By Kim Dacey Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — Students at Morgan State University returned to class Monday for the first time since the Oct. 3 mass shooting on campus. The shooting injured five people. All of them have since been released from the hospital. With classes and many homecoming
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Pete Davidson says his mom is a “good catch,” so he wants to help her find a boyfriend. Davidson hit “The Tonight Show” and told host Jimmy Fallon that his mom will be in the audience when he hosts the “Saturday Night Live” Season 49 premiere this weekend. “She’s
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — British historian Charles Spencer is working on a book about his years at the Maidwell Hall boarding school and the painful lessons he endured. Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Wednesday that in March it will publish ’“A Very Private School: A Memoir.” Gallery is calling the book
Continue ReadingBy Bradley Davis Click here for updates on this story FLOWOOD, Mississippi (WAPT) — Hartfield Academy’s hard-hitting linebacker Chris Jones experienced an impact Friday morning he says he’s lucky to walk away from. “I remember losing control. I started to spin, and then I closed my eyes. All of a sudden, I was rolling,” Jones
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that she and husband Will Smith have been living “completely separate lives” since 2016. In a clip from her forthcoming NBC News primetime special with Hoda Kotb, Pinkett Smith said the couple had not previously gone public with their separation because they were
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s prime minister says his country, which has the biggest interest in the global diamond trade in the European Union, is supporting a ban on Russian diamonds as part of sanctions targeting President Vladimir Putin’s government for its war against Ukraine. This came during Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale prices rose last month at the fastest pace since April, suggesting that inflationary pressures remain despite a year and a half of higher interest rates. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers —
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The war between Israel and Hamas is unlikely to have a significant impact on the global economy, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday. “While we are monitoring potential economic impacts from the crisis [in Israel], I’m not really thinking of that as a major driver of the
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — Wholesale price increases of US goods and services jumped higher for a third consecutive month, influenced by still-high energy prices, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Producer Price Index, which measures the average price changes that businesses pay to suppliers, rose 2.2%
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — After more than nine hours of testimony over two days, Caroline Ellison, the most important witness in the government’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried, broke down as she described the final days of the crypto empire she helped build. Strangely, she said, even though it was “overall the
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government says it expects the country’s economy to shrink by 0.4% this year. The German government joined a string of other forecasters on Wednesday in revising sharply downward its outlook for Europe’s biggest economy. The revised forecast contrasted with the 0.4% growth that the government predicted in late April. The Economy
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will travel to Kenya later this month. His state visit from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 holds great symbolism since his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, learned she had become queen while visiting a game preserve in the East African nation in 1952. The trip
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has a memoir coming out about the horrifying attack that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand. “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” will be published April 16. “This was a necessary book for me to write:
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Shares of LVMH fell as much as 8% Wednesday after the luxury goods conglomerate said revenue growth in the third quarter was much slower than in the first half of the year. The French company posted earnings late Tuesday that it said showed sales were returning to pre-pandemic
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Drinking bad coffee is just one of the many downsides of flying. Alaska Airlines thinks it has a solution. Alaska has created a custom blend with Portland-based roaster Stumptown to make a coffee that’s immune from the altitude-changing effects that airborne-served coffee typically creates, including tasting bitter
Continue ReadingBy Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Tennis great Rafael Nadal will play at next year’s Australian Open, according to tournament director Craig Tiley. The 22-time grand slam champion has been absent from the sport after suffering a defeat to Mackenzie McDonald in January at the 2023 edition of the tournament. During the match, the Spaniard
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan and Anna Bahney, CNN New York (CNN) — Sheila Bair, who had a front row seat to the subprime mortgage meltdown, is worried today’s housing market is unsustainably hot. The median home price of an existing home stood at just $278,200 in August 2019, according to the National Association of Realtors. That
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Soccer legend Wayne Rooney has been announced as the new manager of Birmingham City, the English club that NFL icon Tom Brady owns a minority stake in. Rooney left his position at Major League Soccer (MLS) side D.C. United by mutual consent on Sunday, but has jumped straight back
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli woman and her daughter survived Hamas’ 12-hour siege of their kibbutz by barricading themselves into a safe room using a vacuum cleaner and a rolling pin. Theirs was just one of the remarkable stories of survival against the odds to have emerged following the Gaza-based militant group’s
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve the Republican hold on a South Carolina congressional district against a claim that it treats Black voters unfairly. The outcome could shape the fight for partisan control of the House of Representatives. The court’s six conservative justices on Wednesday signaled
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