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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A top Ford executive says the company has reached the limit of how much money it will spend to get a contract agreement with the striking United Auto Workers union. Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, the company’s internal combustion engine business, told reporters Thursday that
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of Chicago police officer Ella French and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Twenty-five-year-old Eric Morgan entered the plea Thursday to charges of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, battery and obstruction of justice. French, who was 29,
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people pleaded guilty Thursday in an agreement with prosecutors. The Justice Department charged 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington D.C.
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Rudolph Isley, one of the founding members of the R&B group The Isley Brothers, has died, his family announced. He was 84. “There are no words to express my feelings and the love I have for my brother. Our family will miss him. But I know he’s in a
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Social Security recipients will receive an annual cost-of-living adjustment of 3.2% for 2024, a much smaller increase than the inflation-fueled boosts of the past two years, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday. Retirees’ monthly payments will rise by $59 to an estimated average of $1,907, starting in January. The
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military is pulverizing the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with airstrikes and has halted deliveries of food, water, fuel and electricity as Palestinians try to stock up for a possible ground invasion. Israel says nothing will be allowed into Gaza until around 150 hostages taken captive by
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Seventeen Florida sheriff’s deputies have appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars in pandemic relief funds. Court records show that the Broward County deputies are charged separately with a range of crimes. Most are charged with wire fraud, which carries a sentence of up
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A person was arrested on suspicion of a DUI after ignoring road closure barricades on Gene Autry and crashing his car. The crash was reported at around 3:30 a.m. at Gene Autry and the wash, which was closed at the time due to low visibility from blowing sand. Police told News Channel 3 that the
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Lee Click here for updates on this story LAHAINA, Hawaii (KITV) — As many in West Maui face uncertainty, communities continue to rally in support, with volunteers answering the call to assist with the recovery. “I have to say, a majority of the volunteers are our visitors, believe it or not,” Hawaii State
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — As Israel pounds Gaza with airstrikes, prepares for a possible ground invasion and escalates a war sparked by Hamas’ unprecedented assault, its leaders will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. Israeli leaders have pledged to annihilate
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti has declined to join neighboring Dominican Republic in reopening a key border crossing for trade. That leaves some commercial activity at a standstill and prolongs a diplomatic crisis over the construction of a canal on Haitian soil. Dominican President Luis
Continue ReadingBy ANGELA CHARLTON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister ordered local authorities to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations amid a rise in antisemitic acts since Hamas attacked Israel over the weekend. President Emmanuel Macron urged French people not to allow the war in the Mideast erupt into tensions at home. Macron
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By Macie Goldfarb and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — An Oklahoma judge may be forced to step down for allegedly exchanging over 500 text messages with a bailiff in which she mocked trial participants and talked offensively about the state’s attorneys while she presided over a murder trial in June, according to a petition filed
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN New York (CNN) — Qualcomm, one of the largest microchip manufacturers globally, is scaling back its workforce. The San Diego, California-based company will be laying off about 1258 roles in California, according to a filing with the California Employment Development Department. Impacted employees include those based out of San Diego and
Continue Reading By Nada Bashir, Kareem El Damanhoury, Ali Younes, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Rhea Mogul and Laura Paddison, CNN Gaza and Jerusalem (CNN) — Gaza’s humanitarian crisis deepened Thursday, with warnings that the population is at risk of starvation and fuel could run out within hours, as Israel continues airstrikes and withholds essential supplies from the enclave in
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Between “Cheers” and “Frasier,” Kelsey Grammer spent more than two decades playing the erudite if pompous character, with the latter representing one of the rare spinoff series that matches the original, during happier times for network TV. He’s back in a show that engineers such an obvious trick
Continue ReadingANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar’s highest court has ruled that next month’s presidential election be postponed for a week to allow authorities to prepare after two candidates were injured during protests when security forces fired tear gas grenades. The High Constitutional Court says the election must be moved from Nov. 9 to Nov. 16. The
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La brutal embestida del grupo extremista islamista Hamas contra Israel el pasado fin de semana incluyó miles de cohetes y misiles, drones que lanzaban explosivos y un número incalculable de armas ligeras y munición. Pero el ataque se lanzó desde el enclave de Gaza, gobernado por Hamas, una franja de
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A construction worker who got stuck in a hole on Interstate 10 near Chiriaco Summit today was airlifted to a trauma center with moderate injuries. Fire crews responded at 10:42 a.m. Thursday for a confined space rescue on eastbound Interstate 10 near Chiriaco Summit, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Fire officials said crews
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police. The American College of Emergency Physicians in a statement called the paper outdated and said the term
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