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By Andy Rose, Veronica Miracle and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — A pedestrian in downtown San Francisco was found critically injured and trapped underneath a driverless car Monday night. But it was not the first car to strike the victim. The driverless vehicle was operated by Cruise, a San Francisco-based self-driving car company and subsidiary
Continue ReadingKGO By Andy Rose, Veronica Miracle and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — A pedestrian in downtown San Francisco was found critically injured and trapped underneath a driverless car Monday night. But it was not the first car to strike the victim. The driverless vehicle was operated by Cruise, a San Francisco-based self-driving car company and
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer It was Prime Time all the time the first two weeks of the season as Colorado and effervescent new coach Deion Sanders turned the college football world into believers. Following two straight losses, some of the Prime shine has left the Buffaloes, even if the future looks much brighter
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A bus carrying foreign tourists including Ukrainians crashed near the Italian city of Venice when it fell from an elevated street Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 18 others, authorities said. Four of the injured were in serious condition following the accident in the Mestre
Continue ReadingSOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) — Firefighters are trying to control a major fire at an apartment complex for older residents in suburban Detroit. The roof has been severely damaged, and crews are trying to subdue the flames with aerial hoses. TV stations posted video of fire ripping through the roof at a cross-shaped building known as
Continue ReadingREBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “THIS IS A TEST”: If you have a cell phone or are watching television Wednesday, that message will flash across your screen as the federal government tests its emergency alert system used to tell people about emergencies. The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System sends out messages via
Continue ReadingLAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — A federal investigator said the small plane crash that killed former NFL tight end Russ Francis and another man at an Adirondack Mountains airport occurred after the engine apparently lost power. Francis was 70 years old. He and 63-year-old Richard McSpadden had just taken off from the Lake Placid Airport
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A bus carrying foreign tourists including Ukrainians crashed near the Italian city of Venice when it fell from an elevated street Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 18 others, authorities said. Four of the injured were in serious condition following the accident in the Mestre
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN (CNN) — When the Supreme Court ruled against the federal agency that protects consumers from financial scams in 2020, it let the agency keep operating, opting for “a scalpel rather than a bulldozer in curing the constitutional defect.” The question now is whether the justices are ready to employ the bulldozer
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By Barbie Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck south of Naples, Italy, on Tuesday, just days after the volcanic region saw its strongest earthquake in 40 years, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). Italy’s fire brigade said there was slight damage to buildings in the latest earthquake,
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker who died in a plane crash along with his wife and two young sons had recently received his commercial pilot’s license with hopes of one day working for a major airline, a Senate colleague said. State Sen. Doug Larsen, his wife Amy
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday in the fraud trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried after a prosecutor revealed that no discussions about a potential plea agreement took place in the nearly 10 months since the cryptocurrency executive was arrested and brought to the United States. Once a
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — NATO says it is “actively addressing incidents” affecting its unclassified websites after a hacking group claimed to have stolen numerous strategic planning and research documents from the alliance. The apparent cyber intrusions raise questions about NATO’s ability to protect communication networks where the alliance shares unclassified but non-public insights
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. It’s the end of the political line
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. It’s the end of the political line
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for a drug suspect who was repeatedly punched, elbowed and kneed by officers in northeast Florida during a traffic stop say that they are petitioning the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the case. Attorneys for Le’Keian Woods said Tuesday at a news conference outside the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is again making his pitch to reduce the state’s individual income tax rate. But not all of his Republican colleagues in the Legislature are sold on the idea. Oklahoma’s Republican-controlled Legislature returned to the Capitol for a special session Stitt called to
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Parents, teachers, coaches and other adults shouting at, denigrating or verbally threatening children can be as damaging to their development as sexual or physical abuse, a new study finds. The study, published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, reviewed 166 earlier studies to produce a detailed analysis of
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is criticizing his boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump, for calling retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a traitor. Pence also reacted to the news that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been ousted from his post,
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