By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN There’s a new champion brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve. After an online cheating scandal disrupted the semifinals, a winner was announced Tuesday night, October 11, in the park’s annual Fat Bear Week contest. Bear 747 collected the most votes, triumphing over his worthy challenger
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Comedians Eric André and Clayton English are challenging a police program at the Atlanta airport they say violates the constitutional rights of airline passengers. They say the program particularly targets Black passengers through racial profiling and coercive searches. Lawyers for the two men filed a lawsuit Tuesday
Continue ReadingDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a toddler accidentally was left behind in a locked rental car when it was returned by her grandfather in central Florida. She wasn’t discovered by an employee until 45 minutes later on Monday evening. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office says the girl was found in a car in
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines is raising its forecast of third-quarter revenue based on a strong summer for travel. American said Tuesday that revenue rose about 13% over the same quarter in 2019, before the pandemic. That’s higher than American’s previous revenue forecast. But the airline’s costs are rising too, American says. Airlines
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Your credit score affects whether you can get a credit card, rent an apartment, buy a house, start a business, or even get a cell phone contract. A low credit score can limit your choice of loans or determine if you can get one at all.
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Your credit score affects whether you can get a credit card, rent an apartment, buy a house, start a business, or even get a cell phone contract. A low credit score can limit your choice of loans or determine if you can get one at all.
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Canada’s defense minister has announced that her country will deploy approximately 40 combat engineers to Poland to train Ukrainian sappers in mining, de-mining, engineer reconnaissance and explosives. Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand made the announcement during a visit to Warsaw on Tuesday. Anand said that Canadian combat engineers would begin helping
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden feels that the US’ relationship with Saudi Arabia needs to be re-evaluated in the wake of the OPEC+ decision last week to decrease oil production, a National Security Council spokesman said . In an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on “New Day,” National Security Council coordinator for strategic
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story STANFORD (KPIX) — The Stanford University community has been put on alert as the campus investigates two sexual assaults in a span of a month. The latest incident happened just days ago. Last Friday, a woman reported a man raped her in the basement of
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers The U.S. Department of Labor is publishing a new proposal on how workers should be classified saying that thousands of people have been incorrectly labeled as contractors rather than employees, potentially curtailing access to benefits and protections they rightfully deserve. The department said Tuesday that misclassifying
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story CASS COUNTY, Minnesota (WCCO) — A 12-year-old boy is in the hospital after an accident during a hunting trip with his uncle. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office say the 47-year-old man accidentally shot the boy while they were hunting squirrels on public land near Motley
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to wade into the so-called fetal personhood debate, deciding not to take up a case out of Rhode Island over whether fetuses should have constitutional rights. A Catholic group and two pregnant women wanted to sue on behalf of the women’s
Continue ReadingBy Naomi Thomas, CNN For the first time, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended screening for anxiety in children 8 and older. In its final recommendations, published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA, the task force also urged screening for depression in children 12 and older, consistent with recommendations from 2016. Both sets
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Las Vegas Raiders receiver Davante Adams could face a possible suspension or fine for shoving a photographer to the ground as he ran off the field following a loss at Kansas City. A person familiar with the process tells The Associated Press that the NFL is reviewing Adams’
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Brian Vitagliano, CNN Baltimore prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against Adnan Syed, the man who spent over two decades behind bars for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee and whose murder case was featured in the landmark podcast “Serial.” Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN In her 11 years of doing standup, this was by far the worst heckler Ariel Elias had ever encountered. The comedian’s gig at the Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey on Oct. 8 started like any other, so she never anticipated becoming the subject of a viral
Continue ReadingCNN By Marianne Garvey, CNN In her 11 years of doing standup, this was by far the worst heckler Ariel Elias had ever encountered. The comedian’s gig at the Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey on Oct. 8 started like any other, so she never anticipated becoming the subject of a
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Honda and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solutions are investing $3.5 billion to build a joint venture battery factory in southern Ohio, the car company said Tuesday. An exact location hasn’t been announced but the factory, which is expected to employ 2,200 people, will be in Fayette County, southwest
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — Two people were killed in a crash on I-93 North in Boston on Saturday night. A total of three cars were involved. According to Massachusetts State Police, a Lexus SUV ride-share was driving northbound when it suddenly slowed. A tow truck driving
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Honda says it will build a $3.5 billion joint-venture battery factory in rural southern Ohio and hire 2,200 people to staff it as it starts to turn the state into its North American electric vehicle hub. The company also plans to
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