By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on alleged violators of its price cap on Russian oil and tightened compliance rules for insurance firms and shippers that move it. Firms from the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong have been identified for economic sanctions. Last year the United
Continue ReadingBy COLE PREMO Click here for updates on this story FARGO, North Dakota (WCCO) — A community will honor several North Dakota police officers as heroes Wednesday morning. Fargo officer Jake Wallin died during an ambush back in July. Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes were badly hurt. Hawes, who needed more than a dozen
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN-ELIZABETH LITTLEFIELD Click here for updates on this story CARVER, Minnesota (WCCO) — A Carver family you may recognize is enjoying a little Christmas magic after a brutal few weeks. We first introduced you to the Block family back in June. Mother and wife Lindsay was fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer. To
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Claudia Colliva, CNN (CNN) — A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed that the art dealer who bought the mask from them
Continue ReadingBy Justin Andrews Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — The holiday season isn’t so bright right now for Jessica Sagar, who had two wheels swiped off her car in Benton Park. “I can’t keep shelling out money,” Sagar said. “The money that I do have, I was planning for
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana agencies say previous estimates of Medicaid expenses fell nearly $1 billion short of its now-predicted need. Word of the shortfall came Tuesday in a report presented to the Indiana state budget committee. Agency officials say unexpected demand of services in some categories including elderly care caused
Continue ReadingBy Joe Hennessy Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Operation Homefront, based out of San Antonio, Texas, partnered with U.S. Bank to gift Oscar Perez III and his family a home as part of its Permanent Veterans Program. “I still don’t understand why we were picked,” he said. He’s
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese tech giant ByteDance says it is using OpenAI’s technology “to a very limited extent” to help develop its own AI models. The admission comes after the San Francisco-firm said it had suspended ByteDance’s account over questions about how its GPT data was being used. A ByteDance
Continue ReadingCNN By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — For Christy Nguyen, menopause hit just as the Covid-19 pandemic did. With both, she said, came unwanted weight gain. “I had gained 30 pounds in about two years, and so I was sort of desperate to find something” to help with weight loss, the 56-year-old mother of two
Continue ReadingBy DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer When Idaho had a rare measles outbreak a few months ago, health officials scrambled to keep it from spreading. In the end, 10 people, all in one family, were infected, all unvaccinated. This time, the state was lucky, said the region’s medical director Dr. Perry Jansen. The family quickly
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A county jail in South Carolina being investigated by federal officials has failed a state inspection. The review of the Richland County jail by the South Carolina Department of Corrections found a lack of plans to get inmates out in a fire and keys for cells
Continue ReadingBy Silvia Marchetti, CNN Rome (CNN) — A five-year dig into the side of Rome’s Palatine Hill yielded treasure last week when archaeologists discovered a deluxe banquet room dating from around the first or second century BC, featuring a sizeable, intact, and brightly colored wall mosaic. Estimated to be around 2300 years old, the work
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Rent.com collects 2023’s Colors of the Year from the leading producers of paint and interior design materials.
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SmartAsset analyzed Census Bureau data for more than 250 US cities to see just where millennials are moving.
Continue ReadingBy Lee Peck Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A huge Christmas giveaway Tuesday night in downtown Mobile. Secret Scientist Clothing Company giving away more than $50,000 worth of toys. The lines may have been long, but Mobile Parks & Rec and other volunteers were more than ready for the
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Mocktails and low- and no-alcohol drinks are experiencing a boom in popularity. Stacker used industry reports to explore this trend.
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In the wake of November’s stop-gap bill to fund the federal government through early 2024, MoneyGeek looks at the ways in which a government shutdown would impact the lives of federal employees.
Continue ReadingBy Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story GROTON, Connecticut (WFSB) — A convicted felon from Groton is accused of trying to buy ammunition with a fake police identification cards. Donald Turner LeDuc, 56, was charged with third-degree forgery, impersonation of a police officer, illegal purchase of a large capacity magazine, criminal possession
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of astronaut Fred Haise. Personal Birth date: November 14, 1933 Birth place: Biloxi, Mississippi Birth name: Fred Wallace Haise Jr. Father: Fred Haise Sr. Mother: Lucille (Blacksher) Haise Marriages: Frances Patt (Price) Haise (1979-February 7, 2022, her death); Mary Griffin Grant (June 4, 1954-1978,
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — SiriusXM is the target of a lawsuit from the New York attorney general’s office accusing the satellite radio company of trapping customers in subscriptions and finding ways to prevent them from cancelling. On Wednesday, New York AG Letitia James announced she’s suing SiriusXM after an investigation discovered
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