Happy Valentine’s Day! We are under an ABC-7 First Alert for windy conditions, cooler temperatures, and increased rain chances for the next several days. Valentine’s Day will be another cool and windy day with gusts around 40+ mph. Temperatures will reach the upper 50s this afternoon.
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By Tami Luhby, CNN Like many Americans, the federal government is shelling out a lot more money to cover interest payments on its debt after a series of Federal Reserve rate hikes over the past year. The Treasury Department paid a record $213 billion in interest payments on the national debt in the last quarter
Continue Reading By CNN staff Former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley announced Tuesday in a video that she will run for president in 2024. This story is breaking and will be updated. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the “robot” that was churning out writing assignments. The robot was the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, which can generate everything from essays
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By Kaitlan Collins and Kristen Holmes, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence is expected to fight a recent subpoena from the special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump’s post-2020 election activities based on the grounds that he was president of the Senate at the time and therefore shielded from the order, sources familiar with the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — If you want to spoil someone special today for Valentine’s Day, it’s almost impossible to go wrong with a box of chocolates. Chocolat’ in El Paso is where bakers and chocolate makers have been hard at work. The connection between chocolate and Valentine’s Day is a special one. Chocolat’ has many
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer It will be a big week in the Big East. The conference’s top four teams are within 1 1/2 games of each other with three weeks left in the regular season and two big games could help spread things out a bit. The first is Tuesday, when No. 18
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By Holly Yan, CNN The massacre that ripped apart 17 families in Parkland, Florida, five years ago on Valentine’s Day ignited a wave of student-led protests and bipartisan legislation to combat the plague of school shootings devastating the country. The gunman, Nikolas Cruz, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Continue Reading By MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN The leading explanation among US intelligence officials is that three objects shot down over North America last weekend were balloons being flown for benign purposes, the White House said Tuesday, the furthest the administration has gone in describing the as-yet-unidentified crafts. The three mystery aerial devices have consumed
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Stacker compiled a list of 20 of the biggest insects in the world using a variety of news, scientific, and other sources.
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Starting a business can require some unexpected investments. Growthink compiled a list of expenses that may take budding entrepreneurs by surprise.
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Compiling research from the World Bank and other economic news, altLINE examined the factors that separate survival during COVID-19 from survival during a traditional recession.
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With big races just around the corner, Stacker ranked the 25 richest race car drivers based on estimated net worth data from Celebrity Net Worth.
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Masterworks spotlighted five owners behind the world’s most valuable art collections, using general estimates from Forbes and the New York Times.
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MoneyGeek analyzed the average cost of dinner and a movie for two in 50 major cities across the country.
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Stacker looked at Metacritic‘s film awards and nominations scorecard for 2022 films and cross-referenced it with Oscar nominations to determine which of the nominees are most likely to win 12 major categories.
Continue Reading By Kate Golembiewski, CNN Most people learn about “the birds and the bees” when they’re young, but sex in the animal kingdom is not for the faint of heart. For every peacock fanning out its dazzling feathers to attract a peahen, there’s another creature doing something strange, or downright deadly, in the name of passing
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, Caroll Alvarado, Amanda Watts, Michelle Watson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN The gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and left five others in critical condition may have had plans to target two schools in New Jersey, police there said. Anthony Dwayne McRae, 43 — who had no known ties to the
Continue Reading A mass shooting at Michigan State University left three people dead and five others critically wounded. CNN correspondent Adrienne Broaddus has more.
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe and Amy Simonson, CNN Almost three months after Colorado Springs nightclub Club Q was the site of a deadly mass shooting, the venue has announced plans to reopen this year and restore its status as a beloved gathering place for LGBTQ residents. “Our goal and intention has always been to return Club
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EL PASO, Texas – The bi-district round of the girls high school basketball playoffs began on Monday. A few El Paso teams punched their ticket to the area round. The scores from Monday are below: CLASS 6A BI-DISTRICT ROUND Odessa 44 Franklin 89 San Angelo Central 52 Pebble Hills 53 El Dorado 39 Frenship 64
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – About 158 miles southeast of El Paso is the tiny town of Valentine, Texas. Only 150 people live in the town that’s just up Highway 90 from Marfa. This Saturday they’re promising an authentic party celebrating the western lifestyle. It’s the 11th annual Valentine’s in Valentine, Texas event, happening this
Continue Reading By Devon M. Sayers and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Attorneys for Brett Favre have again filed a motion asking a judge to dismiss the former NFL quarterback from a lawsuit filed by the state of Mississippi seeking to recoup millions of dollars distributed as part of what the state calls a statewide welfare fraud scheme. “It
Continue Reading By Randi Kaye, Alta Spells and Steve Almasy, CNN Jurors in the murder trial of disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh heard Monday about autopsy evidence on a day the court also publicly released body camera videos from law enforcement officers who arrived the night his wife and son were killed in June 2021. The
Continue Reading LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — De’vion Harmon scored 25 points and Kevin Obanor added 19 as Texas Tech defeated its second ranked opponent in three days, upending No. 6 Texas 74-67 on Monday night. Fardaws Aimaq had a season-high 12 points for the Red Raiders, who led by 13 in the second half before fending off
Continue Reading BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Kolby Granger had 29 points in Texas Southern’s 79-68 victory over Southern on Monday night. Granger also had five rebounds for the Tigers (9-17, 5-8 Southwestern Athletic Conference). PJ Henry scored 19 points and added five assists. John Walker III had 10 points and six rebounds. Bryson Etienne finished with
Continue Reading GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — Carte’Are Gordon had 18 points to help Grambling fend off Prairie View A&M 68-64 on Monday night. Gordon added eight rebounds for the Tigers (17-8, 10-3 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Shawndarius Cowart had 12 points and Tra’Michael Moton scored 10. The Panthers (9-17, 5-8) were led by Yahuza Rasas with 25 points
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Kyrie Irving was trying to get Luka Doncic a shot. The All-Star guard for the Dallas Mavericks was trying to do the same for his new teammate making his home debut. Neither one of them got a shot off in the closing seconds, and the Mavs’
Continue Reading WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor coach Scott Drew couldn’t even wait to get to the podium for his postgame session with reporters Monday night before expressing his excitement. “It’s a good night for the Baylor Bears,” Drew said. LJ Cryer helped make sure of that, scoring 26 points to lead ninth-ranked Baylor to a 79-65
Continue Reading SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Senate on Monday approved a proposed ban on the local disposal of spent nuclear fuel, unless the state provides its consent first. The bill from Democratic state Sen. Jeff Steinborn, of Las Cruces, could impact a proposed multibillion-dollar facility in southeastern New Mexico that is expected to
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