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By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol for
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council say smore needs to be done to counter disinformation and misinformation about the U.N.’s 12 far-flung peacekeeping operations, which have faced growing attacks especially on social media. A Brazilian-drafted presidential statement approved Tuesday by all 15 council members says the U.N.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — New York City residents are accustomed to warnings about all kinds of potential threats — severe weather, public health, mass shootings. But a new PSA on surviving a nuclear attack has rattled some cages. Christina Farrell, the city’s emergency management deputy commissioner, said the video isn’t tied to any specific threats.
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Abortions are legal once again in Louisiana after a state court on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against the state’s ban that took effect following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The court order allows abortion services in the state to resume at
Continue ReadingCNN, SENATE TV, SENATE JUDICIARY COMM By Veronica Stracqualursi and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Abortions are legal once again in Louisiana after a state court on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against the state’s ban that took effect following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The court order allows abortion services
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER A man who joined the pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol apologized Tuesday to officers who protected the building after telling lawmakers that he regrets being duped by the former president’s lies of election fraud. During a hearing before the U.S. House committee that’s investigating the insurrection,
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon has slashed financial penalties it assigned a baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple almost 10 years ago. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the Bureau of Labor and Industries is ordering Aaron Klein to pay $30,000 damages, instead of $135,000, in compliance with
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon has slashed financial penalties it assigned a baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple almost 10 years ago. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the Bureau of Labor and Industries is ordering Aaron Klein to pay $30,000 damages, instead of $135,000, in compliance with
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A new wave of anger swept through Uvalde on Tuesday over surveillance footage of police officers in body armor milling in the hallway of Robb Elementary School while a gunman continued firing inside a fourth-grade classroom where 19 children and two teachers
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN In a rare move, more than 200 congressional staffers have sent a letter to Democratic leadership in the House and Senate, demanding they close the deal on a climate and clean energy package and warning that failure could doom younger generations. “We’ve crafted the legislation necessary to avert climate catastrophe. It’s
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A high temperature of 113° was recorded in Palm Springs this afternoon, 4° above the daily average. Temperatures will take their time to cool through the evening. A breezy northwest wind will be present through the night as temperatures cool into the low and mid-80s early tomorrow morning. Monsoonal thunderstorms have been prevalent in Arizona
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man with a criminal history was charged Tuesday with assaulting a former Olympic volleyball player last week in downtown Los Angeles, prosecutors said. Kim Glass, a silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, said she suffered multiple facial bone fractures when someone hurled a metal object — possibly a pipe
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By Elizabeth Joseph and Christina Maxouris, CNN The Uvalde, Texas, City Council on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Councilman Pedro “Pete” Arredondo. Arredondo, who is the Uvalde school district police chief, said in his resignation letter earlier this month he was stepping down from the city council position to “minimize further distractions.” “The Mayor, the
Continue Reading By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Before he fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the last of six members of the country’s most influential family still clinging to power. For decades, the powerful land-owning Rajapaksa family dominated local politics in their rural southern district. Rajapaksa followed in the
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Cooper Roberts, el niño de 8 años que quedó paralizado de la cintura para abajo después de recibir un disparo en el desfile del 4 de julio de Highland Park, se encuentra nuevamente en estado crítico y enfrentó una cirugía “urgente, compleja y prolongada”, dijo un portavoz de la familia el
Continue Reading PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Local officials in Haiti say dozens of people have died in four days of gang battles in a violent neighborhood of the capital. It is the latest eruption of bloodshed in a wave of inreasing violence sweeping Haiti. The deputy mayor in the capital’s Cite Soleil district said Tuesday that at
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol for
Continue Reading By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Guam’s attorney general says a 1990 law that prohibited virtually all abortion is invalid and won’t take effect. That means the status quo allowing women to obtain abortions via telemedicine may continue in the predominantly Catholic U.S. territory. Guam’s attorney general issued his opinion last week in
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Gran parte de la conversación pública se enfocó en las carencias del sistema de servicios sociales del condado.
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Don’t fall ill or get into accidents: That’s the advice doctors in Sri Lanka are giving patients as the country’s economic crisis leaves its health care system short of drugs and other vital supplies. The South Asian island nation lacks the money to pay for
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