By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A divided appeals court has tossed out the insider trading convictions of four men, prompting a sharp dissent from one judge who says the decision will let insiders sell confidential government information to the highest bidders. Tuesday’s decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — A 41-year-old man remained at-large Tuesday after he allegedly killed two people and wounded two more in a Northern California home, authorities said. Humboldt County sheriff’s deputies rescued a 4-year-old, who was uninjured, from the home in Eureka shortly after midnight Tuesday. The child’s screams were heard in the background of
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN Novak Djokovic is back in Australia, according to a spokesperson with Tennis Australia, nearly a year after his high-profile visa ban from the country over his stance on the Covid-19 vaccination. The 21-time grand slam champion is slated to open his 2023 tennis season next week in Adelaide for the Adelaide
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Update Dec. 28 2:15 p.m. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept. released new details on how Nate Otto was located following his temporary disappearance. The Sheriff’s Dept. revealed that Otto was found by a concerned civilian Tuesday evening. Otto was found with significant, life-threatening injuries from crashing his dirt bike. https://youtu.be/i-X-GuzIT_8 Due to the rugged
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By MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Nine months into a state of emergency declared by President Nayib Bukele to fight street gangs, El Salvador has seen more than 1,000 documented human rights abuses and about 90 deaths of prisoners in custody. And Bukele’s popularity ratings have soared. For decades, El
Continue Reading By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on asylum in place for now, dashing hopes of migrants who have been fleeing violence and inequality in Latin America and elsewhere to reach the United States. Tuesday’s ruling preserves a major Trump-era policy that was scheduled
Continue Reading By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on asylum in place for now, dashing hopes of migrants who have been fleeing violence and inequality in Latin America and elsewhere to reach the United States. Tuesday’s ruling preserves a major Trump-era policy that was scheduled
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One of the Inland Empire’s largest blood banks is scrambling to find donors as a supply deficit worsens by the hour, potentially threatening patients’ lives, officials said today. “We are extremely concerned,” LifeStream CEO Dr. Rick Axelrod said. “We will not be able to meet the needs of local hospital patients if we don’t receive
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macamilarincon (CNN) –– Shania Twain tiene 57 años y está orgullosa de su cuerpo. Tanto así que decidió posar en “topless” para la portada de su sencillo “Waking Up Dreaming”. “Esta soy yo expresando mi verdad. Me siento cómoda en mi propio cuerpo, y esta es la forma en que comparto esa confianza”, le dijo
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The California Highway Patrol put a call out to the community for help in identifying a tractor-trailer involved in a deadly rollover crash on the I-10 near State Route 62 on Christmas night. The crash happened at around 9:45 p.m. on the eastbound side of Interstate 10, just west of State Route 62. A driver,
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday a bill requiring the federal Bureau of Prisons to overhaul outdated security systems and fix broken surveillance cameras after rampant staff sexual abuse, inmate escapes and high-profile deaths. The bipartisan Prison Camera Reform Act, which passed the Senate last
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz, Geneva Sands, Veronica Stracqualursi, Kate Sullivan and Kristen Holmes, CNN The January 6 committee released another batch of transcripts Tuesday, including two more of its interviews with blockbuster witness Cassidy Hutchinson and testimony from several other Trump White House officials. The transcripts shed new light on how then-White
Continue ReadingCNN By Gregory Wallace and Forrest Brown, CNN The boss of Southwest Airlines has vowed he will “make good” to passengers hit by his company’s disastrous holiday meltdown as the carrier was delivering on its promise to resume better service on Friday. “This has impacted so many people — so many customers — over the
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By Brandon Miller and Cheri Mossburg, CNN The climate crisis is among the key factors in a new assessment that shows more than 85% of California’s rural and unincorporated land is now in “high” or “very high” severity zones for wildfire danger, the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) recently announced. California’s
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department released body camera video of a deadly deputy-involved shooting that occurred last month in Cabazon. FULL VIDEO RELEASE (VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED) The shooting happened after a traffic stop on Carmen Avenue west of Rafael Street on Nov. 12, 2022. Authorities said the suspect, identified as Kenneth Scott Wallis, 38, of
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Melanie Zanona, CNN GOP Rep.-elect George Santos is facing growing condemnation from House Democrats, some of whom have called on him to step aside, and even from some corners of the GOP, with at least one of his fellow incoming Republicans calling for him to face an ethics investigation. House GOP
Continue Reading Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president appealed to the country’s citizens Tuesday not to accept holiday handouts and gifts from drug gangs, after videos posted online showed garish pickup trucks handing out loads of gifts while bystanders described the drivers as members of the Jalisco drug cartel. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed
Continue Reading By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on immigration in place indefinitely, dashing hopes of immigration advocates who had been anticipating their end this week. In a ruling Tuesday, the Supreme Court extended a temporary stay that Chief Justice John Roberts issued last week.
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU By Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say a car crashed out of control into a crowded street party in southern Nigeria, killing seven people and injuring 29 others, including children. An official says the driver lost control and plowed into the crowd Tuesday at the carnival gathering in Nigeria’s Cross
Continue Reading By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Asked to consider what previous opponents were similar to Michigan, TCU’s defensive players and coordinator mention Kansas State a lot. A bigger Kansas State. “We see that they have a pretty huge O-line,” Horned Frogs linebacker Dee Winters said Tuesday. As for the
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