Cyclonic fire-tornadoes, also known as “firenados,” are tearing across parts of southern Australia, adding to the apocalyptic scenes playing out amid one of that nation’s worst fire seasons on record. The firenados, triggered by explosive pyrocumulonimbus clouds reaching up to 16 kilometers (10 miles) high, are making conditions even more dangerous and unpredictable than usual.
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Julián Castro has dropped out of the 2020 Democratic race for the White House. But that’s not really the news. The news is what that says about the continued (white) state of US politics. At a moment when President Donald Trump’s administration is keeping up its bigoted assault on both immigrant and US-born Latinos, Castro’s
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Click here for updates on this story AFFTON, MO (KMOV) — An Affton homeowner didn’t want his identity revealed out of concerns for his safety, after he said he and other neighbors have been terrorized by another neighbor. The man said he and his wife were awaken in the middle of the night after spotting
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Congratulations are in order for Wilmer Valderrama and Amanda Pacheco. The 39-year-old actor and the 28-year-old model have gotten engaged according to Valderrama’s official Instagram account. On New Year’s Day the “NCIS” star posted a photo of him down on one knee popping the question to Pacheco at a beach. “‘It’s just us now’ 01-01-2020,”
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Who won the 2020 battle of the diets? For the third year in a row, the well-researched Mediterranean diet KO’d the competition to win gold in US News and World Report’s 2020 ranking of best diets. The report, released Thursday, is now in its 10th year. “The hallmarks of a ‘best’ diet include balance, maintainability,
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Londres (CNN Business) — Google dice que desarrolló un sistema de inteligencia artificial (IA) que puede detectar la presencia de cáncer de seno con mayor precisión que los médicos. Un estudio que probó la precisión del sistema, que se desarrolló a través de una colaboración entre el gigante tecnológico e investigadores de cáncer, se publicó
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – La renuncia de Evo Morales como presidente no solo ha sacudido Bolivia, que atraviesa una compleja situación política y social: también se siente con fuerza en otros países. Y no solo de Latinoamérica. MIRA: Elecciones, polémica, protestas y renuncia de Evo Morales: ¿cómo llegó Bolivia hasta este punto? Tras las primeras reacciones,
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As a growing number of states legalize cannabis, health officials are increasingly sounding the alarm for technology that can quickly determine when drivers are stoned. A solution for measuring alcohol intoxication has existed since 1954: the Breathalyzer. No such technology yet exists for cannabis, but several tech startups and university scientists say they’re close to
Continue Reading Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has disqualified a mummers group after at least two members wore blackface paint to the city’s annual Mummers parade on New Year’s Day. CNN affiliate KYW interviewed two of the men in blackface who said they were dressed as Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot Gritty, the group’s theme. “It has nothing to do
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(Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect new photo and height and weight information corrected by New Mexico State Police from their earlier release to the media.) SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — State police issued a Silver Alert Thursday for a missing Sunland Park woman “believed to be in danger if not located.”
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Richard Plepler, the executive who launched “Game of Thrones” and other hit series at HBO, has signed an exclusive production deal with Apple. Under the five-year deal, the former HBO CEO and chairman will produce content for the tech giant’s new streaming service, Apple TV+. That includes original TV series, feature films and documentaries. Plepler
Continue Reading Illinois’ first day of legal recreational cannabis translated to a good chunk of green — nearly $3.2 million in sales. The state’s 37 dispensaries churned through 77,128 transactions to tally more than $3.17 million in first-day sales, said Toi Hutchinson, Governor JB Prtizker’s senior adviser for cannabis control, in a news conference on Thursday. “The
Continue Reading Two of the United Kingdom’s leading financial institutions are being caught up in the political fallout from months of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Protesters in the former British colony attacked some branches of HSBC this week and daubed red paint on a pair of bronze lions outside the bank’s Hong Kong headquarters. HSBC, the
Continue Reading “Surviving R. Kelly” caused a major stir when it premiered on Lifetime a year ago, leading to the singer’s arrest on sexual assault charges less than two months later. “Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning” advances the ball as a protracted update, but in a fashion that — by seeking to represent every storyline
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TUCSON, Arizona — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents for the first time Thursday began turning around migrants seeking asylum in Arizona, sending about 40 of them to a Nogales shelter in Mexico to await immigration court proceedings. The move means asylum-seekers crossing the border through Arizona will no longer be bused to El Paso,
Continue Reading US stocks kicked the new decade off with fresh all-time highs. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite all reached record highs on Thursday. Happy New Year, Wall Street! Equities added onto their 2019 gains, which led the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq to their best performances since 2013. The Dow finished up a whopping
Continue Reading Abstaining from food for 16 to 18 hours a day could be key to treating a variety of health conditions — even if you’ve got to train yourself to push past the hunger. A review of past animal and human studies in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that intermittent fasting can reduce blood
Continue Reading A 4-year-old horse named Golden Birthday was injured during a race at Santa Anita Park on Wednesday and became the first horse to die this year at the famed California racetrack. The animal suffered a “hind pastern fracture with sesamoid involvement” in a possible collision with another horse on the turf, Santa Anita Park officials
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PERRIS, CA (KOVR) — Investigators say about 30 llamas are missing after they were stolen from an exotic farm. On Monday, someone cut the lock and let the animals out at the farm in the Riverside County town of Perris. About 30 of the llamas were taken away,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WESTMINSTER, CO (KCNC) — A Westminster family is thanking a police dispatcher who helped them welcome a new baby right in their living room. Liz and Scott Riddle delivered a little girl named Claire on Dec. 12. “I started having contractions and realized they were irregular so we
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — One Bronx man is paying it forward, using his past hardships to help others move forward, by providing free warm meals. Manhattan’s Loving Arms Soup Kitchen welcomed the public in with open arms this New Year’s Day. The founder is personally connected to
Continue Reading While T.S. Eliot may have measured out his life with coffee spoons, researchers and fans of the poet are hoping to measure his legacy through a newly revealed collection of letters which has been unseen in over 60 years. The set of 1,131 letters from Eliot to his companion Emily Hale was unveiled Thursday at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARRIS COUNTY, TX (KTVT) — The “matriarch” of a southeast Texas family died early Wednesday morning after authorities believe she was hit by “celebratory gunfire” as the clock rang midnight on New Year’s Day. Television station KTRK reports the incident happened just after midnight as Philippa Ashford was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — The first full day of legal recreational marijuana sales was in the book Wednesday night. The exact figures for sales have not been released. But judging by the long lines at dispensaries across the state, there is interest to say the least. Dispensary33 at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WARE, MA (WBZ) — Rob Gronkowski used New Year’s Eve to give a Central Mass teen a super surprise. With the help of Make a Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the former Patriots tight end will send a Ware 17-year-old and his family to the Super Bowl in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HANSON, MA (WBZ) — Hanson firefighters saved two men from an icy pond in a dangerous rescue on New Year’s Eve. The men were about 100 yards off shore in Maquan Pond after their boat tipped over around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. Someone heard them yelling and called for
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The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday a plan to clear the market of most flavors for cartridge-based e-cigarettes in the United States. Under the new policy, vape companies will have 30 days from when the policy publishes in the federal register to stop manufacturing, distributing and selling flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes, other than
Continue Reading Thirty-nine US senators and 168 members of the House of Representatives urged the Supreme Court Thursday to reconsider, if not overrule, the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Read the amicus brief here: cnn.com/2020/01/02/politics/read-lawmakers-filing-to-supreme-court-roe-v-wade/index.html
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, MN (WCCO) — A University of Minnesota student says she’s alive thanks to the help of an Uber driver. Hannah Enge remembers very little of her ride to Fairview Hospital last month. She’s used to having seizures from her epilepsy, but she knew this was different. She
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WHITEFISH (KPAX TV) — A Whitefish husband and wife team own a Kombucha company made with fresh Flathead Valley ingredients. Reporter Maren Siu headed inside their Kombucha kitchen to find out where they’re headed next. Sam and Pete Avery started Dark Side Fermenters about 18 months ago, looking
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