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By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Joe O’Dea, the Republican nominee for US Senate from Colorado, fired back at Donald Trump on Monday after the former President slammed him as a “RINO” and suggested Trump’s supporters wouldn’t vote for a “stupid” person like O’Dea. In a statement to CNN, O’Dea, the CEO of a Colorado
Continue ReadingBy CNN staff Federal student loan borrowers can now apply for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. The application is available on the Department of Education’s website. Individual borrowers who make less than $125,000 a year and married couples or heads of households who make less than $250,000 annually are eligible to have up
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won nearly $485 million from gamblers in September, up nearly 7% from a year earlier. And the nine casinos edged past the amount they won from
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla’s Autopilot was involved in a third fatal motorcycle crash this summer, raising questions about the driver-assist system’s ability to operate safely. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has already launched investigations into the first two crashes and gathered information on the third crash. More details of the latest crash
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A key witness in a trial that led to the conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes adamantly stood by his testimony during an unusual court appearance Monday. The prosecution witness, former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, made a remorseful appearance at Holmes’ Silicon
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A key witness in a trial that led to the conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes adamantly stood by his testimony during an unusual court appearance Monday. The prosecution witness, former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, made a remorseful appearance at Holmes’ Silicon
Continue Reading The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators said Dollar General is facing another $1.68 million in fines after government safety inspectors found violations at four of the chain’s stores in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. During inspections in April 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found dirty and disorderly storage areas and materials
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Another group of families is suing Southern California Edison Co., alleging the utility’s negligence is linked to the outbreak of the destructive Fairview Fire last month in Riverside County. The blaze broke out on Sept. 5, killing two and forcing the evacuations of thousands in Hemet. “Edison negligently, recklessly and willfully failed to maintain an
Continue Reading LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A man with a knife was arrested after a series of stabbings in Southern California early Monday that killed a woman and wounded three other people, authorities said. Yohance Sharp, 21, of Long Beach was booked on suspicion of murder and his bail was set at $2 million, police said.
Continue ReadingBy Tim O’Shei News Staff Reporter Click here for updates on this story BUFFALO, New York (The Buffalo News) — Jack Quinn works his math a little differently than most. In the mid-’90s and early 2000s, when he was a Republican congressman and running for reelection every two years, he took an upward-looking view on
Continue ReadingBy MITCHELL SCHMIDT Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — If you’ve voted on Madison’s Near East Side over the last 11 years, most recently at Georgia O’Keeffe Middle School, there’s a good chance your ballot has been handled by chief inspector Blaise Besant. While Besant, 58, heads south
Continue ReadingBy Stu Pospisil Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald) — Dryden, Orient, Chicago, Iron Bluffs, Bridgeport and Santillo. And Petropaulowski, too. They were the paper towns of Douglas County. Most never got past the platting stage and almost all went into the shredder known as the financial panic of 1857.
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered his ministers to prepare to keep all of Germany’s three remaining nuclear plants running until mid-April to fend off a possible energy crunch over the winter. Scholz’s office said the German leader announced the decision Monday in a letter to the Cabinet.
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered his ministers to prepare to keep all of Germany’s three remaining nuclear plants running until mid-April to fend off a possible energy crunch over the winter. Scholz’s office said the German leader announced the decision Monday in a letter to the Cabinet.
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, Sam Fossum and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday announced the formal launch of the federal application for Americans seeking student loan forgiveness, the latest phase of his plan that is expected to provide debt relief to as many as 43 million borrowers. “Today, I’m announcing millions of people working
Continue ReadingBy Peyton Headlee Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Kansas City Chiefs fans have received the help they needed after their tailgate van was stolen Sunday morning. The ‘Arrowhead Express’ has been recovered. Thieves stole the decked-out van from the parking lot of a Holiday Inn in North Kansas
Continue Reading By SABRA AYRES, HANNA ARHIROVA and INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze, tearing a hole in one of them and sending people scurrying for cover or trying to shoot them down in what the president said was Russia’s attempt to terrorize
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury has heard closing arguments in the trial of a think tank analyst accused of lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump. The arguments on both sides delved for the first time into
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is about to hit the campaign trail ahead of the Nov. 8 election, but first he and former first lady Michelle Obama came home to vote. The two arrived at the downtown Chicago Board of Elections Supersite shortly after noon, voted and left. The former president is about
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN Most would agree that it isn’t Christmas without a repeat viewing of the 1983 classic “A Christmas Story,” and this year, there’s an extra reason to rejoice. On Monday, the first teaser for upcoming sequel, “A Christmas Story Christmas,” was released, and it promises to be a nostalgic trip down memory
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