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Thousands of residents and visitors viewed the event from the baseball field at Hidalgo de Dolores Elementary School. Residents began renting out their homes after area hotels reached capacity. ET Cuatro Ciénegas Amid a vast landscape of gypsum dune fields — formed over millions of years — spectators viewed the eclipse. ET Dallas Crowds set up their picnic blankets alongside the Trinity River, which runs through Dallas, one of the largest cities to experience the total eclipse. ET Russellville More than 100 couples were married in a giant ceremony just minutes before the eclipse, during the Total Eclipse of the Heart festival.

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☆ Why some people feel good about their bank accounts but bad about the economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-07 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

A recent Wall Street Journal poll of American voters in swing states found that while people think the national economy is in bad shape, they feel good about their personal finances. In Gallup polling from last April, just 16% rated the economy as “good” or “excellent,” but 45% said their personal finances were “good” or “excellent.”But according to available data the economy has improved. But the dichotomy between how people feel about their own finances and the economy at large presents a different conundrum. It’s important to look at consumer behavior and not just sentiment when determining how Americans feel about the economy, said Harris. Those behaviors signal that Americans, overall, actually feel pretty good about their economy.

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☆ Will the total solar eclipse disrupt your cell service?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( John Towfighi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —As darkness envelops millions of people during Monday’s total solar eclipse, spectators will hold their cellphones skyward to capture the moment. A family looks through a pair of giant solar eclipse glasses at Veterans Memorial Park in Dripping Springs, Texas, on April 4, 2024. When the last total solar eclipse cut a path across America in 2017, AT&T reported network usage spikes up to 15% around certain cell towers in the path of totality. People view the solar eclipse at 'Top of the Rock' observatory at Rockefeller Center, August 21, 2017 in New York City. “A total eclipse of the sun is unlike any other experience that a human being can have.

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Small towns and rural enclaves along the path of April's total solar eclipse are steeling for huge crowds of sun chasers who plan to catch a glimpse of day turning into dusk in North America. Look no further back than the last U.S. total solar eclipse in 2017 to understand the concern, said Tom Traub, who is part of NASA's eclipse ambassador program. “You had gas stations running out of gas," said Traub, who also serves on the board that runs the Martz-Kohl Observatory near Frewsburg, New York. "And hopefully that won’t be the case.”CELLPHONES MIGHT NOT WORKIn central Texas, emergency officials in Hays County recommend a "solar eclipse survival bag” stocked with items including a mobile phone and charger. And with all the extra traffic, there also will likely be more crash injuries, said Raetzke.

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☆ A Dark Day Is Coming for Buffalo. It Can’t Wait.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Sarah Maslin Nir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After that, it’s up to Buffalo to make the most of its moment in the sun (or should that be: out of the sun? ), when it will be met with an estimated one million eclipse tourists. “For a couple of minutes the whole world will be thinking about Buffalo,” said Dave Horesh, the co-founder of Oxford Pennant, a local felt flag factory. “I was thinking: All this city has ever been known for is bad sports teams, snow and chicken wings,” he said. “This is an opportunity.”Buffalo’s Erie County and nearby Niagara County lie in what astronomers call “the zone of totality,” a band stretching from Dallas to Montreal in which the moon will fully block out the sun.

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☆ Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Melissa Alonso | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“The Court has determined the complaint sufficiently pleads viable causes of action to go forward at this stage of the litigation,” said Erie County Supreme Court Justice Paula Feroleto. Attorneys for the social media companies named in the lawsuit filed a motion to dismiss saying the companies are akin to message boards containing third-party content, court documents show. “However, plaintiffs contend the defendants’ platforms are more than just message boards,” the court document says. “It is far too early to rule as a matter of law that the actions, or inaction, of the social media/internet defendants through their platforms require dismissal,” said the judge. In a statement to CNN, Reddit said, “Hate and violence have no place on Reddit.

Persons: ”, Paula Feroleto, Payton Gendron, “, Gendron, José Castañeda, Reddit, Olesya Dmitracova Organizations: CNN, 4chan, Meta, YouTube Locations: York, Buffalo , New York, Erie County, Reddit

☆ Authorities seize 750-pound alligator named Albert from New York home
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —An upstate New York man was forced to say “see you later, alligator” to his unusual pet after local authorities determined he was keeping the reptile illegally. Environmental Conservation police officers seized the 11-foot, 750-pound pet alligator from a Hamburg home on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. “I’m Albert’s dad, that’s all there is to it,” his owner Tony Cavallaro told WKBW. “He’s like family to everybody.”Cavallaro told WKBW his license to own Albert had expired in 2021 and he tried unsuccessfully to renew it with the Department of Environmental Conservation. Owning any animal classified as a “dangerous animal” – including alligators – is illegal in New York unless the owner has a Dangerous Animal License from the Department of Environmental Conservation.

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☆ The Absurd Problem of New York City Trash
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Emily Badger | Larry Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +30 min

In New York City, trash has no dedicated space all its own. The Absurd Problem of New York City Trash And the Trade-Offs Required to Fix ItConsider the ubiquitous New York trash bag. The prospect has prompted much snickering: New York’s big idea to clean up trash is to … put it in trash bins? New York City Municipal Archives1913: A century in the past, but the same problems as today. New York City Municipal ArchivesBut those cans overflowed to horrifying effect during the 10-day strike:When New York streets resembled landfills.

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☆ Exceptionally warm weather on the way for central, eastern US due to pattern change
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The core of the unseasonable warmth spreads east on Tuesday to encompass much of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. A storm forecast to develop near the Great Lakes late Tuesday could unload rain and thunderstorms on much of the East into Thursday. Across the Midwest and Great Lakes, snowfall is a few feet below what’s normal by this point. Ice is also almost nowhere to be found on the Great Lakes. Close to 40% of the Great Lakes are typically covered in ice by late February, but total ice coverage was near a record-low 6% Thursday.

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☆ Where to see April’s total solar eclipse
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Marnie Hunter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —The total solar eclipse passing over a swath of North America is less than two months away. The August 2017 total solar eclipse is seen from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument near Mitchell, Oregon. There’s a lunchtime Solar Eclipse Watch Party in downtown Dallas on eclipse Monday with live music and food trucks. Indianapolis, IndianaIndianapolis is located along the center line of the path of totality for the April 8 total solar eclipse. The city’s last total solar eclipse was nearly 100 years ago on January 25, 1925, according to a Rochester eclipse website.

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☆ The Midwest is having a ‘non-winter.’ El Niño is only partially to blame
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Winter has gone missing across the Midwest and Great Lakes, and time is running out to find it. Dozens of cities are on track for one of the warmest winters on record, making snow and ice rare commodities. A classic El Niño pattern coupled with the effects of a warming climate are to blame for this “non-winter” winter, said Pete Boulay, a climatologist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Missing snowfall is even more pronounced in areas surrounding the Great Lakes, especially those that are typically buried by lake-effect snow. The lackluster ice coverage is part of a larger troubling trend across the Great Lakes.

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Remington is consolidating its operations in Georgia, a state the company says is friendlier to the firearms industry. Mayor John Stephens meets with village board members under a seal portraying Eliphalet Remington holding a long gun. The four-story, brick plant by Armory Street and Remington Avenue looms over the community about 55 miles (90 kilometers) east of Syracuse. The Ilion plant went to a group of investors called the Roundhill Group as part of a $13 million bid. After months of union negotiations, the firearms plant reopened in the spring of 2021.

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☆ Live updates: Nevada Republican caucuses
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Elise Hammond | Amir Vera | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Nikki Haley square off in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary later this month. Here's what some of them had to say:Joy Rendulic was hesitant when her husband first suggested a move to South Carolina. He has lived in Hartsville — about two hours inland from the South Carolina coast — all his 70 years except for a stint in the Navy. “If he’d just shut up and, you know, got off Twitter and that kind of stuff, he’d have made a great president,” Pierce said. Read more about what South Carolina Republican voters are saying ahead of the primary election.

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PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) — Twenty people were rescued from an ice floe in Lake Erie, the Coast Guard said Monday. The Coast Guard's Ninth District Great Lakes station said it received a report about 10:20 a.m. that the people were stuck on a mile-long floe about a half-mile off Catawba Island State Park near Port Clinton in Ohio. A Coast Guard helicopter was sent from Air Station Detroit and two airboats headed to the scene from nearby Station Marblehead, said Petty Officer Jessica Fontenette. Rescuers from the Put-In-Bay fire department on South Bass Island and the Ottawa County sheriff's office also assisted. The Coast Guard was able to rescue nine people; four others were rescued by the other agencies; and seven were able to get to shore themselves on an airboat, she said.

Persons: Jessica Fontenette Organizations: Coast Guard, Ninth, Great, Catawba, Air Station Detroit, Ottawa County, The Coast Guard, Associated Press Locations: CLINTON , Ohio, Lake Erie, Port Clinton, Ohio, Station Marblehead, South Bass

On Sunday, crews in Memphis, Tennessee continued to work around the clock to find and fix broken pipes that were causing low water pressure throughout the system. Elsewhere, freezing rain, sleet and high wind gusts later Sunday would make traveling in parts of Kansas and Oklahoma particularly treacherous, the National Weather Service said. “With no additional replenishment of arctic air from Canada, a steady warm-up is in store for the mid-section of the country,” the weather service said. Trees and power lines already coated with ice could topple if they get more, the National Weather Service warned. “Stay safe out there over the next several days as our region tries to thaw out,” the weather service said.

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“But I’m sure the next few days,” he added, before asking how much longer the storm might last. We’ll figure it out.”The ever-resourceful Bills have become accustomed to Mother Nature throwing a snowball or two into their schedule. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesIt happened in 2022, when a major storm forced the Bills into relocating their home game against Cleveland to Detroit. “We prioritized the players’ safety and everyone’s safety as best we could here, and just a phenomenal job by everyone that’s out there working so hard to clear the roads,” McDermott said. At the Bills facility, defensive tackle Ed Oliver has become adept to dealing with Buffalo storms.

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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Mother Nature might not be through complicating the Buffalo Bills’ playoff schedule, leaving coach Sean McDermott assessing his options on Tuesday. McDermott said the team, for now, is still scheduled to practice on Wednesday and Thursday, while monitoring a forecast that projects a lake-effect storm dumping nearly 2 feet of snow on the Buffalo region. It’s too early to determine whether officials would impose a travel ban, which would potentially prevent Bills players from driving to their facility. The Bills are also dealing with a rash of injuries, with at least nine players’ status uncertain. Our team’s been resilient, and our players have done a phenomenal job of stepping up when someone has gone down,” he added.

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“Conditions right now in Orchard Park, where the game would have started moments ago,” she wrote early Sunday afternoon. Sub-zero wind chills will grip much of the country, plunging to 50 degrees below zero in Montana and the Dakotas. Other parts of the country could see temperatures drop 25 to 40 degrees below normal, from the Rockies to the Ohio Valley. Even places like Florida won’t be spared from turbulent weather, with forecasts predicting showers and thunderstorms from Monday into Tuesday. The utility said it was watching a second weather pattern that could bring high winds and freezing rain on Tuesday.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Brutally cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills stayed put across much of the U.S. Monday, promising the coldest temperatures ever for Iowa's presidential nominating contest, holding up travelers, and testing the mettle of NFL fans in Buffalo for a playoff game that was delayed a day by wind-whipped snow. Saco, Montana, dropped to minus 51 F (minus 26 C). Subzero lows reached as far south as Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and parts of Indiana, Taylor said. The person killed — the fifth death nationwide attributed to the Arctic cold — was among four snowmobilers attempting to cross U.S. Highway 40 in the Strawberry Reservoir area. Ice jam warnings were issued in Wyoming and Montana, where the bitter cold could cause rivers and streams to lock up with ice and overflow their banks.

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☆ At 31, ‘cash-strapped’ single mom started saving $25 a month—she used it to launch a business that brings in $440,000 a year
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In 2000, Penny Bowers-Schebal was a 31-year-old "cash-strapped" single mother struggling to cover basic household bills. She wanted to "build financial security" beyond the 401(k) program at her employer, Progressive Insurance, she tells CNBC Make It. So, at the advice of Suze Orman, she started putting $25 per month into a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP). Ultimately, her Home Depot investment brought her an annual return of roughly 13%. "I'm not a big investor, and this was a life-changing investment for me," Bowers-Schebal, now 55, says.

Persons: Penny Bowers, Schebal, Suze Orman, — Bowers, Bowers Organizations: Progressive Insurance, CNBC, Depot Locations: Geneva , Ohio, Erie , Pennsylvania

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Logan Eschrich came to Buffalo to witness the snowstorm, and he stayed for the shoveling on Sunday. Once the professional storm chaser saw the Buffalo Bills invite fans to help dig out a snow-filled Highmark Stadium for their delayed playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, now scheduled for Monday, Eschrich couldn’t resist. Stadium crews were unable to keep up with the falling snow, using blowers to uncover the yard lines. Today, it’s a cherished memory for Wood, in part because the win helped the Bills snap a 17-season playoff drought. One thing is certain for Tasker who, like Wood, is part of the Bills' radio broadcast team.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. The NFL was concerned that nobody could make it Sunday in Buffalo, where up to a couple of feet of snow was expected overnight. So, the league and New York officials decided to postpone the Bills' wild-card playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers until Monday. They practiced all week in warm Miami, and it was 86 degrees on Friday, when they stepped on the plane to Kansas City. For you, me — it's cold,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.

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☆ Weather delays Bills and Steelers game, N.Y. governor announces
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Madison Lambert | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Buffalo Bills' NFL team's Highmark Stadium is covered in snow after a recent storm in Orchard Park, New York, on Nov. 21, 2022. The Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers playoff game has been postponed until Monday afternoon due to winter weather, New York Gov. In consultation with our emergency response teams, @BuffaloBills leadership, and the NFL, the Bills game will be postponed to 4:30 pm Monday," she said in a post on X. The NFL and the Bills said in a statement that the postponement was in the "best interest of public safety." Western New York is expected to be hit with a winter storm beginning around 6 p.m. Saturday.

Persons: Kathy Hochul, I've, Roger Goodell, Hochul Organizations: Buffalo Bills, NFL, The Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Gov, Bills, Pittsburgh, Super Locations: Orchard Park , New York, Buffalo, York, Erie County

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills’ wild-card playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers that was scheduled for Sunday was moved to Monday amid a forecast for dangerous winter weather, New York Gov. Officials advised residents to stay off the roads starting at nightfall on Saturday, with a driving ban taking effect at 9 p.m. The game will now be played at Highmark Stadium at 4:30 p.m. Monday instead of 1 p.m. Sunday. Hochul said she started talking with the NFL on Thursday about the possibility of having to reschedule the game. In 2022, a lake effect storm led to Buffalo’s home game against Cleveland being moved to Detroit in November.

Persons: Kathy Hochul, Mark Poloncarz, Hochul Organizations: Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sunday, New York Gov, Bills, Highmark, NFL, Cleveland Locations: BUFFALO, N.Y, Erie County, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago

☆ Home prices are surging in these 20 cities — including 6 with median prices under $240,000 — as buyers rush to snap up properties at faster rates than the rest of the country
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

While poor affordability is dampening demand, buyers are still snapping up homes in some cities. Realtor.com recently listed 20 cities where demand is highest. In the December 21 report, Jones listed 20 cities where demand is picking up the most over last year. To create the list, Jones looked at the average number of viewers per listed property in individual cities relative to the national average. In her final list of 20 cities, houses in all locations saw higher visitor traffic than the national average, and all but Columbus, Ohio saw their median days on the market drop year-over-year.

Persons: Hannah Jones, Jones Organizations: Business Locations: Realtor.com, Erie , Pennsylvania, Canton , Ohio, Boston, Columbus , Ohio

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