By Emilee Fannon Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — With so many kids dealing with depression and anxiety, a former teacher decided to go back to the classroom to help students manage their mental health. After teaching for 30 years in the Middleton School District, Shaney Andler’s work now consists
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Magdalena Eriksson is leaving Chelsea Women at the end of the season after a six-year spell at the London club she has helped establish as the dominant force in the English game. The Sweden center back made the tearful announcement in a video on Chelsea’s Twitter feed. Eriksson has been Chelsea’s captain
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is vowing to hold the states that won him the White House in 2020 but also compete in places it lost like North Carolina and Florida, providing what it says are “a number of viable pathways” to victory. Campaign manager Julie Chavez
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — The number of first-time claims for weekly jobless benefits fell last week to 242,000, down 22,000 from 264,000 the week before, according to data published Thursday by the Department of Labor. Continuing claims, which are filed by people who have received jobless benefits for more than one week,
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week following a previous spike that many analysts took as a sign that higher interest rates were finally cooling the labor market. It turns out the recent jump in jobless benefit applications was largely due to fraudulent applications in Massachusetts, where claims
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — British musician Sting has become the latest artist to voice concern over Artificial Intelligence (AI), saying we should be “wary” of the technology and that it will be a “battle we all have to fight.” “The building blocks of music belong to us, to human beings,” Sting told the
Continue ReadingBy Yukare Nakayama Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — We have new details about the five people killed in a reckless driving crash Sunday. Four children, including a 1-year-old girl, were killed. A 32-year-old man also died. Loved ones tell us some of the victims were also family. A night
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Kenyan marathon specialist Eliud Kipchoge has won the Princess of Asturias Award for sports for 2023. The Spanish foundation that organizes the prizes said Thursday that Kipchoge is a “legend” in world athletics and the best marathon runner of all time. Hewon two Olympic gold medals for
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Inflation-fatigued shoppers are heading to Walmart for groceries while they’re pulling back on nonessential purchases at other chains. Walmart (WMT), America’s largest retailer, posted strong sales last quarter and raised its outlook for 2023. The company said Thursday that sales at stores open for at least one
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — U.K. telecom company BT Group plans to shed up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade and replace some of them with artificial intelligence. BT has 130,000 workers including both staff and contractors. The company said in its latest earnings report Thursday that the
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — The Texas legislature Wednesday night voted to ban gender-affirming care for most minors, sending a bill to the governor’s desk that, if enacted, would put critical health care out of reach for transgender youth in America’s second-most-populous state. Senate Bill 14 would block a minor’s access
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones/CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — In an unusual case study, a woman developed a black and hairy tongue after cancer treatment. The rare phenomenon was described in a new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal BMJ Case Reports last month. Doctors were first
Continue ReadingBy Tara De Boer/CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — For members of Canada’s military, who often have rigid schedules and demanding physical tasks, a lack of sleep is associated with obesity—particularly in males—according to a new study from Statistics Canada. Despite sleep being one of the components
Continue ReadingBy LUKE LASTER Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — The International Ride of Silence commemorates those on the road, but in our bike lanes. On Wednesday evening in Midtown Detroit, an 8-mile ride commemorated cyclists, but also bring attention to drivers while behind the wheel. “I call it a very
Continue ReadingBy IBRAHIM SAMRA Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — When it’s time to cross the street, everyone is taught to look both ways. But outside where the Tigers play, Detroit traffic control officer Linita Edge is the eyes and ears on Woodward Avenue and Montcalm Street. “Be safe. Have a
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to enter the 2024 GOP presidential race next week, two Republicans familiar with the matter told CNN, initiating his much-anticipated bid to wrestle the future of the party from former President Donald Trump. DeSantis will file paperwork declaring his candidacy
Continue ReadingBy GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LAKE BENTON, Minn. (AP) — With traces of winter’s unusually heavy snow still lingering but a warm sun finally shining, farmers were out dawn to dusk in early May on their tractors, planting corn and soybeans across southwestern Minnesota fields many have owned for generations. The threat of losing these
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Global wheat prices fell Thursday after Ukraine and Russia agreed to extend a deal allowing grain to be exported from Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea. Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade dropped 2% to $6.12 a bushel. Prices have fallen 23% since the start of
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration’s independent vaccine advisers voted Thursday in favor of recommending approval of a new vaccine to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV. “This is great news for kids and moms everywhere in the US,” said Dr. David Kim, a member of
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Alayna Treene and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Three self-described FBI whistleblowers, who are key to the Republican narrative that the FBI is weaponized against conservatives, testified at a House hearing Thursday, the latest escalation of Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s investigation into allegations of discrimination and bias within the FBI. The hearing
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