By Jeremy Herb and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The US Department of Energy has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic most likely came from a laboratory leak in China, according to a newly updated classified intelligence report. Two sources said that the Department of Energy assessed in the intelligence report that it had “low confidence” the Covid-19
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City’s vast main plaza Sunday to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s electoral law changes they say threaten democracy and could mark a return to the past. The plaza is normally thought to hold nearly 100,000 people, but many protesters who couldn’t fit in
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By Kari Barrows Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A group of middle schoolers raised almost $900 dollars Saturday in downtown Asheville in order to help stock their school bathrooms with menstrual products. Group of middle schoolers raise money to stock bathrooms with period products The Asheville Middle School
Continue ReadingBy WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — An army of firefighters from several departments enhanced their rescue skills Saturday. Seven Hills Fire Rescue hosted an extrication training. The skills are necessary for rescuing drivers during major accidents. Saturday’s hands-on training allowed participating first responders to take their
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Un nuevo proyecto de ley en Florida podría significar que Fido no tendrá más viajes de placer. Un proyecto de ley que avanza en la legislatura de Florida prohibiría que los perros saquen la cabeza por las ventanillas de los automóviles, además de una serie de otras medidas. En imágenes, las
Continue ReadingBy RICK CALLAHAN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day without power Sunday as crews continued work to restore electricity more than 165,000 homes and businesses in the greater Detroit area following last week’s ice storm. Leah Thomas, whose home north of Detroit lost power Wednesday night, was still
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By Danica Sauter Click here for updates on this story MOUNT JULIET, Tennessee (WSMV) — The Mount Juliet Police Department announced one of the two rescued puppies that tested positive for cocaine has died due to canine parvovirus. The Rottweiler and the Pitbull were rescued after a car chase on Feb. 15. After they were
Continue ReadingBy THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press NAXOS, Greece (AP) — Throngs of revelers across Greece have attended end-of-Carnival celebrations for the first time in four years. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented the festivities held before the beginning of Lent from taking place in 2020, 2021 and 2022. On the Greek island of Naxos, which
Continue ReadingBy Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologist The storm system that brought blizzard warnings to Southern California on Friday and Saturday will produce a significant damaging wind event across the central US on Sunday. By midday Sunday the Storm Prediction Center was forecasting a derecho to develop Sunday afternoon and evening. A derecho is a widespread, long-lived,
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Busari, Nimi Princewill and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN How do you stage elections for more than 93 million voters? With great difficulty, headaches, delays and technical issues, it turns out. More than 24 hours after the polls closed, some Nigerians were still voting in Africa’s largest democratic exercise. The numbers are staggering; Nigeria has
Continue ReadingBy HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence shows that China’s President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s military to “be ready by 2027″ to invade Taiwan though he may be currently harboring doubts about his ability to do so given Russia’s experience in its war with Ukraine, CIA Director William Burns said.
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By Miles Montgomery and Madeline Montgomery Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WANF) — Hundreds of runners took over the streets of Downtown Atlanta for the 2023 Publix Marathon Sunday, and 15 of them were running for a cause: raising awareness for kidney donors. “We’re a group of people that already have donated
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The gonzo R-rated horror comedy “Cocaine Bear” sniffed up $23.1 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” shrank unusually quickly in its second weekend. “Quantumania” was still No. 1 with an estimated $32.2 million in
Continue ReadingCNN By Paradise Afshar and Rebekah Riess, CNN A Florida high school student has been arrested after a video showed him attacking a school employee after she took away his Nintendo Switch device, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. The Matanzas High School student has been charged with felony aggravated battery with bodily harm,
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A rights group says at least 22 Syrian migrants detained for more than five months in Libya have begun a hunger strike to demand their release. Libyan rights group Belaady said Sunday the group of migrants included three minors and has been held in a prison in
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen are due to meet, with expectations high they will seal a deal to resolve a thorny post-Brexit trade dispute. The U.K. government and the EU said von der Leyen would travel to Britain on
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen are due to meet, with expectations high they will seal a deal to resolve a thorny post-Brexit trade dispute. The U.K. government and the EU said von der Leyen would travel to Britain on
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Al menos 63 personas murieron después de que una embarcación de madera que transportaba migrantes se partiera al chocar contra rocas frente a la costa de Calabria, en Italia, informó este lunes la prefecta de Crotone, Manuela Curra, quien un día antes dijo que entre las víctimas hay un bebé, niños y varias
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN The alligator rescued from a New York City park last week had swallowed a bathtub stopper, according to an update from zoo officials. The wayward gator was discovered in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake by workers for the New York Department of Parks and Recreation last Sunday. Since then, the reptile, found
Continue ReadingBy Megan Thomas, CNN From flying in fighter jets to riding motorcycles off mountains, Tom Cruise’s movie career has allowed him an adventurous life and he’s grateful for it. While accepting the David O. Selznick Achievement Award during the Producers Guild of America Awards on Saturday night, Cruise thanked the film industry and said he
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