On and off mixed precipitation is what we can expect for the next several days. Most of the actual accumulations of snow and freezing rain are forecasted to occur in the mountains though it wont be quite as significant as the last storm. A Winter Weather Advisory is in place from 4pm Tuesday to 4pm
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Happy Tuesday! Conditions early this morning appear to be mostly dry with less concern for fog and freezing fog than yesterday but these are still possible as temperatures before sunrise will be in single digits in some areas. Some areas have definitely already experienced some limited visibility but conditions continue to fluctuate. As such,
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered a rebellion by lawmakers in his Conservative Party over his stalled plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. The party’s liberal and authoritarian wings are at loggerheads over the plan. Moderates worry the policy is too extreme,
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Emma Raducanu made light work of her first grand slam match in almost a year, defeating Shelby Rogers in the first round of the Australian Open. The 21-year-old Raducanu endured an injury-plagued year in 2023 after undergoing wrist and ankle surgeries but impressed as she swept past Rogers 6-3
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Korean Air plane carrying 289 people hit a parked Cathay Pacific aircraft while being pushed by a ground vehicle ahead of takeoff at northern Japan’s New Chitose Airport on Tuesday but caused no fire or injuries, fire and airline officials said. The incident happened only two
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s economy grew by about 5.2% in 2023, slightly better than the official target Beijing had set, Premier Li Qiang said Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. “In the past year of 2023, China’s economy has generally rebounded and improved,” the country’s second highest
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has convicted the son of Somalia’s president over the death of a motorcycle courier and sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in prison. It then commuted the sentence to a fine. Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was charged with “causing death by negligence” after a diplomatic car he was driving
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan says it has no new safety worries and envisions no changes to the plant’s decommissioning plans even after a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1 caused minor damage to another idled nuclear plant. The quake in
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — If you’ve been on YouTube lately, you might have come across someone claiming wind and solar energy don’t work, that rising sea levels will help coral reefs flourish, or that climate scientists are corrupt and alarmist. These are all false and misleading statements taken from a handful of thousands
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s only overseas adoption agency says it is “winding down” its facilitation of international adoptions after a government agency raised concerns over fabricated documents and procedures that obscured children’s origins abroad. Danish International Adoption mediated adoptions in the Philippines, India, South Africa, Thailand, Taiwan and
Continue ReadingBy SALAR SALIM and OMAR ALBAM Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has recalled its ambassador to Iran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians. The ministry says the Iranian attack was “a blatant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty,
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Bill Belichick has interviewed for the vacant head coach role with the Atlanta Falcons, the team announced on Monday. Belichick – who left the New England Patriots last week after 24 seasons and six Super Bowl titles with the organization – has shown no sign of giving up on
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have hosted North Korea’s foreign minister for talks on expanding ties between the countries. There are international concerns over an alleged arms cooperation deal between Pyongyang and Moscow after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveled to Russia in September to meet Putin
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — British tennis player Jack Draper won a grueling five-set match against American Marcos Giron at the Australian Open on Tuesday, then immediately raced to a courtside bin to throw up. Draper defeated Giron 6-4 3-6 4-6 6-0 6-2 in a first-round match that lasted three hours and 20 minutes.
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Justice plans to release its critical incident review of the law enforcement response to the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Thursday afternoon, according to Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Ashley Chohlis. The superintendent told Uvalde school board members at a Monday evening
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Seúl, Corea del Sur (CNN) — El líder norcoreano Kim Jong Un prometió este lunes retirar un enorme monumento a la posible reunificación de la Península de Corea que su padre construyó en Pyongyang, calificándolo de “monstruo a la vista”. La llamada de Kim durante un discurso en una reunión de la
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband is taking his advocacy against antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate to the Swiss Alps. The White House says Doug Emhoff will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week. Emhoff also will promote gender equity and women’s rights.
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to deliver more long-range cruise missiles as well as bombs to Ukraine and suggested that he’d find ways to work with Donald Trump in the event that he wins another presidency. “I take the leaders that the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is in a New York courthouse on Tuesday as he splits his time between the campaign trail and the courtroom with the 2024 presidential primary season officially underway. The former president will be back on trial beginning Tuesday in Manhattan federal
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Across much of northern New England, winter has been painfully late – and rainy. Though the weather is about to turn more solidly cold, hardy New Englanders are bemoaning a start to the winter that’s so far been characterized by fog, rain and warmer temperatures – conditions that have dealt
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