Associated Press MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah (AP) — Federal officials signed an agreement with leaders of the Navajo Nation on Friday that provides funding for clean drinking water infrastructure for reservation residents and resolves questions about longstanding Navajo claims to water rights in the drought-stricken U.S. West. The signing formalizes the Utah Navajo Water Rights Settlement,
Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES and AMY FORLITI Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota attorney general’s office is not charging billionaire and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford with any crimes following an investigation into the potential possession of child pornography. The state prosecutor’s decision was made public in a court filing Friday. Sanford is
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) — A esta altura de la pandemia, seguro has escuchado de personas que han tenido covid-19 más de una vez, a pesar de estar vacunados. Y esto parece que no es casualidad. El Dr. Elmer Huerta explica en este episodio por qué los científicos piensan que la variante ómicron puede ser
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RAYMOND, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi State University Extension Service researcher is hoping to help expand the niche for passionfruit growers. Demand is growing for the sweet, low-calorie tropical fruit, said Eric Stafnne, a fruit and nut specialist Eric Stafne at the extension service. Most U.S. production is in Florida, Hawaii, California, and Puerto Rico,
Continue Reading By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler said Friday he will refuse to take the field for the national anthem in a protest over the nation’s political direction following this week’s school shooting in Texas. “I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I
Continue Reading By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Reds outfielder Tommy Pham and San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson were involved in a brief altercation before Friday’s series opener at Great American Ball Park. While the Giants were warming up in the outfield, Pham confronted Pederson in the outfield during pregame warmups. The pair
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By Virginia Langmaid, Christina Maxouris and Melissa Gray, CNN As a broken community tries to make sense of a massacre that took the lives of 19 young children and two teachers, authorities have offered shifting timelines of what happened inside the Uvalde, Texas, school. On Friday, May 27, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM and DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker made a play for the top leadership post in the state Assembly on Friday, announcing he had secured enough votes among the Democrat-dominated chamber to succeed the current speaker. Assemblymember Robert Rivas, a Democrat from Hollister, said in a news
Continue ReadingBy Anjali Patel Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A couple said “I do” at Mission Hospital on Thursday to fulfill the wishes of the groom’s father, whose health has been failing. Derrick Marotta and his fiancee Caylea Lautner traveled from New York to North Carolina to spend time
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a flight, breaking her teeth, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Vyvianna Quinonez was also ordered Tuesday by the federal judge in San Diego to pay nearly $26,000 in
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a flight, breaking her teeth, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Vyvianna Quinonez was also ordered Tuesday by the federal judge in San Diego to pay nearly $26,000 in
Continue Reading By Curt Devine, CNN The law enforcement official who made the decision not to breach the Uvalde elementary school classroom where a gunman was shooting children and teachers was the school district police chief, officials said Friday. Col. Steven McCraw, Texas Department of Public Safety director, didn’t mention the official’s name at a news conference
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man was facing multiple theft charges Friday after detectives found more than 1,200 catalytic converters packed into a storage unit, a case that highlights a national surge in thefts of the pricy auto parts that play a critical role in reducing vehicle emissions. The discovery
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ULVALDE, Texas (AP) — Nineteen children were looking forward to a summer filled with Girl Scouts and soccer and video games. Two teachers were closing out a school year that they started with joy and that had held such promise. They’re the 21 people who were killed Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in a fourth-grade
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El verano en el hemisferio norte está alcanzando altas temperaturas, reina el caos en los viajes y los turistas están decididos a tener un “viaje de venganza”. Y en Venecia, eso se conjugó en una serie de turistas con comportamientos indeseables. En las dos últimas semanas se han producido una serie
Continue Reading By JUAN LOZANO and JILL COLVIN Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — One by one, they took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state. And one by one, they insisted that changing U.S. gun laws or further
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter via his lawyer to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, outlining why he will not comply with his subpoena as it stands and delivering a list of demands in order to move
Continue ReadingBy Michele Munz Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — “He didn’t have any family,” Chandra White told the group before they left a hospital parking lot in a funeral procession to Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. “But now, he does.” A U.S. veteran, who died alone in August
Continue ReadingBy Natalie Duddridge Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — A New York City veteran and double-amputee was honored Friday and gifted a new truck, modified with hand controls, at a Memorial Day event at the USS Intrepid. “They said an organization wants to donate a truck and I was shocked,”
Continue ReadingCNN en Español (CNN Español) — Más de 300 casos de viruela del mono se han confirmado desde el comienzo del brote en países donde la enfermedad no es endémica, según la plataforma científica Our World in Data. Ciertos grupos de la población están en mayor riesgo de infectarse o de desarrollar una enfermedad grave. Esto
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