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By JAY REEVES Associated Press By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than prosecution after her encounter with Emmett Till led to the lynching of the Black teenager in the summer of 1955. Instead of arresting Donham on a warrant that accused her of kidnapping days after Till’s
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Austria say three people have died when a van carrying 20 people believed to be migrants overturned after evading a police check. Police in the eastern district of Burgenland, near Vienna, said officers tried to stop the white van at the border with Slovakia early Saturday, but the driver fled
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Un juez federal publicó el viernes la orden de allanamiento y el recibo de propiedad del registro del FBI al complejo del expresidente Donald Trump en Palm Beach, Florida. La búsqueda, según muestran los documentos, recopiló pruebas para una investigación de seguridad nacional sobre los registros presidenciales en Mar-a-Lago. Trump es
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities say they found at least 15 migrants dead in the desert on the borders with Sudan. The Department for Combating Irregular Migration in the southeastern city of Kufra said Saturday the migrants were on their way from Sudan to Libya when their vehicle broke down
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Shipping companies are preparing to halt the transport of goods on the Rhine as water levels in Germany’s biggest river near a critically low point. An ongoing drought affecting much of Europe has lowered the Rhine and prevented large ships with heavy loads from passing key waypoints. At one bottleneck on the Middle Rhine, an
Continue Reading Shipping companies are preparing to halt the transport of goods on the Rhine as water levels in Germany’s biggest river near a critically low point. An ongoing drought affecting much of Europe has lowered the Rhine and prevented large ships with heavy loads from passing key waypoints. At one bottleneck on the Middle Rhine, an
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN A week before former governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vázquez was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges, pop superstar Bad Bunny riled up a throng of concertgoers in San Juan, calling out the current governor and the island’s private electric company in an expletive-filled rant. “We have a government over
Continue Reading By CAROLYN THOMPSON and HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie remained hospitalized Saturday after suffering serious injuries in a stabbing attack as praise poured in for him from the West but he was disparaged in Iran. Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye, and
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday. A Russian rocket attack
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In November 1979, a little over a week after student militants seized control of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American citizens hostage, President Jimmy Carter issued Executive Order 12170 declaring a national emergency against Iran. That order remains in effect today, renewed most recently
Continue Reading By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago that starts Monday is in many ways a do-over of his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted the singer on charges that he produced a video of himself when he was around 30 having sex with
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN After 15 years teaching second and third grade at Burney Elementary, a 350-student school 30 minutes outside Tampa, Emily Lee set up her classroom this month to welcome three- and four-year-olds for pre-K. It’s a change she has embraced, she said, a chance to get kids on the right path in
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The leader of Italy’s Democratic Party is warning of the threats to European democracy posed by Italy’s right-wing nationalistic parties. Party leader Enrico Letta released the video warning in multiple languages Saturday. He says that his party would keep Italy at the center of the European Union
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Muchos californianos le temen al “Big One”, pero podría no ser el desastre natural que te imaginas. No es un terremoto. Y no es la megasequía. En realidad es exactamente lo contrario: una megainundación. Un nuevo estudio de Science Advances muestra que el cambio climático ya ha duplicado las posibilidades de
Continue Reading By SARA CLINE AND CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute. They are badly outdated — deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck — and do not produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results
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By Topher Gauk-Roger and Josh Campbell, CNN The captain of a San Diego vessel that sank in 2021 killing three of 32 smuggled migrants on board was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday, the US Attorney’s Office said in a release. Antonio Hurtado, 40, was charged with attempting to bring people into the US
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun Click here for updates on this story Toronto (CTV Network) — Vitamin D supplements could alleviate symptoms of depression in adults, a recent meta-analysis of studies has found. Researchers from Finland, Australia and the U.S. outlined their findings in a peer-reviewed paper published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition on
Continue ReadingBy Rhythm Sachdeva Click here for updates on this story Toronto (CTV Network) — New research suggests that the Arctic is warming alarmingly faster than what current scientific literature and media sources have reported. Previous research has long determined that the Arctic is warming two times faster than the rest of the world. A report
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen, Melissa Holzberg DePalo, Clara Grudberg and Nicholas Anastacio, CNN As Hawaii voters finish casting their ballots Saturday, the marquee race is the state’s Democratic primary for governor. There’s a crowded field of Democrats vying to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. David Ige including Democratic Rep. Kai Kahele, who joined the race
Continue Reading By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community with a coal plant that’s closing. Among the
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