By Danica Sauter Click here for updates on this story FRANKLIN, Tennessee (WSMV) — Franklin Police and Crime Stoppers are offering a cash reward for anyone who can help identify two people who allegedly used stolen credit cards and spent more than $4,500 to purchase gift cards. Officials said the credit cards came from a
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Federal Aviation Administration is finally getting a chance to make the case for his stalled nomination. Phillip Washington testified Wednesday before a Senate committee that will eventually vote on his nomination. Senators are divided along party lines, with Republicans saying he doesn’t
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Federal Aviation Administration is finally getting a chance to make the case for his stalled nomination. Phillip Washington testified Wednesday before a Senate committee that will eventually vote on his nomination. Senators are divided along party lines, with Republicans saying he doesn’t
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Novavax, which makes the Nuvaxovid vaccine used to treat Covid-19, posted huge sales gains for the past three years during the height of the pandemic. But the company is now facing serious financial challenges — and has even warned it may not be able to survive. The Gaithersburg, Maryland-based
Continue ReadingBy WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — An ongoing row between the European Union and coastal Indian Ocean nations over sustainable tuna fishing continues to simmer after a resolution in early February temporarily banned the use of destructive driftnets. Civil society organizations sent a petition Wednesday to the EU’s oceans and environment commissioner,
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Una niña de 9 años que resultó herida fatalmente cuando un hombre armado irrumpió en la asa de Florida en la que vivía con su familia dijo a su madre: “¡Me disparó!”, mientras corría por ayuda, según una declaración jurada del arresto publicada este martes. Los investigadores dijeron que el presunto
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN General Motors is cutting an unspecified number of white-collar jobs globally, part of its announced efforts to slash costs to remain competitive in the shift to electric vehicles. “We are looking at all the ways of addressing efficiency and performance,” said Arden Hoffman, the company’s chief people officer,
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu has thanked his supporters and appealed to his rivals in remarks after he was declared the winner of last weekend’s presidential election. The announcement on Wednesday by election officials was likely to lead to a court challenge by the No. 2 and
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN The 424 sites administered by the US National Park Service (NPS) continued to rebound from the pandemic last year, and a perennial favorite once again landed in the top spot for most visited site for 2022. Almost 312 million recreation visits were logged by the NPS in 2022, which is closing
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN A conservator at London’s Westminster Abbey is carrying out meticulous restoration work on a fragile 700-year-old chair to ensure King Charles III can sit on it at his coronation in May. The ancient throne, known as the Coronation Chair, has been at the centerpiece of English coronations for centuries, including those of
Continue ReadingCNN By Tami Luhby, CNN Sanofi is cutting the list price of Lantus, its most widely prescribed insulin in the US, by 78% and establishing a $35 monthly cap for those with private insurance, the company announced Thursday. The change is effective January 1. The move follows similar ones by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press General Motors is making some performance-related job cuts among some of its salaried employees and executives. The Detroit automaker did not specify how many jobs would be eliminated, but did say it would impact a relatively small number of workers. GM has 81,000 salaried employees worldwide. In January GM Chair and
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Adults across the United States are being diagnosed with colon and rectal cancers at younger ages, and now 1 in 5 new cases are among those in their early 50s or younger, according to the American Cancer Society’s latest colorectal cancer report. The report says that the proportion of colorectal cancer
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Breslin and Carmyn Gutierrez Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Tennessee lawmaker is working to add death by firing squad as a method of execution in the state. HB1245 was originally introduced by Rep. Dennis Powers as a death-by-electrocution bill. Now, the bill is being amended to
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, Pete Muntean and Jordan Valinsky, CNN Phil Washington, the White House’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, is going to face tough questions in his confirmation hearing about his ability to lead an agency facing the challenges the agency faces. Among those challenges: a series of close-call plane accidents in the
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MILLERBERND of NerdWallet A general contractor who partners with a third-party lender to provide home improvement financing seems like a win-win: You get the renovation done by your contractor of choice, and it simplifies the question of how to pay for it. But contractors specialize in building and repairing, not financing, and they
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Twitter has unveiled a new policy on violent speech that expands restrictions on some types of threats uttered on its platform, including new prohibitions on using coded language to incite violence indirectly as well as a ban on wishing harm on others and on making direct threats against physical infrastructure. “Healthy
Continue ReadingBy Susan El Khoury Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — A woman accused of shooting at teenagers outside a downtown St. Louis high school violated bond and cut her ankle monitor. It’s the latest case News 4 Investigates learned about as the I-team continues looking into growing concerns over
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN As consumers pulled back on their holiday spending amid biting inflation, it seems that Kohl’s dropped off many shoppers’ lists. Sales at Kohl’s stores open for at least one year dropped 6.6% during the holiday quarter, the company said Wednesday. The retailer also lost $302 million during the quarter. The losses
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign and development ministers have presented their government’s new feminist foreign policy guidelines that are supposed to ensure that all people “have the same right to representation and access to resources.” The policy will consider and support especially the needs of women and girls in order
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