By MJ Lee and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — The White House is continuing to brace for a possible government shutdown this weekend, including making preparations for many junior personnel being furloughed starting on October 1. Some senior West Wing staff in recent days have been learning how to perform tasks that would typically be
Continue ReadingCNN, WJLA, KTVT By MJ Lee and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — The White House is continuing to brace for a possible government shutdown this weekend, including making preparations for many junior personnel being furloughed starting on October 1. Some senior West Wing staff in recent days have been learning how to perform tasks that
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo Ciudad Hidalgo, México (CNN) — Un par de decenas de personas se amontonan en una camioneta con cupo para 13 pasajeros. Acaban de cruzar un río en una balsa improvisada y esperan recorrer unos 30 kilómetros en México para llegar a su próxima parada. Pero unos minutos después, la camioneta se detiene y
Continue ReadingCOMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A Compton man who shot and seriously wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in a 2020 revenge attack as they sat in a patrol car was convicted Thursday of attempted murder and could face life in prison. Deonte Lee Murray, 39, also was convicted of carjacking, robbery and other charges
Continue ReadingCOMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A Compton man who shot and seriously wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in a 2020 revenge attack as they sat in a patrol car was convicted Thursday of attempted murder and could face life in prison. Deonte Lee Murray, 39, also was convicted of carjacking, robbery and other charges
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent (CNN) — He may be facing bribery charges and calls for his resignation from more than half of his Senate Democratic colleagues. But donors can still hit the links and dine with Sen. Bob Menendez at a luxurious beachside hotel – for a price. A political action committee tied
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two Nevada residents representing a “broad-based coalition of business interests and labor” including the Oakland Athletics filed a complaint in Carson City District Court this week, attempting to thwart an effort from a teachers union-backed PAC to repeal hundreds of millions of dollars in
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY & DEBORA REY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. In Mexico, marchers celebrated the recent decision by the country’s Supreme Court to decriminalize abortions at the federal level.
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County and city will spend billions of dollars to provide more housing and support services for homeless people under a lawsuit settlement approved Thursday by a federal judge. The county ends more than two years of court battles over LA’s response to the homelessness
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County and city will spend billions of dollars to provide more housing and support services for homeless people under a lawsuit settlement approved Thursday by a federal judge. The county ends more than two years of court battles over LA’s response to the homelessness
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich remains “defiant” six months after he was detained in Russia on spying charges, which he and the Journal strenuously deny, his mother told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Thursday night. “He’s smiling. He understands what’s going on,” Ella Milman said. “And I have
Continue ReadingCNN By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich remains “defiant” six months after he was detained in Russia on spying charges, which he and the Journal strenuously deny, his mother told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Thursday night. “He’s smiling. He understands what’s going on,” Ella Milman said. “And I
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) — Chaos erupted Thursday as a gunshot rang out during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate, an event that county officials had already postponed anticipating that tempers would flare. One man was struck
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — J.C. Jackson is trying to stay focused on the present, even though he has generated plenty of attention for what has transpired over the past week. After practice Thursday, the beleaguered Los Angeles Chargers cornerback tried to pivot to Sunday’s matchup against the Las
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump no intentará trasladar el caso de interferencia electoral que enfrenta en Georgia ––por los cargos penales que presentó en su contra la fiscal de distrito del condado de Fulton, Fani Willis–– a un tribunal federal, según revelaron sus abogados en una presentación judicial este jueves. La decisión
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Citrus farmers in the southeast corner of Louisiana are scrambling to find ways to irrigate their crops with fresh water. A mass flow of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico continues to creep up the Mississippi River and threaten Louisiana communities who use the
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose case became emblematic of an international movement launched to draw attention to an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women has been convicted of first-degree murder in her death. Tre C. James, 31, was convicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year. Alan Colie was acquitted Thursday of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting of Tanner Cook, who runs the
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — While working in the West Wing under President George W.Bush, then-US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona got a terrible telephone call from his daughter. After he had been missing, she found Carmona’s adult son in a catatonic state. He sat in the corner of his father’s home for two days
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but international “funds simply aren’t there” for humanitarian needs, a United Nations official said. Ugochi Daniels, deputy director of operations for the International Organization for Migration, said a larger and coordinated regional
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