Getty Images/iStockphoto Like recent car sales, sport utility vehicles will headline this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show — big ones, small ones, redesigned ones and brand new models. A redesigned Jeep Wrangler, an all-new small SUV from Volvo and a three-row family hauler from Subaru will be among the highlights […]
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Saudi-led coalition says it will ease Yemen blockade
SANAA, Yemen — The Saudi-led military coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen said Wednesday that it will reopen the war-torn country’s main airport and a vital Red Sea port to humanitarian traffic, easing a blockade imposed after rebels fired a missile toward the Saudi capital earlier this month. The easing is […]
Self-taught rocket scientist plans to launch over this town
The countdown to launch creeps closer and there’s still plenty for self-taught rocket scientist “Mad” Mike Hughes to do: Last-second modifications to his vessel. Pick up his flight suit. Leave enough food for his four cats — just in case anything happens. Hughes is a 61-year-old limo driver who’s spent […]
Roy Moore’s communications director is out
Last Updated Nov 22, 2017 5:31 PM EST John Rogers, the communications director for Roy Moore’s Senate campaign in Alabama, is out, the campaign said in a statement Wednesday. The resignation comes as the campaign fights to deny accusations from multiple women that the Republican Moore pursued or even sexually […]
Zimbabwe’s incoming leader returns home to cheers
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s incoming leader Emmerson Mnangagwa made a triumphant return Wednesday, telling cheering supporters that the country is witnessing “a new and unfolding democracy.” “I appeal to all genuine people of Zimbabwe to come together,” Mnangagwa said. “We are all Zimbabweans … we need peace in our country […]
Is your city ready for electric cars?
How prepared is your hometown for the electric vehicle revolution? Atlanta this week became the latest city to pass an ordinance that requires 20 percent of the spaces in all new commercial and multifamily parking structures be “EV ready.” It also requires new residential homes be wired to easily install […]
Formerly conjoined twins able to go home for the holidays
PHILADELPHIA – Formerly conjoined twins Erin and Abby Delaney were discharged from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) on Monday to return home to North Carolina just in time for Thanksgiving, CBS Philly reports. The twins were conjoined at the head. Their separation surgery was done in June. Since then, they had […]
Ex-gymnastics doc pleads guilty to sex charges, speaks out in court
Last Updated Nov 22, 2017 11:38 AM EST DETROIT — A former sports doctor accused of molesting several girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty to seven charges of criminal sexual conduct on Wednesday. Larry Nassar entered the plea during a hearing in Michigan’s Ingham County […]
Here come the Macy’s balloons, there goes our helium?
On Thanksgiving, enormous balloons of popular characters from cartoons, comics and animated TV shows and movies make their much-anticipated appearance in a stately procession down New York City avenues, part of the traditional Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, now in its 91st year. Helium is what keeps these balloons aloft — […]
Ex-Gymnastics doctor pleads guilty to sex charges, speaks out in court
Last Updated Nov 22, 2017 2:33 PM EST DETROIT — A former sports doctor accused of molesting several girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty to seven charges of criminal sexual conduct on Wednesday. Larry Nassar entered the plea during a hearing in Michigan’s Ingham County […]