By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty campaigners are fuming after the parent of Britain’s biggest home energy supplier said earnings more than tripled last year as consumers struggled to pay soaring utility bills. British Gas owner Centrica followed Shell and BP as the latest U.K.-based energy company to rake in massive profits
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Anti-poverty campaigners are fuming after the parent of Britain’s biggest home energy supplier said earnings more than tripled last year as consumers struggled to pay soaring utility bills. British Gas owner Centrica followed Shell and BP as the latest U.K.-based energy company to rake in massive profits
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By Web staff Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The Multnomah County Health Department on Wednesday released its annual report on homeless death statistics. According to the Multnomah County Health Department’s annual review of deaths, at least 193 people died while homeless in calendar year 2021. The figure is an
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Amnistía Internacional acusó a las autoridades peruanas de actuar con “un marcado sesgo racista” en la represión de las protestas que han sacudido al país desde diciembre, diciendo que están atacando “poblaciones que históricamente han sido discriminadas”, según un informe publicado este jueves. Basándose en datos de la Defensoría del Pueblo
Continue ReadingBy Tara John and Claudia Rebaza, CNN Amnesty International has accused Peruvian authorities of acting with “a marked racist bias” in its crackdown on protests that have roiled the country since December, saying “populations that have historically been discriminated against” are being targeted, according to a report released on Thursday. Drawing on data from the
Continue ReadingBy Simon Gutierrez Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — With cases of overdose deaths involving fentanyl stacking up around the Portland area, families of those who died are finding frustration instead of closure. MJ Jackson, who’s mother died of a fentanyl overdose in June of 2022, said she’s been waiting
Continue ReadingBy Zayn Nabbi, CNN Canada’s women’s soccer team said Wednesday that it will be participating at the SheBelieves Cup under “protest” after its pay equity dispute with the national federation remained unresolved. Speaking to the media ahead of its opening game in Orlando against the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) on Thursday, Canada forward
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Brown, David Pinter and Shain Bergan Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A Kansas City officer and his K-9 partner died Wednesday night in a crash that also killed a pedestrian. The officer was on patrol near Truman Road and Benton Boulevard around 10:15 p.m., when his
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN When CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta was growing up in a small rural town in Michigan, he wanted to change his name to Steve — hoping that would put an end to the anti-Asian taunts he faced at school from the time he was 6 or 7 years old,
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GOOD THURSDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… Despite a few clouds and after a chilly morning we are expecting a few very fair days. We start our day with partly cloudy skies and that is where we will stay. We will see daytime highs reach the mid, maybe upper, 40’s…a lot like yesterday. Expect southerly breezes at 5-15
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden remains “healthy” and “vigorous,” his physician reported Thursday after a routine physical, and is “fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.” The physical, which occurred earlier in the day at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, did result in a small lesion on Biden’s chest being
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN US home building fell again in January, marking five straight months of declines, even as mortgage rates moderated and inflation cooled. Housing starts, a measure of new home construction, fell by 4.5% in January from December. That’s down 21.4% from a year ago, according to data released Thursday by the Census
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By Daeshen Smith Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Back in September of 2021, Nija Hill’s son Chavan Scruggs was killed outside of Figures Park. Even while grieving the loss of her son, she knew she wanted to help others. “It was a bad situation and a bad place for
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, more evidence that the Federal Reserve’s efforts to loosen the labor market by raising interest rates hasn’t taken hold. Applications for jobless aid in the U.S. for the week ending Feb. 11 fell by 1,000 last week to 194,000, from 195,000
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN A letter has finally been delivered to its destination — more than a century after it was written. Sent in February 1916, the correspondence arrived at its intended address in Hamlet Road, south London, much to the bewilderment of the current occupants. “We noticed that the year on it was ’16.
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Several employees at a Tesla factory in Buffalo, New York have been fired after launching union organizing efforts two days ago, according to Tesla Workers United. The group said in a statement on Thursday that workers received an email around 7 p.m. on Wednesday updating them on a new
Continue ReadingBy FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is celebrating 15 years of independence with a month of celebrations while still facing serious challenges with Serbia, which refuses to recognize the autonomy of its former province. A military parade, ceremonies at monuments to national heroes and a special session of
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — For nearly 50 years, the death of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda has been shrouded in mystery, with longstanding allegations that he had been assassinated. Now, new forensic evidence has emerged that the literary great may have been
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside, CNN A woman in Pennsylvania and a man in North Carolina were charged this week after a six-year-old in each case brought a gun to school, officials said, marking at least three times an elementary school student has brought a weapon to campus this year, including when a six-year-old allegedly shot his
Continue ReadingBy Hayatullah Amanat, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — GRAPHIC WARNING: This story contains disturbing details It was around 11 p.m. on Feb. 5 in Calgary when Mohammad Ajmal Nikzad heard the news on TV about the devastating earthquake that hit Kahramanmaras, Turkiye, where his mother and three
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