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By Omar Jimenez and Zachary Cohen, CNN A top elections official in Milwaukee has been fired after allegedly obtaining military absentee ballots for fake voters through a state-run website and sending them to a Republican state lawmaker, Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced Thursday. Kimberly Zapata, deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, allegedly requested the military
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Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — La presencia de los hispanos en Estados Unidos ha crecido de manera sostenida y, así también su poder en las urnas: más de 34 millones de latinos pueden votar en las elecciones intermedias de 2022, según los registros, eso es un 14,3% de todos los ciudadanos elegibles, y la
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The NBA issued $25,000 fines to the Los Angeles Clippers and Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday for violations of the league’s policies regarding injury reporting. In the Clippers’ case, the league found that the team did not disclose an accurate game availability status for guard Brandon Boston Jr. and forward Moussa
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks’ revenue rose 3% to a record $8.41 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter as U.S. customers shrugged off higher prices on frothy drinks and snacks. The Seattle coffee giant said its same-store sales __ or sales at locations open at least a year __ were up 7%. That
Continue Reading By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is relying on emergency generators to run its safety systems after external power from the Ukrainian electric grid was again cut off. Fighting in Ukraine has repeatedly damaged power lines and substations that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant requires to operate
Continue ReadingBy Kate Bennett, CNN First daughter Ashley Biden has been a regular presence in President Joe Biden’s White House — she quit her job before the 2020 campaign partly to be near the man she calls her “best friend” — but until this fall, she stayed carefully behind the scenes. Now the normally private social
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appellate court says a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing, because including her could interfere with the message the pageant wants to send about the “ideal woman.” Wednesday’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling
Continue ReadingBy KPIX Staff Click here for updates on this story LIVERMORE, California (KPIX) — Police on Wednesday arrested a Livermore man on charges of homicide and fatal child abuse in connection with the August death of his toddler daughter from Fentanyl exposure. According to a press release issued by the Livermore Police Department, on the
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Dwyane Wade is firing back after his ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, accused him of trying to exploit their transgender daughter, Zaya, by applying for a legal name and gender change for the teen. The sports star took to his verified Instagram account after Funches-Wade filed an objection in a Los Angeles
Continue ReadingBy WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story ST. PAUL, Minnesota (WCCO) — Police in St. Paul are asking the public’s help in finding two teenage girls, who haven’t been seen since Tuesday evening. Znaya Gordon, 16, and Anastasia Miller, 17, were last seen leaving a residence on the 1200 block of 7th
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For the first time, the Palm Springs Public Library is presenting the “Pride on the Page Book Festival,” featuring more than 40 LGBTQ authors and a free panel series. The festival will be held Friday and Saturday at the Plaza Theatre in downtown Palm Springs. The goal is to bring together writers and book lovers.
Continue ReadingBy WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK, Minnesota (WCCO) — Rare footage has been taken of a cougar roaming through extreme northern Minnesota last month. On Thursday, the Voyageurs Wolf Project shared video of the cougar, saying the footage was taken on Oct. 20 in the southern part of
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Suspected Russian operatives have used far-right media platforms to denigrate Democratic candidates in Georgia, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania in a renewed effort to influence voters in next week’s midterm elections, private researchers said Thursday. The alleged Russian influence operation included six political cartoons spread in the last week on a
Continue ReadingBy Jessi Mitchell Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Thursday marks the start of the final celebration of life for Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts III. Abyssinian Baptist Church opened its doors for a wake for its senior pastor. His viewing began at 9 a.m., and well-wishers arrived well before that
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una sola dosis de una versión sintética del componente de los “hongos alucinógenos”, la psilocibina, mejoró la depresión en personas con una forma de la enfermedad resistente al tratamiento, según un nuevo estudio. El ensayo clínico aleatorizado y doble ciego, que los autores calificaron como “el mayor de su clase”, comparó
Continue ReadingBy Alice Gainer Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Police say they have a person of interest in custody after a woman was raped and robbed early Thursday morning while jogging in the West Village. Her attacker fled on a Citi Bike. Sources told CBS2 the person was taken into
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu A rightwing French lawmaker has caused uproar by shouting “Go back to Africa” during a Black lawmaker’s comments at a parliamentary session broadcast to the public on Thursday. Grégoire de Fournas, parliamentary representative from the National Rally (RN) party, interrupted Carlos Martens Bilongo, a representative from the far-left party France Unbowed (LFI)
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — A British court has ordered commodities company Glencore to pay more than 280 million pounds for using bribes to bolster its oil profits in five African countries. The sentence Thursday comes months after Glencore said it had reached deals with authorities in the U.S., Britain and Brazil to resolve corruption allegations. Glencore
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LONDON (AP) — A British court has ordered commodities company Glencore to pay more than 280 million pounds for using bribes to bolster its oil profits in five African countries. The sentence Thursday comes months after Glencore said it had reached deals with authorities in the U.S., Britain and Brazil to resolve corruption allegations. Glencore
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN A New York state judge on Thursday imposed a monitor to oversee the Trump Organization’s financial statements after the New York attorney general’s office asked for added oversight to stop what they allege is a decade-long fraud conducted by former President Donald Trump and three of his
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