By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, met with former White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato on two occasions in January and March as part of its investigation, according to a source familiar with his testimony. Among the topics Ornato discussed with the
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By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials said they are moving forward with plans to build two supersize prisons despite a bond sale falling more than $200 million short of expectations. The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority hoped to sell $725 million in bonds for the project. Instead, the authority was
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nipsey Hussle was a hip-hop star who sought to raise up his neighborhood with him until a friend from the same streets gunned him down, a prosecutor said in his closing argument Thursday. “This man was different,” Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John McKinney
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Un valijazo con carteles que decían: “Quiero alquilar, pero también vivir”. Ese fue el modo que encontraron los inquilinos para protestar y reclamar frente al Congreso nuevas soluciones al problema del alquiler. “¡Alerta alerta alerta inquilina nos dejan sin vivienda en la República Argentina!”, gritaban. Según la Federación de Inquilinos
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN In decisions handed down in recent weeks, the conservative Supreme Court transformed the legal landscape around an assortment of hot-button issues, including abortion, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty. The cascade of sweeping rulings was the culmination of a generational effort to transform the high bench with the appointment of reliably
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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed enforcement of a 2021 Arizona law that lets prosecutors bring felony charges against doctors who knowingly terminate pregnancies solely because the fetuses have a genetic abnormality such as Down syndrome. The decision comes in the wake of the high court’s
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California agency on Thursday cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission voted 23-2 to reclassify a 56-acre terminal at the Port of Oakland as a mixed-use area
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California agency on Thursday cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission voted 23-2 to reclassify a 56-acre terminal at the Port of Oakland as a mixed-use area
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s top-performing casino, the Borgata, reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the city’s main casino workers’ union Thursday evening, avoiding a strike during one of the busiest weekends of the year. But the prospect of a Friday morning strike remained in
Continue Reading SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California agency clears way for Oakland Athletics to move forward with $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, Daniella Diaz and MJ Lee, CNN President Joe Biden intends to nominate an anti-abortion Republican lawyer to a federal judgeship, two Kentucky Democrats informed of the decision say. The prospective nominee, conservative lawyer Chad Meredith, would serve in a lifetime appointment to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Con la llegada del verano a Europa se inicia también la competencia de ciclismo más famosa del mundo. La edición 109 del Tour de Francia reunirá por tres semanas a los mejores ciclistas del mundo que competirán por llevar el prestigioso maillot amarillo durante el recorrido que abarcará cuatro países:
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — El Tour de Francia, una de las tres Grandes Vueltas del mundo del ciclismo (junto al Giro de Italia y la Vuelta a España), comienza el viernes 1 de julio. La edición 2022 contará con 22 equipos, los cuales partirán desde Copenhague y terminarán el domingo 24 de julio en el
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The Walter Clark Legal Group is offering to pay for your ride this Fourth of July weekend to prevent impaired driving on our local roads From Friday, July 1 to Monday, July 4, between the hours of 10 p.m. to 3 a.m., the Walter Clark Legal Group will reimburse drivers who take a taxi, Uber,
Continue Reading By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s highest court has thrown out a murder conviction for a once-prominent Atlanta attorney who fatally shot his wife as they rode in an SUV. The unanimous opinion says the jury should have had the option of a misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter charge. Seventy-nine-year-old Claud “Tex” McIver was
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The Riverside County Department of Public Health has launched a new website to share information with the community about monkeypox. You can visit https://rivcoph.org/Monkeypox to get the latest information on the virus here in Riverside County. Last week, the county announced its first probable case of monkeypox, a man in his 60s from eastern Riverside
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has launched a sweeping inquiry into the New York Police Department’s famed sex crimes investigators following years of complaints about the way they treat crime victims. The civil rights investigation, announced Thursday and spurred by a
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El presidente de Perú, Pedro Castillo, anunció su renuncia “irrevocable” al partido Perú Libre. La decisión la dio a conocer a través de su cuenta de Twitter. Castillo dijo en la red social que su salida de esta organización política fue respetando el “partido y a sus bases
Continue Reading CENTREVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities said an Alabama deputy sheriff has died after after being shot by a fleeing suspect. District Attorney Michael Jackson said Deputy Brad Johnson was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon. The 32-year-old deputy had been wounded along with another deputy in a shooting Wednesday that involved a fleeing suspect. Jackson said the
Continue Reading By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese medical group says eight people were killed in anti-coup rallies during which protesters denounced the country’s military rulers and demanded an immediate transfer of power to civilians. Security forces shot and killed seven people and a child during anti-coup rallies on Thursday in and near
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