Angelina Jolie is selling Winston Churchill’s only painting created during World War II
Angelina Jolie is selling the only painting created by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II, with the work expected to fetch up to £2.5 million ($3.4 million) at auction.6 years ago
US billionaire buys SpaceX flight to orbit with 3 others
A U.S. billionaire is buying an entire SpaceX flight for himself and three people to circle the globe. The deal announced Monday is the latest for private space travel.6 years ago
Punxsutawney Phil says there will be 6 more weeks of winter
Punxsutawney Phil has emerged from his burrow to forecast there will be six more weeks of winter.6 years ago
A Chick-fil-A manager saved a drive-thru Covid-19 vaccination clinic after traffic backed up
When a South Carolina drive-thru coronavirus vaccine clinic got backed up, leaving people waiting for hours, the town mayor decided to call in a professional for help: a Chick-fil-A manager.6 years ago
Kaysville author fighting to remove fake books from Amazon
Jerald Simon writes music books that have become popular on Amazon, so much so that somebody went to the trouble to create one with a similar title and nothing but blank pages inside.6 years ago
Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team
Donald Trump has named two lawyers to his impeachment defense team, one day after it was revealed that the former president had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys.6 years ago
Fight The Man: What GameStop’s surge says about online mobs
It’s a fable for our times: Small-time investors band together to take down greedy Wall Street hedge funds using the stock of a troubled video-game store. But the revolt of online stock-traders suggests much more.6 years ago
Captain Tom hospitalized for virus he raised money to fight
Captain Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts, has been hospitalized with COVID-19.6 years ago
Military stages coup in Myanmar, detains Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s military has staged a coup and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover Monday was a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy the Southeast Asian nation has made following five decades of military rule.6 years ago
UTAH JAZZ: Georges Niang interview
The Utah Jazz has the best record in the NBA right now and they're hoping to keep a 10 game winning streak going. We went in-depth with forward Georges Niang, "The Minivan" himself.6 years ago
Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is 66% effective in global trial, but 85% effective against severe disease
Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 single-shot vaccine was shown to be 66% effective in preventing moderate and severe disease in a global Phase 3 trial, but 85% efficacy against severe disease, the company announced Friday.6 years ago
Dogecoin soars 370% as Reddit group works to send the cryptocurrency ‘to the moon’
Dogecoin is the latest target of hyped-up Reddit users. The virtual currency, which originally started as an internet parody based on a viral dog meme, has skyrocketed 373% in the last 24 hours,6 years ago
Class-action lawsuit filed against Robinhood following outrage over GameStop stock restriction
A Robinhood customer filed a class-action lawsuit against the stock-trading app Thursday after the company barred traders from buying shares of GameStop promoted by WallStreetBets, a popular Reddit group for investors.6 years ago
South African coronavirus variant identified in US.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has reached the US with two cases diagnosed in South Carolina. This story is breaking and will be updated. Follow @walk_colb6 years ago
UDOH Report: No increase in suicides or overdoses during pandemic
A new report from the Utah Department of Health, UDOH, showed there has been no significant increase in suicides, mental distress or drug overdoses to this point in the pandemic.6 years ago
GameStop stock extremely volatile after Robinhood shuts down trades
GameStop traders sent the stock on a wild ride Thursday. The stock was up about 13% Thursday morning after tumbling about 15% earlier. Sending it on a roller-coaster ride, Robinhood said it was restricting trading in the red hot stock as well as others.6 years ago
Oregon health workers stranded in snowstorm administer remaining coronavirus vaccines to stranded drivers
A snowstorm in Oregon stranded a group of health workers on their way back from a vaccination event. They had six doses remaining and no way to store them. So they started knocking on the windows of fellow drivers.6 years ago
WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study
A World Health Organization team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.6 years ago
Everything you need to know about how a Reddit group blew up GameStop’s stock
On one side you have a band of mostly young day traders who coordinate on Reddit to drive up the share price of struggling companies, including GameStop, on the other hedge funds and short-sellers — those who've placed bets that a company's stock will crash.6 years ago
Shoah survivors to get vaccine on Auschwitz liberation day
Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia were poised to get their first coronavirus vaccinations.6 years ago
1st private space crew paying $55M each to fly to station
The first private space station crew has been introduced a year ahead of the planned launch. A Houston company on Tuesday identified the three men who are paying $55 million each to fly to the International Space Station next January atop a SpaceX rocket.6 years ago
Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid pandemic
Holocaust survivors are commemorating their lost loved ones as the world marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.6 years ago
CONFIRMED: The noise was a sonic boom, 80 miles from SLC
The sonic boom was heard 80 miles from the Utah Test and Training Range thanks strong inversion conditions Monday night.6 years ago
