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CNN By Matt Egan, CNN Business The oil industry pushed for an easing of tensions and a dialing back of finger-pointing from the White House during a Thursday meeting with the Energy Department as high gas prices continue to anger politicians and consumers. “Our guys raised concerns about the ongoing tone from the administration. We
Continue ReadingCNN By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Federal investigators on Wednesday conducted a search of the home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, people briefed on the matter tell CNN. Clark is the former DOJ lawyer who former President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general in the days before the January 6
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer For more than a decade, individual Supreme Court conservatives lamented lower court decisions that endorsed gun regulations, as their own court failed to expand a 2008 ruling that said the Second Amendment protects a right to a handgun in the home for self-defense. One of
Continue ReadingCNN: NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE: NY GOVERNOR’S OFFICE: KCPQ: WLS: SENATE TV By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer For more than a decade, individual Supreme Court conservatives lamented lower court decisions that endorsed gun regulations, as their own court failed to expand a 2008 ruling that said the Second Amendment protects a
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday rolled out free at-home Covid-19 tests that are designed to be more accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired. White House Covid-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said the administration will provide more accessible, rapid self-tests to Americans across the country
Continue ReadingZoe Sottile, CNN The first official joint portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has been revealed to the public at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. The Duke and Duchess visited Cambridge on Thursday to see the 210 centimeter by 110 centimeter oil painting, crafted by British artist Jamie Coreth. The portrait shows
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday announced an additional $450 million in military aid for Ukraine, with the US giving the war-stricken country four more multiple launch rocket systems and artillery ammunition for other systems. The package, which will be drawn from existing Defense Department stocks, also includes 18
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter While Justice Clarence Thomas spent 63 pages in a 6-3 majority opinion Thursday painstakingly explaining the court’s reasons for striking down a New York conceal carry gun law and changing the way judges will analyze a host of other gun regulations going forward, his colleague Samuel Alito
Continue ReadingBy TARA JAKEWAY Click here for updates on this story WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (WPBF) — Human remains were found in a shallow grave Wednesday after a man says he made the startling discovery while searching for a chicken. This chicken escaped from a yard on Sapodilla Tuesday afternoon, leading his owner James to the
Continue ReadingBy KATIE SIVCO Click here for updates on this story MARION COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — Deputies in Marion County found a missing boater dead in Lake Weir on Thursday morning. His identity is not yet being revealed until his family is made aware, deputies said. According to the sheriff’s office, on Tuesday around 2:30 p.m.,
Continue ReadingBy ED WEINSTOCK Click here for updates on this story CHAMBERSBURG, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — Fifteen people were taken to hospitals after being sickened by carbon monoxide at a Kohl’s in Franklin County. Emergency crews were called around 9:30 a.m. Thursday to the store on Norland Avenue in Chambersburg. According to Chambersburg Fire Chief Dustin Ulrich,
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The Senate Intelligence Committee has advanced legislation that would allow US intelligence agencies to hire applicants who have used marijuana in the past, according to committee aides. Language included in the committee’s annual authorization bill for the intelligence community — which passed unanimously on Wednesday — would prohibit intelligence agencies
Continue ReadingBy LOWELL MELSER Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) — Three people were injured in a drive-by shooting outside a shopping center in northeast Baltimore. Police were called just before 10 a.m. to the Moravia Mart at the Parkside Shopping Center on Sinclair Lane. Police said officers found two 21-year-old men
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks shook off a midday slump and ended higher Thursday, keeping the market on track for its first weekly gain after three weeks of punishing losses. Trading was wobbly throughout the day as investors remained focused on another round of testimony
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s 3 biggest banks have enough capital to withstand a severe economic contraction. That’s according the Federal Reserve’s latest annual “stress tests” of the U.S. financial system. The Fed built a scenario under which the nation’s unemployment rate would more than double to 10%,
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CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — El 7 de agosto será un día histórico para Colombia: asumirá al poder por primera vez un partido de izquierda, luego de una tradición marcada por sucesivos gobiernos de derecha. El presidente electo, Gustavo Petro, deberá enfrentar un país divido. En los comicios del último domingo, el Pacto Histórico logró
Continue Reading By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration has agreed to cancel $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 former students who say they were defrauded by their colleges, according to a proposed settlement in a Trump-era lawsuit. The agreement filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court would automatically cancel federal student debt
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks shook off a midday slump and ended higher, keeping major indexes on track for weekly gains. Trading was wobbly throughout the day as investors remained focused on another day of testimony before Congress by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq rose.
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina House Republicans are pitching a plan that could authorize expanding Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of additional low-income adults, although not right away. Speaker Tim Moore talked Thursday to a legislative committee about a proposal billed as an alternative to a Senate measure
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — He may have died last November, but Virgil Abloh lives on at Paris Fashion Week in a high-energy runway spectacular for Louis Vuitton menswear. A Black marching band gave a rousing performance on a surreal yellow brick road installation inside the Louvre Thursday, while rapper Kendrick
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