. Alcaraz won the quarterfinal 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 after breaking the fifth-ranked Greek five times on the outdoor clay court named for Rafael Nadal. The 18-year-old Alcaraz is aiming for his
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — Jessie Festa estaba sentada en un vuelo de Alaska Airlines en el Aeropuerto Internacional Seattle-Tacoma esperando para despegar hacia Pasco, Washington, cuando una azafata anunció que ya no era necesario usar mascarillas durante el vuelo. “La reacción a mi alrededor fue de júbilo”, escribió por correo electrónico Festa, una bloguera de viajes
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has been maneuvering behind the scenes to contain the fallout over damning and contradictory conversations he had with other GOP lawmakers about then-President Donald Trump in the immediate aftermath of January 6. The California Republican dialed up key GOP members
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, CNN In the days following the January 6 insurrection, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Republican lawmakers on a private conference call that then-President Donald Trump had admitted bearing some responsibility for the deadly attack, according to new audio — a significant admission that sheds light on Trump’s mindset in the immediate
Continue ReadingBy Simon Bouvier, Xiaofei Xu, Chris Liakos and Anna Cooban, CNN Business France has issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, the fugitive auto executive who used to lead Renault-Nissan. The prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, near Paris, confirmed to CNN on Friday that it had issued an international arrest warrant for Ghosn, who now lives
Continue ReadingCOCOA, Fla. (AP) — Police say a Florida woman threatened to blow up her son’s school if it didn’t give him more food. The 41-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday, two months after making the threat. Police say she called Cocoa High School on Feb. 3 and left the threat on a voicemail. School staff listened
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday announced five new nominees for US attorney positions in Illinois, Idaho, Pennsylvania and California, along with three more nominees to serve as US Marshals. Biden is nominating Rachelle Crowe for the Southern District of Illinois, Joshua Hurwit for the District of Idaho, Gerard
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