By The Associated Press Iowa will return to the Big Ten championship game as West champion if it knocks off the Cornhuskers an eighth straight time on Friday in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes were 1-3 in conference play a month ago and a December trip to Indianapolis looked like an impossibility with upstart Illinois reeling
Continue ReadingBy Cody Lee Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — A semi-truck plowed into four vehicles on the I-15 near Washington Avenue in Las Vegas causing major delays during Tuesday afternoon rush hour. Las Vegas Fire and Rescue and North Las Vegas Fire Department responded to the crash around 4:30
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Hansler, CNN On October 1, five of the so-called Citgo 6 were woken up early in their Venezuelan prison by a guard telling them to “get dressed up properly.” The men put on their yellow prison suits — “We called it our ‘Minion’ suit,” Jose Pereira said — before they were instructed
Continue ReadingBy KVVU Staff Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says a 14-year-old boy suffered “life-threatening injuries” after crashing an ATV into a parked vehicle Tuesday night. According to police, the incident occurred at about 9:39 p.m. near Gowan Road and Sandy Lane. Police
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged lower for the second time in as many weeks, though it remains more than double what it was a year ago —- a significant hurdle for many would-be homebuyers. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Wednesday that the average
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates dropped again this week, after plunging nearly half a percentage point last week. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.58% in the week ending November 23, down from 6.61% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. A year ago, the 30-year fixed rate was 3.10%. Mortgage rates have risen
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rogers and Pete Muntean, CNN Three Democratic senators urged the Department of Transportation on Wednesday to increase airline passengers’ compensation for canceled and delayed flights when the airline is at fault. The pressure campaign comes on the eve of Thanksgiving, as airlines prepare for near pre-pandemic levels of travel. In a letter to
Continue ReadingCNN Julia Buckley, CNN People take strange things on planes — that’s nothing new. And the suitcase checked for a journey from New York JFK to Orlando, Florida, on November 16 certainly contained some oddities. As it rolled through the X-ray machine, TSA officials could see what appeared to be bottles, wine glasses, a pair
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions against three more Iranian security officials in response to the Tehran government’s continued crackdown on protests after the death of Mahsa Amini. She’s the 22-year-old woman who died in September while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s
Continue ReadingCNN, WTKR By Aya Elamroussi and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The gunman in this week’s deadly Walmart shooting in Chesapeake, Virginia, purchased the handgun he used the morning of the attack and left a “death note,” outlining grievances against people in his life, city officials said Friday. The note — found on his phone —
Continue ReadingCNN By George Ramsay and Amy Woodyatt, CNN FIFA President Gianni Infantino pleaded with countries to let football take center stage ahead of the World Cup in Qatar, but it hasn’t quite worked out like that. Soccer’s global governing body has found itself at loggerheads with seven European nations over the threat of sanctions for
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Maryland is already bowl eligible and Rutgers is assured a losing record. But when they meet this weekend it will still the regular-season finale and all that entails for players wrapping up their college careers. The Terrapins are trying to win seven games in the regular season for the first time
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El 1 de octubre, un guardia de una prisión en Venezuela despertó temprano a cinco de los llamados “6 de Citgo”; él les dijo que se “vistieran apropiadamente”. Los hombres se pusieron sus trajes amarillos de prisión —“Lo llamamos nuestro traje de ‘Minion’”, dijo José Pereira— antes de que el
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, Olga Voitovych, Andrew Carey, Victoria Butenko, Chris Liakos and Eve Brennan, CNN A two-day-old baby died in a Russian strike on a maternity hospital in Vilnyansk in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, as Moscow ramped up attacks on civilian infrastructure nationwide. The newborn child’s mother and a doctor were pulled from the
Continue ReadingBy DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There are some familiar storylines in a new musical opening on Broadway — a singer and her relationship with the mentor who guided her; a newcomer trying to find his place, young women chasing their dreams. But they’ve never sounded quite like this. The global sensation
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Americans are getting ready for food, family and football on Thursday, but investors were still holding off until Wednesday afternoon before starting to give thanks. That’s because the Federal Reserve released the minutes from its latest meeting at 2pm ET Wednesday, which provided more clues about the central
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Don’t accuse the TSA of catnapping on the job. When an alert agent at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport noticed tufts of orange fur poking out of a slightly unzipped suitcase, it gave him pause. As the bag went through the X-ray unit Nov. 16, the Transportation Security Administration agent
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has apologized for featuring children cuddling teddy bears dressed in bondage gear in its latest advertising campaign. Shot by photographer Gabriele Galimberti, images linked to the Balenciaga Gift Shop campaign featured young children dressed in the Balenciaga Kids line. According to the original press release issued last week,
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Voters deciding to split their tickets or buck their party altogether may have helped Democrats mount a stronger-than-expected performance in the recent midterm elections. AP VoteCast is an extensive survey of this year’s electorate. The survey underscores how voters were selective in their choices
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN The US military says American troops were put at risk from a Turkish drone strike Tuesday on a base in Syria. “We have received additional information that there was a risk to US Troops and personnel,” US Central Command said in a short statement on Wednesday. No US service members were
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