NEW YORK (AP) — Jersey Mike’s, the quickly expanding sandwich chain, is being acquired by the private equity firm Blackstone. The transaction is “intended to help enable Jersey Mike’s to accelerate its expansion across and beyond the U.S. market,” the companies said Tuesday, as well as aid ongoing technological investments. Under terms of the agreement,
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By Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Markets shook off any concern Tuesday about rising tensions between Russia and the United States. The Dow ended the day down by 120 points, or 0.28%, after a volatile start. The blue-chip index dropped about 450 points shortly after the opening bell but swiftly rebounded. The S&P 500 and
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CNN By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from school during spring break in March 2014. But he does not remember the night that forever changed his life. “I don’t remember anything,” said Pfaff, from Harbor Beach, Michigan. “I don’t remember
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By Tynisa Senior Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — It was a scary ride for FIU students on Monday when the shuttle bus they were on suddenly caught fire. Footage from social media page Only in Dade showed the FIU bus engulfed in flames. School officials say the fire broke
Continue Reading By Joe Roetz, Aaron Page, Alex Browning Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — A vicious dog attack in Northwest Miami-Dade sent one woman to the hospital. According to officials, a woman was attacked by a neighbor’s Cane Corso near Northwest 14th Avenue and Little River Drive just before 5 p.m.
Continue Reading By Marisa Sardonia Click here for updates on this story BUNCOMBE COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Mark Anthony Smith, a licensed doctor in Jacksonville, Fla., will next appear in a Buncombe County courtroom on Feb. 12. This appearance follows his second court date this morning. The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office charged Smith with multiple crimes
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Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized. It is not immediately clear whether Lumumba’s remains which are a single gold-capped tooth were damaged or stolen. A mausoleum curator told the national press agency that the glass doors had been smashed Monday and
Continue Reading By Web staff Click here for updates on this story DE KALB, Texas (KTBS) — The Bowie County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two suspicious deaths. Deputies were dispatched on Sunday to the 800 block of County Road 4316 where they found Billy English, 86, and Sethiena English, 85, dead in their home. Police say their
Continue Reading Originally Published: 19 NOV 24 07:15 ET Updated: 19 NOV 24 08:48 ET By Christian Edwards and Kostyantyn Gak, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia’s Bryansk region, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, in a major escalation on the 1,000th day of war. The attack comes just two days after the Biden administration gave Kyiv
Continue Reading By Mika Miyashima Click here for updates on this story WAHIAWA, Hawaii (KITV) — Susan Wilkinson is heartbroken after the state euthanized more than 70 birds living at her duck sanctuary in Wahiawa. This, after Hawaii’s first cases of avian flu were confirmed to have killed 20 of her rescued birds. “It’s awful,” said Wilkinson.
Continue Reading By A’ali’i Dukelow Click here for updates on this story MAUI, Hawai’i (KITV) — Family members of Hannah Kobayashi are taking matters into their own hands to find her. Some of them are flying to Los Angeles to search on the ground, including her father. Larie Pidgeon, Kobayashi’s aunt, said her father was too distraught
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — An American silver coin dating back to the 17th century, before the United States was founded, has sold for a record-breaking $2.52 million at auction, eight years after it was discovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam. The threepence coin was struck in 1652 in Boston just weeks after
Continue Reading By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — If you planned on traveling aboard Spirit Airlines for the holidays, which filed for bankruptcy Monday, you shouldn’t worry. Spirit plans to operate business as usual as it begins to work on its $3.1 billion in long-term debt, according to previous regulatory filings. “Guests can continue to book and
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Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia nursing student Laken Riley texted and called her mom as she headed out for a run to see whether she had time to chat — but then didn’t respond to her mother’s calls or increasingly frantic text messages. Riley called her mother at 9:03 a.m. on Feb. 22,
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Originally Published: 18 NOV 24 18:10 ET Updated: 19 NOV 24 08:07 ET By Kate Sullivan and Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday he has selected former congressman and recent Fox Business co-host Sean Duffy to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Transportation. Duffy served in the US House
Continue Reading Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police have arrested five officers accused of plotting a coup that included plans to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections and kill then-President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Police say the coup plotters also planned to kill Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre
Continue Reading Associated Press HENNIKER, N.H. (AP) — When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few “nasty experiences” while trying to navigate at night. The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft systems while getting his doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then,
Continue Reading Originally Published: 16 NOV 24 15:00 ET By Erika Tulfo, CNN (CNN) — A massive, multi-story building in the Washington, DC, neighborhood of Georgetown welcomed back a former occupant this month that had been gone for over a decade. In a move that’s perhaps more symbolic than business-minded, Barnes & Noble, America’s largest retail bookseller, has
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — Ucrania disparó misiles ATACMS de fabricación estadounidense contra la región rusa de Bryansk, informó el Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia, en una escalada importante en el milésimo día de guerra. El ataque se produce solo dos días después de que la administración Biden diera luz verde a Kyiv para utilizar las armas
Continue Reading Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Associated Press had rare access to a night patrol by Senegal’s navy as it scanned the sea for a growing number of vulnerable boats making the risky journey towards Europe. More and more West Africans are trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands on what has become one of
Continue Reading By Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski announced Monday, in dramatic fashion, that they went to Mar-a-Lago last week for a fence-mending meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. Then the pair spent the rest of the day dealing with the uncomfortable blowback. In private conversations, Scarborough argued
Continue Reading By A.J. Bayatpour Click here for updates on this story WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A Waukesha County judge sentenced a Milwaukee man to 35 years in prison Monday for causing a crash last December that killed two of his sons. Paul Vinson, 30, tearfully apologized to the court during his sentencing hearing. Vinson reached an
Continue Reading By Joseph Buczek Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — With the third anniversary of the Oxford High School shooting approaching, the parents of the victims are demanding a state-led independent investigation so that data can be collected and used to create solutions. On Monday, the families of the four students
Continue Reading AP Tennis Writer MALAGA, Spain (AP) — Roger Federer says Rafael Nadal made him enjoy tennis even more during a rivalry that spanned 40 matches over 15 years. Federer wrote a note to Nadal on social media Tuesday, hours before Nadal’s Spain was scheduled to face the Netherlands at the Davis Cup Final 8 in
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX aborted a highly anticipated booster catch attempt Tuesday during the sixth test of Starship — the most powerful rocket ever built — just weeks after acing the stunning feat on the first try. But the mission went on to soar through new milestones during a
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Billy Corgan is hoping to win something his ex-girlfriend Courtney Love is auctioning. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman recently posted a video about a hard copy of the “Violet” lyrics, which Love is auctioning to benefit the Ellis Park Wildlife Sanctuary. “Now, it’s made a lot of press this
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — El presidente de Paraguay, Santiago Peña, recibió el alta hospitalaria este martes luego de haber ingresado la noche del lunes al Hospital Samaritano Botafogo, en Río de Janeiro, debido a un malestar que presentó mientras participaba en la cumbre del G20, informó la presidencia de su país. “Tras realizarse los
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — We kick off Tuesday on the chilly side but a warming trend will also begin today with temperatures climbing day by day the rest of the week. Tuesday we will see temperature highs in the low 60s. El Paso is expected to reach 62, Las Cruces 60. We will enter
Continue Reading Associated Press From foster grandparents who volunteer at an early child care center to citizen scientists who collect water quality data in remote locations, nonprofit volunteers have come back after the pandemic. A new survey released Tuesday from the U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps shows 28.3% or 75.8 million people in the U.S. volunteered with
Continue Reading AP Business Writer Former President Bill Clinton talks about how philanthropy has allowed him to continue making changes in the world to help others in his new book, “Citizen: My Life After the White House,” published Tuesday by Knopf. He also recounts his experiences from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and
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