Associated Press The unofficial start of summer over the Memorial Day weekend offers a troubling glimpse of what lies ahead for travelers during the peak vacation season. U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights from Thursday through Monday, or about 2% of their schedules, according to tracking service FlightAware. Delta Air Lines, usually among the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The unofficial start of summer over the Memorial Day weekend offers a troubling glimpse of what lies ahead for travelers during the peak vacation season. U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights from Thursday through Monday, or about 2% of their schedules, according to tracking service FlightAware. Delta Air
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is recruiting a new Translation Advisory Council to guide the translation of the voters’ pamphlet. “Every Oregonian deserves the opportunity to participate in civic life in our State,” said Secretary Fagan. “The Translation Advisory Council is a great opportunity to help shape a critical part
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Roughly 100 Sears Hometown locations are permanently closing in the coming weeks, representing roughly half of its remaining retail footprint. The closures were announced on each individual store’s Facebook page rather than a single press release. The locations are spread over about 30 US states, according to multiple reports. “Unfortunately
Continue ReadingBy Eoin McSweeney, CNN The chief executive of Qatar Airways has defended a plan to operate more than 160 extra flights to shuttle spectators from the region to Doha and back each day, for what has been advertised as the first “carbon neutral” FIFA World Cup. Qatar Airways announced on Thursday it had partnered with
Continue ReadingBy René Marsh, CNN As heat ramps up ahead of what forecasters say will be a hotter than normal summer, electricity experts and officials are warning that states may not have enough power to meet demand in the coming months. And many of the nation’s grid operators are also not taking climate change into account
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business A shakeup may be in the works at Unilever, the consumer goods giant behind brands like Dove soap, Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Vaseline. Unilever announced Monday that Nelson Peltz, one of the most influential corporate raiders on Wall Street, will join the company’s board of directors and disclosed that Peltz’s fund
Continue ReadingBy James Felton and James Paxson Click here for updates on this story AUBURN, Michigan (WNEM) — The Great Lakes Bay Veterans Coalition hosted a 22-mile ruck across the Auburn area on Memorial Day. “Just to see everybody work so hard for 22 miles in this heat today, it’s an amazing feeling to see everybody
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Breslin Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Mayor John Cooper and other Nashville leaders will break ground on the city’s first permanent supportive housing center for the homeless. The ground-breaking is happening on Tuesday morning, where the old Metro jail building was located. The last of the jail
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN A week ago, Coco Gauff celebrated her high school graduation under the Eiffel Tower. Now, the 18-year-old will compete in her first-ever grand slam singles semifinal following a 7-5 6-2 victory against compatriot Sloane Stephens in an all-American quarterfinal at the French Open. Gauff’s extraordinary talent has been evident since she
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN A slower walk as you age has always been a warning sign of increasing frailty that could lead to falls and other disabilities, experts say. Emerging research in small groups of elderly subjects has also found that a slower gait from year to year may be an early sign of cognitive
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — La famosa banda de K-pop BTS se reunirá este martes con el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, y estará junto a la secretaria Karine Jean-Pierre en una rueda de prensa, informó la Casa Blanca. Todo como parte de una visita destinada a discutir la inclusión y representación asiáticas, además de abordar
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate’s planned “Hunger Games” prequel. The studio announced Tuesday that Zegler will play Lucy Gray Baird in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” an extension of the “Hunger
Continue ReadingSILER CITY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina trooper fatally shot a man who authorities said “presented a pistol” during a traffic stop initiated for a seat belt violation. The trooper stopped a Ford pickup truck in Siler City late Monday afternoon, the State Highway Patrol said in a news release. During the stop, the
Continue ReadingBy Chuck Morris and Courtney Allen Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Emergency personnel have ended their search for a man reported possibly missing after jumping from a cliff into Percy Priest Lake on Monday afternoon. The Nashville Fire Department and Office of Emergency Management ended their search just before
Continue ReadingGLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Ukrainian soccer star Oleksandr Zinchenko couldn’t hold back the tears as he tried to explain what it means to represent his country’s national team at this moment, with a spot at the World Cup within reach. Ukraine is two games away from qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar, starting with
Continue ReadingGLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scotland coach Steve Clarke understands why national team great Graeme Souness wants his country to lose against Ukraine in their emotionally charged World Cup soccer playoff in Glasgow on Wednesday. Clarke says he has “nothing but good thoughts and good wishes” for Ukraine “except during the game.” He expects Ukraine’s players
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury finished a second day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the defamation claims of Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage. The seven-person civil jury heard closing arguments Friday and deliberated for about two hours before leaving
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story Toronto (CTV Network) — Supermassive black holes may have the power to “quench” star formation in their galaxies, according to a new study that detected numerous supermassive black holes from early on in our local universe’s life. An international team of astronomers combined data
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story Toronto (CTV Network) — Assessing the health of coral reefs can be a labour-intensive project, undoubtedly leaving many researchers wishing the reefs could just tell us how they were doing. Well, according to new research, they can tell us – if we listen carefully.
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