By Oliver Darcy, CNN BuzzFeed News, the Pulitzer Prize-winning digital news website that took the internet by storm roughly a decade ago and inspired jealousy from legacy media organizations, will shutter, BuzzFeed chief executive Jonah Peretti announced Thursday. The move was part of broader layoffs across BuzzFeed, Peretti said in a memo to staffers, with
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State coach James Franklin says major college football players being paid is inevitable and the sooner it happens the better it will be for the sports. In an interview earlier this week with The Associated Press, Franklin said while there is
Continue ReadingBy Allen Henry Click here for updates on this story BAYPORT, Minnesota (WCCO) — Right now, the St. Croix River is literally less than an inch away from reaching its major flood stage. WCCO News’ Allen Henry traveled to two communities on the river Wednesday – Bayport and Lakeland – to see what the conditions
Continue ReadingBryan Mena, CNN The United States will safeguard its national security, even if it comes at an economic cost to its relationship with China, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday. “Even though these policies may have economic impacts, they’re driven by straightforward national security considerations, and we will not compromise on these concerns
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Thede says the fourth season of her hit HBO series “A Black Lady Sketch Show” is bigger and more expansive. Thede, who is creator, showrunner and executive producer, says the show has “become bigger than me.” The fourth season welcomes new cast members, DaMya
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in March and prices edged lower for the second month in a row, a tepid start to the spring homebuying season as buyers contend with sharply higher mortgage rates and a near historic-low number of properties on the
Continue ReadingBy ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska coach Matt Rhule has quickly endeared himself to one of the nation’s most ardent fan bases in five months. The true test of his popularity will come in a year or two, when his work to bring back one of college football’s biggest
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip. The decision Thursday by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals clears the way for Glossip to be executed on May 18. The 60-year-old can still ask the state’s
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican airline Viva Aerobus says one of its planes suffered an engine failure while covering a domestic route, but that the craft landed safely. The twin engine Airbus A320 was flying from the western city of Guadalajara to the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta when the mishap occurred Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy into a major theatrical force with works on five stages — including three Broadway theaters — and dozens of Tony Awards, has died. He was 66. Haimes,
Continue ReadingBy KC Downey Click here for updates on this story CANDIA, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A 17-year-old driver was hurt in a crash Wednesday evening on Route 101 in Candia. Police said the teenager, who is from Auburn, was traveling east just after 6 p.m. when the pickup truck traveling off the left side of
Continue ReadingGASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard was arrested in Florida Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The violence was the latest in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE anmd LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is moving additional troops and equipment to a Naval base in the tiny Gulf of Aden nation of Djibouti to prepare for the possible evacuation of U.S. Embassy personnel from Sudan. Two Biden administration officials say the deployments to Camp Lemmonier
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amazon is asking Virginia for nearly $153 million in state incentive payments. It would be the first tranche of funds to be paid out since the tech giant agreed in 2018 to build a headquarters complex in the state. The application comes even as Amazon
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN After years of punishing drought, a historic winter snowpack is bringing a reprieve to the Colorado River Basin and the nation’s largest reservoirs. The US Bureau of Reclamation announced Thursday that this winter’s rain and the projected runoff from above-normal snowfall is expected to boost its water releases this year from
Continue ReadingCNN By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled his plan to address the nation’s looming debt ceiling drama, offering to raise the borrowing cap by $1.5 trillion to prevent a default. But the proposal comes with a long list of demands from House Republicans that Senate Democrats and the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Colombia puso en marcha un nuevo programa de transferencias para los ciudadanos que viven en pobreza extrema con el que busca entregar dinero en efectivo suficiente para que los hogares más vulnerables, que están por debajo de la línea de la pobreza, puedan satisfacer sus necesidades
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Kelly When Colin McEvoy, a father of two from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and a self-described film fanatic, wants to watch a Bollywood film or an obscure independent movie, he often turns to Netflix — but not its popular streaming service. McEvoy, 39, said he’s been using Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service since 2001, just three years
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Kisluk Click here for updates on this story AUBURN, New Hampshire (WMUR) — There was big applause at Auburn Village School Wednesday because the school’s principal agreed to kiss Easy the pig. This started with a storybook that the school’s first graders read about a principal who kisses a pig as a reward
Continue ReadingCNN, WESH By Jennifer Korn The early morning alert was a test but the outrage was real. Many in Florida were woken up at 4:45 a.m. on Thursday by a notification on their phones from the Emergency Alert System: “TEST – This is a TEST of the Emergency Alert System. No action is required.” After
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