President Donald Trump is in the midst of his best week of the year and one of the best weeks of his entire presidency. Consider just how much has gone right for him since Monday: 1) The Iowa caucuses on Monday were an absolute debacle, failing to report ANY results until Tuesday afternoon and not
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How do you pronounce “Van Gogh“? You’re probably saying it wrong, according to insiders at the launch of an interactive exhibition on the artist in London. The “Meet Vincent van Gogh” experience on London’s South Bank promises “breathtaking projections, interactive installations, state-of-the-art set-work and a compelling narrative” as it transports the viewer through the Dutch
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Click here for updates on this story Putnam County, GA (WGCL) — A former Eatonton police officer is behind bars facing murder charges in connection to his wife’s death. According to a press release from the Putnam County Sheriff’s office, former officer Michael Perrault was arrested for murder on Wednesday night after he reportedly told
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Tesla isn’t just proving the haters wrong. Elon Musk’s electric car maker appears to be defying the laws of physics. Tesla has dazzled Wall Street by more than quadrupling its stock price since June. The meteoric rise, driven by Tesla’s growing bottom line, Model 3 production in China and the unraveling of short bets, speaks
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Two coronavirus patients in suburban Chicago were discharged Thursday night from a hospital and are in isolation at their home, AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center spokesman Timothy Nelson told CNN. THE LATEST ON THE CORONAVIRUS The husband and wife, both in their 60s, returned home under guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control
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To watch President Donald Trump’s victory lap Thursday at the White House, you would think that every Republican elected official in the country had fully surrendered to the cult of personality that is the modern-day version of the GOP. The assembled members of Congress hung on Trump’s every word — loudly applauding when he attacked
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House on Friday passed a $20 billion-plus aid package for Puerto Rico, where a swarm of earthquakes last month set back the island territory’s slow, troubled recovery from the hurricane devastation of 2017. The legislation, approved by a mostly party-line 237-161 vote, would provide more than $5 billion in emergency
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PRAIRIE GROVE, AR (KFSM) — A Prarie Grove High School student is working with doctors to produce a new kind of surgical video. Maddi Garrett may seem like your average high school junior, but she’s also a rising star in the field of virtual reality technology. “VR so
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(CNN Español) — Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, quien fue líder del cártel de Cali, solicitó su liberación anticipada de una cárcel en Estados Unidos por su deteriorado estado de salud. Este miércoles, un juez en Miami presidió la primera audiencia para revisar la moción que fue presentada por el equipo legal de Rodríguez Orejuela en octubre
Continue Reading The US economy continues to help prop up the rest of the globe. Jobs growth is strong. Wages are rising. The housing market is robust. And the services sector is booming. So why are the stocks of small American companies that do most of their business domestically lagging blue-chip titans in the Dow and S&P
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Shannen Doherty and I graduated high school the same year, even though hers was the fictional West Beverly High and mine was in New York. We’ve never met, but she’s someone I greatly admire and feels like a friend. So I found myself in tears on Tuesday when I read Doherty’s breast cancer had returned
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Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart is launching a self-defense initiative after she says she was assaulted on a flight to Utah last summer. “I had been asleep and all of a sudden I woke up because I felt someone’s hand rubbing in between my legs on my inner thigh,” Smart told Gayle King of “CBS This
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN Business) — La Fundación Bill y Melinda Gates está aumentando dramáticamente la cantidad que está gastando para combatir el coronavirus, prometiendo hasta US$ 100 millones para ayudar a contener el brote. La fundación dijo en un comunicado este miércoles que sus fondos se utilizarían para ayudar a encontrar una vacuna contra el
Continue Reading A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by congressional Democrats alleging President Donald Trump violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution by refusing to allow lawmakers to review and approve his financial interests. The ruling is a major triumph for the President, who’s intensely sought to keep his business affairs in private, just
Continue Reading “Locke & Key” clearly wants to tap into the “Stranger Things” audience, turning the bestselling comic book about kids and magical keys into a Netflix series. But the show has a too-familiar feel to it — down to all the youthful angst — making the first season a door that isn’t worth entering. The series
Continue Reading Twenty years after launching JetBlue from an office building in Queens, New York, its founder has filed plans to launch a new airline with flights starting by year’s end. Breeze Airways, which has applied for an airline operating certificate with the US Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, is actually founder David Neeleman’s
Continue Reading Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam has resigned after acknowledging that two spying scandals last year had “disturbed” the Swiss bank. The board of directors unanimously accepted Thiam’s resignation at a meeting on Thursday, appointing Credit Suisse veteran Thomas Gottstein as the new CEO, the Swiss investment bank said in a statement Friday. Last year, Credit
Continue Reading Ford announced Friday it will replace the president of its auto unit, three days after it announced a disappointing earnings outlook and financial results, sinking its stock. The company replaced Joe Hinrichs, a 19-year Ford veteran who previously worked at General Motors. Jim Farley will assume the role of chief operating officer of the company,
Continue Reading Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign added citations and links to its policy proposals and accompanying fact sheets after a news report found that it had lifted passages from media outlets and nonprofits. The Intercept on Thursday reported that Bloomberg’s campaign had used exact language from news articles, research papers and opinion pieces for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Omaha, NE (WOWT) — Saddle Creek Breakfast Club closed Saturday, leaving a note on the door — and 15 employees without a paycheck. It also left a hole in the community, as the comments pouring onto Facebook posts about the closure continue to show. “It is, it’s hard,”
Continue Reading The US economy added 225,000 jobs in January, as the surprisingly strong pace of hiring continues. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate edged slightly higher to 3.6%, as more people decided to look for jobs. Job growth in the construction, health care, transportation and warehousing industries was particularly strong in January, according to the US Bureau of
Continue Reading With a five-month impeachment saga behind them, White House aides are bracing for the prospect of another staff shake-up in the West Wing as President Donald Trump looks to enter a new chapter of his presidency. Trump effectively lost confidence in his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, months ago, but was convinced not to
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN) — La información de los medios chinos sobre la muerte del médico denunciante del coronavirus Li Wenliang causó confusión y enojo el jueves por la noche, cuando Li fue declarado muerto, luego que continuaba vivo y, finalmente, muerto nuevamente. Dolor, ira y reclamos de libertad en China después de la muerte del
Continue Reading Tokio (CNN) — Se suponía que iban a ser las vacaciones de su vida. En cambio, la pareja estadounidense Kent y Rebecca Frasure quedó en cuarentena en un crucero, mirando ambulancias alineadas en tierra listas para recibir el creciente número de pasajeros diagnosticados con un virus mortal. El viernes por la mañana, Rebecca, de 35
Continue Reading Last month, a wireless store in New York City taped a paper sign outside its door that read: “In celebration of the second day of the Lunar New Year, any customer can get a mask for free today.” The offer was meant to attract shoppers to the storefront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn — one of
Continue Reading Get ready to shed some tears, thanks to Justin Bieber. The music superstar has dropped his new single “Intentions”along with a music video. The song features rapper Quavo from Migos and is the latest off of Bieber’s forthcoming “Changes” album, which is scheduled to be released on February 14. While the lyrics to “Intentions” mark
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TIGARD, OR (KPTV) — A man was saved from a dumpster in Tigard early Monday morning just as hypothermia was setting in, according to officials. Police say a woman was walking to the transit center when she heard someone asking for help behind Oregon Rifle Works. Officers responded
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Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen won’t be buying the Mets, dashing the hopes of fans who thought they would get a new owner with deep pockets to spend on players. Cohen and the Wilpon family, the current owners, had worked out a tentative deal in December under which Cohen reportedly would have paid $2.6 billion
Continue Reading Canada Goose, maker of high end parkas, warned Friday that its 2020 sales and earnings would be hurt by the coronavirus outbreak in China. Shares of Canada Goose plunged nearly 5% on the news. “The health crisis has resulted in a sharp decline in customer traffic and purchasing activity,” Canada Goose said in its earnings
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GENESEE COUNTY, MI (WJRT) — A mid-Michigan elementary school teacher is facing two charges after Michigan State Police say he had child pornography on his computer. Police arrested 44-year-old Kevin Patrick Quarles, who is an elementary school teacher at the International Academy of Saginaw, earlier this week. He
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