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By LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans are still far from resolving the looming U.S. default crisis, but a deal is still possible by the end of the week, GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy declared after an Oval Office meeting Tuesday with Biden and
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Carolina Calero (CNN) — Priscilla Presley llegó a un acuerdo de conciliación sobre su petición en la que cuestionó la validez del testamento de su difunta hija Lisa Marie Presley. “A las partes les gustaría informar que han llegado a un acuerdo”, dijo Ronson J. Shamoun, abogado de Priscilla Presley, al juez Lynn Scaduto en una
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has decided to curtail an upcoming visit to the Indo-Pacific to focus on the debt limit standoff at home. He’s canceling what was to be a historic visit to Papua New Guinea and a stop in Australia, where he was to
Continue Reading By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The IRS is planning to launch a pilot program for a government-run, online tax filing system that’s free for all. The IRS was tasked with looking into how to create a “direct file” system as part of the funding it received with the
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By MICHELLE ZELINGER Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — A home representing post-World War II innovations in Denver housing has gained landmark status. Preservationists approached architect Alan Golin Gass hoping to secure the special status for the home he designed and has lived in since the early 1960s. On Monday, the
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly moved Tuesday to ban most abortions after 12 weeks, voting to override a veto from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The state House voted 72-48 along party lines hours after the state Senate voted 30-20 to do the same. A three-fifths vote
Continue Reading By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When researchers at a nonprofit that studies social media wanted to understand the connection between YouTube videos and gun violence, they set up accounts on the platform that mimicked the behavior of typical boys living in the U.S. They simulated two nine-year-olds who both liked video games.
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By Jennifer Hansler and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — A United States convoy was attacked in Nigeria on Tuesday killing four people, including two personnel from the US consulate and two police officers, and kidnapping three others, according to local police and US officials. The attack took place in the southeastern Anambra state, with Anambra
Continue Reading By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A jury has gone home for the evening after beginning deliberations in the trial of a limousine company manager accused of deadly indifference to safety rules before a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York. Nauman Hussain is charged with criminally negligent
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Rachael Rollins, the US attorney for Massachusetts, plans to resign as she reportedly faces an ethics investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general. Her attorney, Michael Bromwich, said in a statement to CNN that Rollins will submit her letter of resignation to President Joe Biden by the end of
Continue ReadingWCVB By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Rachael Rollins, the US attorney for Massachusetts, plans to resign as she reportedly faces an ethics investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general. Her attorney, Michael Bromwich, said in a statement to CNN that Rollins will submit her letter of resignation to President Joe Biden by the end
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Danny Masterson drugged women’s drinks so he could rape them, then relied on his prominence in the Church of Scientology to avoid consequences for years, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in closing arguments at the actor’s trial. “The defendant drugs his victims to gain control.
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has directed its agencies to review and assess who has access to classified information, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN – a move that comes on the heels of a leak of highly classified Pentagon documents discovered earlier this year. The memo
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — A number of lawmakers are now reassessing their district security protocols and brainstorming ways to keep their staff – especially in district offices – safer after the events that unfolded Monday in Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office. Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, said on Monday that two staffers were injured by
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis (CNN) — State supreme court justices are disproportionately White and don’t reflect the diverse populations they serve, a new report has found. According to statistics released by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, only 20% of justices are people of color despite Black, Latino,
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Este de Ucrania (CNN) — Mientras su país lucha por enfrentar a las fuerzas rusas, las mujeres ucranianas asumen funciones y responsabilidades a las que antes no tenían acceso, a menudo en circunstancias difíciles y peligrosas. Miles de ucranianos dejaron sus trabajos para unirse al Ejército y defender al país después de la
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Durante cuatro sesiones de una audiencia pública que comenzó el pasado 10 de mayo, Salvatore Mancuso, exjefe de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), relató ante magistrados de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) y representantes de las víctimas del paramilitarismo las supuestas relaciones entre ese grupo de extrema
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A teacher in Missouri who was initially placed on administrative leave after a video circulating on social media showed them using the n-word at least twice in class “is no longer employed,” the Springfield Public Schools district said in a statement to CNN on Tuesday. On May 9, the
Continue ReadingBy John Lauritsen Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A year ago, poultry farms across the state were dealing with a bird flu outbreak. More than 100 Minnesota farms were hit by avian influenza, forcing them to euthanize 3½ million birds. Our state also had the highest number of wild birds
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