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KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. military forces early Thursday morning conducted what Central Command called a “self-defense” strike against Houthi unmanned aerial vehicles and a ground control station. According to Centcom, the U.S. had identified a UAV ground control station and a number of UAVs in the Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. The military “determined that they presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the U.S. Navy ships in the region.” As a result, Cen...

In this photo illustration, ZYN nicotine cases and pouches are seen on a table, Jan. 29, 2024, in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- A type of nicotine pouches designed for adults is facing scrutiny on Capitol Hill, while also exploding in popularity online and among young people. The pouches, sold under the brand name ZYN, have long been popular in Europe, but are now taking hold in the United States with the help of so-called "Zynfluencers" on social media. The...

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, apologizes to families who have been harmed due to unsafe social media during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Jan. 31, 2024, in Washington. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- Chief executive officers of some of the biggest social media companies, from Facebook to Snapchat, were questioned Wednesday in a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill . Filling the seats behind them were parents, caregivers a...

Governor Ned Lamont announced on Wednesday, that the fiscal year 2025 budget adjustment proposal that he will present to lawmakers this month, will include a recommendation that licensure application fees required for workers to obtain certain jobs in the education, childcare, and healthcare fields be eliminated. The governor said that he is proposing the change in an effort to encourage workers looking for employment to seek jobs in fields in which there is a significant need to fill available ...

Family of Casey Goodson(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Opening statements will begin Wednesday in the trial of a former sheriffs deputy charged in the 2020 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old Black man who was entering his grandmothers home in Columbus, Ohio. The trial begins more than three years after Casey Goodson Jr.s death. Jason Meade, a former deputy with the Franklin County Sheriffs Office (FCSO), was charged with murder and reckless homicide in December 2021 in connection with the shooting. The trial b...

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Washington, D.C., and Wall Street will closely watch an announcement from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday about whether to shift its benchmark interest rate. The move marks the first such decision since the Fed said last month that it expects to cut rates in 2024. Economists expect the Fed to leave rates unchanged, delaying rate cuts until later in the year. The next opportunity for a rate move will take place at a meeting in March. An aggressive s...

A Palestinian elderly woman crosses a street which has been bulldozed by the Israeli forces during a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on January 29, 2024 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- More than 100 days since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The conflict, now the deadliest between the warrin...

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) -- Gayle Manchin, the wife of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, was injured in a car crash as a suspect allegedly fled police in Birmingham, Alabama, authorities said. On Monday, the Homewood Police began a pursuit of an individual wanted on felony charges, authorities said. Police units pursued the vehicle through North Birmingham onto 18th Street North before losing contact with the suspect vehicle in the 1300 block of 18th Street North, officials sai...

ABCWhile ABCs Emmy-winning comedy Abbott Elementary had been donating a portion of its budget to supporting students in need since it first hit the air, the producers are taking it a step further ahead of shows third season premiere on February 7. ABC Audio has learned that on Thursday the Lunch Break with Abbott Elementary National Tour gets rolling in New York City. According to the network, "The tour features a giant, street legal Abbott Elementary lunch box that will hit the road, trave...

Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A pharmaceutical company has presented new data for an experimental drug that they say can reduce acute pain, raising the possibility of an alternative to addictive opioids. In a press release, Vertex says two studies showed that the new drug, VX-548, showed a "clinically meaningful reduction" in pain over a 48-hour period, compared to a placebo. The studies evaluated people who had recently undergone surgery and needed something to treat "ac...