By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — An Australian police officer has been charged with manslaughter after he allegedly tasered a 95-year-old woman with dementia in a nursing home. Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother, died in hospital in May, one week after police were called to the home in Cooma, New South Wales, by care home staff
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas woman who claims Jerry Jones is her father and that she was forced to stay silent about it for decades refiled her defamation lawsuit against the Dallas Cowboys owner and his associates Tuesday. Alexandra Davis, 26, says Jones and the other defendants harmed her reputation by claiming
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Breezy to gusty conditions are expected for this evening. As per usual, areas near the pass and along the I-10 corridor will experience the strongest winds. These winds will likely continue overnight as well. Thanks to the Pacific system moving through California, some showers will pop up across Southern California. However, most of the action
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The iconic Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center will be lit Wednesday night by more than 50,000 multicolored lights as crowds gather in New York City for the holiday tradition. The massive tree — a 12 ton, 80-foot-tall Norway spruce from upstate New York — will be illuminated by about five miles
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — National security adviser Jake Sullivan told lawmakers this week that the White House is not seeking to place conditions on U.S. military assistance to Israel, days after President Joe Biden signaled openness to the notion that was being pushed by some Democrats as the civilian death
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — WeightWatchers apuesta por el fin de la cultura de las dietas. Bienvenidos a la era de Ozempic. Los medicamentos para adelgazar han puesto de cabeza el negocio de la pérdida de peso. El número de estadounidenses que toman semaglutida se ha multiplicado por 40 en los últimos cinco años,
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Powerball losers in Iowa were actually winners for about seven hours this week after the state’s lottery mistakenly posted the wrong winning numbers for the game. Lottery officials blamed an unspecified “human reporting error” for the wrong numbers being posted for Monday night’s Powerball drawing. The incorrect numbers were posted
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Police in California are investigating whether 21-year-old Oklahoma City Thunder guard Josh Giddey was involved in a relationship with a minor. “The Newport Beach Police Department is aware of information being circulated online involving an alleged relationship between professional basketball player Josh Giddey and a female minor. The Newport Beach
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — An Arizona grand jury indicted two local Republican officials who balked at certifying their county’s general election results by the legal deadline in 2022 – in a standoff with state officials that drew national attention at the time. Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd, 61, and Tom Crosby, 64, each
Continue ReadingCORTEZ, Colo. (AP) — A police officer and a suspect were killed in a shootout following a traffic stop in southwest Colorado on Wednesday, authorities said. Police say the officer, whose name has not been released, was shot after pulling over a vehicle shortly before noon in the rural town of Cortez in the Four
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana county judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of its consumers’ personal information. A pair of lawsuits filed in December 2022 accused
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says a U.S. Navy warship sailing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait shot down a drone launched from Yemen. It is the latest in a string of threats from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. U.S. Central Command says the USS Carney, a Navy destroyer, downed the
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say two people carjacked an FBI agent in Washington, D.C., a theft that comes amid a sharp increase in the number of carjackings in the nation’s capital. Police say the theft was carried out midafternoon on Wednesday. The FBI says it’s under investigation by the bureau’s
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly and Jon Passantino, CNN (CNN) — Disney chief executive Bob Iger said Wednesday that his number one priority for the entertainment giant is turning around the creative engine at Marvel Studios, the production house once known for cranking out billion-dollar blockbusters that has recently seen several box office misses. “Quality needs attention to deliver quality, it doesn’t
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican demands to stop the flow of migrants at the Mexico-U.S. border have left Congress scrambling. Republicans are pushing Democrats for an immigration deal in exchange for President Joe Biden’s request for nearly $106 billion to fund the wars in Ukraine and
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Most Americans probably think the fight over Obamacare, more properly known as the Affordable Care Act, has been done for years. Democrats enacted the law without Republican help in 2010, and Republicans largely spent the next seven years actively trying to repeal it. That congressional repeal effort
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose consulted with anti-abortion groups while drafting contested ballot language describing an abortion-rights measure Ohio voters approved this month. Cleveland.com reports Wednesday that at a Strongsville GOP candidate forum Nov. 17, the 2024 U.S. Senate candidate revealed having help from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Your phone pings. It’s a text from your credit card company — someone is trying to purchase a $2,500 laptop using your account number. Your frantic call to the provided number never reaches a real person, yet it’s not long before that disembodied voice asks you to enter your
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Members of five American families whose loved ones were kidnapped on October 7 described the “psychological warfare” from Hamas as they’ve been waiting for any news to emerge about their children and relatives. The family members spoke to CNN’s Jake Tapper in an exclusive interview in Washington, DC, Wednesday,
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US and coalition forces at Mission Support Site Euphrates in Syria were targeted by a single rocket attack on Wednesday, a US official said. The rocket did not hit the base, the official said. There were no injuries or infrastructure damage reported. Wednesday’s attack is the first since November
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