Visitors near Yuyuan Bazaar in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. Raul Ariano | Bloomberg | Good pictures China's travel activity and spending rose above pre-pandemic levels during the Lunar New Year holiday, a sign that consumption is improving in the world's second-largest economy. About 474 million domestic trips were made during the eight-day festival,…
In the latest in a series of storms to hit the state this month, heavy rains from the Atmospheric River are forecast to spread across California starting Sunday, putting the West Coast at risk for further flooding. A moderate storm moved along California's northern and central coast Saturday night, kicking off the rainy season for…
CNN — We know Steph Curry and Sabrina Ionescu Great three-point shooters. But this weekend, We have to find out who is the best. First NBA vs. Curry narrowly beat Ionescu on Saturday to settle the long-running debate when the two sharpshooters went head-to-head during the WNBA three-point contest during All-Star Weekend. The Golden State…
February 17, 2024, 11:13 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — Alexander Volkanovsky played up his age this week, dressing up in grandfatherly clothes, donning old man glasses and pretending to be asleep at a prefight news conference. Volganovsky never really aged. He's only 35. But technically, that's an advanced age for the UFC featherweight champion. In…
Intuition Machines' lunar lander is on its way to the moon after Thursday's uneventful launch, but it managed to capture some incredible images of Earth while it was close to home. The company shared the first set of images from the IM-1 mission X today after confirming in an earlier post that the spacecraft is…
7:10 am — Snow forecast review coming up Needless to say, the snow mostly ended between 3 and 4 a.m., and was significantly less than expected. Typically, a coating of a couple of inches fell — 1 to 5 inches farther than predicted. We will publish a review of the forecast by midnight in a…
Loudoun County Fire and Rescue said a firefighter died after a catastrophic house explosion in Sterling, Virginia, on Friday evening. Firefighters on the scene fielded multiple Mayday calls for a fire in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Drive — where one firefighter was “trapped in the rubble,” one person said. “I would say it's…
When a New York magazine financial advice columnist was dropped An article I fell victim to a $50,000 scam on Thursday and my heart skipped a beat. I had my own financial planner He went to jail Years ago, I described it in a few paragraphs. Almost all of us fall victim to scams at…
16 February 2024, 11:31 GMT Updated 33 minutes ago image caption, Alexei Navalny has been Russia's most prominent opposition leader in recent times Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader of the past decade, has died in a prison inside the Arctic Circle, prisons said. Navalny, seen as an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin,…
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark wasted no time becoming the NCAA women's career scoring leader Thursday night, taking less than three minutes to score the eight points she needed to break Kelsey Plum's record. The Iowa star who drew unprecedented attention in women's basketball broke the record with her signature shot — A…
