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By Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans remain badly divided over their two choices for speaker in the aftermath of the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership – and are bracing for the possibility that neither House Majority Leader Steve Scalise nor House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan can
Continue ReadingSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic government says it will temporarily allow the trade of essential Dominican products, including food and medications, on the border with Haiti. But it says it will maintain a ban on entry of Haitian citizens. It is part of an ongoing dispute between the two nations over
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s largest teachers union filed suit Monday against a state law making it illegal for teachers and other public school employees to go on strike over pay and working conditions in the country’s fifth-largest school district, which includes Las Vegas. The Clark County Education
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A lawyer says video showing an Atlanta traffic stop that led to the death of a 62-year-old Black deacon could be publicly released by Thursday. Johnny Hollman Sr. died after Aug. 10 he was shocked with a stun gun by an Atlanta police officer. Lawyer Muwali Davis
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Ted Schwinden, a wheat farmer and World War II veteran who gained national attention for keeping his home phone number listed during two terms as Montana’s governor, has died. He was 98. Schwinden died Saturday in Phoenix at his daughter’s home, son Dore Schwinden said Monday.
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Charles “Chuck” Feeney, a retail entrepreneur and investor who amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune and then gave it all away, has died. He was 92. He died peacefully in San Francisco on Monday, the Atlantic Philanthropies, Feeney’s foundation, said on its website. Feeney made much of his fortune
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Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Los cohetes comenzaron a caer alrededor de las 6:30 am horal local, dijo Tal Gibly a CNN. Treinta minutos más tarde, ella y cientos de personas que asistían a un festival de música en Israel estaban corriendo mientras militantes de Gaza les disparaban. El aterrador ataque fue sólo uno de los
Continue ReadingHALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms). Travis Gienger of Anoka, Minnesota, won the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California, with an enormous, lumpy, orange
Continue ReadingHALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds (1,247 kilograms). Travis Gienger of Anoka, Minnesota, won the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California, with an enormous, lumpy, orange
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Hackers aligned with Vietnam tried to use social media platforms X and Facebook to install spyware on the phones of dozens of high-profile targets, including US lawmakers, United Nations officials and CNN journalists, Amnesty International said Monday. The powerful hacking tool – designed to siphon off call and text
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood writers have voted almost unanimously to approve the contract agreement reached by their union leaders that ended a strike after nearly five months, while actors remain in negotiations to find a way out of their own strike. The Writers Guild of America announced Monday that 99% of the 8,525 members
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood writers have voted almost unanimously to approve the contract agreement reached by their union leaders that ended a strike after nearly five months, while actors remain in negotiations to find a way out of their own strike. The Writers Guild of America announced Monday that 99% of the 8,525 members
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Jerusalén y Gaza (CNN) — El ministro de Defensa de Israel ordenó este lunes el “asedio total” de Gaza, mientras el Ejército afirmaba haber retomado el control de las comunidades israelíes cercanas al enclave costero que fueron asaltadas por hombres armados de Hamas en un ataque sin precedentes durante el fin de
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine and Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Members of the Writers Guild of America union ratified a new contract with Hollywood and television studios, the WGA said in a statement released Monday. Of the 8,525 valid votes cast, 99% of WGA members voted to ratify the new contract, which will last from September
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CNN Opinion by Carrie Cordero (CNN) — Editor’s note: Carrie Cordero, a CNN legal and national security analyst, is the Robert M. Gates senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She previously served as counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security and senior associate general counsel at the Office of the
Continue Reading Aleja Páez (CNN Español) — La tormenta tropical Lidia avanza por el Pacífico y podría cobrar fuerza de huracán antes de tocar tierra en la costa oeste de México, según la actualización de las 8 a.m. ET del Centro Nacional de Huracanes de EE.UU. (NHC). A esa hora, la tormenta se encontraba casi 600 km
Continue ReadingBy JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — A judge delivered a victory Monday to the state prosecution of white Louisiana lawmen in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, allowing the most serious charge of negligent homicide to go forward against a trooper captured on body-camera video dragging the Black motorist by his
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required dozens of his state’s largest cities, counties and educational districts to use independent commissions to draw voting districts, dealing a setback to “redistricting reform” advocates. “We’re frustrated, confused and deeply disappointed,” Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of voting
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required dozens of his state’s largest cities, counties and educational districts to use independent commissions to draw voting districts, dealing a setback to “redistricting reform” advocates. “We’re frustrated, confused and deeply disappointed,” Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of voting
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has promised to hunt down Hamas fighters and to punish the Gaza Strip following a surprise weekend attack. The unprecedented incursion killed more than 900 people in Israel, including at least 260 at a crowded music festival. Israel’s military on Monday intensified its bombardment of Gaza,
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