By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest cruise ship has been spotted in the Caribbean ahead of its highly anticipated inaugural voyage later this month. Royal Caribbean’s 1,198-foot Icon of the Seas, due to set sail from Miami, Florida on January 27, 2024, was pictured arriving in Ponce, Puerto Rico for “regulatory inspections”
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two consultants hired to analyze new state legislative boundary lines in Wisconsin after the state’s high court tossed the current Republican-drawn maps will be paid up to $100,000 each in taxpayer money. Under the terms of the contracts made public Thursday, each consultant will be paid
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Griggs, CNN (CNN) — Maybe you’ve resolved to read more in the new year. We’re here to help. Here are 12 intriguing titles coming in 2024 — most of them in the next few months. It’s a smorgasbord: literary fiction, thrillers, memoirs, self-empowerment and true tales of extraordinary bravery. Whether they’re fiction or
Continue ReadingBy Brittany Ford Click here for updates on this story SUWANEE, Georgia (WANF) — Residents at the Symphony at Suwanee Creek apartments say issues with the fire alarm system have gotten out of control. Mallory McKinnon shared a video with Atlanta News First of the fire alarm going off at 1 a.m. on Wednesday. McKinnon
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, Dakin Andone, Evan Perez and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A 17-year-old gunman killed a sixth grade student and wounded five other people Thursday morning at Perry High School near Des Moines, Iowa, authorities said. The five people wounded include four students and one school administrator, officials said. The school’s principal, Dan
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Britney Spears dice que no hay que creer los recientes informes de que está trabajando en un nuevo álbum. La cantante acudió a su cuenta verificada de Instagram este miércoles para negar que esté de vuelta en el estudio, y escribió en el pie de foto junto a una famosa pintura de
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday. Those
Continue ReadingBy FADI TAWIL and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Beirut for the funeral of Saleh Arouri, top commander of militant Palestinian group Hamas, who was killed earlier this week in an apparent Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital. Draped in Palestinian and Hamas flags,
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KPTV) — An Oregon man fired more than 70 shots from a hotel balcony near the Las Vegas Strip on New Years Eve and caused more than $100,000 damages to the MGM hotel, according to police. Jon Letzkus, 45, made his first appearance
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press Sam Song Li only got his SAG-AFTRA card two years ago. Now, he is acting opposite Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh in an all-Asian cast in the new Netflix series, “The Brothers Sun.” Dropping Thursday, the crime drama and comedy hybrid follows the scions of a Taiwanese triad leader. The show
Continue ReadingBy Ayurella Horn-Muller, CNN (CNN) — Rammed earth portions of the Great Wall of China — built by compressing natural materials with soils — have been regarded as a weak point in its structure. But these swaths of the iconic landmark developed a natural line of defense against the looming risk of deterioration, a new
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Hundreds of students and others have marched in silence in the Czech capital to honor the victims of the country’s worst mass killing two weeks ago that left 14 dead. They gathered at an impromptu memorial in front of Prague’s Charles University headquarters where thousands came to light candles after the Dec 21 shooting.
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — The world is going wild for Stanley cups. And no, not the hockey kind. Just ask Target. It appears that for some Valentine’s Day revelers this year, nothing will spell L-O-V-E more profoundly than the gift of an oversized rose-hued stainless steel insulated tumbler that’s downright clunky,
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press PERRY, Iowa (AP) — A 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school before classes resumed on the first day after the winter break, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five others Thursday as students barricaded in offices, ducked into classrooms and fled in panic. The suspect,
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, Maya Szaniecki and Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — Algerian international player Youcef Atal, who plays for French club OGC Nice, has been handed a suspended sentence and a €45,000 fine ($49,000) following a social media repost regarding the Israel-Gaza conflict. “Mr. Atal was found guilty and sentenced to an 8-month suspended prison
Continue ReadingBy Rikki Klaus, CNN (CNN) — More than 80 years have passed since a racist mob destroyed Opal Lee’s family home in Fort Worth, Texas, but the 97-year-old said she still remembers the White crowd that forced her family out of their home. “Our parents worked real hard … and then they bought this house on Annie Street,”
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Swartz and Andrew Tran Click here for updates on this story LAWRENCE, Kansas (KCTV) — Police in Lawrence are investigating another act of vandalism at a Jewish fraternity at KU. For the second time this academic year, the Israeli and American flags outside the Alpha Epsilon Pi house has been taken down. The
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government is watering down cost-saving plans that have infuriated farmers. It announced on Thursday that it will give up a proposal to scrap an exemption from car tax for farming vehicles and will stagger cuts to tax breaks for diesel used in agriculture. The cuts
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears says not to believe recent reports that she’s working on a new album. The singer took to her verified Instagram account on Wednesday to deny she’s back in the studio, writing in the caption next to a famed painting of Salome, “Just so we’re clear most
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The race for the White House officially begins in less than two weeks. And despite some prolonged jockeying over the election calendar, the long primary season will once again begin in Iowa with a caucus process that has served as the lead-off presidential voting since the 1970s.
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