JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people were fatally shot Saturday inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store, the city’s mayor has told a television station. A city council member says the shooter is dead. Mayor Donna Deegan told WJXT “there are a number of fatalities” inside the store but didn’t give a precise number. Numerous
Continue ReadingBy YVES LAURENT GOMA Associated Press LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gabon’s government has imposed a nationwide curfew and cut off internet access as voting wraps up in major national elections. Voters in the Central African nation cast ballots Saturday for local leaders, legislators and president. Incumbent President Ali Bongo Ondimba is seeking a third seven-year
Continue ReadingJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people were fatally shot Saturday inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store, the city’s mayor has told a television station. Mayor Donna Deegan told WJXT “there are a number of fatalities” inside the store but didn’t give a precise number. Numerous police officers are in the area near Edward Waters
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — La Cruz Roja de Costa Rica informó este viernes, a través un comunicado, la movilización de más de 20 unidades hacia Alajuela, en San Ramón, Bajo Rodríguez, tras recibir el reporte de la caída de un bus a un precipicio de aproximadamente 20 metros. La Cruz Roja agregó que
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A man accused of killing a Los Angeles police officer during a traffic stop four decades ago has been convicted again in a retrial this week. Jurors deliberated for two weeks before finding Kenneth Gay, 65, guilty of murdering Officer Paul Verna in 1983. Gay, who has been incarcerated roughly four
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By Aimee Lewis, Alex Stambaugh, Al Goodman and Gerardo Lemos, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s football federation has threatened to take legal action against one of the country’s star players, Jennifer Hermoso, accusing her of lying about being kissed by federation president Luis Rubiales. Hermoso said Friday that at no point did she consent to a
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El presidente de Argentina, Alberto Fernández, anunció que su país se incorporará al bloque BRICS, la alianza económica, política y social conformada hasta ahora por Brasil, Rusia, la India, China y Sudáfrica. Fernández aseveró que esta integración supone para el país una posibilidad de “abrir nuevos mercados, de consolidar los
Continue ReadingGARYVILLE, La. (AP) — Crews in Louisiana were still working to suppress flare-ups as an oil refinery fire burned for a second day along the banks of the Mississippi River. Residents are now worried about health effects from the fumes and black smoke. The Marathon Patroleum company said Saturday that tests have so far found
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities in Romania say a fire at a fueling station caused an explosion that killed at least one person and injured at least eight others, prompting an evacuation of the immediate area. A second explosion at the station Saturday injured at least 26 firefighters. The explosions happened at a fueling station
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police say a University of South Carolina student from Connecticut was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street. A Columbia Police Department news release says 20-year-old Nicholas Anthony Donofrio was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary
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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Oliver Anthony is continuing to make his voice heard after becoming an overnight sensation thanks to his viral working-class anthem, “Rich Men North of Richmond.” In a YouTube video shared on Friday, the singer addressed his song having been played at this week’s 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, saying
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La genialidad de Lionel Messi dentro de una cancha de fútbol siempre deja nuevos capítulos. El miércoles, el Inter Miami se ganó el derecho a jugar la final de la US Open Cup al derrotar, en condición de visitante y por penales, al FC Cincinnati, el mejor equipo de la Conferencia Este. Poco antes, los
Continue ReadingOpinion by Melon Dash (CNN) — My first job after college was a teaching assistantship at a small college in New Hampshire, where I taught beginning swimming every semester to around 20 undergrads. I noticed, however, that half of my students couldn’t follow my instructions. They were afraid. My students needed a class before beginning swimming. I
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police say a University of South Carolina student from Connecticut was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his street. A Columbia Police Department news release says 20-year-old Nicholas Anthony Donofrio was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary and
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By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Extreme weather events are growing more common, while an increasingly globalized world means disasters on one side of the planet reverberate on the other. In the midst of uncertainty, people are becoming more aware of personal emergency measures, including equipment kits marketed and sold specifically for crisis
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The Boston police commissioner says two people have been arrested and multiple weapons recovered in a shooting that wounded at least seven people Saturday morning in a city neighborhood. Police say all seven were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. Police responded around 7:43 a.m. to multiple gunshots in a Dorchester neighborhood.
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By Melissa Alonso and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A suspect was shot by police in Colorado after a road rage shooting and a hostage situation in Denver, authorities said. The incident started out as a road rage encounter around 5:30 p.m. local time on Friday, according to the Denver Police Department. A man
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By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday reiterated his pledge to send US Special Forces into Mexico to confront drug cartels if he is elected president, saying, “We are going to act.” Speaking to reporters at Saturday’s first stop of the “Never Back Down” bus tour through Iowa, the Republican
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — La visión agotadora de esta extraña semana –con el primer debate de las primarias presidenciales del Partido Republicano un día, seguido por el cuarto arresto este año del expresidente Trump al día siguiente– es que todos deberían prepararse para mucho más de este espectáculo político exclusivamente estadounidense y continuamente increíble. Será
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma say a teenager has died after being shot during a Friday night high school football game where two other people were wounded and two were injured fleeing the scene. Football players ran off the field and spectators hunkered down in the stands at
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