By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scottish lawmakers have confirmed Humza Yousaf as the country’s first minister. He is the first person of color to head the Scottish government, and the first Muslim national leader in any Western democracy. Tuesday’s milestone comes five months after the U.K. got its first Hindu leader in
Continue ReadingBy WCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — New Jersey lawmakers want to stamp out the growing trend of identity theft. Congressman Josh Gottheimer and victims gathered Monday outside the Paramus Post Office to call for better oversight when it comes to address changes. They say criminals are committing
Continue ReadingBy Sydnee Gonzalez Click here for updates on this story LEHI, Utah (KSL) — Have you ever navigated a completely unfamiliar housing system that won’t rent to you because you lack the right documents? Or had to write your name in a foreign alphabet using instructions in a foreign language? What about adapting to a
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN President Joe Biden and the White House have attacked Republicans in recent months for positions the president himself once held on Social Security and entitlement programs including sunset bills and raising the retirement age, a CNN KFile review of Biden’s record shows. In his State of the Union
Continue Reading By NICOLAS GARRIGA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands marched as protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again Tuesday, with police ramping up security after the government warned that radical demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill.” Concerns that violence could mar the demonstrations prompted
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By NICOLAS GARRIGA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands marched as protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again Tuesday, with police ramping up security after the government warned that radical demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill.” Concerns that violence could mar the demonstrations prompted
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Alayna Treene, Melanie Zanona and Kristen Holmes, CNN Donald Trump continues to wield enormous power on Capitol Hill as House Republicans seek to curry favor with the former president, pursuing his fixations through their investigations and routinely updating him and his closest advisers on their progress. A number of top House GOP
Continue ReadingCNN By Annie Grayer, Alayna Treene, Melanie Zanona and Kristen Holmes, CNN Donald Trump continues to wield enormous power on Capitol Hill as House Republicans seek to curry favor with the former president, pursuing his fixations through their investigations and routinely updating him and his closest advisers on their progress. A number of top House
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Bryant Gumbel will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards on May 22 in New York, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Tuesday. Gumbel’s career has spanned more than 50 years on NBC, CBS and HBO. He has hosted “Real Sports
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Bryant Gumbel will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards on May 22 in New York, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Tuesday. Gumbel’s career has spanned more than 50 years on NBC, CBS and HBO. He has hosted “Real Sports
Continue Reading By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold
Continue Reading By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Niecy Nash is speaking out on gun control after Monday’s school shooting in Nashville in which three children and three adults were killed. Nash’s own brother, Michael Ensley, died at age 17 in a school shooting more than 30 years ago at Reseda High School in Reseda, Calif. Margaret Ensley, Nash’s
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with directing $40 million in bribes to one or more Chinese officials to unfreeze assets relating to his cryptocurrency business in a newly rewritten indictment unsealed Tuesday. The charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt
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By Isabel Rosales and Jaide Garcia, CNN When Dominique Green left her 2-year-old daughter Aubrey with her parents in their Mississippi mobile home Friday evening, she didn’t know she would lose a daughter and give birth to a son within 24 hours. Green was heading to the hospital to give birth to a baby boy
Continue ReadingBy JANELLE BURRELL Click here for updates on this story BENSALEM, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Think back to when you were 9 years old. What was your biggest accomplishment? One little boy from Bucks County has already achieved more than some twice his age and he’s proving what can happen when you believe the sky is
Continue Reading CNN By Shimon Prokupecz and Rachel Clarke, CNN Two active shooters in two elementary schools, both armed with assault rifles and both ready to kill. Police in both Uvalde, Texas, last May and Nashville just this week rushed to answer 911 calls of gunfire. But while the Nashville shooter was stopped within minutes, with six
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s bank supervisors warned Silicon Valley Bank’s management as early as the fall of 2021 of risks stemming from its unusual business model, a top Fed official said Tuesday, but its managers failed to take the steps necessary to fix the problems. The Fed
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Alibaba on Tuesday said it plans to split its business into six separate units, in a move that promises to radically reshape the sprawling Chinese e-commerce firm that Jack Ma founded nearly 25 years ago. Each new business unit will be overseen by its own chief executive and board of directors,
Continue ReadingBy KOVR Staff Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO COUNTY (KOVR) — Several people had to be rescued from the roof of a four-plex in Rosemont after a fire Tuesday morning. Metro Fire of Sacramento crews responded to the scene near El Cajon Way and Montoya Street just before 7 a.m. Firefighters say
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