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By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday warned of the widespread global effects that could be felt if the federal government exhausts extraordinary measures and fails to raise the debt ceiling, telling CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about the ways everyday Americans could face stark consequences. Yellen’s warning comes after the United States on
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By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America As more than a dozen states consider passing anti-transgender legislation this year, North Dakota lawmakers are considering a bill that would penalize people with $1,500 fines for referring to themselves or others with gender pronouns different from the ones they were assigned at birth. That would apply to
Continue Reading By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh albums from Sam Smith and Elle King, the return of Jennifer Lopez in the rom-com “Shotgun Wedding,” and the TV show “Poker Face,” starring Natasha Lyonne as a wise-cracking, friendly drifter who has an uncanny ability to immediately know if someone is lying. The
Continue Reading TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Defense lawyers are asking for a University of Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder to be released on bond, arguing there is scant evidence against him and he is not a threat to the community. Darius Miles’ attorney on Thursday asked a judge to set a bond hearing. Miles is
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — The Italian soccer federation prosecutor has requested a nine-point penalty for Juventus for alleged false accounting involving the Bianconeri. The punishment could eliminate the club’s chances of playing in Europe next season. Prosecutor Giuseppe Chiné made the request during a hearing before the federation’s appeals court. Juventus has denied wrongdoing and was
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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and TOM KRISHER Associated Press FLINT, Mich. (AP) — General Motors says it will spend more than $900 million to update four factories, with the bulk going to an engine plant in Flint, Michigan, to build the next-generation V8 for big pickup trucks and SUVs. Factories in Rochester, New York; Defiance, Ohio;
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid, Hannah Rabinowitz, Casey Gannon and Kristen Holmes, CNN Former Trump White House aide John McEntee appeared on Friday before a grand jury on Trump-related investigations at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC. McEntee had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department as part of its sprawling probe, a source familiar with the matter
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A cancer diagnosis can rock a parent’s world. It’s exactly what Kristen Tanner, a mom of two and nurse at Eisenhower Desert Orthopedic Center, went through when her daughter Natalie was diagnosed with brain cancer. “That was just one of my biggest fears and worries — was not getting to know her as an older
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Costa Rica suma una ventanilla en el puesto de Tablillas, en la zona norte del país en la frontera con Nicaragua, para el ingreso de trabajadores migrantes para las cosechas. Esta se suma a las que ya están habilitadas en Peñas Blancas, otro punto fronterizo con Nicaragua y Río
Continue Reading By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A group of police officers and paramedics are scheduled Friday to enter pleas in Colorado court to charges in the death of a 23-year-old Black man who was forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative. They were indicted by a state grand jury on manslaughter, criminally
Continue Reading By ASHRAF KHALIL and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A half century after Roe v. Wade, March for Life supporters on Friday celebrated the Supreme Court’s dismantling of that constitutional right to abortion and heralded the political struggle set loose by the court’s decision. President Joe Biden pledged to do all in his
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By Nathan Vickers Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Two men may have stumbled upon something special, and possibly prehistoric, along the Missouri River. Mike Ruth and Dave Jamerson enjoy scavenging along local waterways for artifacts and fossils. They’ve each found a number of unusual glass bottles, arrowheads, bones,
Continue Reading ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A towering Denny’s Restaurant sign in central Kentucky fell on a car during high winds, killing a woman and injuring her husband and daughter. The sign partially crushed their car when it fell Thursday from a pole near the Denny’s parking lot off Interstate 65 in Elizabethtown. Lillian Curtis, 72, was
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN Pressure is growing on Germany to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, with Kyiv stepping up its pleas and a spat brewing between Berlin and some of its NATO allies. On Friday, Germany failed to reach agreement with its key Western partners on sending the vehicles, ahead of a potential Russian
Continue Reading By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Western envoys have visited Kosovo and Serbia as part of their ongoing efforts to defuse tensions and help secure a reconciliation agreement between the two. Envoys from the United States, the European Union, France, Germany and Italy met with Prime Minister Albin Kurti
Continue ReadingBy Daeshen Smith Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Nineteen-year-old Xavier Dixon is the man accused of killing 63-year-old Martyn Hands in front of the 61Ninety apartments on Girby Road. Dixon turned himself in shortly after the shooting Tuesday morning. Investigators say Hands died at the hospital after he was
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Missouri lawmakers are considering new legislation aimed at prohibiting the teaching of so-called critical race theory in its public grade schools — even though the state’s largest teachers’ union says the concept is not presently a part of schools’ curricula — and requiring the state to develop a training program to
Continue ReadingBy Brendan Kirby Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Prosecutors on Thursday laid out a largely circumstantial case against a man charged with multiple violent offenses in three separate incidents. There are plenty of witnesses from a club shooting in November, a home invasion in December and a Walmart shooting
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN The first time Johanna Thomas talked to the families of her kids’ friends about gun safety, she had to work up her nerve. It was after a school event, and a girl had invited her daughter to drive home with her family for a playdate, said the mother of two kids
Continue ReadingBy Swati Gupta, Tara Subramaniam, Manveena Suri and Vedika Sud, CNN Several leading Indian wrestlers are demanding an inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment against the president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), amid a days-long protest in New Delhi. The wrestlers are also calling for the president’s dismissal and the dissolution of the
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