By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — The cast and crew of “Freaky Tales” is remembering working with late actor Angus Cloud in one of his final roles. The “Euphoria” actor died at age 25 last July. The new film screened this week at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Co-directors Anna Boden
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The US government is coming down hard on a data broker accused of selling consumers’ detailed location histories without their consent, highlighting privacy regulators’ growing focus on a sensitive and revealing form of personal information. For the first time ever, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it was banning
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Sporting Kansas City has agreed to part ways with sporting director Gavin Wilkinson after only eight days, citing an “impassioned response from our fans” regarding the controversial hire, the team announced Friday. Wilkinson, the former president and general manager of the NWSL’s Portland Thorns, was fired by the team in
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Winter is here, inflicting its usual array of symptoms — coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue and fever — and, this year, a new COVID-19 variant is dominating the scoreboard. COVID-19 is leading hospital admissions among the respiratory viruses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last
Continue ReadingBy Abby O’Brien Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — A cry of relief rang out in a downtown courtroom on Friday as a Toronto mother formerly sentenced to life in connection with the death of her disabled teenage daughter was acquitted of first-degree murder following a retrial. Ontario Superior Court
Continue ReadingBy Megan DeLaire Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Public health experts are sounding the alarm as Canada contends with a record-breaking wave of dangerous, and sometimes deadly, invasive group A streptococcus (strep) infections. As of Jan. 9, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has received more than 4,600
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Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s political and military leaders have moved to de-escalate tensions with Iran after deadly airstrikes by Tehran and Islamabad this week that killed at least 11 people and imperiled fraught relations between the neighbors. Friday’s decision was apparently reached at a meeting of Pakistan’s
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of the California Senate says she will run for governor in 2026. Democrat Toni Atkins made history as only the third person and first woman to hold both of the top jobs in the state Legislature. Atkins was speaker of the state Assembly before
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate set to be the nation’s first person ever put to death by nitrogen gas will ask a federal appeals court Friday to block the upcoming execution using the untested method. Kenneth Smith, 58, is scheduled to be executed Thursday, when a respirator-type mask
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor has vetoed legislation aimed at providing more transparency in police encounters with civilians, setting up a faceoff with the City Council, which has said it has enough votes to override him. Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday that he rejected the bill
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals. DOD officials said Thursday that they planned to install the filtration systems in a lagoon and drainage ditch on the now-shuttered Wurtsmith Air Force Base
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is calling on citizens not to support drug cartels or oppose the installation of National Guard barracks, after a number of videos surfaced showing residents cheering convoys of cartel gunmen. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday he understood that the gangs may be pressuring civilians to appear in
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — On the surface, the platform beneath a new generation of automobiles has little to do with politics and elections. But at Stellantis, new large vehicle underpinnings announced Friday are key to the company’s ability to adjust to European and U.S. government electric vehicle requirements that could
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — A black and white milkshake in Raleigh. A mango smoothie outside Allentown. Soul food in Charleston. Back on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden is sidling up to take-out counters, introducing himself to restaurant workers and slipping into booths as he searches for votes, a return to
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government says it will challenge an auction of artifacts belonging to the country’s anti-apartheid stalwart Nelson Mandela. Friday’s announcement comes ahead of the auction of 75 artifacts belonging to Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president who spent 27 years in jail for fighting
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Compiten las 10 selecciones sudamericanas. Serán 21 días de competencia en la cual se jugarán 32 encuentros. Están en juego dos pasaportes a los Juegos Olímpicos de París. Las selecciones van con poderosos equipos que tienen a Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay como favoritos a ser campeones. Este sábado comienza a
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Hall of Fame golfer and two-time major champion Jack Burke Jr. has died at age 100. He had been the oldest surviving Masters champion. His passing was confirmed Friday by Steve Timms, the CEO and president of the Houston Golf Association who spoke with Burke’s wife. When Burke finished
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s secretary of state is appealing a judge’s ruling that put on hold her removal of former President Donald Trump from the ballot. Democrat Shenna Bellows concluded last month Trump didn’t meet ballot qualifications under the insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution, citing his role in
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — A set of Winston Churchill’s false teeth is expected to fetch up to £8,000 ($10,000) when it goes on sale in England next month. Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II, had several sets of upper dentures that were specifically constructed to maintain his natural lisp and were mounted
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