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By Kaitlan Collins, CNN A White House official tested positive for Covid-19 during President Joe Biden’s foreign trip and is now quarantining in Scotland, another White House official confirmed Thursday. The aide, whom the White House is not identifying out of privacy concerns, tested positive on Tuesday — Biden’s last day attending the global climate
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FAIRFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Two 16-year-old students are charged in the death of a high school Spanish teacher in southeast Iowa. Jefferson County authorities say Willard Noble Chaiden Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale are charged as adults with first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide in the death of 66-year-old Nohema Graber. The Fairfield
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood, CNN The State Department notified Congress of a new $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia today, according to a State Department spokesperson. The sale comes as the Biden administration continues to grapple with the US-Saudi relationship that has been strained in recent years following the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Hickey and Nicki Camberg, CNN Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin notably improved the GOP’s standing with younger voters, moderates, independents and White women since the last gubernatorial election in 2017. Youngkin’s inroads among these swing voters, seen in an analysis of CNN’s exit polls from 2017 and 2021, made him the first Republican to
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By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. is racing for his second career NASCAR Cup Series championship. Truex won four races this season driving for Joe Gibbs Racing. Truex also won the spring race at Phoenix. Truex drove a battered car last week at Martinsville into the fourth and final
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By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. is racing for his second career NASCAR Cup Series championship. Truex won four races this season driving for Joe Gibbs Racing. Truex also won the spring race at Phoenix. Truex drove a battered car last week at Martinsville into the fourth and final
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un jurado fue destituido en el juicio por homicidio de Kyle Rittenhouse este jueves por después de que hizo una broma a un agente a principios de esta semana sobre el tiroteo de la policía a Jacob Blake. El incidente ocurrió cuando un hombre del jurado que estaba siendo escoltado
Continue Reading By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Switzerland has won the decisive doubles to clinch the last spot in the semifinals of the Billie Jean King Cup with a 2-1 comeback victory over the Czech Republic. Olympic singles champion Belinda Bencic teamed up with Jil Teichmann to cruise past Lucie Hradecka and Tokyo doubles
Continue Reading GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes have claimed goalie Scott Wedgewood off waivers from the New Jersey Devils. The move gives the Coyotes some goalie depth after Carter Hutton suffered a lower-body injury last week. The 29-year-old Wedgewood went 0-2-1 with a 3.19 goals-against average in three games with the Devils this season. He
Continue Reading GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes have claimed goalie Scott Wedgewood off waivers from the New Jersey Devils. The move gives the Coyotes some goalie depth after Carter Hutton suffered a lower-body injury last week. The 29-year-old Wedgewood went 0-2-1 with a 3.19 goals-against average in three games with the Devils this season. He
Continue Reading By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration is suing Texas over new voting rules that outlasted a summer of dramatic protests by Democrats. The lawsuit filed Thursday comes as the party faces dimming hopes of overhauling the nation’s election laws in response to a wave of new restrictions in
Continue Reading By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan initially expressed support in a private message to his former chief of staff when a severance payment to him at the center of a federal indictment became public, but Hogan’s spokesman says the message was sent before he learned about how the
Continue ReadingBy Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Kari Lake, the Arizona gubernatorial candidate recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has embraced fringe far-right figures in her campaign events, including publicly thanking a Nazi sympathizer for his support and appearing with figures linked to the QAnon conspiracy, a CNN KFile review of her appearances has
Continue Reading By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Rep. Charlene Fernandez of Yuma is stepping down to take a job with President Joe Biden’s administration. Biden on Thursday appointed Fernandez to be the U.S. Agriculture Department’s state director for rural development in Arizona. Fernandez lives in Yuma and has represented the 4th Legislative
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony says he intends to run for state lieutenant governor in 2022. The Republican who lost a bid for Clark County Commission last year pointed Thursday to what he called “catastrophic policies” about the coronavirus pandemic and the state economy and said he wants to “lay
Continue Reading By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Pew Research Center has found that skin tone impacts the everyday lives and the long-term success of Latinos in the U.S. The nonpartisan organization released findings of a survey on Thursday. Colorism, or discrimination based on skin tone, often from within someone’s own ethnic group, is
Continue Reading By ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Pew Research Center has found that skin tone impacts the everyday lives and the long-term success of Latinos in the U.S. The nonpartisan organization released findings of a survey on Thursday. Colorism, or discrimination based on skin tone, often from within someone’s own ethnic group, is
Continue Reading VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Major League Soccer has engaged Janice Rubin and Melody Jahanzadeh of Rubin Thomlinson LLP to conduct an independent review of the Vancouver Whitecaps’ handling of misconduct allegations brought by members of the organization’s women’s team against former coaches Bob Birarda and Hubert Busby. U.S. player Malloree Enoch detailed allegations of
Continue Reading By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Ruth Ann Minner, the only woman to serve as Delaware’s governor, has died. She was 86. Agriculture Secretary Michael Scuse a close friend and former chief of staff for Minner, said she died Thursday morning. Minner was a sharecropper’s daughter and a high school dropout who
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Defending champion Daniil Medvedev rallied to beat unseeded American Sebastian Korda 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 and reach the Paris Masters quarterfinals. Medvedev converted his first match point on Korda’s 40th unforced error. Medvedev is vying with top-ranked Novak Djokovic to finish the year as No. 1. He next plays French qualifier Hugo Gaston.
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