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
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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,
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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
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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
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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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By Holly Yan, CNN After Fred Woods and two accomplices kidnapped dozens of California children from a school bus in 1976 and trapped them underground, they were sentenced to up to 27 life sentences without the possibility of parole. Fast forward 46 years, and Woods is now on the brink of getting paroled. Depending on
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, CNN Questions always arise when tragedy strikes. So when a 14-year-old boy fell to his death on March 24 on an amusement park ride in Orlando, Florida, there were questions about who should be held responsible and how the incident happened in the first place. Tyre Sampson fell from the Orlando FreeFall
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By Darren Lewis, Zayn Nabbi and Lizete Dos Santos Like many footballers with dual nationality, Ajax’s star striker Sébastien Haller had a choice to make. Born in a southern Parisian suburb, to a French father and Ivorian mother, Haller had represented France during the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in 2011. But in November 2020, ahead
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding payment in rubles for natural gas — or else. Germany is talking about gas rationing in case of a cutoff. Prices for the fuel used to heat homes, generate electricity and power industry are through the roof. While Putin has said importers of Russian gas
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — North Carolina, Duke and Kansas are bona fide basketball bluebloods, the best of the best in the men’s college game. UCLA and Kentucky are no-doubters, too. But when the conversation turns to Villanova, which has the same number of championships as Kansas, a pleasant water-cooler
Continue Reading By John Blake, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin often evokes the Soviet Union’s epic defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II to justify his country’s invasion of Ukraine. Yet Putin is committing some of the same blunders that doomed Germany’s 1941 invasion of the USSR — while using “Hitler-like tricks and tactics” to justify
Continue Reading 9-year-old with rare disorder headed to Minneapolis to watch UConn play in Final Four.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Alaska Airlines announced that it has launched new, gender-neutral uniform guidelines for flight attendants. “We have updated our uniform guidelines, effective today, to provide more freedom and flexibility in individual and gender expression,” the airline said in a statement on Monday. The airline said it will also collaborate with Seattle designer
Continue Reading By JACK MAGRUDER Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Isac Lundestrom had two goals and an assist, Anthony Stolarz made 22 saves for his third shutout of the season and the Anaheim Ducks snapped an 11-game losing streak with a 5-0 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. Stolarz made his first start since March 12 after
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — CJ McCollum scored 32 points, Brandon Ingram added 29 against his former team and the New Orleans Pelicans spoiled Anthony Davis’ return from injury with another fourth-quarter rally in a 114-111 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. Jonas Valanciunas had 17 points and 12 rebounds
Continue Reading EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid’s second goal of the game 1:11 into overtime lifted the Edmonton Oilers to a 6-5 win over the St. Louis Blues. Zach Hyman also scored two goals, Evander Kane had a goal and two assists, Darnell Nurse had a goal and an assist, and Mike Smith made 31 saves
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Annie Rose, a therapy dog from Ohio, has been named the 2022 Cadbury Bunny. The winning canine is an English Doodle — a cross between a poodle and an English cream golden retriever — from Cincinnati, according to a statement from Cadbury. And she loves “doing therapy work to make nursing
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Stacker compiled a list of the most common jobs in Texas from 150 years ago using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Continue Reading By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Jack Eichel scored twice in his first multigoal game since being traded to Vegas, Logan Thompson made 26 saves and the Golden Knights beat the Seattle Kraken 5-2. The Golden Knights, the previous NHL expansion team, swept the season series against the newest expansion team. Vegas
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN Six weeks ago, Hungary’s election campaign looked and sounded very different. The stakes were already high. Viktor Orban, the longest-serving national leader in the European Union, was seeking to extend his authoritarian premiership deep into its second decade. His rival, leading a united front of opposition parties, bluntly denounced Orban’s crusade
Continue Reading Polls and interviews show many Russians now accept the Kremlin’s assertion that their country is under siege from the West, says New York Times Moscow reporter Ivan Nechepurenko, “Because if you do not accept it, you have to act.”
Continue Reading By Liam Reilly and Christina Maxouris, CNN Dominic Taddeo — a Rochester, New York, mobster who fatally shot three people and attempted to kill two others — escaped federal custody this week, less than a year before he was set to be released. Taddeo, 64, was transferred in February from a medium-security prison in Sumter
Continue Reading By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A flurry of summits this week across Dubai all focused in one way or another on climate change, or at least acknowledgement that the global energy transition is needed to keep temperatures from rising. Glaring discrepancies on how to achieve this, however, lie in
Continue Reading By Maya Brown, CNN The NAACP is representing a majority-Black town in Tennessee and helped it file a lawsuit on Friday alleging that the state comptroller exceeded his authority and racially discriminated against the town in its financial dealings. Mason Mayor Emmit Gooden, the Board of Aldermen and the town are accusing Jason Mumpower, Tennessee’s
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