HONOLULU (AP) — A 2018 class-action lawsuit over a lack of locker rooms for female athletes at Hawaii’s largest public school has reached a settlement that attorneys say will ensure athletic gender equity at the high school. The lawsuit alleged disparate treatment including stand-alone locker rooms only for boys and a failure to provide coaches
Continue ReadingLONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Faculty at all 23 campuses of the California State University system have voted to authorize a strike, demanding a new contract with higher salaries, lower class sizes and more manageable workloads. Members of the California Faculty Association — which represents 29,000 lecturers, librarians, counselors and other employees — authorized a
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took procedural steps on Tuesday to advance three top military nominees whose confirmations have been delayed for months due to Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s holds. Specifically, he filed cloture on the nominations of Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be chief of Naval Operations, Gen. David Allvin to
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Day of the Dead in Mexico smells like cempasuchil flowers and copal incense. It has a sweet taste. Sounds and colors abound. There are photos, candles and music all over. The hands of artisans prepare the altars to honor their ancestors. Although
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Lawrence Faucette, la segunda persona en recibir un trasplante de corazón de cerdo modificado genéticamente, falleció seis semanas después del procedimiento experimental. El Centro Médico de la Universidad de Maryland (UMMC), donde se realizó la cirugía, dijo que el corazón comenzó a mostrar signos de rechazo en los últimos días. “El
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — With freezing temperatures of down to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) and vegetation hundreds and sometimes thousands of meters below the mountain tops, the summits of the Andes mountains maintain an extremely harsh environment. So how did a species of leaf-eared mouse make this barren land their home?
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — A federal judge has postponed sentencing for six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of federal charges for torturing two Black men in January. Sentencing had been scheduled to begin Nov. 14. But U.S. District Judge Tom Lee
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — La Comisión de Comercio de la Asamblea Nacional aprobó este martes un proyecto de ley que propone derogar la ley en la cual se ampara la renovación del contrato del Estado con Minera Panamá, de la compañía canadiense First Quantum Minerals, que desde el 23 de octubre es
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has ruled that it was unconstitutional for Tennessee lawmakers to pass a state takeover of Nashville International Airport’s board without approval from city officials or voters. The decision by three state court judges Tuesday delivers the latest blow in court to state
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Wilson, CNN (CNN) – The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is continuing its investigation into Republican Rep. George Santos of New York and that the panel “will announce its next course of action in this matter on or before November 17, 2023.” The committee said in a statement that it had “contacted
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una sección de la autopista Blue Ridge Parkway fue cerrada por las autoridades “después de múltiples informes documentados de visitantes alimentando e intentando sostener a un oso joven en las últimas semanas”, dijo en un comunicado de prensa el Servicio de Parques Nacionales (NPS, por sus siglas en inglés). El cierre
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top prosecutor is going after landowners who he says are illegally and unconstitutionally depriving the public of access to the Pecos River. It’s the first case to be brought since the state Supreme Court in 2022 settled a long-simmering dispute over whether boaters
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried underwent a final barrage of questions on Tuesday from a prosecutor aimed at showing that he’s not being honest about how much he knew about the disappearance of $8 billion from his customers’ accounts, setting the stage for final arguments in his
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried underwent a final barrage of questions on Tuesday from a prosecutor aimed at showing that he’s not being honest about how much he knew about the disappearance of $8 billion from his customers’ accounts, setting the stage for final arguments in his
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Then-President Donald Trump could have mobilized the National Guard and other federal agencies to protect the U.S. Capitol once violence broke out on Jan. 6, 2021, a law professor testified Tuesday as a case to bar the former president from the 2024 ballot moved into a new
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Children were back in school in Lewiston and on the streets dressed as dinosaurs and princesses for Halloween, after a chaotic week that saw the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history and a massive search for the suspect as people sheltered indoors. Hundreds of students returned
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Riverside County is reporting its second mpox case in the span of a week. County Public Health spokesperson Jose Arballo confirmed the case was a man in his 40s from southwest Riverside County. Arballo also noted that last week’s case, which News Channel 3 confirmed on Monday, was in the Coachella Valley. Before last week,
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Maine State Police documents shed light on why a delusional U.S. Army reservist who killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston may have targeted those locations. According to documents released Tuesday, state police interviewed a woman three hours after the shooting who said Robert Card
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press FBI Director Christopher Wray warned on Tuesday that Hamas’ rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the U.S., telling lawmakers that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in recent weeks. “We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba was returned to Peru on Tuesday to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for murdering a Peruvian woman. Joran van der Sloot arrived in Lima in the custody of law enforcement. The South
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