Atlanta Braves fans will soon be watching baseball at the Truist stadium in sports. The name of SunTrust Park, the home of the Braves, will change to include the oft-ridiculed “Truist” brand, the newly-merged bank confirmed to CNN Business. However, the full name of the venue (Truist Park? Truist Financial Stadium?) has not yet been
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The US Senate on Thursday confirmed Dr. Stephen Hahn to be the next commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration. The Senate vote was 72 to 18. Hahn, 59, is a well-known radiation oncology expert and is the current chief medical executive of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where
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(CNN Español) — En la madrugada del 12 de noviembre, horas después de renunciar a su cargo, el ahora expresidente de Bolivia Evo Morales llegó en un avión del Gobierno mexicano a ciudad de México donde fue recibido en calidad de asilado político. Un mes después Morales salió del país y llegó a Argentina, solo
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A giant 3D printer built two houses in an impoverished, rural part of Mexico last week, breaking ground on what will be the first 3D-printed neighborhood in the world. The houses aren’t just a prototype. Developers hope to build 50 new houses by the end of 2020, replacing the structures that residents built themselves out
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This week’s deadly kosher market attack and the killing of a detective in New Jersey are being investigated as acts of domestic terrorism “fueled by both anti-Semitism and anti-law enforcement beliefs,” the state attorney general said Thursday. “We believe the suspects held views that reflected hatred of the Jewish people, as well as a hatred
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Los restos encontrados el miércoles corresponden al avión C-130 de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile que desapareció el lunes, confirmó el ministro de Defensa de Chile, Alberto Espina Otero El ministro detalló en una rueda de prensa desde Punta Arenas que 23 aeronaves, 14 medios navales y 11 agencias internacionales con capacidades
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For Douglas Miguel Rodriguez working at a kosher market in Jersey City was a blessing. He had left Ecuador to provide for his family and things were looking up. Rodriguez, 49, died when two people opened fire Tuesday at the kosher supermarket where he worked for the past year and a half, doing everything from
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Top congressional negotiators clinched a “deal in principle” to fund the US government, an agreement that comes a little more than a week before the deadline and likely takes the threat of a government shutdown off the table. The bipartisan foursome of the top appropriators reached the agreement after meeting in the Capitol on Thursday,
Continue Reading Surveillance footage captured the terrifying moment two shooters opened fire Tuesday on a kosher supermarket, disrupting the lives of people on a Jersey City, New Jersey, street — and in some cases, changing them forever. What followed was an hourslong standoff with police. By day’s end, four people were dead, including three civilians inside the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Mount Pocono (WNEP) — Heather Antonelli’s children should be in school. The family from Tobyhanna had to spend the day at Pocono Rocks in Mount Pocono because school is closed yet again for these Pocono Mountain School District students. “I just hope they figure out a solution. It’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Virginia Beach (WTKR) — Video of Tidewater Community College Professor Dr. David Wright has gone viral. Millions of people have viewed a video on Twitter of him teaching physics this semester. “Y’all need to see this video collage of all the crazy things my Physics Professor did this
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s campaign on Thursday released a letter from the candidate’s doctor that says he is in “outstanding health” with no medical conditions that would prevent him from serving as president. The Democratic candidate underwent a coronary stent placement in 2000 for a blocked artery, according to the letter, signed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hartford (WFSB) — An attorney for the estranged husband of a missing woman asked the Supreme Court to overturn a gag order on Thursday. Attorney Norm Pattis said the gag order is making it hard to defend his client, Fotis Dulos, saying he’s being treated unfairly because of
Continue Reading A federal judge in Utah said Thursday that American Samoans have an automatic claim to US citizenship. Read the opinion here:
Continue Reading Elizabeth Warren came out swinging on Thursday as the Democratic primary slugfest heats up with Iowa on the horizon. Speaking in New Hampshire, the Massachusetts senator ramped up what has been a stop-and-go process of directly criticizing her top moderate rivals, taking a series of unmistakable shots at South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and
Continue Reading A federal judge in Utah said Thursday that American Samoans are US citizens and should be issued new passports reflecting that. “This court is not imposing ‘citizenship by judicial fiat.’ The action is required by the mandate of the Fourteenth Amendment as construed and applied by Supreme Court precedent,” wrote Judge Clark Waddoups in the
Continue Reading HQ Trivia brought joy — and some cash — to millions of people, but despite the game’s virality, the start-up behind it struggled. Now, that company, HQ, is trying to make a comeback with new games and a subscription service. On Thursday at 8 pm ET, HQ will debut HQX, a new game in which
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KALISPELL (KPAX TV) — Two good Samaritans recently rescued an injured dog stranded on an island on the Flathead River and the animal is now healthy and living in a new home. Valor was thrown off the Hungry Horse Bridge and left for dead two weeks ago, but
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON, DC (KPAX TV) — A sweeping bill settling tribal claims over much of Western Montana’s water supply is officially introduced in Congress. The 65-page measure enacts a settlement agreement worth billions of dollars, covering not only water rights, but property transfers and ownership of the National Bison
Continue Reading US stocks raced to record highs Thursday on news that the United States and China reached a tentative trade deal. Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump said that an agreement was “very close.” “They want it, and so do we,” Trump said in a tweet. The news fueled hopes that the trade spat between
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RONAN (KPAX TV) — CBD is hitting the shelves across the country in places like gas stations and convenience stores — and hemp itself is being grown on Montana soil. While it has many uses, this hemp is extracted for cannabidiol (CBD), which is a compound found in
Continue Reading Military personnel will attempt to recover bodies of the remaining victims of New Zealand’s White Island volcano tragedy at first light Friday local time — four days after it erupted. A total of 47 people were on the island, which is 50 kilometers (31 miles) off the coast of Whakatane on the country’s North Island,
Continue Reading The National Security Agency hasn’t been deleting some of the material it collects as often as it should, according to an unclassified report summary from the agency’s inspector general. The summary released Thursday by the NSA’s Office of the Inspector General is based on a classified report produced earlier this year and says that “a
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EL PASO, Texas — An SUV driver alleged to have been drunk when he slammed into a semi-truck and triggered a deadly chain-reaction incident along Interstate 10 at Loop 375 earlier this week has been arrested on multiple charges. Martin Castaneda, 24, was being held Thursday on $350,000 bond in the El Paso County Detention
Continue Reading With less than two months before the first votes of the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden has re-emerged as the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination. That simple statement, which is borne out in national and early state polling, seemed unimaginable as recently as two months ago as the former vice president looked to be
Continue Reading As millions of voters leave their homes on Thursday and trudge towards polling stations on a cold, rainy December day, don’t expect to hear about any frantic last-minute campaigning from parties — the news will be eerily quiet thanks to strict rules about what broadcasters can and cannot say on election day. In fact, the
Continue Reading Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Thursday defended her decision to move ahead with partial loan forgiveness for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, pushing back on criticism from Democrats over her approach. The Department of Education this week restarted processing the more than 200,000 claims for debt cancellation that have built up under DeVos’ tenure
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Ashley Fulmer, profesora adjunta en ciencias gerenciales en la Universidad Estatal de Georgia, escribe que la cadena de incidentes de alto perfil en Boeing ha dejado en claro que existen profundos problemas en la empresa. Las respuestas cautelosas de la empresa, que funcionan cuando se presenta un incidente aislado, resultan contraproducentes en
Continue Reading The surviving Boston Marathon bomber who was sentenced to death for his role in the terror plot that killed four and left the city under siege in April 2013, is hoping his legal team’s appeal will give him his life back. Lawyers representing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 26, made opening statements on Thursday morning to the 1st
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