A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that may be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California but also disrupt communications on Earth tonight and over the weekend, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The center, which is a division of the National Weather Service, observed conditions of an extreme geomagnetic storm at 6:54 p.m. ET on Friday evening,...
Consumer sentiment plunged to the lowest level in six months as price increases reaccelerated, according to the latest University of Michigan survey of consumers, released Friday. Additionally, consumers are bracing for even higher price increases in the year ahead compared to readings from prior months, the survey found. The gauge, which is closely tracked by the Biden administration, plunged 13% from April’s 77.2% reading to 67.4%. However, that’s still a better reading than last May, when...
Brian Wilson, musician and founding member of the hit ’60s rock band The Beach Boys, has been placed under a conservatorship following a Los Angeles court ruling on Thursday. Judge Gus T. May of the Los Angeles Superior Court found “clear and convincing evidence” that a conservatorship is necessary, court documents said, noting that Wilson consents to the conservatorship. According to the court documents, Wilson is “unable to care for his person,” has a “Major Neurocognitive Disorder” and “lacks...
Justin Bieber’s mother Pattie Mallette can finally celebrate his big news. Mallette on Thursday posted a video on her verified Instagram account of her reaction to her son and his wife, Hailey Bieber, going public with the news that they are expecting their first child. “So I have been waiting for this day and now that they have shared it I can finally celebrate with ya’ll,” Mallette said. “Oh my gosh, I’m going to be a grandma! Oh my goodness! Justin and Hailey you are going to be the best...
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex landed in Nigeria on Friday, launching a three-day private visit to the West African nation, where they will meet with wounded soldiers and visit local charities, officials said. The Sussexes are visiting the country as it’s now a “part of the Invictus community,” Air Vice-Marshal Abidemi Marquis, director of sports for the Nigerian Defence Headquarters, said during a media briefing Thursday. Their first engagement was an event hosted at a school in the Nigerian...
Target is limiting the number of stores that will sell LGBTQ-themed merchandise for Pride Month in June following a boycott from right-wing activists last year that took a toll on the brand’s bottom line. This year, Target said it will sell only Pride-themed “adult apparel” and home goods “in select stores, based on historical sales performance” — a drastic reversal for the chain that had typically sold the items in all of its US stores for the past decade. About half of its 2,000 stores will...
Relentless rainfall in Brazil has submerged entire neighborhoods and an airport runway, with more floods likely in the coming days. The severe weather has also downed most communications as crews search for more than 100 missing people. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said President Joe Biden made a mistake after the US paused sending a shipment of bombs to Israel so that they would not be used in an...
More than 13,000 fans were in attendance as Caitlin Clark made her home preseason debut on Thursday in an 83-80 victory for the Indiana Fever over the Atlanta Dream. The atmosphere inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis belied the less important nature of a preseason game, the crowd whooping loudly as Clark made her first home bucket on a driving layup in the first half. Clark finished with 12 points, eight rebounds and six assists but had a difficult shooting night, going 4-of-12 from the...
Fifty years ago, two Swedish married couples went on the most consequential double date in music history, changing pop for good at the Eurovision Song Contest. True, the bar wasn’t too high. 1974 was also the year that Paul Anka topped charts with “(You’re) Having My Baby,” a track that won a 2006 CNN survey of the worst songs of all time. But Abba – then still available in human form – have remained Eurovision’s de facto godparents as the event grew into the merriest, most colorful musical...
Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers about the May 9 episode of “Young Sheldon.” Anyone who watched “The Big Bang Theory” with any regularity over its 12 seasons knew what was coming as its prequel “Young Sheldon” comes to a close, but the knock at the door that ended the most recent episode still felt like a gut punch. As the young Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage) prepared to head off to college, he and his family learned that his father (Lance Barber) has died of a heart attack, the...
Manhattan criminal defense attorney Stacy Schneider and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin discuss the decision by Donald Trump’s defense team to press Stormy Daniels about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump during the former president’s hush money trial.