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This view from one of Sandia National Laboratories' solar-powered hot air balloons was taken at a h...
Ashley Strickland

Mysterious unidentified sounds captured in recordings of the stratosphere

Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth's stratosphere — and the microphones picked up some unexpected sounds.
12 months ago
FILE - An asylum-seeker carries her baby past U.S. Border Patrol agents as they wait between the do...
Colleen Long

Title 42 has ended. Here’s what it did, and how US immigration policy is changing

The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process.
12 months ago
FILE - A group of several hundred people protest the death of Jordan Neely, Friday, May 5, 2023, at...
Jake Offenhartz and Michael R. Sisak

Marine veteran who fatally choked NYC subway rider Jordan Neely to surrender on manslaughter charge

A man who kept a chokehold around the neck of an agitated fellow passenger on a New York City subway, leading to the other rider’s death, is expected to turn himself in to authorities on a manslaughter charge.
12 months ago
YouTuber Trevor Jacob appears ready to jump from his plane, which later crashed. (TrevorJacob via Y...
Christina Maxouris

YouTuber agrees to plead guilty to federal charge after intentionally crashing his plane for online views, DOJ says

A 29-year-old YouTuber will plead guilty to a federal charge after he destroyed the wreckage of a plane he purposefully crashed to gain views, Justice Department officials announced Thursday.
12 months ago
This courtroom sketch, from left, depicts Madison County prosecutor Rob Wood, Lori Vallow Daybell a...
Larry D. Curtis and Lauren Steinbrecher, KSL TV

Defense attacks Lori Vallow Daybell’s husband and brother in closing

In the final minutes of the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, the defense, for the first time, stated its case of why the mother of two dead children is not guilty of their murders.
12 months ago
A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station San Diego aircrew launched for search efforts after reports of a dow...
Cheri Mossburg

Authorities suspend search for survivors after plane crash off Southern California coast

The active search for those aboard a small plane that crashed off the Southern California coast is being suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday.
12 months ago
FILE - A Twitter logo hangs outside the company's offices in San Francisco, Dec. 19, 2022. Elon Mus...
Associated Press

Elon Musk says he’s found a new CEO for Twitter, a woman who will start in 6 weeks

Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it's now called.
12 months ago
This image provided by Hopewell Township Police Department shows a confirmed meteorite on a hardwoo...
Associated Press

Experts: Metallic object that crashed into New Jersey home was a meteorite

A metallic object that punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom, was a meteorite.
12 months ago
The Google Pixel Fold is the company's first foray into foldable phones. (Google via CNN)...
Samantha Kelly

A foldable phone, new tablet and lots of AI: What Google unveiled at its big developer event

Google on Wednesday unveiled its latest lineup of hardware products, including its first foldable phone and a new tablet, as well as plans to roll out new AI features to its search engine and productivity tools.
12 months ago
FILE - A boy looks at a memorial for Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow in Rexburg, Idaho, on June 1...
Rebecca Boone, Associated Press

‘Money, power, sex’; Idaho prosecutors and defense rest, jury begins deliberation

Madison County Prosecutor Rob Wood gave an impassioned speech to jurors Thursday, urging them to convict Lori Vallow Daybell for the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and her fifth husband's previous wife Tammy Daybell.
12 months ago
Mortgage rates ticked down last week for the second week in a row. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg/Getty I...
Anna Bahney

Mortgage rates tick down for second week in a row

Mortgage rates ticked down last week for the second week in a row, as progress on inflation is keeping rates calmer.
12 months ago
Migrants cross the Rio Grande into the U.S. with a baby in a suitcase, as seen from Matamoros, Mexi...
Valerie Gonzalez

‘Now or never’: Migrants rush to US border ahead of Title 42 expiration

Migrants are rushing across the border hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are to expire, fearing that policies will make it far more difficult to gain entry into the United States.
1 year ago
Lori Vallow appears in an Idaho courtroom on March 6, 2019. (KSL TV)...
Lauren Steinbrecher

WATCH: The biggest moments in the Lori Vallow Daybell case

With closing argument expected Thursday morning — where the prosecution and defense will really look to hammer home their message to jurors — here's a look at some of the bigger moments the jury has seen and heard over the past month.
1 year ago
Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, as seen on May 10, 2023. (Larry D. Curtis/KSL TV)...
Simone Seikaly, KSL NewsRadio

With no jury present, judge and attorneys wrangle over instructions

The jury was not present in court Wednesday for the Lori Vallow Daybell trial as the judge and attorneys discussed the jury instructions.
1 year ago
A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station San Diego aircrew launched for search efforts after reports of a dow...
Cheri Mossburg

Authorities searching for survivors after aircraft fell near the Southern California coast

Authorities from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Navy, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are searching for survivors after reports of a "downed aircraft" with three people aboard near the Southern California coast.
1 year ago
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 10: Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) East hold signs as they ...
 Chris Isidore

With writers’ strike underway, labor talks start with directors

Television and film studios started contract negotiations Wednesday with the Directors Guild of America.
1 year ago
Reduced levels of deep sleep increase the risk of developing high blood pressure, obesity and troub...
Sandee LaMotte

Sleep apnea, lack of deep sleep linked to damage in brain, study says

Uncontrolled sleep apnea — a disorder in which people stop breathing for 10 seconds or more at a time multiple times a night — may harm future brain health, a new study found.
1 year ago
Cinderella Castle stands at the Magic Kingdom, at Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Mon...
Mike Schneider

Disney board banned X-rated stores, liquor shops near property, overlooking prisons

Before allies of Gov. Ron DeSantis took over, Disney World’s governing district reached an agreement in February with the company to prohibit a long list of businesses from ever being operated on its property.
1 year ago
Mommy blogger and author Heather Armstrong and family. Photo Credit: Angie Monson...
Leanne Italie

Blogger Heather Armstrong, known as Dooce to fans, dead at 47

The pioneering mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, known as Dooce to fans, has died at home in Salt Lake City.
1 year ago
The company on Wednesday said it is introducing the next evolution of Google Search. The look and f...
Samantha Murphy Kelly

The most popular search engine in the world is about to look different

Google is moving forward with plans to bring AI chat features to its core search engine as it works to keep pace with a wave of new artificial intelligence tools that could threaten the company's dominance online for the first time in decades.
1 year ago
This illustration provided by Perrigo in May 2023, depicts proposed packaging for the company's bir...
Matthew Perrone

FDA panel backs over-the-counter sales of birth control pill

Federal health advisers are recommending that a decades-old birth control pill be sold without a prescription.
1 year ago
A gas station remains closed less than a week after a fatal shooting in Detroit, Michigan, Wednesda...
Associated Press

‘Please, man, don’t shoot us’: Witness says man shot 3 people, killing 1, in dispute over $4

Authorities in Detroit say a man fatally shot another customer inside a gas station and wounded two more in a dispute over a small purchase.
1 year ago
FILE - RaDonda Vaught and her attorney, Peter Strianse, talk with reporters after a court hearing o...
Travis Loller, Associated Press

Former nurse sentenced for dosing error seeks license return

A former Tennessee nurse who was convicted of homicide last year after a medication error killed a patient is seeking to have her license restored.
1 year ago
Clearance sale signs are displayed at a retail store in Downers Grove, Ill., Wednesday, April 26, 2...
Christopher Rugaber, AP Economics Writer

US prices stay high, showing inflation pressures persist

Consumer prices in the United States rose again in April, and measures of underlying inflation stayed high, a sign that further declines in inflation are likely to be slow and bumpy.
1 year ago

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