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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Liberal Democrat Tina Kotek unveiled measures to combat homelessness as she was sworn in as Oregon’s new governor. In her inaugural address at the state Capitol in Salem on Monday, she said she will declare a homeless state of emergency and sign an executive
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DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is making a number of executive promotions, but nobody is getting fired after thousands of flights were canceled in late December. The airline announced five executive promotions on Monday, none involving the highest-ranking jobs at the airline. Southwest says the shuffling will improve its operation by bringing schedule design and
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Veteran outfielder Brett Phillips has agreed to a one-year, $1.2 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels. The club announced the deal Monday for Phillips, who is likely to compete with Jo Adell and Mickey Moniak for the job as the Halos’ fourth outfielder. Phillips is joining his fifth big league
Continue ReadingCNN By MJ Lee, Phil Mattingly, Kaitlan Collins and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he did not know that government records from his time as vice president, which included some classified documents, had been taken to his private office after he had left public service. “I was surprised to learn there
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Múltiples documentos clasificados del período en que el presidente Joe Biden ocupó la vicepresidencia de EE.UU. se descubrieron el otoño pasado en un despacho privado, dijo una fuente con conocimiento del asunto a CNN. El secretario de Justicia, Merrick Garland, le pidió al fiscal federal en Chicago que investigue el asunto,
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Annie Grayer, CNN House Republicans on Monday approved a rules package for the 118th Congress, in what marked the first test of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ability to navigate his slim Republican majority. The rules were passed on a 220-213 mostly party-line vote, with Texas
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Sara Murray, CNN Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani, asking him to turn over records to a federal grand jury as part of an investigation into the former president’s fundraising following the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the subpoena. The subpoena,
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A modified jumbo jet has carried a Virgin Orbit rocket from the U.K. and released it into space from the Atlantic Ocean, marking the first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from Western Europe. The mission saw the rocket taking nine small satellites for mixed civil and
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By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and STEFANIE DAZIOAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rescuers ended the search for a 5-year-old boy who was swept away by floodwaters in central coastal California while the entire community of Montecito was ordered evacuated Monday as residents grappled with flooding and mudslides as the latest in a series of powerful storms
Continue Reading ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Anaheim forward Justin Kirkland was hospitalized overnight after getting into a car accident on his way to the Ducks’ game against the Boston Bruins on Sunday night. The Ducks announced Monday that Kirkland remains under evaluation, but has full mobility and is communicating with his family and with visiting teammates. They
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CNN, WTKR By Dakin Andone, CNN The mother of a 6-year-old boy who authorities say shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school could face charges, Newport News police Chief Steve Drew said Tuesday. “I think that is certainly a possibility,” Drew told “CNN This Morning,” a day after police confirmed the boy took the
Continue Reading By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek. The agency said in a news release that the Dec. 7 rupture
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves, a source of indoor pollution linked to childhood asthma. Richard Trumka Jr., a US Consumer Product Safety commissioner, set off a firestorm this week by saying in an interview with Bloomberg that gas stoves posed a “hidden hazard” and suggested the
Continue Reading PASO ROBLES, Calif. (AP) — Search called off for 5-year-old boy swept away from vehicle caught in floodwaters in central California; mother rescued.
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson, Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Lauren Kent and Mick Krever, CNN Britain’s Prince Harry has launched a series of incendiary accusations against members of his family in his new memoir, which reveals a number of private confrontations between him and other senior royals and details his split from the family. CNN has obtained
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN After months of uncertainty and feeling left in the dark, many former Twitter employees impacted by a mass layoff in early November began receiving their severance offers over the weekend. But some are frustrated by the offer and the conditions attached to it. The severance offer promises one month’s pay in
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s family is ready to take applications from businesses for grants funded by money from their wrongful death legal settlement with the city of Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black, died in May 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. His family
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Más de 7.000 enfermeros de dos grandes hospitales en la ciudad de Nueva York suspendieron su trabajo este lunes y salieron a protestar, señalando que la inmensa escasez de personal ha causado un agotamiento generalizado y obstaculiza su capacidad para atender adecuadamente a sus pacientes. Los enfermeros dicen que trabajan durante
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden’s former institute, the White House said Monday. Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber said “a small number of documents with classified markings” were
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez and Phil Mattingly, CNN Several classified documents from President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were discovered last fall in a private office, Biden’s attorneys acknowledged Monday. Attorney General Merrick Garland has asked the US attorney in Chicago to investigate the matter, a source familiar with the matter
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