By Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro will not be able to argue before a jury at his contempt of Congress trial next week that the former president asserted privilege to shield him from a House January 6 committee subpoena, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Navarro
Continue ReadingBy ELIJAH WESTBROOK Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — Police say a woman was shoved onto the subway tracks in an unprovoked attack Tuesday night in Manhattan. It happened shortly after 11 p.m. at the Chambers Street station on the 1, 2 and 3 lines. Police said the 34-year-old
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska voters could decide next year whether to use taxpayer money to fund private school tuition scholarships if one organization has its way. The Support Our Schools effort turned in 117,000 signatures Wednesday to the Nebraska Secretary of State in an attempt to get the question added to the
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Rusia y Corea del Norte “avanzan activamente” en sus negociaciones sobre un posible acuerdo sobre armas que proporcionaría una importante cantidad de munición para diferentes tipos de sistemas de armas, incluida la artillería, en el más reciente indicio de que el Kremlin está desesperado por obtener más material para su fallida invasión
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The editor of such best-selling novels as Liane Moriarty’s “Big Little Lies” and Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help” is joining Penguin Random House. Amy Einhorn will begin Oct. 2 as senior vice president and publisher of Crown’s fiction program. Einhorn most recently served as president and
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The outer bands of Hurricane Franklin are lashing Bermuda as the Category 2 storm was forecast to pass near the island located in the north Atlantic Ocean. Franklin had maximum sustained winds of 105 mph and was located some 155 miles northwest of Bermuda early Wednesday afternoon. It was
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A former member of Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces is to face trial in Switzerland next month for the forced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s. Activists on Wednesday called it a “watershed moment” in international justice that could trigger
Continue ReadingYAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) — A group of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi. The state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks says four state residents harvested a male alligator Saturday in west Mississippi’s Sunflower River. The alligator weighed 802.5 pounds and measured 14 feet, 3 inches long. That
Continue ReadingBy Diane Ako Click here for updates on this story HILO, Hawaii (KITV) — A Hilo retiree is almost 80 years old but he’s Aging Well by setting powerlifting records. Richard Ha started training last fall because he was feeling slow, and realized he needed to move it or lose it. At 78 years old,
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By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — In his 2013 hit “Beer With Jesus,” country singer Thomas Rhett imagines a barstool meeting with his Christian lord and savior. “If I could have a beer with Jesus … I’d be sure to let him do the talkin’ Careful when I got the chance to ask How’d you
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday held Rudy Giuliani liable in a defamation lawsuit brought by two Georgia election workers who say they were falsely accused of fraud, entering a default judgment against the former New York City mayor and ordering him to pay tens of thousands of
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Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees to get on board with the company’s return-to-office plan or to consider employment elsewhere, the company confirmed to CNN, after a report by Insider highlighted Jassy’s remarks from a recent internal event. Jassy’s message reflects Amazon’s continued pressure on US office staff to comply
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — In many ways, San Francisco’s downtown is in dire straits. The city’s once bustling Union Square neighborhood — teeming with shoppers, diners, and tourists — has suffered declining foot traffic and closing stores. Stores in the area, once crowded with shoppers, are now replaced by papered-over windows and “Retail
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a 34-year-old man who was being held at a problem-plagued jail in Atlanta died after he was taken to a hospital. He was the fourth person to die in Fulton County custody in the span of a month. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Wednesday that
Continue ReadingBy NIKKI DEMENTRI Click here for updates on this story OCEAN COUNTY, New Jersey (KYW) — The Coast Guard rescued four people and a dog from a boat taking on water Sunday near the Forked River in Barnegat Bay. A 29-foot response boat — carrying a small crew from Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light in
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press A month after the U.S. Supreme Court severely restricted the federal government’s power to oversee wetlands, the Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature handed state agencies an order: Don’t give the ecologically crucial waters any more protection than newly weakened federal rules provide. It might seem ironic that Republicans
Continue ReadingBy TERESA MEDRANO and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — When Patricia Otero watched the president of Spain’s soccer federation tarnish the greatest victory in the history of women’s sports in Spain by forcibly kissing a player on the lips during the Women’s World Cup medal ceremony, she was saddened — but not surprised.
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Being without electricity is more than an inconvenience: not having access to power can impact your ability to keep food and medications cold, see potential danger around you, maintain a comfortable temperature and stay connected to safety services. Here’s what you can do to stay safe if you’re without
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Chicago police say an 8-year-old fought off a man in an attempted kidnapping in Lincoln Square Monday afternoon. The child was walking ahead of his guardian at the corner of Ainslie and Seeley when a car pulled up next to the boy.
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to begin voting on legislation to hold the state’s 2024 presidential primary a few weeks earlier. That wouldn’t give the state’s voters much more say in deciding presidential nominees. A Senate committee vote scheduled for Wednesday could change the state’s primary from April
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