By Frank Healy Click here for updates on this story PEWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Olive the dog is home safe Wednesday after a daring rescue Monday morning. Pewaukee police say it’s thanks to the community that helped her when she got trapped in a sewer. “I opened the garage door to get my garbage can
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Loveable or creepy? Depends on who you ask. Furby, the ’90s toy phenomenon that divided kids and parents into opposing camps when it first hit stores and quickly became a craze, is making yet another comeback. Furby-maker Hasbro said Thursday it is reintroducing the bug-eyed, gibberish-talking furball.
Continue ReadingCNN By Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Loveable or creepy? Depends on who you ask. Furby, the ’90s toy phenomenon that divided kids and parents into opposing camps when it first hit stores and quickly became a craze, is making yet another comeback. Furby-maker Hasbro said Thursday it is reintroducing the bug-eyed, gibberish-talking
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Happy Thursday! We’ve seen very different conditions throughout the week — from snow and chilly temperatures to sunny skies and highs in the 80s! Thursday we woke up to mostly clear skies and temperatures in the mid to upper 40s and can expect to warm up to the 70s and even low 80s. Our average
Continue ReadingBy KELLY VAUGHEN Click here for updates on this story DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Michigan (WWJ) — Teachers and families in Dearborn Heights are demanding answers regarding the suspension of Annapolis High School’s principal and the district’s teachers’ treatment. On Wednesday night, demonstrators at the District 7 School Board meeting said the district is failing its teachers
Continue ReadingCOMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — A Major League Soccer match between the Colorado Rapids and Vancouver Whitecaps was postponed due to severe weather. A new date for the match will be announced later. The game was scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. MDT, and the teams waited until midnight before the match was called off.
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER and AYSE WIETING Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has delivered a large interest rate increase, signaling a shift toward more conventional economic policies to counter sky-high inflation. The bank raised its key rate by 6.5 percentage points, boosting it to 15%. The increase is the first since March
Continue ReadingBy Caolán Magee, CNN London (CNN) — Carl Nwazota was born and grew up in the London suburb of Wembley to parents from Jamaica and Nigeria. For 26 years, he was a UK citizen with a British passport – until it was confiscated by the Home Office after he tried to renew it in 2000,
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — La rivalidad comercial aparentemente no es suficiente para dos de los multimillonarios más poderosos de la industria tecnológica. Ahora Elon Musk y Mark Zuckerberg dicen que quieren ajustar cuentas en una pelea en jaula. El propietario de Twitter y CEO de Tesla, Musk, tuiteó recientemente que estaría “dispuesto a pelear en
Continue ReadingBy LUKE LASTER Click here for updates on this story ALLEN PARK, Michigan (WWJ) — The Camino de Santiago is a nearly 500-mile hike in Spain that is widely known as a spiritual retreat. It is popular in Catholicism, although you don’t have to be Catholic to partake. “I always had the desire to do
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Three US senators are pressing Facebook-parent Meta, Google-parent Alphabet and Twitter about whether their layoffs may have hindered the companies’ ability to fight the spread of misinformation ahead of the 2024 elections. In a letter to the companies dated Tuesday, the lawmakers warned that reported staff cuts to content
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J, (AP) — Dee Snider has been a heavy metal singer, a Broadway actor, a radio DJ, and a TV voice-over artist. Now he’s added “author” to an already long resume. The former singer for the band Twisted Sister has released his first novel, “Frats.” It chronicles the
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits remained elevated last week, a possible sign that the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes are beginning to cool a still-strong labor market. U.S. applications for jobless claims were 264,000 for the week ending June 17, the same as the previous week, the
Continue ReadingBy Bivian Contreras Click here for updates on this story TUCSON, Arizona (KGUN) — On June 14, Tucson resident, Luis Eduardo Terminel Jr., 27, was sentenced to 33 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle goods from the United States and was ordered to pay
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Pope Francis says he’s still feeling the effects of anesthesia from abdominal surgery two weeks ago and that his breathing isn’t good. Francis made the comments Thursday to explain why he chose not to deliver a prepared speech to visiting charity workers for Eastern rite churches. Instead, the speech was handed out.
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Democratic institutions in the United States and around the world have grown “creaky,” former President Barack Obama warned in an exclusive CNN interview Thursday, and it remains incumbent on American leaders to find ways to sustain them into the future. He told CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour
Continue ReadingBy Heidi Alagha Click here for updates on this story TUCSON, Arizona (KGUN) — The Titanic is about 370 nautical miles from the tour’s departure site in Newfoundland, Canada. The submersible lost communication with the mainland about an hour and 45 minutes into their journey. The Titanic is about 13,000 feet below the surface. Both
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Microsoft (MSFT) and the video game giant Activision Blizzard (ATVI) will face off Thursday against the US government in a high-stakes battle over one of the largest technology acquisitions in history. The showdown in federal court will have the CEOs of both companies taking the stand to defend their
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Microsoft (MSFT) and the video game giant Activision Blizzard (ATVI) will face off Thursday against the US government in a high-stakes battle over one of the largest technology acquisitions in history. The showdown in federal court will have the CEOs of both companies taking the stand to defend their
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Microsoft (MSFT) and the video game giant Activision Blizzard (ATVI) will face off Thursday against the US government in a high-stakes battle over one of the largest technology acquisitions in history. The showdown in federal court will have the CEOs of both companies taking the stand to defend
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