By Tina Burnside and Jamiel Lynch, CNN One person was killed after an Amtrak train collided with a passenger vehicle in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, according to officials. It is the nation’s third accident involving Amtrak trains in a two-day period. The accident happened around 6:22 p.m. CT (7:22 p.m. ET) at a train crossing
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Madrid (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden dijo este martes que el hallazgo de al menos 51 migrantes muertos en un camión en Texas es “horrible y desgarrador” y subraya la necesidad de perseguir a las redes criminales de tráfico de personas. “Explotar a personas vulnerables para obtener beneficios es vergonzoso, al igual
Continue ReadingCNN, HLN By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration’s independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted Tuesday to support recommending inclusion of an Omicron-specific component for a Covid-19 booster vaccine. Twenty-one voting members of the FDA’s independent committee voted on the question: “Does the committee recommend inclusion of a SARS-CoV-2
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The news story that reportedly caused former President Donald Trump to throw his lunch against a White House wall came from an AP interview with former Attorney General William Barr. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday testified before the Jan. 6 committee about
Continue Reading CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys for the mother of a dead North Carolina man say body-camera footage shows a police officer shot the unarmed man five times after a chase, paused to call dispatch, and then shot him again. Attorneys for Brandon Combs’ mother on Tuesday called on officials to publicly release the footage and
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who served as the U.S. Senate’s sergeant at arms and resigned after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has died. Michael Stenger was 71. Two people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press that Stenger died Monday of natural causes.
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press At least some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday that it’s time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration wrestled with how to modify doses now when
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Drowned in the Rio Grande. Murdered in Mexico. Perished in the Arizona desert. For migrants traveling to the United States, the journey has always been full of peril. A tragic reminder came this week when at least 51 people died after being abandoned in
Continue Reading By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Drowned in the Rio Grande. Murdered in Mexico. Perished in the Arizona desert. For migrants traveling to the United States, the journey has always been full of peril. A tragic reminder came this week when at least 51 people died after being abandoned in
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — El Comité Asesor de Vacunas y Productos Biológicos Relacionados (VRBPAC, por sus siglas en inglés), independiente de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) de EE.UU., votó este martes para apoyar la recomendación de incluir un componente específico de la variante ómicron para una vacuna de
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Radar isn’t as active around Southern California as it was yesterday but when you step outside you can still feel the moisture in the air. A few cells have developed in the High Desert, near Twentynine Palms, but the bulk of the action remains in Arizona. Good news — relief is on the way! Dew
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A garage fire at a home in La Quinta Tuesday afternoon left one person with minor injuries. The fire happened on the 52000 block of Avenida Herrera. CAL FIRE said the injured person did not need to be taken to the hospital. A utilities and building inspector has been requested to the scene. The Red
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in the Bahamas say that carbon monoxide poisoning killed three U.S. tourists found dead at a resort in May. Authorities did not provide further details on Tuesday, saying only the deaths were still under investigation. The victims were a couple from Tennessee and
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission says it has sued Walmart for allowing its money transfer services to be used by scam artists who the agency says fleeced hundreds of millions of dollars from consumers. In its lawsuit, the FTC alleges that for years, Walmart failed to
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission says it has sued Walmart for allowing its money transfer services to be used by scam artists who the agency says fleeced hundreds of millions of dollars from consumers. In its lawsuit, the FTC alleges that for years, Walmart failed to
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday signed into law his eighth and final state budget, an $18 billion spending plan that uses a record surplus to invest in education and infrastructure while lowering state debt and preparing for an economic downturn. The massive spending plan marks
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una mujer que recibió un disparo de su nieto antes de que terminara con la vida de 21 personas en una escuela primaria de Texas fue dada de alta del hospital. University Health en San Antonio, Texas dijo que una paciente de 66 años de edad, herida el día del tiroteo
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. One fear is that law enforcement or vigilantes could
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. One fear is that law enforcement or vigilantes could
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Serena Williams began — and ended — her comeback at Wimbledon after 364 days out of singles competition looking very much like someone who hadn’t competed in just that long. She missed shots, shook her head, rolled her eyes. In between, there were moments where
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