GOP Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia announced on Thursday he will not seek another term in office, becoming the latest Republican who is not seeking reelection in 2020. Graves is currently serving his fifth term in Congress and represents Georgia’s 14th District, one that President Donald Trump won in the 2016 presidential election. In a
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More than 6 million middle and high school students were currently using tobacco product in 2019, according to National Youth Tobacco Survey data released Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The survey found that 1 in 3 high school students and around 1 in 8 middle school students are current tobacco
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The San Francisco 49ers suspended radio analyst Tim Ryan for one game after his comments about Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson having an advantage because of his dark skin. During Ryan’s Monday appearance on KNBR, a Bay Area radio station and CNN affiliate, he said Jackson’s skin color helped him disguise a dark football when
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Emma Stone has a rock on her finger. The star of “La La Land,” “The Favourite” and “Zombieland” was pictured in an Instagram post Wednesday night smiling alongside her boyfriend, “Saturday Night Live” segment director Dave McCary. Also in the picture is Stone’s left hand donning what appears to be an engagement ring. It is
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is working to strip key legal protections from tech companies under a long-awaited trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. Pelosi’s push highlights how a groundswell of skepticism about the tech industry has reached the highest levels of congressional leadership, and could result in a setback for Silicon Valley as the Trump
Continue Reading As the number of measles cases continued to soar, more than 140,000 people across the globe died from measles last year, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. Most deaths were among children younger than 5, according to WHO. The number of deaths
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(CNN) — Durante años, el hermano de Pablo Escobar trabajó como contador en el brutal Cartel de Medellín mientras reinventaba el comercio mundial de cocaína. Ahora, tiene los ojos puestos en un nuevo mercado: los teléfonos inteligentes. Roberto Escobar, de 71 años, está lanzando un teléfono plegable a través de su compañía de inversión, Escobar
Continue Reading Julianne Hough is speaking out in support of her former “America’s Got Talent’ co-star, Gabrielle Union. Hough and Union were both judges on the 14th season of the hit NBC show and it was announced last week that their contracts were not renewed. Since the news of their departure hit, there have been reports that
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President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Thursday to block a subpoena for his financial documents, arguing that the House exceeded its authority when it ordered Trump’s longtime accounting firm Mazars USA to turn over his personal records. Read the filing here:
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement Thursday that the House has “no choice” but to move forward with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump puts the speaker and the President once again on a collision course — a battle that will most likely be settled next year at the ballot box when voters decide whether
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Silverio Pérez es escritor, autor de los best sellers entre los que se destacan “LaVitrina Rota”, “Un espejo en la selva” y “Solo cuento con el cuento que te cuento”. Conductor de programas de radio y televisión y productor de documentales. Ha grabado más de una decena de discos. Cofundador de las agrupaciones
Continue Reading Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, launched a spacecraft loaded with 5,700 pounds of supplies — including a group of genetically enhanced ‘mighty mice’ — to the International Space Station on Thursday. The SpaceX Dragon capsule blazed into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 12:30 pm ET on Thursday.
Continue Reading Tokio (CNN) — Un hombre de 71 años que supuestamente realizó 24.000 llamadas gratuitas a un proveedor de telecomunicaciones para quejarse de que la compañía había violado su contrato fue arrestado por la policía en Japón. El hombre, identificado como Akitoshi Okamoto, fue puesto bajo custodia policial el 26 de noviembre bajo sospecha de “obstrucción
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A senior member of the North Korean government has again described Donald Trump as a “dotard” after the US President revived the war words with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by calling him “Rocket Man.” Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s First Vice-Foreign Minister, was quoted by North Korea’s state news agency as saying the
Continue Reading The city of Newark, New Jersey, filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the city of New York to stop their program of relocating homeless residents to the Newark area. The lawsuit also lists New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks as defendants. It claims that the Special One-Time
Continue Reading United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz will step down from running the airline in May, the company announced Thursday. Munoz will become chairman of the airline, and he will be succeeded as CEO by Scott Kirby. Kirby has been president of United since the airline wooed him away from rival American Airlines three years ago. Munoz
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Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport has defended its front page which previews a soccer game with the headline “Black Friday.” The banner was accompanied by photographs of former Manchester United teammates Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku, who play for AS Roma and Inter Milan respectively. The two teams are set to face each other in
Continue Reading The dispute between Cardiff City and Nantes took a new twist Thursday after the Welsh club appealed against the decision ordering it to pay six million euros ($6.65 million) for Emiliano Sala, the soccer player who died in a plane crash in January. In a statement published on its website Thursday, the Court of Arbitration
Continue Reading The US Treasury Department announced new sanctions Thursday on a Russian-based cybercriminal organization called “Evil Corp” for using malware to steal more than $100 million from hundreds of banks and financial institutions. Specifically, Evil Corp used the malware known as Dridex to “infect computers and harvest login credentials from hundreds of banks and financial institutions
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los embajadores de Francia, Alemania y Reino Unido han asegurado nuevamente que Irán ha desarrollado misiles balísticos con capacidad nuclear, en una carta conjunta dirigida al secretario general de las Naciones Unidas, publicada oficialmente por la ONU el miércoles. Los embajadores enumeraron cuatro ejemplos de actividades que indican misiles con capacidad nuclear, y
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a scathing warning Thursday to a reporter who asked her a question about her feelings about President Donald Trump: “Don’t mess with me.” The California Democrat forcefully pushed back on the idea that she and her caucus are proceeding with articles of impeachment because of a personal dislike of Trump,
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Click here for updates on this story MISSOULA (KPAX TV) — Members of the Northern Plains Research Council called are calling attention to Montana’s rules regarding the disposal of radioactive waste. The group met with the Air Quality Advisory Council in Missoula on Tuesday evening. Federal law currently doesn’t mandate the disposal the low level
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EUREKA (KPAX TV) — Amy Driggs is a fourth-generation ranch hand for Quirk Cattle Company in Eureka. She says her great grandfather, Maurice Quirk, founded the company with his brother Tom in the late 1880’s after immigrating from Ireland. Now, Quirk Cattle beef for consumers around the country.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MISSOULA (KPAX TV) — There are no specifics on any breakthroughs yet, but new comments from federal officials may be an indication of movement on the long-debated Flathead Water Compact . The new developments come after several years of dormancy in the agreement, which aims to resolve outstanding
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The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga is making good use of one of its residents. Miguel Wattson, an electric eel that resides in the aquarium’s Rivers of the World gallery, not only tweets from his account, which currently has more than 38,000 followers — he earns his keep by powering a Christmas tree at the aquarium.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Phoenix (KTVK) — In the back of a Phoenix strip mall sits an old movie theater, now converted to a high school. But it’s not your ordinary school, according to Principal John Anderson. “Maya High School is an alternative high school. We serve a population that struggled in
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday the House was proceeding with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a historic step that is likely to make Trump the third President in U.S. history to be impeached. “Today, I am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment,” Pelosi said in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Auburn (WALA) — According to newly filed court documents, Ibraheem Yazeed is now facing two counts of capital murder, in the death of college student Aniah Blanchard. Yazeed was originally charged with kidnapping Blanchard on Monday. The second count was served Wednesday while he was in court. The
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Dollar General remains one of the fastest-growing retailers in America, attracting customers with rock-bottom prices on snacks and household goods. It’s so confident in that strategy that it plans to open 1,000 new stores in 2020, just as it has for the past several years. The company tightened its grip on shoppers during the most
Continue Reading It was the case that launched the Black Lives Matter movement and reminded the country that we weren’t living in a post-racial society. The 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who killed him, hit close to home for many black families and forced nationwide conversations about race
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