By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — For the first time in Major League Baseball history, a woman will be the primary play-by-play voice of a major team. NBC Sports California said Tuesday it has chosen Jenny Cavnar, a broadcasting veteran with nearly two decades of baseball experience, for the prestigious role. She will
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper that police raided last year is suing its hometown and local officials, saying the raid caused her physical and mental health problems. Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn is seeking $950,000 in damages in the federal lawsuit she filed
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet (CNN) — Esther Howland isn’t a household name for most Americans. But those who’ve studied the history behind the intricate, hand-crafted cards she started making some 175 years ago argue that she should be. “She was the Martha Stewart of her day. She would have killed it on Etsy,” says Vanessa
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las mujeres que dan a luz en Estados Unidos tienen ahora tres veces más probabilidades de tener sífilis que en 2016, según un informe publicado este martes por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). El marcado aumento de
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Scaffolding that shrouded the top of Notre Dame cathedral following a devastating fire in April 2019 is being removed, marking a milestone in its reconstruction. As the shell at the summit has been taken down in recent days, it has revealed the cathedral’s new spire for the first time, adorned with a
Continue ReadingBy Sebastian Shukla, Anna Chernova and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Russian authorities on Tuesday launched unprecedented criminal proceedings against Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, charges the leader of the Baltic state alleged were politically motivated. The Kremlin accused Kallas, Estonian Secretary of State Taimar Peterkop and Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys of destroying or
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Season 22 of “American Idol” will be the last for Katy Perry. Perry appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday to reveal the news. “This fall, this September, I’m going to be doing this huge music festival in Brazil called Rock in Rio. It’s really exciting. It’s a big
Continue ReadingCNN By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Super Bowl LVIII came down to the wire. Sixty minutes of action couldn’t separate the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers and so the Super Bowl went to overtime. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but the 49ers’ decision to take first possession in overtime has come
Continue ReadingBy JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local officials say two boats have collided on the Congo River in western Congo, but they give conflicting accounts on deaths. The chief of the Maluku municipality says no one died in Monday’s collision east of Congo’s capital. Another local official at first said dozens were
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A nasty storm with 60 mph winds raked parts of the Northeast on Tuesday creating dangerous conditions on the road and snarling airports. More than 1,200 flights were cancelled before noon, mostly along the East Coast, but that is likely to spread west as the day goes on. Airlines can’t control the weather,
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard and Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — A person in Deschutes County, Oregon, has been diagnosed with a case of bubonic plague, making them the state’s first confirmed case of this rare bacterial infection since 2015. The person was probably infected by their cat, and “all close contacts of the resident and their
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer. A new study looking at Hudson Bay polar bears tries to figure out if they can keep up their roly-poly figure, which is what’s needed. Tuesday’s
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Flight attendants for major U.S. airlines are holding rallies at airports around the country to push for higher pay. Tuesday’s protests are not, however, a strike. Federal law makes it difficult for airline unions to go on strike. Flight attendants are frustrated that pilots won huge pay raises last
Continue ReadingCNN By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Sheriff’s deputies in Houston repeatedly shot at a woman after mistaking her for an intruder inside her friend’s apartment, body camera footage released over the weekend shows. The woman, Eboni Pouncy, was shot five times during the February 3 confrontation and her attorney, Ben Crump,
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — No sooner had Usher delivered the final “Yeah!” of his Super Bowl LVIII half-time show, when the millions watching worldwide were transported from the cacophony of Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium to the quiet of a child’s bedroom in Ghana’s capital Accra. Titled “Born to Play,” the two-and-a-half minute advert
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing, hit by quality concerns following the incident with a door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight early last month, reported that January was its worst month for new airplane orders since the height of the pandemic. The company announced Tuesday that it booked orders for
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Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to chronicle the fascinating history of the American phone book.
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Will grocery store prices stop rising in 2024? FoodReady analyzed forecasting from the USDA to find out.
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Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to explore CDC data on fall injuries for seniors and how they can stay safe both in and out of the home.
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — A tiny surgical robot in residence at the International Space Station completed its first surgery demo in zero gravity on Saturday, developers of the technology exclusively told CNN. The robot, known as spaceMIRA — which stands for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant — performed several operations
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