By MARY CLARE JALONICK and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A freshman Republican congressman from Wisconsin yelled and cursed at high school-aged pages for the U.S. Senate during a late night tour of the Capitol, action that elicited a bipartisan rebuke from Senate leaders. Rep. Derrick Van Orden used a profanity to describe
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge is hearing more testimony at a hearing to determine if a Michigan school shooter will get a life prison sentence. Seventeen-year-old Heidi Allen described how she saw Ethan Crumbley come out of a bathroom with a gun at Oxford High School in 2021. Four
Continue ReadingBY SETH BORENSTEIN, CAMILLE FASSETT and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Many were not just killed at home. They were killed by their homes. Angela Eason had visited Brenda Odoms’ tidy mobile home before. It was a place where Odoms, who had many tragedies in her life, felt safe. In March,
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order giving decisions on the prosecution of serious military crimes including sexual assault to independent military attorneys. The order signed Friday takes that power away from victims’ commanders. The order formally implements legislation passed by Congress last year aimed at
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A fourth aquifer breach has been confirmed in northern Minnesota stemming from a Canadian oil company’s construction of an oil pipeline replacement in the region. Officials with Enbridge Energy and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources tell the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the breach occurred in Aitkin County and that
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ coast guard says that salvage crews dealing with a cargo ship loaded with cars that has been burning for more than two days off the northern Dutch coast boarded the vessel for the first time as heat, flames and smoke eased. They boarded
Continue ReadingBy FELIPE DANA and JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Friday pounded a key village that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive in the country’s southeast, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing a missile at a city in southern Russia that officials there said wounded 15 people.
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Former reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are enduring prison conditions their children describe as “inhumane.” In the latest episode of her podcast “Unlocked w/ Savannah Chrisley,” Savannah Chrisley, 25, and her brother Chase Chrisley, 27, discussed how their parents are doing since they began their prison
Continue ReadingBy Juli McDonald Click here for updates on this story BOSTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Lightning struck a brownstone in Boston’s South End Thursday evening, sending bricks crashing to the sidewalk on Mass. Ave. below. When firefighters arrived, they found quite a mess of debris. “The chimney kind of blew up when it got hit by
Continue ReadingBy Svitlana Vlasova and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The leader of Ukraine’s national fencing team, Olga Kharlan, has been disqualified from participating in the world championships after she refused to shake hands with Anna Smirnova, who is from Russia. Kharlan had just beaten Smirnova at the tournament in Milan, but rather than shake hands
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — El Fondo Monetario Internacional oficializó este viernes una nueva revisión del acuerdo de facilidades extendidas que mantiene con Argentina, aunque aclaró que se trata de un “acuerdo técnico” que deberá ser refrendado por el directorio del organismo internacional, que se reunirá durante la segunda quincena de agosto. El acuerdo,
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The Baltimore Orioles are set to celebrate Mo Gaba Day on Friday, an annual event named after an inspirational teen who made his mark as a staple in the city’s sports community. The Orioles are playing a home game dedicated to
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By Nadine Schmidt, CNN Berlin (CNN) — The remains of a German mountain climber who went missing 37 years ago while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s iconic Matterhorn have been recovered, as melting glaciers lead to the re-emergence of bodies and objects thought to be long lost. Climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier in
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on three additional charges in a case that accuses him of illegally possessing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, allegations that add fresh detail to the criminal case initially issued last month. Here’s a look at the charges, the special counsel’s investigation and
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — “They wanted me to grow my hair really long,” the late Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor told Oprah Winfrey in 2014, “and wear miniskirts and all that kind of stuff because (record executives) reckoned I’d look much prettier. So I went straight round to the barber and shaved the rest
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Palm Springs Firefighters were mopping up after an apartment complex fire that damaged 6 units Friday morning off San Rafael near Highway 111. The Red Cross was also being called in to help residents who were displaced when a two-story building caught fire. A hook and ladder truck was parked outside the Palm Springs Villas development,
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Men are nearly three times more likely than women to die from alcohol use in the United States, but a new report shows that gap has narrowed as the risk for women has grown, especially in recent years. For men, the rate of alcohol-related deaths has been on the
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are demanding the release of a transcript from a new FBI witness, saying it contradicts Republicans’ claims in the vast congressional inquiry into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on House Oversight Committee, sent a letter Friday to committee chair
Continue ReadingSKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Authorities in North Macedonia have arrested 21 people following clashes between visiting Levski Sofia soccer fans and Shkupi supporters in Skopje ahead of a Europa Conference League qualifying match. Police say that 19 Bulgarians and two people from North Macedonia were arrested because of Thursday’s violence. The clashes came amid
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