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PAULINA, La. (AP) — The derailment of six train cars and a subsequent acid leak has prompted road closures and evacuations in a Louisiana community. No injuries were reported in the derailment in the community of Paulina in St. James Parish. Officials said about 200 homes were evacuated. They said residents were being put up
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says it will seek to oust Iran from the U.N.’s premiere global body fighting for gender equality because of its systematic violation of the rights of women and girls and its ongoing brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrator who took to the streets
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police have offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($633,000) reward for information on the whereabouts of an Indian national who is suspected of murdering a woman on a tropical beach four years ago before returning to his homeland. Police say Queensland state officers who speak
Continue ReadingBy CNN staff President Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered remarks from Union Station in Washington, DC, on democracy and the upcoming midterm elections. Read his speech as delivered below: Good evening, everyone. Just a few days ago a little before 2:30 a.m. in the morning, a man smashed the back window and broke into the
Continue Reading By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada asked the state’s secretary of state Wednesday to investigate what it called a “coordinated partisan election administration effort” during rural Nye County’s hand-count of mail-in ballots that was shut down last week until after polls close. The
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has settled a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who say they were roughed up by the Republican’s private security guards during his 2015 presidential campaign. The two sides settled as a jury was being selected in New York for a civil trial, one of a
Continue Reading By KIM TONG-HYUNG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea added to its barrage of recent weapons tests on Thursday, firing at least three missiles including an intercontinental ballistic missile that forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and temporarily halt trains. The launches are the latest in a
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in Florida state court trying to stop the New York attorney general from obtaining records from the trust that holds ownership of the Trump Organization. The civil lawsuit was filed hours after a New York judge denied an effort to move New York Attorney
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has renewed its effort to force former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before Congress about the attack on the US Capitol and to obtain his phone logs, according to attorneys for Meadows. Lawyers for Meadows
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SEATTLE (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered seaplanes like the one that went down in Washington’s Puget Sound in September be inspected for a flaw that likely caused the deadly crash. The Seattle Times reports that the Federal Aviation Administration’s Wednesday airworthiness directive mandates that operators of all the DHC-3 Otter seaplanes in the United
Continue Reading SEATTLE (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered seaplanes like the one that went down in Washington’s Puget Sound in September be inspected for a flaw that likely caused the deadly crash. The Seattle Times reports that the Federal Aviation Administration’s Wednesday airworthiness directive mandates that operators of all the DHC-3 Otter seaplanes in the United
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By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Paul George scored 28 points, Marcus Morris added 21 and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Houston Rockets 109-101 on Wednesday night. It was the Clippers’ second win in a row over Houston following a 95-93 victory on Monday that snapped a four-game skid. “It was
Continue ReadingCNN By Mick Krever, Clarissa Ward and Scott McWhinnie, CNN Day after day, in town after town, a police officer and prosecutor go door to door in Ukraine’s Kherson region. Treading muddy streets, past homes damaged by artillery strikes, they look for those left behind. The two men form a specialist unit that’s traveled from
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, Clarissa Ward and Scott McWhinnie, CNN Day after day, in town after town, a police officer and prosecutor go door to door in Ukraine’s Kherson region. Treading muddy streets, past homes damaged by artillery strikes, they look for those left behind. The two men form a specialist unit that’s traveled from the
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Tyler Herro’s vision is fine again. Herro’s 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left became the game winner, lifting the Miami Heat past the Sacramento Kings 110-107 on Wednesday night. Herro had a game-high 26 for the Heat, who won for the second straight night after topping Golden
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, who’s vying to hold onto her New Hampshire seat next week, didn’t hesitate to criticize President Joe Biden’s administration in a debate with Republican challenger Don Bolduc on Wednesday — especially distancing herself from the administration’s handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. New Hampshire’s Senate seat
Continue Reading By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press When NBC canceled the sci-fi family drama “Manifest” last year after three seasons, fans were devastated: The central mystery about a commercial plane that disappeared for more than five years — only to land with crew and passengers that hadn’t aged a day — was nowhere near solved. The cancellation
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Alexandra Ferguson Washington (CNN) — Funcionarios militares rusos han discutido cómo y bajo qué condiciones Rusia usaría un arma nuclear táctica en el campo de batalla en Ucrania, según una evaluación de la inteligencia estadounidense descrita a CNN por múltiples fuentes que la han leído. La evaluación, redactada por el Consejo Nacional de Inteligencia (NIC),
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CNN By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke and Ray Sanchez, CNN On the day of the Uvalde massacre, fourth graders Khloie Torres and Miah Cerrillo, surrounded by the bodies of classmates and their teacher at Robb Elementary School, whispered but managed to speak clearly and politely to a 911 operator. “Please hurry,” Khloie,
Continue Reading By Amir Vera and Zenebou Sylla, CNN A Queens man pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of first-degree manslaughter in connection with the “brutal slaying” of a woman found dismembered in a sports duffel bag, according to the district attorney. David Bonola, 44, is accused of fatally stabbing Orsolya Gaal, 51, more than 50 times
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