By Jay Croft, CNN New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy pointedly played a practical joke Friday with a fake April Fools’ Day proclamation of a new state bird: the Middle Finger. Murphy wrote a mock executive order, complete with multiple fancy-pants uses of “whereas,” that stated, “It is important for State symbols to reflect New Jersey’s
Continue Reading It’s April Fools’ Day! The one day devoted to jokes and pranks. While this day may seem silly, a clinical psychologist says it can also be good for your health!
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The stories of sleeping pills gone wrong are legendary. Ask any flight attendant, and you’ll hear amusing tales of people sleepwalking, taking off their clothes or even standing up and peeing into the neighboring airline seat. The use of sleeping pills can also be deadly. Up to a half a million
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Lawyers for a Texas woman who’s denied she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter are hopeful new evidence will stop her execution. Melissa Lucio is set to receive a lethal injection April 27 for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Her lawyers say Lucio’s history of
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool kept the heat on Manchester City in the Premier League title race by beating relegation-threatened Watford 2-0 thanks to Diogo Jota’s 20th goal of the season in all competitions and Fabinho’s late penalty. Jota darted across the face of the six-yard box and glanced in a header from a right-wing
Continue Reading By The Associated Press U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev says he expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery. The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he’s been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months. The timeline suggests Medvedev likely will miss the next
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CNN By Zachary Cohen, Jamie Gangel, Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Paula Reid, CNN Just days before the US Capitol riot, White House officials started providing fewer details about then-President Donald Trump‘s calls and visits, the person in charge of compiling those activities for the official record told the House select committee investigating January 6,
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Martin Terrier has become the joint top scorer in the French league as Rennes salvaged a 1-1 draw at Nice to move into second place. Nice broke the deadlock with Youcef Atal’s outrageous cross from the outside of the boot that Andy Delort headed into the bottom corner in the 67th minute.
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business When a trade jumps by 250% over the course of days, investors typically pop bottles of champagne. Between Friday, March 4 and Tuesday March 8, nickel futures did just that — soaring on the London Metal Exchange from about $29,000 to $100,000 per ton. But the champagne remains corked, investors
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The ban on asylum-seekers at the U.S-Mexico border on public health grounds was imposed by one president who wanted to restrict immigration entirely. It’ll soon be ended by another president under increasing pressure from his own party to welcome immigrants. With the end of
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La mayoría de la gente quiere deshacerse de la suciedad, pero esta muestra especial de polvo lunar está fuera de este mundo. Las partículas de polvo lunar recolectadas por Neil Armstrong en 1969 durante la misión Apolo 11 se subastarán este mes. Bonhams, la empresa de subastas a cargo de la
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s the culmination of the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament, with four “March Madness” teams remaining. The “Final Four” takes place in New Orleans and no matter who wins, the event will inspire tears of joy and pain. When are the games? The games will take place Saturday evening in
Continue Reading NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley predicts Duke will make the final in a ‘Cinderella story’ for their retiring Coach K. But he notes, “The beauty of March Madness is, you just have to be the best that day.”
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Dominic Taddeo, un mafioso de Rochester, Nueva York, que disparó fatalmente a tres personas e intentó matar a otras dos, escapó de la custodia federal esta semana, menos de un año antes de que fuera liberado. Taddeo, de 64 años, fue trasladado en febrero de una prisión de seguridad media en
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BEIJING (AP) — U.S. accident investigators have arrived in China to help authorities look for clues into what caused last month’s crash of a Boeing jetliner with 132 people aboard. The Civil Aviation Administration of China said the seven-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board will participate in the investigation of the crash of
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By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A spike in violence during the COVID-19 pandemic has Democrats eager to show they’re tough on crime ahead of this year’s midterm elections. But the party is struggling to find a common message with progressives pushing for police reform and moderates focusing on rising crime
Continue Reading Story by Reuters After more than 40 years of sour relations and months of struggle to restore a nuclear deal, the United States and Iran are now set to meet on the soccer field at this year’s World Cup, having landed together in Group B in Friday’s draw. The Iran and U.S. coaches sidestepped the
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN After a delay of more than two months caused by an unpredictable pandemic, the Grammy Awards return Sunday with a slew of potential historical moments. For the first time, the 64th annual ceremony will be held in Las Vegas — away from its traditional home in Los Angeles. This year’s event,
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — El uso de metformina en hombres durante un período de tres meses antes de concebir un hijo se relacionó con un riesgo 40% mayor de defectos de nacimiento en sus descendientes, según un estudio publicado en la revista Annals of Internal Medicine. La metformina es un fármaco de primera línea para
Continue Reading By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s potato growers had such a bumper crop that they’ve been helping out larger potato states out West. The state of Maine shipped potatoes by train for the first time in four decades this winter thanks to a strong harvest in Maine and heat and dry
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Wander around a supermarket and you’ll bump into all sorts of characters: Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, Cap’n Crunch and Buzz Bee in the cereal section. Mr. Clean, Brawny Man and the Charmin Bear among the household items. A few aisles later, chances are you’ll spot Betty Crocker, Kool-Aid Man,
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Jen Psaki, planea dejar la administración de Biden en las próximas semanas y dirigirse a MSNBC, dijeron este viernes a CNN dos personas familiarizadas con el asunto. Psaki no ha firmado oficialmente un contrato con la red progresiva de noticias por cable, pero
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — En muchos aspectos, Kevin “Knox” Johnson III es como la mayoría de los niños de 8 años. Disfruta construyendo pistas para carreras de canicas. Está obsesionado con los chistes de toc-toc. En la escuela, destaca en matemáticas y en el aprendizaje de idiomas. También le gusta cantar en los musicales y
Continue Reading By Megan Marples Most people want to get rid of dirt, but this special sample of lunar dust is out of this world. Particles of lunar dust collected by Neil Armstrong in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission are up for auction this month. Bonhams, the auction company in charge of the sale, estimated the
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas appears unlikely to join other states this year in banning transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s school sports. That’s partly because conservative state lawmakers want the ban to apply to elementary school students. The Republican-controlled Legislature approved a proposed ban early Saturday
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By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist As March came to an end, so, too, did Hector. At least until warmer, more favorable weather returns. Nearly every afternoon from September to March, a thunderstorm develops over the Tiwi Islands in northern Australia. In fact, it happens so regularly, the Bureau of Meteorology actually refers to it by
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Using data from the National Association of Realtors’ 2021 Profile of Home Staging report, ZeroDown compiled a list of statistics on what real estate agents think about home staging.
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To track the e-commerce trend, Smartlook pulled data from GlobalWebIndex to see the countries where Amazon is not the most popular platform used.
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Real estate platform ZeroDown compiled a list of the best performing REIT stocks in June using data from IEX Cloud.
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Stacker analyzed Southern Poverty Law Center research and ranked states according to which have the most Confederate memorials, including statues, parks, schools, streets, highways, or practically any structure which, in one way or another, honors a Confederate figure or the whole coalition of seceded states.
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