Search

In Dallas suburbs, Friday Night Lights make way for cricket 12/16/2022 01:27am • FRISCO, Texas (AP) ��� With the ornate spires of the Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple anchoring the skyline behind them, a cricket batsman and bowler eyed each other across a brown grass field. Amid gusty winds, players waiting to bat watched intently from nearby bleachers. No, this is not a scene in Ind Review: ���Avatar: The Way of Water��� is a big screen blast 12/16/2022 01:15am • It is impossible to talk about ���Avatar: The Way of Water��� without sounding hyperbolic. But James Cameron���s sequel is a truly dazzling cinematic experience that will have you floating on a blockbuster high. No matter if you���ve spent a second of your life in the past 13 years thinking about How Does Surrogacy Work? 12/15/2022 07:00pm • When people pursue surrogacy, it's a journey fueled by a strong commitment to becoming parents. When a woman carries an embryo and goes through pregnancy to help someone else have a child, it's a unique contribution. Surrogacy provides a chance for parenthood to those who cannot conceive traditional Semi-auto gun ban only part of solution, Illinois House told 12/15/2022 06:59pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� At an Illinois House committee hearing Thursday, researchers and community activists said having fewer firearms in communities will help stop bloodshed ��� from the persistent gun violence haunting Chicago to mass shootings like the one at a suburban July Fourth parade ��� Parents of slain UVA student call for stricter gun laws 12/15/2022 06:07pm • CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) ��� The parents of a University of Virginia football player killed in a shooting last month called Thursday for stricter gun laws and more mental health support to prevent future gun deaths. ���My son was a loving, caring young man,��� Happy Perry, the mother of D'Sean Perry Biden pumps up Africa relations, will visit next year 12/15/2022 05:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden said Thursday he will visit sub-Saharan Africa next year, the first U.S. president to travel there in a decade. He announced the trip ��� still unscheduled ��� as he wrapped up a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit by stressing he���s serious about increasing U.S. atte German official dedicates legal win against Twitter to Fauci 12/15/2022 03:53pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� A German official who won a defamation case against Twitter this week dedicated his legal victory to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert targeted by the microblogging site's new owner, Elon Musk. A Frankfurt regional court ruled Wednesday that Twitter has to rem 2022 Notebook: Another year of mass shootings in the U.S. 12/15/2022 11:06am • THE BACKGROUND: Mass shootings have become part of every year���s news, and 2022 was no exception. In May, a man targeted Black shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, killing ten people and injuring three in one of the deadliest racial massacres in recent U.S. history. Then, just days lat High inflation and efforts to tame it defined 2022 economy 12/15/2022 10:55am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� For the economy, 2022 was a throwback year. And not in a good way. At times, it felt like the 1970s or early '80s. Inflation running rampant. The United States and its European allies engaged in a not-so-Cold War with Russia. A bleak outlook leaving people feeling sour and anx Japan military probe finds over 100 sexual harassment cases 12/15/2022 09:24am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan���s army on Thursday fired five servicemen and punished four others in a sexual assault case brought by a former soldier, prompting a rare investigation across the Defense Ministry that found over 100 other complaints of harassment, officials said. Rina Gonoi filed a sexual har U.Va. football player talked to his mom shortly before he was killed 12/15/2022 09:19am • One of the three University of Virginia football players shot dead as they returned from a field trip last month was on the phone with his mother just before the shooting, she told NBC. D'Sean Perry had been talking to his mom, Happy Perry, but "his cell phone had gone dead," his mother told NBC Youngkin calls for revolution in mental health care 12/15/2022 04:45am • Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has unveiled a $230 million plan to overhaul the state's behavioral health care system. Youngkin told an audience in Richmond on Wednesday that so much change is needed to meet the demand for care, that Virginia needs a "revolution," not an evolution in mental hea Health officials revise tool to track severe obesity in kids 12/15/2022 12:01am • U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now extend to a body mass index of 60 ��� up from previous charts that st Today in History: December 15, Bill of Rights takes effect 12/15/2022 12:00am • Today in History Today is Thursday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2022. There are 16 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Dec. 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, went into effect following ratification by Virginia. On this date: In 1890, Henry Cavill says he will not return as Superman 12/14/2022 10:23pm • DC fans across the globe collectively mourned Wednesday as British actor Henry Cavill said he will no longer be donning the red cape as Superman in the DC Comics extended cinematic universe. Fans were stunned as this comes after Cavill announced in October he'd be returning as the Man of Steel. C