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By Jeff Ehling Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A monkey was rescued by officials with Houston’s animal shelter and adoption facility after police responded to a bizarre aggressive animal call in southeast Houston on Monday night. Houston police thought they were responding to a call about a dog who
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By Claudia Rebaza, Antonia Mortensen and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Vatican investigators looking into sexual abuse allegations at a Roman Catholic society in Peru have completed the first stage of their audit and will issue a report in the coming months, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told CNN Friday. “The first stage, gathering information, was
Continue ReadingMISSION, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Kansas City police officer who was wounded in a shootout that killed a car chase suspect has died. Police in Fairway, Kansas, announced late Monday in a news release that Officer Jonah Oswald had died of injuries suffered in the Sunday morning shooting at a QuikTrip store
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Alia Bhatt had been weighing her Hollywood options for a few years. A popular star of Hindi films for over a decade with nearly 79 million Instagram followers, she’d been interested in making an English language film, but nothing had been working out. Then Bhatt got word of a
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Lottery players have another shot at a massive Mega Millions jackpot. The estimated $1.58 billion prize up for grabs Tuesday night has risen thanks to 31 straight drawings without a jackpot winner. It now ranks as the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. Mega Millions jackpot winners are so rare thanks to
Continue Reading CNN By Alta Spells, Devon M. Sayers, Ryan Young and Eric Levenson, CNN Montgomery, Alabama (CNN) — Arrest warrants have been issued for three men involved in the chaotic brawl at a riverfront dock in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday that was captured on video and involved an array of punches, a chair to the head
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Italian finance ministry is defending a proposed 40% tax on some bank profits as being in line with “already existing rules in Europe on extra bank margins.” The ministry said in a statement Tuesday that regardless the contribution from the new tax can’t exceed 0.1% of
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Jay-Z ‘s annual Made in America festival, scheduled for next month in Philadelphia, has been canceled. “Due to severe circumstances outside of production control, the 2023 Made in America festival will no longer be taking place,” the festival shared in a statement on social media. Made in America had
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Native American Journalists Association is aiming to become more inclusive as its members vote on whether to rebrand as the Indigenous Journalists Association. The group with more than 950 members is voting ahead of its annual conference this week. Practical reasons for the change involve more
Continue ReadingBy Danny Freeman (CNN) — Organizers of the annual Made in America Music Festival that takes place over Labor Day weekend in Philadelphia announced Tuesday that this year’s event is canceled. “Due to severe circumstances outside of production control, the 2023 Made in America festival will no longer be taking place,” organizers posted on the
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed lower on Wall Street as worries about the banking system and the global economy inject more caution into financial markets worldwide. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Tuesday after paring an earlier loss. The Dow lost 158 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq fell
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s election watchdog says hackers may have information on tens of millions of British voters after they got access to electoral registers. The Electoral Commission apologized on Tuesday for the breach. It said much of the information was already in the public domain and the names and addresses of people who
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Karen Esquivel (CNN Español) — Un exatleta olímpico con Parkinson y el primer dúo madre-hija del Caribe serán los tripulantes del segundo vuelo comercial de Virgin Galactic que será enviado al límite del espacio este jueves 10 de agosto. Bautizada como “Galactic 02”, la misión busca eliminar las barreras de entrada a los vuelos espaciales
Continue ReadingCNN, WBRC, WXIA, WVTM, WHNS, WFXT, WJZ, CNN By Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — More than a 150,000 homes and businesses were still in the dark Tuesday night, more than 24 hours after ferocious storms pummeled much of the Eastern US – leaving two people dead, homes without roofs and drivers stranded
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer The National Basketball Association set a league record for most head coaches of color in the past year, helping it earn high grades in an annual diversity report. The NBA earned a combined grade of A in the 2023 NBA Racial and Gender Report Card released by The Institute
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Extreme heat is far deadlier than other natural disasters, killing on average more than twice as many people each year as hurricanes and tornadoes combined, according to data tracked by the National Weather Service. Despite this, heat isn’t on the list of disasters eligible for assistance from the Federal
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers. With an updated vaccine still months away, this summer bump in new hospitalizations might be concerning, but the number of patients is
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A father was sentenced to 33 to 66 years in prison for the death of his 3-year-old daughter who officials said was abused in Oakmont. Jose Eduardo Salazar-Ortiz was found guilty of third-degree murder in Bella Rae Seachrist’s death after a non-jury
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Atlantic Coast Conference presidents and chancellors held a conference call Tuesday but took no action on West Coast expansion with California and Stanford, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the league
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Ciara and Russell Wilson’s family is growing. On Tuesday, the singer posted a video debuting her belly bump in silhouette on her verified Instagram account quoting lyrics from her song with Chris Brown titled “How We Roll.” “You look at me like that again, we make another kid,”
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