By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — With Thanksgiving just days away, people across the United States are finalizing travel plans or racing through grocery stores in search of the perfect turkey, but there’s another plan to consider ahead of the holiday season: how to stay healthy and avoid the mix of seasonal viruses in circulation.
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles drivers returned to a much more normal commute Monday when an elevated stretch of a major freeway reopened well ahead of original estimates. A raging arson fire shut down the section of Interstate 10 south of downtown for more than a
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Losing a golf club in a tree? Unlikely. Losing two? Inconceivable. Losing three? All in a day’s work for Joost Luiten. The Dutch golfer had already been enduring a Sunday to forget at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai when his drive from the ninth tee went
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Negotiators at United Nations-led talks in Nairobi, Kenya have failed to agree on how to advance toward the development of a global treaty to end plastic pollution. Environmental advocates say some oil-producing governments used stalling tactics designed to ultimately weaken the treaty. Delegates were expected to discuss
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition lawmakers have disrupted the Parliament’s session again to protest what they say is increasingly authoritarian rule by the governing Socialists. Democratic lawmakers on Monday lit flares and piled chairs on top of each other in the middle of the hall the minute Prime Minister
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Toymakers are tweaking original classic games or coming out with new ones that embrace an audience that’s been around for a while: people over 65 years old. The products are being marketed as a way for older folks to sharpen their brain skills as well
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Divine Bourrage is one of the top high school prospects in the country, juggling the stressful challenges of the ever-changing demands of the usually precarious recruiting landscape as she chases her dream of playing women’s college basketball. The transfer portal and Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) rules that have
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Liberty arrived at the White House seeking justice. President Joe Biden presided over the annual White House Thanksgiving tradition of the turkey pardon Monday, sparing Liberty, a 42.5-pound turkey, and Bell, 42.1 pounds, in a brief respite from the global crises facing his administration. Liberty and Bell were roasted
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI and ROD MCGUIRK Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A volcano in Papua New Guinea has erupted and the Japan Meteorological Agency says it is assessing a possible risk of a tsunami for Japanese coasts. Mount Ulawun on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea erupted at around 3:30 p.m. Monday,
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Death in the wild is often brutal and violent. But for one small, birdlike dinosaur in the late Cretaceous Period, the end of its life was relatively peaceful — it
Continue ReadingBy Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Turkey is the centerpiece of almost every Thanksgiving feast, but when there’s someone new at the dinner table, most eyes fall on
Continue ReadingBy Al Goodman and Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — Colombian superstar Shakira settled her tax evasion suit with the Spanish authorities on Monday, avoiding a trial that was due to start that day. The Grammy-winning singer admitted the charges against her and agreed to pay the amount owed in full and an additional fine, according
Continue ReadingSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The NATO chief says the alliance strongly supports Bosnia’s territorial integrity and is condemning what he calls “malign foreign interference,” including by Russia, in the volatile Balkan region. Sarajevo is the first stop on Jens Stoltenberg’s tour of Western Balkan countries that also includes Kosovo, Serbia and North Macedonia. There are
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — President Joe Biden is marking his 81st birthday milestone Monday with a low-key family celebration as he braces for a strenuous election year ahead. But even as the first family keeps the celebrations muted and out-of-sight, the moment nevertheless highlights his greatest campaign liability – his advanced
Continue ReadingBy Angela Dewan and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have catastrophic and irreversible impacts on the planet and its ecosystems, data shared by a prominent climate scientist shows. For the first time, the global average temperature on Friday
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — If your morning can’t start without coffee, you’re not alone: globally, we drink over 2 billion cups of coffee each day, leading to 60 million tons of wet, spent coffee grounds every year. Only a small portion of this is reused — mostly as soil fertilizer — with the
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers The company that created ChatGPT was thrown into turmoil Monday after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans. The developments followed a weekend of
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s top diplomat welcomed four Arab foreign ministers and the Indonesian one to Beijing on Monday, saying his country would work with “our brothers and sisters” in the Arab and Islamic world to try to end the war in Gaza as soon as possible. The ministers from
Continue ReadingBy Robert Shackelford, Elizabeth Wolfe and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — More than 20 million people from eastern Texas to the Southeast face a threat of severe thunderstorms beginning Monday afternoon, with some areas bracing for the possibility of strong tornadoes. “Damaging winds and several tornadoes, a few of which may be strong, will be
Continue ReadingBy Arya Jyothi, CNN (CNN) — Wildlife is under unprecedented threat from human activity, but research suggests that given space and time, even animal and plant species on the brink of extinction can bounce back. A 2022 report commissioned by the non profit Rewilding Europe found many European bird and mammal species were making a
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