The US dollar index reached a three-year high as investors worried about the global coronavirus outbreak are moving their money into the safe-haven greenback. Investments considered safe in times of market turmoil have been rallying since the outbreak became Wall Street’s number one worry in January. Cases continue to rise globally. The full financial and…… MORE
Evelyn Boswell is a 15-month-old girl missing in Tennessee. Andrew Caballeiro was a week old when he was last seen in Florida. Osiel Rico, 3, has been missing from New Mexico for nearly two months. To try and find them, authorities are using a system created nearly 25 years ago: AMBER Alerts. The alerts, short…… MORE
Hiroko Rose joined the Boy Scouts of America in February 2019 and said she’s loved it so far. The 12-year-old is part of her troop in Springfield, Virginia, right outside Washington, and told CNN Wednesday it gives her a sense of adventure and is a fun way to be around her friends. So when she…… MORE
For Natalie Reilly, Valentine’s Day 2016 was grim. The divorcee was at home nursing her mother through a 19th round of chemotherapy. “She was not eating, and she was not coming out of her room,” Reilly remembered of her once-vibrant mom. “It was really hard for me — she was the strongest woman I knew.”…… MORE
Today is George Washington’s birthday. But does it seem like it? Americans haven’t celebrated the first US president’s birthday on his actual birthday for nearly 50 years. Instead, the US celebrates his birthday on Presidents’ Day, the third Monday in February. Here’s why. Washington’s two birthdays Don’t you wish you could celebrate your birthday twice…… MORE
If you see a 70-year-old woman digging through a trash can for discarded banana peels in Florida, you may have spotted one of the world’s most unique collectors. Becky Martz, of Orlando, has spent the past 29 years fastidiously collecting and cataloging more than 21,000 banana labels from around the world. Martz’s hobby has led…… MORE
For decades, the remains of thousands of Native Americans have been resting at a university in Tennessee. But this spring, they will finally go home. Archaeologists unearthed more than 2,000 Arikara and Mandan ancestral remains in South Dakota during the mid-20th century as part of the Missouri River Basin Survey, according to a November Federal…… MORE
Juliana Fetherman was in middle school when she started to notice that her younger brother, Michael, who has ADHD and autism, was having problems making friends. “He’s verbal, but he doesn’t like to talk,” Fetherman told CNN. “Just making and keeping conversations is something that’s really awkward for him, and it’s hard for him to…… MORE
For defenseman Dave Christian, the final ten minutes of the Olympic hockey game “were the longest ever.” “When the horn went off at the end we felt a sort of relief,” Christian said. A bunch of college players had just given the United States a monumental moment of pride and patriotism having beaten the Soviet…… MORE
A man has been convicted of killing two people who confronted him for harassing a Muslim teen and her friend in a Portland train. Jeremy Joseph Christian was found guilty of 12 counts, including two murder charges and an attempted murder charge, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Friday. The jury…… MORE
