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By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is meeting privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party’s long-stalled voting and elections legislation. Before he arrived on Thursday, Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema all but dashed the bill’s chances, declaring she could not
Continue ReadingCNN, INDEPENDENT RESTAURANT COALITION By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The Omicron surge has driven Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations to record highs in the United States. This week, however, officials have started to call out very early signs that the wave is peaking — or at least plateauing — in parts of the Northeast. But case rates
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Una mujer y un niño resultaron heridos este jueves cuando varios cohetes impactaron en la Zona Verde fortificada de Bagdad, incluida la embajada de Estados Unidos, dijeron la embajada de Estados Unidos y el ejército iraquí en comunicados. “El complejo de la embajada de Estados Unidos fue atacado esta noche por
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama left tackle Evan Neal says he’s entering the NFL draft and will skip his senior season. The Crimson Tide All-American announced his decision Thursday in a post on Twitter. The 6-foot-7, 350-pound Neal is regarded as a potential top-5 draft pick. He started 39 games in three seasons, playing left
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two former top officials will repay thousands of dollars to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium after audits found improper spending and questionable business practices cost the institution more than $630,000. The Columbus Dispatch reports the zoo’s board of directors approved a $132,000 settlement with former chief financial officer Greg Bell during
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Anna Bahney, CNN Business In the second big jump of 2022, mortgage rates again rose to a high not seen since the start of the pandemic. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.45% in the week ending January 13, up from an average 3.22% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. It’s
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By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Teachers around the U.S. are confronting classrooms where as many as half of students are absent. That’s because they have been exposed to COVID-19 or their families kept them at home out of concern about the surging coronavirus. The widespread absences have only added to the difficulty of keeping students
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning that millions of Afghans are in grave danger and on the “verge of death” because of freezing temperatures and frozen assets abroad. Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres urged the international community to fund the U.N.’s $5 billion humanitarian appeal, release Afghanistan’s
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has reversed more than 50 legal opinions issued by predecessors during the Jim Crow and Massive Resistance eras that justified segregation, interracial marriage bans and other racist laws. As a practical matter, the old legal opinions had been rendered
Continue ReadingBy Mohammed Tawfeeq, Kylie Atwood, and Aqeel Najim and Devan Cole, CNN A woman and a child were wounded when several rockets hit Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, including the US embassy, on Thursday, the embassy and Iraqi military said in statements. US personnel in the area are safe following the attacks, a State Department official
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say no arrests have been made in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy on the city’s West Side and a second fatal shooting of another boy the same age on the city’s South Side hours later. Police say the first shooting happened Wednesday afternoon shortly before 4 p.m. and
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN The Omicron surge has driven Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations to record highs in the United States. This week, however, officials have started to call out very early signs that the wave is peaking — or at least plateauing — in parts of the Northeast. But case rates are still higher in
Continue Reading By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills are no longer the Patriots patsy in preparing to host New England in a wild-card playoff game on Saturday night. Buffalo has turned the tables on its division rival by winning three of the past four meetings to earn consecutive AFC
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Clergy abuse victims are asking the European Court of Human Rights to make a definitive ruling on whether the Holy See can continue to avoid being held liable for sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests. Lawyers for the victims asked the court’s 17-member Grand Chamber to hear
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department announced the charges against Rhodes on Thursday. He
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department escalated its January 6 investigation by bringing seditious conspiracy charges against 11 defendants, including the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes. The latest accusations — with a charge that had not previously been brought in the department’s US Capitol attack
Continue ReadingBy WISN Staff Click here for updates on this story SILVER LAKE, Wisconsin (WISN) — Alex Hook, the Kenosha County first-grader critically injured in a lawnmower incident, has returned to school. In September, Alex was playing during recess in Silver Lake when a piece of metal kicked up by a lawnmower hit him in the
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Formula One’s governing body started a detailed analysis Thursday into last season’s title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where Max Verstappen overtook Lewis Hamilton on the last lap in one of the most controversial finishes in F1 history. All teams have been consulted and a discussion with drivers will now follow. The FIA
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has stripped Prince Andrew of all his honorary military titles and royal roles in charities and other civic groups, amid a growing furor over allegations he sexually abused a teenage girl supplied to him by financier Jeffrey Epstein. The palace statement Thursday came after more than
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– A pesar de tener una visibilidad menor a la habitual, Kylie Jenner logró conquistar el título de reina de Instagram. La estrella de reality show y magnate del maquillaje es la primera mujer que alcanza los 300 millones de seguidores, según la revista People. Critican a Kylie Jenner por regalarle un anillo
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