By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Amazon’s “Paper Girls” is teeing up what looks to be a timey-wimey good time, with shades of beloved favorites like “Stranger Things” and “Doctor Who.” The trailer for the graphic novel-turned-TV series dropped on Wednesday. The series tells the story of four teen girls who deliver newspapers who end up transported
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: McCormick, Capital One fall; General Mills, Patterson rise
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California Highway Patrol officers will be ramping up patrols on state highways and roads in Riverside County starting Friday to catch drunken and drug-impaired drivers as part of the agency’s annual Fourth of July crackdown. The agency’s “maximum enforcement period” will begin at 6 p.m. Friday and conclude at 11:59 p.m. Monday, during which all
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By JUAN LOZANO, FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MARIA VERZA Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Mexican immigration official says that in the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering in the Texas heat, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors. The American
Continue Reading By JAY REEVES and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tapper and Annie Grayer, CNN Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, released a new statement Wednesday provided exclusively to CNN standing by her blockbuster testimony delivered in a hearing with the House select committee investigating January 6, in light of some pushback on her testimony.
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By Casey Tolan, CNN As abortion bans go into effect in states across the US, how strongly the laws are enforced will depend on local prosecutors — and some are promising not to bring abortion providers to court. More than a third of the district attorneys representing the 25 most populous counties in states that
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stock indexes on Wall Street ended mostly lower Wednesday after another choppy day of trading as the market heads toward its fourth monthly loss this year. The S&P 500 ended 0.1% lower after shifting between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average eked
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended mostly lower on Wall Street Wednesday, keeping the market on track for its fourth monthly loss this year. The S&P 500 fell 0.1%. The benchmark index has been volatile all week, and is down 20% for the year as investors worry about inflation
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By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton has seen trailing teams lose their fight a few times in his 13 big league seasons. Just not with these New York Yankees. “We find a way to figure it out every night,” Stanton said. “We’re just like, pushing the envelope, boom-boom-boom, until
Continue Reading By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York leaders plan to ban people from carrying firearms into many places of business unless the owners put up a sign saying guns are welcome. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she and lawmakers have agreed on the broad strokes of a gun control bill
Continue Reading By GEOFF MULVIHILL and AMY FORLITI Associated Press The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade has set off a frenzy of activity in courthouses around the country, with judges asked to decide when or if state-imposed bans or other far-reaching restrictions on abortion can go into effect. Some of the disputes involve bans that
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo is asking a U.S. judge to order a woman’s lawyer to pay more than $626,000 for losing a lawsuit to get the international soccer star to pay millions of dollars after claiming in 2018 that Ronaldo raped the woman in Las Vegas nearly a
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fresh off helping the Golden State Warriors win the NBA championship, Stephen Curry will host The ESPYS. The show, which honors the past year’s top athletes and moments in sports, airs live on ABC on July 20 from Los Angeles. Curry, who was named the Finals MVP, is nominated for three
Continue Reading By TOM HAYS and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades. Through tears and anger, several
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, CNN Hershel Woodrow Williams, the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient, has died, according to the Woody Williams Foundation. He was 98 years old. “Today at 3:15am, Hershel Woodrow Williams, affectionately known by many as Woody went home to be with the Lord. Woody peacefully joined his beloved wife
Continue Reading MENDON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday identified the four people killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a dump truck earlier this week in rural Missouri, saying two were from Kansas and two were from Missouri. The truck driver, 54-year-old Billy Barton II, of Brookfield, Missouri, died in Monday’s collision, the Chariton County
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El juez Stephen Breyer notificó a la Casa Blanca que su jubilación será efectiva el jueves 30 de junio al mediodía, hora del este. En una carta al presidente Joe Biden, Breyer dijo que había sido su “gran honor” participar como juez en el “esfuerzo por mantener nuestra Constitución y el
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