By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four people asleep in apartments above the burning store. As the ubiquity of e-bikes has
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four people asleep in apartments above the burning store. As the ubiquity of e-bikes has
Continue Reading
By Sara Smart and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The search for the 9-month-old who was swept away by floodwaters in southeast Pennsylvania has concluded after 12 days of searching, with no sign of the child, authorities said Wednesday. The baby boy, Conrad Sheils, his 2-year-old sister Matilda “Mattie” Sheils and their mother vanished as
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, DREW COSTLEY and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With millions of Americans facing broiling heat across the Southwest, President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible, the White House says. He’ll be joined by the leaders
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Variety has a mess on its hands. One day after publishing a questionable 4,000-word story that aimed to detail the behind-the-scenes drama that has gripped CNN for the last 18 months, the Hollywood trade publication is being met with calls for it to issue corrections to the piece, if
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino mogul Steve Wynn’s long legal fight with Nevada gambling regulators over claims of workplace sexual misconduct is expected to end Thursday with a settlement calling for him to pay a $10 million fine and cut virtually all ties to the industry he helped shape in
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and JEFF MCMILLAN Associated Press New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but often absent from policy decisions is a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected. There has been relatively scant data collected on the number of LGBTQ+ residents in the U.S., particularly intersex people
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and JEFF MCMILLAN Associated Press New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but often absent from policy decisions is a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected. There has been relatively scant data collected on the number of LGBTQ+ residents in the U.S., particularly intersex people
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to welcome Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the White House for talks. The meeting between the U.S. and Italian leaders is expected to focus on the war in Ukraine, China and migration issues. Biden expressed trepidation about Meloni when
Continue Reading By Zenebou Sylla and Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — The brother of the late New England Patriots player and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez was arrested last week after police received complaints about threats he allegedly made, according to an incident report from police in Bristol, Connecticut. Dennis John “DJ” Hernandez, 37, was charged with breach
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The day after Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump denounced the rioters who violently stormed the Capitol building, breaking through barricades, battling law enforcement and sending members of Congress — who were set to formally certify his reelection loss — running for their lives. “Like all
Continue Reading
Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Se revelaron los diseños para dos de los proyectos de aeronaves más populares de la NASA. Estos futuros aviones quieren ser la próxima generación de vuelos sostenibles, y también quieren que se los vea bien en el aire. Primero está el X-66A, que la NASA ha estado preparando junto con Boeing
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge in Michigan must decide whether a teenager who killed four students at his school should spend his life in prison. Ethan Crumbley was 15 when he committed a mass shooting at Oxford High School in 2021. He’s pleaded guilty murder, terrorism and other charges.
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The most aggressive streak of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes in 40 years has slowed the U.S. economy. But it hasn’t derailed it. The economy’s resilience has been on display for months, and on Thursday the government could provide another encouraging snapshot: Its first estimate of
Continue Reading
You’ll soon be seeing a lot more Tesla vehicles in Coachella. The Coachella City Council will buy 17 Model Y Teslas for rideshare services for the community. On Wednesday, the city council approved a rideshare services agreement with Latino Equity Advocacy Policy Institute (LEAP). Councilmembers also authorized the city manager to sign a master lease
Continue Reading By Macie Goldfarb (CNN) — With Phoenix sweltering under unrelenting triple digit temperatures, lines have formed outside a wildlife rehabilitation center as people come across wild birds, bunnies, squirrels and other animals that have fallen victim to the scorching heat. Every animal brought to the non-profit Liberty Wildlife since late June has been dehydrated, Executive
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — SPOILER Alert: Do not read past this line if you haven’t seen “Barbie.” After all of Barbie’s glories and misadventures on the path to becoming human, moviegoers leave her at a pivotal moment at the close of the new film. That moment isn’t starting an extraordinary astronaut job or
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Three retired military veterans testified Wednesday at a House hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena – commonly known as UFOs – warning that the sightings are a national security problem and that the government has been too secretive about them. A House Oversight subcommittee convened Wednesday’s
Continue Reading
Federal and local law enforcement agencies carried out a series of raids today targeting a San Gabriel Valley gang as part of an investigation that began when a member of the gang killed a pair of El Monte police officers in 2022. Officers Joseph Santana and Michael Paredes responded to a report of a
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Wildlife officials in Western Australia said they had to make a heart-breaking decision to euthanize a group of whales who became stranded on a beach after a frantic rescue effort to refloat them failed to yield results. A pod of almost 100 long-finned pilot whales were first spotted on
Continue Reading