SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Google on Friday began removing California news websites from some people’s search results, a test that acted as a threat should the state Legislature pass a law requiring the search giant to pay media companies for linking to their content. Google announced the move in a blog post on Friday, calling […]

This morning was a bit rough. We had a chilly rain that covered most of the area. This caused numerous traffic accidents during the morning commute. Temps were also chilly this morning, but it was well above freezing. They were in the 40s. Winds increased out of the northeast as an area of low pressure […]

Colorado park rangers discovered around 400 selfies taken by a bear on the park’s motion-triggered trail cameras.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Google said Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news content and will reverse its support of local media outlets if the government passes a law forcing tech companies to pay for articles displayed on their platforms. The vow to sever Google traffic to New Zealand news sites — […]

With the 95,000-ton cargo ship Dali powerless and hurtling helplessly toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the harbor pilot commanding the vessel had just minutes to make his last, desperate attempts to avoid disaster. He declared distress, dropped anchor and, notably, called for help from nearby tugboats. Two 5,000-horsepower tugs, which only minutes earlier had […]

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement, but the claim comes a day after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents’ attempts to interfere in the U.S. […]

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — A powerful blizzard that closed highways and ski resorts had mostly moved through the Sierra Nevada by early Monday but forecasters warned that more snow was on the way for Northern California mountains. Sections of Interstate 80 to the west and north of Lake Tahoe were still shut down late Sunday, […]

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works. But are AI chatbots — in this case, widely commercialized products made by OpenAI and its business partner […]

The Biden administration said Friday it will invest more money in aviation safety and consider requiring planes to be equipped with technology designed to prevent close calls around airports. The moves come after a string of close calls at airports around the country. Federal investigators have begun looking into seven such incidents since January, and […]

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — A major highway was closed and ski resorts were shut down Sunday as the effects of a powerful blizzard continued to cause problems across the Sierra Nevada, and forecasters warned that more heavy snow was on the way for Northern California. Sections of Interstate 80 to the west and north of […]

BOSTON (AP) — In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Initially reticent to name the cause, Microsoft […]

CHICAGO (AP) — After a retinal disease left him legally blind, architect John Gleichman was struck by a taxicab while walking home near Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo — at the same intersection where a 4-year-old girl was killed by a hit-and-run driver years earlier. Although Maya Hirsch’s death in 2006 ignited a citywide crusade for […]

Manufacturers and shippers are scrambling to figure out where they can load or unload cargo while the main operations of the Port of Baltimore remain shut down due to Tuesday’s deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Supply chain experts say other ports up and down the East Coast are likely to absorb much […]

DALLAS (AP) — Until Wednesday, few travelers had ever heard of a Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, nor did they know that the system used to generate those notices could cause widespread travel misery. As they arrived at airports in the morning, they quickly found out. The Federal Aviation Administration computer system that compiles […]

The news lit up the world of weed: U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana.

NEW YORK (AP) — The news lit up the world of weed: U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana. Specifically, the federal Health and Human Services Department has recommended taking marijuana out of a category of drugs deemed to have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential […]

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. So what does that mean?

After Russia invaded Ukraine, guerrillas from Belarus began carrying out acts of sabotage on their country’s railways, including blowing up track equipment to paralyze the rails that Russian forces used to get troops and weapons into Ukraine. In the most recent sabotage to make international headlines, they attacked a Russian warplane parked just outside the […]

California regulators on Thursday gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in a state where dozens of companies have been trying to train vehicles to steer themselves on increasingly congested roads. The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously granted Cruise, a company controlled […]

Note: This live blog for the Take Our Border Back Convoy is no longer being updated. For the latest exclusive stories and breaking news about issues along the United States-Mexico border, stay with BorderReport.com. The Take Our Border Back Convoy is making its way to different parts of the U.S.-Mexico border and making several stops […]

Yesterday, there was some pretty bad flooding across the north end of the Outer Banks. That location got hit not once but twice with heavy downpours. Chief meteorologist Jeff Edmondson left me some rainfall totals from down there. The amounts were about 10 inches or more between Southern Shores and Corolla. Wow! The National Weather […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn’t legalize it for recreational use. The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.” So what […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California regulators on Thursday approved an expansion that will allow two rival robotaxi services to operate throughout San Francisco at all hours, despite safety worries spurred by recurring problems with unexpected stops and other erratic behavior that resulted in unmanned vehicles blocking traffic, including emergency vehicles. The state’s Public Utilities Commission […]

We had some showers and thunderstorms move towards the region last night. A few areas north and south of the metro had some decent rain and a few storms, but the Hampton Roads are met the 7-10 split and came up short. Those all moved out. Then we had a brief flare up around 4:30-6:30am […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Hampton Roads residents are optimistic about their finances, but have mixed views of the region’s economy overall. That’s according to the 13th annual Life in Hampton Roads report from the Social Science Research Center at Old Dominion University, based on 639 telephone surveys completed between May 31 and Aug. 19. The […]

Syracuse University student Ben Price details his first few days as a WAVY news intern.

Monday’s shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville unfolded over approximately 15 minutes as a shooter opened fire inside, killing six people, before police arrived and fatally shot the suspect. Three children and three adults were killed in the shooting at The Covenant School. Ever since a May 2022 attack inside a classroom in […]

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Moscow must he held to account for Russian cybercriminals accused of hacking Australia’s largest health insurer and dumping customers’ personal medical records on the dark web, Australian officials said Friday. Australian Federal Police took the unusual step of attributing blame for the unsolved cybercrime that resulted in the personal data of […]

“…his state of mind was that he is young, makes a lot of money, and has a fast car and he can do whatever he wants.”

Daylight saving time has benefits for people struggling with seasonal affective disorder, but it also has drawbacks for health, according to recent studies.

The winter storm will arrive Thursday evening and will linger into the overnight hours on Friday before officially exiting well before sunrise in our region.

In the last 24 hours we have had a lot of light rain over the region. It was a tough start to Monday as there were numerous traffic accidents during the AM commute. Rain has been widespread since last night, but it started to move out by 8-9am. We have only had a couple tenths […]

LONDON (AP) — The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was caused by an error during routine maintenance, the company said. Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, said in a blog post that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was “caused not by malicious activity, but an error […]

Government data shows that airfares in October were up 43% from a year earlier, and U.S. airlines reported a combined profit of more than $2.4 billion in the third quarter.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Californians tried to weather the extremes of a changing climate Friday, as a punishing heat wave that has helped fuel deadly wildfires had the state teetering on the edge of blackouts for a 10th consecutive day while a tropical storm barreled ashore with the promise of cooler temperatures but also possible […]

BOSTON (AP) — Cyberattacks against Ukrainian government websites and affiliated organizations added to the confusion of Russia’s military assault Thursday, including data-wiping malware activated a day earlier that cybersecurity researchers said infected hundreds of computers including in neighboring Latvia and Lithuania. Researchers said the malware attack had apparently been in preparation for as much as […]

Last night we had that expected line of showers and a few storms roll through the region. After a warm and humid day there was a little fuel left over for some brief heavy rain and some thunderstorms. While the noisy weather may have woken up some folks, the rain totals actually were pretty meager. […]

Peak hurricane season is open us and while the weather locally features warm sunshine, it’s a different story out in the Atlantic. Hurricane Fiona is now accompanied by another tropical cyclone, with a third on the way in the coming days. Let’s start with Tropical Depression Eight, in the far northern Atlantic, as it developed […]

BEIJING (AP) — The hotel was spacious. It was upscale. It had a karaoke bar. The perfect venue, the CEO of the Chinese hacking company thought, to hold a Lunar New Year banquet currying favor with government officials. There was just one drawback, his top deputy said. “Who goes there?” the deputy wrote. “The girls […]

When we look back at 2022 we will likely remember a lot of dry spells. 2021 was a dry year, and we finished out about 9 inches below average. 2022 is also running well behind the average. We are currently down about 10 inches below the annual average rainfall. We were downright parched in August, […]

Sunshine and nice temperatures are around this weekend. In the tropics, we’re keeping track of Tropical Storm Fiona.

Fortunately, we’ll continue to enjoy a pleasant stretch of weather across Hampton Roads. The next several days will feature more sunshine than any chance of rain – a bummer because our parched lawns need the rain. Expect a pleasant finish to the weekend as some moisture starts to return to the region. Temperatures under a […]

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Searching for flights on Google just got “greener.” A new search feature rolled out Wednesday tells users which flights have lower carbon emissions, giving them the ability to choose flights based on carbon emissions just as they would price or the number of layovers. A basic search for flights will […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first surprise, for the Finnish conscripts and officers taking part in a NATO-hosted military exercise in the Arctic this spring: the sudden roar of a U.S. Marine helicopter assault force, touching down in a field right next to the Finns’ well-hidden command post. The second surprise: Spilling out of their field […]

Heading to an event this weekend in Hampton Roads? Here’s your forecast. 😎

Showers and storms will move into Hampton Roads during the evening commute.

Amazon apologized Friday for an “incorrect” tweet from an official Twitter account that responded to a congressman’s claims that some Amazon workers are forced to urinate in bottles while working.

Facebook announced Friday that former President Donald Trump’s accounts will be suspended for two years, freezing his presence on the social network until early 2023, following a finding that Trump stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. At the end of the suspension, the company will assess whether Trump’s “risk […]

While some celebrities, like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, had undoubtedly great years (as far as we know), not everyone got so lucky.