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By Sam Fossum and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday officially signed into law the stopgap funding measure passed by the Senate Thursday night, averting a government shutdown for now. The funding for the federal government was set to expire on Friday. The bill signed into law Friday will extend the funding until
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Republican lawmakers are starting to choose sides in the fight to defeat Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, placing high-stakes bets in a divisive primary that is widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump and cementing deep rifts in the GOP over the direction of the party. In
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SEATTLE (AP) — Sue Bird officially re-signed with the Seattle Storm, her only WNBA team, in what is expected to be her final season. Bird, the WNBA assist leader and oldest player in the league at 41, previously announced she would return for one more season. She waited until Seattle finished the rest of its
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas say a convenience store clerk killed himself earlier this month just minutes after he shot a customer who refused to wear a mask and walked out without paying for three bags of chips. A police report says the clerk would have faced criminal charges if he had
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has canceled the first week of spring training games through March 4 in the first public acknowledgement of the disruption caused by the lockout. The work stoppage was in its 79th day Friday, a day after economic talks between the management and
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has canceled the first week of spring training games through March 4 in the first public acknowledgement of the disruption caused by the lockout. The work stoppage was in its 79th day Friday, a day after economic talks between the management and
Continue ReadingBy Karol Suarez and Abel Alvarado The United States is resuming its avocado inspection program in Mexico’s Michoacán state a week after imposing a temporary ban in response to a US inspector receiving a death threat. The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said Friday that it was working closely with Mexican
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona School Boards Association says it is leaving the National School Boards Association because it continues to be beleaguered by controversy surrounding the national organization. ASBA Executive Director Sheila Harrison-Williams notified NSBA Executive Director John Heim of the state group’s decision in a letter Wednesday, Harrison-Williams cited a since-disavowed letter in
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Ya abrieron el Colegio del Desierto en Coachella donde estaba la biblioteca pública hace años sobre la calle Séptima. Por ahora, las oficinas del centro de servicio del COD atienden lunes y jueves de 12:30 a 6 de la tarde, ahí los estudiantes pueden hacer pagos, recibir consejería, asistencia para completar solicitudes de inscripción, acceso
Continue ReadingBy Chuck Morris, Mary Alice Royse Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Titans linebacker, Bud Dupree, turned himself in to Metro Police Friday on the assault charges from Jan. Metro Police charged the Tennessee Titans linebacker with misdemeanor assault in connection with a physical altercation with an employee at a Walgreen’s
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La policía dio a conocer el nombre del joven que murió el martes cuando su carro se volcó mientras circulaba sobre la calle Gene Autry entre el freeway 10 y la Vista Chino en Palm Springs. Se trata de Marcus Arangure de Desert Hot Springs quien resultó herido de gravedad y mientras los paramédicos se
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CNN By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Former Minnesota officer Kimberly Potter has been released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, whom she shot after mistaking her gun for a Taser during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, according to the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Potter
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The labor shortage has been a defining feature of the pandemic job market and it’s not getting better any time soon. But there is a whole group of workers who are being overlooked even though they could be part of the solution. Criminal records are keeping certain workers from finding
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball cancels spring training games through March 4 due to lockout.
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Measures to protect patients hospitalized with Covid-19 from financial liability have been rolled back by most insurers in the United States, leaving the vast majority of patients with an average out-of-pocket bill of about $4,000 for each hospital stay, according to research published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.
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Alexandra Ferguson Anguila (CNN) — No hay servicio a bordo. No hay cabina de clase ejecutiva. No hay champán, ni elección de carne o pollo, ni entretenimiento. Con solo ocho minutos desde el despegue hasta el aterrizaje, no hay tiempo para nada de eso. Hay vuelos más cortos como el salto de Westray a Papa
Continue ReadingBy Allegra Goodwin, CNN Photographs of the British royal family captured by members of the public will go on display alongside the work of world-renowned photographers in London next month, at a new exhibition that promises to examine the evolution of the family’s “image across three centuries.” The Life Through A Royal Lens exhibition will
Continue ReadingBy Geneva Sands, CNN The Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence chief is defending the department’s recently released national terrorism bulletin in public comments and memos this week in an attempt to push back against Republican criticism that the Biden administration is attempting to police political thought. The bulletin, released earlier this month, includes concerns about
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Rachel Janfaza, CNN An Illinois appellate court on Thursday dismissed an effort by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker to keep an emergency school mask mandate in effect for the entire state. The court, however, said the ruling does not apply to local mandates, and the Chicago Public Schools district — which was
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By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico says that Washington is lifting a ban on inspections of Mexican avocados, freeing the way for exports to resume. Ambassador Ken Salazar said in a statement Friday that the decision came after Mexico and the United States agreed “to enact the
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