By Sabrina Souza and Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — A Michigan teen who used a slingshot to ward off a kidnapper from his sister told CNN he “grabbed anything I could get” to save her. “It just felt like I was scared, and I had like something to do, cause if I didn’t (grab) it,
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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… Despite waking up to clear skies and a little patchy fog, we will see moisture move in over hot temperatures with showers and thunderstorms developing as early as lunch time. Highs will be in the mid to upper 80’s with a few more areas hitting 90 degrees. Northerly breezes will be
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A bill that would allow certain killing of bears in Connecticut passed in the state Senate on Thursday. It passed 31 to 3. “We’re seeing an increasingly growing population and increasing dangerous human-bear interactions,” said Sen. Stephen Harding, a Republican who
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — The NHL Players’ Association has promoted Ron Hainsey to assistant executive director. The retired defenseman joined the union two years ago and was assigned to work on special projects and development initiatives. He’s now among the most prominent former players on Marty Walsh’s staff. The former U.S. Secretary of Labor and mayor
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It’s the 76th Cannes Film Festival and celebrities are flocking to the South of France hot off-the-runway — the airport runway that is. While to some, an arrivals terminal is simply a place to disembark an aircraft, collect luggage and stare blankly at international subway systems, to others, it’s the first
Continue ReadingBy Olivia Schueller Click here for updates on this story MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A 10-year-old boy in Middletown was shot in the face with a gel pellet in broad daylight. It happened Tuesday on the child’s walk home from the school bus in the area of Grand and Pearl Street. Kids were walking down
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — A magnitude 2.2 earthquake was felt in parts of New York and New Jersey early Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey told CNN. The earthquake occurred at 2 a.m. around northwest Yonkers and along the Hudson River in New York, and was felt in New Jersey, according to Randy
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden informed G7 leaders on Friday that the US will support a joint effort with allies and partners to train Ukrainian pilots on fourth generation aircraft, including F-16s, a senior administration official tells CNN. The training is not expected to happen in the US, the official said,
Continue ReadingBy KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer DUBLIN (AP) — Katie Taylor’s success has been paving the way for young Irish fighters as women’s boxing gains popularity around the world. Taylor now sells out stadiums as the main attraction. Kaci Rock remembers being an elementary school student when she slipped on the gloves at Bray Boxing
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham’s recent switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP opened the door for Republicans to enact new abortion restrictions over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s opposition. A veto override had seemed just out of reach for Republicans just six
Continue ReadingBy Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Anyone who has spent a summer evening swatting away mosquitoes, or a summer day scratching mosquito bites, can agree: Mosquitoes stink. But the smells produced by humans are an important part of what draws mosquitoes to us. In a scientific report published Friday, scientists helped pinpoint the different chemicals
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — During Thursday’s meeting with the CEOs of large banks, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told executives that more bank mergers may be necessary as the industry continues to navigate through a crisis, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. The comments from Yellen provide further evidence that
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — “Lo importante es entrar en el balotaje”, dijo la vicepresidenta de Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, en una extensa entrevista televisiva realizada en la noche de este jueves en la que ratificó que no será candidata en las elecciones presidenciales de octubre. Con esta y varias definiciones más, Fernández
Continue Readingby KARL JANICEK PRAGUE (AP) — A court in Slovakia has acquitted for a second time a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slaying of an investigative journalist and his fiancée. The Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok, near the capital, Bratislava, which handles Slovakia’s most serious cases, ruled on Friday that Marian Kocner was not
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed backup quarterback Mitch Trubisky to a three-year contract. Trubisky was about to enter the second season of a two-year deal he signed with Pittsburgh last spring. The agreement gives the Steelers some salary cap relief and some stability behind starter Kenny Pickett as they head into the
Continue ReadingBy Doug Reardon Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — At the First Step Camp in Athens, Michael Hanlon walks among the tents that are erected on the private property behind an abandoned school. He and his chihuahua, Tiny, have lived at the legal homeless encampment for a month and it’s
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A Washington, DC, metro police officer was arrested Friday on federal charges of misleading investigators about his communications with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio – including when the officer allegedly tipped off Tarrio about his impending arrest. Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond faces an indictment accusing him of
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Officials at a hospital in western Germany have expressed regret after it emerged that one of their surgeons got a cleaner to assist in a toe amputation. Public broadcaster SWR reported Friday that the incident at the Mainz University Hospital, which happened in 2020, didn’t result in any complications to the patient
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Sean Penn has strongly backed the current Hollywood screenwriters strike while speaking at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, saying the dispute over artificial intelligence is “a human obscenity.” Penn addressed the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike in a press conference for his new
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Deadly floods that have engulfed the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna, killing at least 14 people, are another sign of the accelerating climate crisis, according to researchers. The floods come after years of severe drought in the region, which has compacted the soil, reducing
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