By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The woman accused of gunning down rising pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson and then fleeing the country until she was tracked down in Costa Rica, goes on trial for murder in Texas. Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, has been charged with murder and faces up to 99 years
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and Democratic challenger Brandon Presley are about to face off in their only debate. It’s scheduled to happen Wednesday night, six days before the Nov. 7 election. The two men have proposed significantly different platforms for governing Mississippi. The conservative
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump became president in 2017, he handed day-to-day management of his real estate empire to his eldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric. Now, as the Trumps fight to keep the family business intact, the brothers are set to testify in the New York
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The 14th Amendment disqualification trial against former President Donald Trump continued Tuesday in Colorado, where a group of voters are trying to keep him off the 2024 ballot based on the Constitution’s post-Civil War “insurrectionist ban.” An expert on right-wing extremism dissected Trump’s history of fomenting unrest and testified that Trump’s speech on
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will raise the plight of a detained Australian democracy blogger with Chinese leaders during his visit to China. Albanese said he had approved a draft letter to the two sons of Yang Hengjun, who has been detained in China since
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. White and Native American infants, infant boys and babies born at 37 weeks or earlier had significant death rate increases.
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Matthew Perry’s former fiancée has paid tribute to the late actor, remembering a man who had a “profound impact” on her life. Molly Hurwitz, who was in a relationship with Perry from 2018 to 2021, posted a tribute to the “Friends” star Monday on Instagram. “He would love
Continue ReadingBy Giri Viswanathan, CNN (CNN) — For the first time in more than two decades, the United States saw an increase in infant mortality rates in 2022. According to a report released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, the overall infant mortality rate rose by 3% from 2021 to 2022. The mortality rate
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Texas Rangers offered Corey Seager $325 million before the 2022 season hoping the 2020 World Series MVP could help the franchise finally earn a title of its own. It could all pay off Wednesday night. Seager and Marcus Semien each homered early in an 11-7 rout of the Arizona Diamondbacks
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Helicopters are battling a wildfire in remote mountainous area of Hawaii’s Central Oahu as flames burn native koa and ohia trees. No structures or homes were threatened and no evacuations were ordered. Multiple helicopters from the Honolulu Fire Department, the U.S. Army and the state dropped buckets
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Adolis García gathered Texas Rangers hitters in a clubhouse side room Tuesday afternoon and told them his World Series was over. Max Scherzer was finished, too, injuries costing the American League champions their top slugger and potential Game 7 starting pitcher. “Pull together guys. Let’s finish
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI, SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to announce that it will develop a national strategy to combat Islamophobia, according to people briefed on the matter, as it faces skepticism from many in the Muslim American community for its staunch support of
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A battle is quietly brewing between Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration over the state’s deployment of razor wire at its border with neighboring New Mexico – its latest effort to curb illegal immigration on federal land without a permit. The International Boundary and Water
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago when a city-size asteroid struck a shallow sea off the coast of what is now Mexico. But exactly how the mass extinction of 75% of the species on Earth unfolded in the years that followed the cataclysmic impact has
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CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago when a city-size asteroid struck a shallow sea off the coast of what is now Mexico. But exactly how the mass extinction of 75% of the species on Earth unfolded in the years that followed the cataclysmic impact
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) – FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that antisemitism is reaching “historic levels” in the United States. “This is a threat that is reaching, in some way, sort of historic levels,” Wray said during a Senate hearing Tuesday. The FBI director said that was in part because “the Jewish community
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Twentynine years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed into law the California Desert Protection Act, establishing Joshua Tree National Park as we know it today. Prior to 1994, the land had been designated as a national monument all the way back in 1936. Credit: Spencer Blum Former United States Senator Barabra Boxer explained to me
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — Cam Talbot made 30 saves as the Los Angeles Kings beat Toronto 4-1 on Tuesday night in a game in which Maple Leafs winger William Nylander extended his season-opening point streak to a franchise record nine games. Talbot improved to 4-2-1 in his first season with the Kings after signing a one-year
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — History is flashing warnings to the world. Outbursts of antisemitism have often been harbingers of societies in deep trouble and omens that extremism and violence are imminent. So the wave of global hatred directed against Jews – intensified by Israel’s indiscriminate response in Gaza to horrific Hamas terrorist murders
Continue ReadingCNN, WCVB By Celina Tebor, Nicki Brown and Eric Levenson, CNN Syracuse, New York (CNN) — The Cornell University student accused of posting online threats to kill members of the university’s Jewish community appeared in federal court Wednesday and was ordered to remain behind bars for the time being. Patrick Dai, a 21-year-old junior at the
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