By Carma Hassan, CNN Children’s hospitals are already full of sick kids and bracing for a potential increase in respiratory illnesses after holiday gatherings. Any respite that hospital emergency rooms have gotten from falling RSV levels has vanished in the face of climbing flu case counts. “Influenza activity is high and is driving a significant
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital on Wednesday enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities, with video obtained by The Associated Press showing women weeping and consoling each other outside one campus in Kabul. The country’s Taliban rulers a day earlier ordered women nationwide
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Rusia sigue ampliando sus bases militares en la región ártica a pesar de las importantes pérdidas sufridas en su guerra contra Ucrania, según una nueva serie de imágenes de satélite obtenidas por CNN. El secretario general de la OTAN, Jens Stoltenberg, también dijo a CNN en una entrevista exclusiva este
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s King Harald V has been discharged from an Oslo hospital where he had received intravenous antibiotics to treat an infection. The Norwegian palace said Wednesday that ”the king is on the road to recovery, but will take it easy for a few days.” The 85-year-old monarch was hospitalized Monday. Harald,
Continue ReadingCNN By Jamie Gangel, Jake Tapper, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The final straw for former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson with her first attorney, paid through allies of former President Donald Trump, came when he told her to stop cooperating with the January 6 House select committee even if she risked a
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The launch of a European Vega C rocket carrying two Airbus satellites failed less than three minutes after lift-off from the European base in French Guiana on Wednesday. Arianespace, which provided the launch service, said in a statement that “an anomaly occurred” approximately 2 minutes and 27 seconds after liftoff, “thus ending
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Wall Street just received a big lump of Christmas coal. A surprise announcement from the Bank of Japan sent investors spinning and global markets reeling on Tuesday. The country’s central bank signaled that it would reverse two decades of policy precedent and begin to move away from loose monetary policy intended
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Franco Harris, the Hall of Fame running back whose heads-up thinking authored the “Immaculate Reception,” considered the most iconic play in NFL history, has died. He was 72. Harris’ son, Dok, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his father died overnight. No cause of death
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Franco Harris, the Hall of Fame running back whose heads-up thinking authored the “Immaculate Reception,” considered the most iconic play in NFL history, has died. He was 72. Harris’ son, Dok, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his father died overnight. No cause of death
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Red Cross said Wednesday that it had conducted rare visits to thousands of prisoners on both sides of Yemen’s eight-year civil war, a step that could pave the way for an exchange of detainees between the rival parties. Fabrizio Carboni, the International Committee
Continue ReadingBy JACKIE VELING of NerdWallet If you bought an unsuccessful gift this holiday season with a “buy now, pay later” plan, you or the recipient might be wondering how to return it. Buy now, pay later returns are sometimes tricky because you’re dealing with multiple parties, including the store the gift is from and the
Continue ReadingBy JACKIE VELING of NerdWallet If you bought an unsuccessful gift this holiday season with a “buy now, pay later” plan, you or the recipient might be wondering how to return it. Buy now, pay later returns are sometimes tricky because you’re dealing with multiple parties, including the store the gift is from and the
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Today is the first official day of winter, hence the bitter cold sweeping across most of the US. In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year, when the Earth is at its furthest tilt away from the sun. Depending on how close you are to
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist Bomb. It’s not a word you can say on an airplane (cue Ben Stiller). You also have to be careful when using it to describe a storm system. But the term “bomb cyclone” does pop up from time to time in weather stories. Here’s what it means: What makes a
Continue ReadingCNN By Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist Bomb. It’s not a word you can say on an airplane (cue Ben Stiller). You also have to be careful when using it to describe a storm system. But the term “bomb cyclone” does pop up from time to time in weather stories. Here’s what it means: What makes
Continue ReadingBy RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds A number of people with convertibles or fun weekend cars will store them for the winter season. With this in mind, the experts at Edmunds have put together a list of best practices when storing your vehicle to help preserve the life of the engine and ensure that your car starts
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The Swiss government has rejected the idea of introducing a third gender option or no-gender option for official records. It’s a position which differs from that of some neighboring European countries. Responding to two proposals from parliament, the governing Federal Council said Wednesday that “the binary gender model is still strongly anchored
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three days after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, walked into a forest near his home and began to dig. He didn’t stop until he had carved out a shallow pit, big enough for a man
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three days after the first Russian bombs struck Ukraine, Andrii Kuprash, the head of a village north of Kyiv, walked into a forest near his home and began to dig. He carved out a shallow pit as a just-in-case, a place to lie low if he
Continue ReadingBy E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin is warning that increasing the supply of U.S. arms to Ukraine would aggravate the devastating 10-month war ignited by Russia’s invasion. A Kremlin spokesman made the comments Wednesday. Russia’s defense minister also called for expanding Moscow’s military by at least 500,000 troops. And
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