By Rex Hodge Click here for updates on this story HAYWOOD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Some United Methodist churches are considering splitting from the formal church over issues regarding gay marriage and gay ordination — and locally, that decision is before Long’s Chapel in Haywood County right now. Long’s Chapel leadership spoke with News
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN Dylan Mulvaney is a uniquely 21st-century star. She became famous on TikTok, where she pivoted from musical theater to advocacy when she came out as trans. She’s scored major brand sponsorships and made the jump to fame off-platform, even interviewing President Joe Biden. Her online persona is an overwhelmingly positive one.
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Chloe Melas, CNN Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx is hospitalized in Georgia and under observation, a source with knowledge of the situation tells CNN. His daughter Corinne Foxx shared on Instagram Wednesday night that her father had experienced a “medical complication,” adding that he is “on his way to recovery.” She did
Continue ReadingIssy Ronald, CNN A license plate has sold for an eye-watering 55 million dirhams ($15 million) at a charity auction in Dubai, fetching what organizers Emirates Auction say is a world record price. Simply reading “P7,” the vanity plate smashed the previous record which belonged to Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri who bought a license plate
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Mary Quant, the visionary fashion designer whose colorful, sexy miniskirts epitomized London in the 1960s and influenced youth culture around the world, has died. She was 93. Quant’s family said she died “peacefully at home” in Surrey, southern England, on Thursday. Quant helped popularize
Continue ReadingCNN, WFOR, WSVN By Joe Sutton, Taylor Ward and Travis Caldwell, CNN More rain is in the forecast after substantial downpours inundated Fort Lauderdale and parts of South Florida in a 1-in-1,000 year rainfall event, leading to a flash flood emergency in Broward County that closed schools, forced drivers to abandon their cars and shut
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Mackenzie Click here for updates on this story MCDOWELL COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A McDowell County man is working to reunite a lost prosthesis with its rightful owner. The prosthesis, custom fit for a right lower leg amputee, was found on March 11 in the middle of U.S. 221 near Marion. William
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Even as rents are cooling in some parts of the country, it has never cost more to rent a Manhattan apartment as it did in March. Typically, rental activity builds from the spring to a peak in late summer, but median rent last month was the highest on record, according to
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Companies across the S&P 500 are expected to report the biggest drop in earnings since the spring of 2020 when first-quarter results begin rolling out this week. The only question for many on Wall Street is how much worse they will get. Still-high inflation, a
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — American and British boxing officials are among the leaders of a breakaway group which hopes to save boxing’s place at the Olympics. The new federation is to be called World Boxing. It is a rival to the 77-year-old International Boxing Association. The IBA has been excluded from organizing the sport at the
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — American and British boxing officials are among the leaders of a breakaway group which hopes to save boxing’s place at the Olympics. The new federation is to be called World Boxing. It is a rival to the 77-year-old International Boxing Association. The IBA has been excluded from organizing the sport at the
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN The federal appeals court ruling Wednesday night that is keeping medication abortion drugs available is likely to complicate abortion access across the country, even in places where the procedure is legal. Since the Supreme Court overturned of Roe v. Wade last year, abortion pills — and the US Food and Drug
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Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s local maritime authorities have issued a warning for possible rocket debris in waters northeast of Taiwan, saying ships would be banned from entering the area on April 16. Southern Fujian province’s Maritime Safety Administration said that vessels would be prohibited from entering the waters from
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that Germany’s imports from Russia fell by more than 90% in the first year of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, largely as a result of the collapse of Russian energy deliveries to Europe’s biggest economy. The Federal Statistical Office said Thursday that Germany imported goods worth 300 million euros ($329
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that Germany’s imports from Russia fell by more than 90% in the first year of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, largely as a result of the collapse of Russian energy deliveries to Europe’s biggest economy. The Federal Statistical Office said Thursday that Germany imported goods worth 300 million euros ($329
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Dean and Anna Chernova, CNN A fresh leak of classified US intelligence documents suggests broad infighting between Russian officials, including some within the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Defense Ministry, the New York Times reported Thursday. CNN has not independently verified the documents. The NYT said it had shown the new 27-pages of
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge has rescinded a travel ban she had placed on the country’s embattled central bank governor, clearing the way for him to travel to Paris for a scheduled hearing with French prosecutors next month. Judge Ghada Aoun lifted the ban against Riad Salameh on Thursday,
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN When Eileen Monaghan’s cousin Nora died in 2014, Eileen grieved not only the loss of a beloved older relative but also her last link to Ireland. Eileen’s grandmother emigrated from the tiny village of Shalvey, in Donegal, Ireland in the late 1800s. Growing up in the US, young Eileen loved hearing her
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN President Joe Biden made a gaffe during his visit to Ireland on Wednesday as he confused a rugby team with a controversial 1920s-era British police force. Biden was speaking at the Windsor Bar in Dundalk, Ireland, when he appeared to mistake New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the Black and
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