By Sara Murray, CNN Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich must testify before the Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a Virginia judge ordered Wednesday. Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Robert Smith ordered Gingrich to appear before the grand jury on November 29. Because
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge has ruled that the oldest son of Donald Trump and other Trump allies did not defame a retired Army lieutenant colonel who was a key witness in the first impeachment case against the former president. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry unveiled a plan at the COP27 climate summit to make it easier for private corporations to send cash to the developing world in exchange for looking green at home. Kerry’s plan comes after failure to get Congress
Continue ReadingGOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… The system that brought us the overnight snow will gradually move off to the east and leave us under mostly clear skies. Daytime highs will not warm much above the upper 30’s to low 40’s. NW winds will stay pretty gentle at 5-10 mph. Overnight lows will drop to the single
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan It’s never a great time to carry credit card debt. But right now is arguably the worst time. The Federal Reserve’s war on inflation has driven up the average credit card APR (annual percentage rate) to 19.04% as of November 9, according to Bankrate.com. That’s the highest rate since Bankrate.com’s database began
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — La cantante Gal Costa, uno de los más grandes nombres de la música popular brasileña, murió este miércoles a los 77 años. La noticia fue confirmada por el equipo de prensa de la artista en su cuenta de Twitter. “Es con profunda tristeza y con el corazón apretado que comunicamos el
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, Shawna Mizelle and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Voters in several states on Tuesday were asked whether to amend rules that will determine how elections will be run in the future, focusing on issues such as citizenship and registration, photo identification, and early voting. Several states have approved new rules, according to CNN projections.
Continue ReadingBy WCCO STAFF, BERET LEONE Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota lottery officials say the state’s verification system caused the delay in reporting the latest Powerball numbers. “After unprecedented lottery interest, Minnesota’s lottery sales verification system caused a processing delay on Monday, Nov. 7,” the Minnesota Lottery said in a
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — ¡Qué noche! Las elecciones a mitad de mandato en Estados Unidos han terminado, aunque el recuento de votos continúa en muchos lugares con varias carreras aún sin determinar, y los resultados, hasta ahora, no fueron lo que la mayoría de los analistas políticos esperaban, con sorpresas entre los ganadores y perdedores.
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has delayed calling a fresh election in Northern Ireland, hoping to buy time to break an impasse over post-Brexit trade rules that has put the Belfast administration on ice. Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said he was giving lawmakers another few weeks to try
Continue ReadingCNN By Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Tropical Storm Nicole is whipping the northwestern Bahamas and could become a Category 1 hurricane before hitting Florida’s east coast by early Thursday, forecasters say, poised to deliver heavy rain, damaging winds and possibly tornadoes to some places still recovering from Hurricane Ian. Nicole’s center, with sustained
Continue ReadingBy LUJAIN JO Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar has unveiled a 6,000-cabin fan village in an isolated lot near its airports, an offering for housing toward the lower end of what’s available for the upcoming World Cup, which is just days away from starting. Journalists toured the cabins on Wednesday as desert winds
Continue ReadingBy LUJAIN JO Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar has unveiled a 6,000-cabin fan village in an isolated lot near its airports, an offering for housing toward the lower end of what’s available for the upcoming World Cup, which is just days away from starting. Journalists toured the cabins on Wednesday as desert winds
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Online real estate broker Redfin is cutting 862 employees and shutting down its instant-cash-offer subsidiary RedfinNow, another casualty of two-decade high interest rates stoked by the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation. The job cuts amount to 13% of Redfin’s workforce, the company announced in a regulatory
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Gary Patterson could now play a key role in spoiling what has been a perfect season so far for fourth-ranked TCU. Patterson had as good a run as any Big 12 coach in whipping Texas over the past decade while still in purple. But
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Between warnings of a recession, high inflation and layoff fears, the news is bleak. Why not have some chocolate? Chocolate makers are reporting booming sales as stressed out customers reach for something sweet to take the edge off. In the third quarter, sales of Hershey’s chocolates, which include Reese’s, Kit
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her failed attempts to get pregnant, saying she has “zero regrets” about a difficult period in her life. Speaking to journalist Danielle Pergament for an Allure magazine cover story, Aniston recounted how she had “gone through really hard sh*t” in her late 30s and 40s,
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military said Wednesday it will withdraw from the only Ukrainian regional capital it captured, but Kyiv was skeptical and an analyst warned this could be a ruse to lure the country’s forces into a deadly trap. A forced pullout from the city of Kherson would
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan, CNN The owner of Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, California, who came to the United States from Syria in 1980 with $14,000 in his pocket, is now a millionaire after selling the sole winning Powerball lottery ticket. California Lottery officials presented the check to Joe Chahayed and his sons Joe Jr. and
Continue ReadingCNN By Allison Morrow, CNN Business So, you won the lottery. Congrats! What do you do now? Once you’re done screaming and dancing in a shower of Champagne, take a moment to gather yourself and start thinking about the more pragmatic aspects of your new life as a multimillionaire (or billionaire) What will you do
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