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By ERIC TUCKER and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — French cement company Lafarge has pleaded guilty to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group so a plant in Syria could remain open, a case the Justice Department describes as the first of its kind. The company has agreed to
Continue Reading By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Just over 5 miles into her Thursday evening run along the familiar Neuse River Greenway, Raleigh mother of three Susan Karnatz was fatally shot by a 15-year-old boy whose shooting rampage killed five people, wounded two and frightened hundreds more in surrounding neighborhoods. Her
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macamilarincon (CNN) –– Drew Barrymore compartió su visión sobre el amor y el sexo después de atravesar un divorcio. La también presentadora de televisión aclaró recientemente en su blog la idea equivocada de que no es una aficionada al sexo. Drew Barrymore se sincera sobre su sobriedad y por qué el alcohol “no le sirvió”
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Justin Herbert didn’t throw a touchdown pass for the first time in 27 games. For once, it didn’t matter, thanks to the Los Angeles Chargers’ special teams. Dustin Hopkins kicked four field goals, including a 39-yarder with 2:38 remaining in overtime, and the Chargers rallied
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Aragon Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — Early voting is now underway in Georgia for the Nov. 8 midterm election, but there is already trouble at the polls for some voters in Henry County. People waited in line for hours Monday in Stockbridge. “About three hours,” one voter
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Wright, Mitchell McCluskey, Yoonjung Seo and Mostafa Salem, CNN A female Iranian rock climber, who did not wear a hijab at an international competition in South Korea, has returned to Iran as Iranian groups based abroad raised alarms over her fate back home. Elnaz Rekabi, 33, competed without a hijab during the International
Continue ReadingBy AMY KAWATA Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A protest continues Tuesday in downtown Baltimore over the city’s lack of affordable housing. For more than two weeks now, advocates and residents of a tent city under the Jones Falls Expressway have stood their ground after being told to leave for
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist After a slow start to summer in Seattle — with temperatures consistently running below normal for the month of June — a huge change happened in July and the city has been sizzling since. “Sunday was our latest … 80-plus-degree day on record in Seattle,” Maddie Kristell, a meteorologist with
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una masa de aire invernal cubrirá calabazas decorativas con escarcha y pondrá a la gente a tomar sidra de manzana caliente este martes y miércoles. Las advertencias de temperaturas muy fría y alertas y avisos de heladas están vigentes para más de 100 millones de personas desde el este de
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Polansky Click here for updates on this story DOUGLAS COUNTY, Georgia (WANF) — Any parent of an athlete knows how competitive high school sports can be and how upsetting it can be when your child doesn’t get playing time. But parents at one metro Atlanta high school said their football program is recruiting
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The media organization Semafor launched on Tuesday with no less an ambition than reinventing the news story. Semafor is the brainchild of Ben Smith — former media reporter for The New York Times and, before that, former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed — and Justin Smith, ex-CEO
Continue ReadingCNN By Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Jeremy Herb, CNN During a December 2019 Oval Office interview with then-President Donald Trump, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward asked whether his bellicose rhetoric toward North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had been intended to drive Kim to the negotiating table. “No. No. It was designed for whatever
Continue Reading LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum the auction house said was a record price for a publicly sold second-place prize. Long walked arm in arm through
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from the crash of a Russian warplane into a Russian city has risen to 15. That includes three people who died when they jumped from a nine-story apartment building to escape a massive blaze. The Su-34 bomber came down Monday in the Sea of Azov port of Yeysk after
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Florida farmers and ranchers lost up to $1.56 billion in crops, livestock, and nursery and aquaculture products due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian, according to a new preliminary analysis from the University of Florida released Tuesday. The assessment done by the UF/IFAS Economic Analysis program puts the preliminary losses
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN The Golden State Warriors are eying a second consecutive NBA title — and the franchise’s fifth since 2015 — as the season tips off on Tuesday, bidding to cement its era-defining legacy with yet more success. The reigning champions face LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in their opening game
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — French cement company Lafarge has pleaded guilty to paying $17 million to the Islamic State group so that a plant in Syria could remain open, in a case the Justice Department describes as the first of its kind. The charges were announced
Continue Reading By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A small Texas seafood importer has sued the federal government for blocking a shipment of fish from protected waters near Antarctica. It’s an ocean at the center of a diplomatic feud dividing the normally allied U.S. and U.K. governments. Southern Cross Seafoods says in a complaint filed
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The trial of five Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy resumed Tuesday morning after a juror who tested positive for Covid-19 was dismissed. The juror, a White woman who works at an education nonprofit, tested positive Monday evening, District Judge Amit Mehta said. “Based on my consultation with medical professionals, the
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Scientists are uncovering new details in the connection between using certain hair straightening products, such as chemical relaxers and pressing products, and an increased risk of cancer in women. Ongoing research previously suggested that hair straightening chemicals are associated with an increased risk of certain hormone-related cancers, including breast and ovarian
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