By Anna Chernova and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of “remotely disabling” his Cybertruck, which had been sent to the frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kadyrov claimed Thursday that the vehicle, which he said had been outfitted with a machine gun and was “performing well
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Associated Press BRANDON, Mississippi (AP) — The beginning of high school football season has seen a string of deaths. Players are most at risk in August of suffering heat-related illnesses due to searing temperatures and high humidity. Those conditions have worsened in recent decades due to climate change. Fifty-eight players have died from exertional heat
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Gonzalo Zegarra (CNN Español) — Activistas del voto latino en Estados Unidos reportaron un considerable aumento de los electores que se han registrado para participar en las elecciones de noviembre, una tendencia que acentúa la importancia de este sector demográfico para las campañas de la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris y el exmandatario Donald Trump. La organización
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Associated Press BRANDON, Mississippi (AP) — The beginning of high school football season has seen a string of deaths. Players are most at risk in the late summer months of August and September of suffering heat-related illnesses due to searing temperatures and high humidity. Those conditions have worsened in recent decades due to climate change.
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By Kathleen Ditton, Joe Roetz, Rubén Rosario Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — A 20-year-old man and his co-conspirator have been charged with conspiracy to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency, and federal authorities said the arrests are connected to an FBI raid of a mansion in Miami.
Continue Reading By Brandon Beyer, Michael Hudak, Kevin Boulandier Click here for updates on this story PEMBROKE PINES, Florida (WSVN) — Loved ones have been left devastated after a 16-year-old boy died in an apparent lightning strike. Pembroke Pines Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the grassy area along the 600 block of Southwest 67th Avenue
Continue Reading By Web staff Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — There have been multiple reports of people stealing and defacing political yard signs in an Asheville community. Two homeowners in Asheville’s Kenilworth neighborhood had their “Caleb Rudow for Congress” signs sprayed over with the Star of David. One Harris-Walz sign
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Self-service kiosks at McDonald’s and other fast-food chains have loomed as job killers since they were first rolled out 25 years ago. But nobody predicted what actually happened. In one of the earliest mentions of kiosks in fast-food settings in 1999, now-defunct trade industry publication Business Information
Continue Reading Associated Press ROME (AP) — The mother of the woman whose company was linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria says her daughter has received threats and been advised by the Hungarian secret services not to talk to media. Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono has not appeared publicly since the deadly simultaneous attack that
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By Jamie Barton, CNN (CNN) — The first week of the new-look Champions League came to an end on Thursday, with Barcelona and Arsenal both in action. But neither of Thursday’s star clubs were able to start with a win, one falling to a disappointing loss and the other requiring goalkeeping heroics to take home
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Already an NBA MVP and an Olympic gold medalist, All-Star center Joel Embiid now has until the end of the decade to try to win his first NBA championship with the Philadelphia 76ers. With another maximum contract secured, Embiid wants to chase that title in Philly — and remain
Continue Reading AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro spends most of his days writing the fifth and final volume of his Lyndon Johnson series, more than a decade in the making and still without a scheduled release date. But in recent weeks, he has been looking back 50 years, to the biography which made
Continue Reading AP Medical Writer The first big update to U.S. methadone regulations in 20 years is poised to expand access to the life-saving drug starting next month, but experts say the addiction treatment changes could fall flat if state governments and methadone clinics fail to act. For decades, strict rules required most methadone patients to line
Continue Reading By Web staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — A Shreveport woman and her mother were arrested after allegedly kicking in the door of an apartment and assaulting the resident during a home invasion on Saturday. Police responded to the call, identifying at least two suspects involved in the incident,
Continue Reading By Kristen Consillio Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — In her short life, Ava Agbayani was in and out of Kapiolani hospital after being born premature alongside her twin, Kailee. Her father Tyson said he owes the twins lives to their nurses. “They’re the whole reason they came home,” he said.
Continue Reading By Jeremiah Estrada Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — The Coast Guard rescued three men off the coast of Honolulu from their sinking fishing boat on Thursday. The Coast Guard helped three men after water entered their fishing boat nine miles off from Honolulu Harbor. Their boat started to sink and
Continue Reading AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother. Scribner announced Friday that the Indian author and activist’s “Mother Mary Comes to Me” will be released in September 2025. Roy, best known for her Booker-winning novel
Continue Reading By Jenna Wells Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A 19-year-old Milwaukee man is going to prison after a reckless crash that killed a pregnant woman earlier this year. Akol Riak will spend 14 years in prison for killing 32-year-old Monique Stewart and her unborn baby in a car crash. She
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft as the company searches for energy sources to fuel its AI ambitions. Constellation Energy announced Friday that its Unit 1 reactor, which closed five
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By Freya Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Applying makeup is a powerful ritual, deeply ingrained into our souls. Many little girls (or boys) have a story about the first time they dared to swipe their mother’s red lipstick across their lips or brush blue eyeshadow onto their eyelids. In Ancient Egypt, makeup was believed to appeal
Continue Reading By Sara Powers Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — Cedar Point announced Thursday that it will open the “tallest, fastest and longest” tilt roller coaster in North America next year. The new coaster, the Siren’s Curse is 160 feet tall, will have a top speed of 58 mph, 13 weightless
Continue Reading By Lauren Winfrey Click here for updates on this story DETROIT, Michigan (WWJ) — Detroit Public Schools Community District is combating chronic absenteeism by helping students clean their clothes. It’s a new program that calls for the installation of washers and dryers in more than 100 schools across the district by the end of 2024.
Continue Reading MAZAN, France (AP) — The mayor of a French town making headlines for the trial of dozens of men accused of rapes that occurred there for almost a decade has apologized for comments that appeared to downplay the case. Louis Bonnet, the mayor of Mazan in southern France, said he understands his remarks to the
Continue Reading Associated Press Some churches are launching new Christian schools on their campuses, seeking to give parents more education options that align with religious values. State school voucher programs are not the driving reason, but they are making the start-up process easier, pastors and Christian education experts say. In Florida, Ohio and other states, there is
Continue Reading By Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — The legal team representing the alleged victims of the former owner of Harrods, Mohamed Al Fayed, say the late billionaire was a “monster” whose crimes were “enabled” by the high-end department store. At least 37 women have accused Al-Fayed, who died in 2023 aged 94, of sexually assaulting them,
Continue Reading Associated Press Florida pastor Melvin Adams knows a few hours of church programming every week is no match for the more than 30 hours children spend at secular schools, absorbing lessons that he says run counter to their family’s Christian beliefs. Like other theologically conservative pastors in Florida and beyond, he decided his Nazarene church
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Can you tell what ingredients went into your lunch today? Whether or not you can easily identify the contents of your meal may affect your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to new research. Packaged foods, soda, chips, hot dogs, chicken nuggets and ice cream all fall under
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new tourist stop in Washington is offering visitors the next best thing to being in the Oval Office. It’s a life-sized replica decorated just like President Joe Biden’s Oval Office, right down to the weathered family Bible on a side table. Unlike the real Oval Office, tourists can go
Continue Reading By Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the hope that it could be used in the future as a blueprint to bring humanity back from extinction. The crystal, which was developed by a team of researchers at the
Continue Reading Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China should do more to battle the illegal online gambling and scam call centers run by Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asian countries often using forced labor, a Philippine senator who led an investigation into the centers said Friday. The U.N. human rights office has said that such gangs
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