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By Dianne Gallagher and Emma Tucker, CNN Colleton County, South Carolina (CNN) — The South Carolina court clerk at the center of Alex Murdaugh’s motion for a new trial on the basis of jury tampering by the court has, for the first time and under oath, denied the disgraced former attorney’s allegations against her. “I
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Calling all nonprofits! Organizations can now be registered for the second annual Coachella Valley Giving Day. It’s set for Tuesday, March 5, 2024. CV Giving Day is a 24-hour online event that aims to raise money and awareness for nonprofit organizations in the Coachella Valley area. “Last year, we witnessed the incredible impact when community
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Rancho Mirage Mayor Richard W. Kite announced his resignation from the city council. Kite has been a resident of the Coachella Valley for 65 years, graduating from Palm Springs High Schoolin the early 1960s. He has been a member of the Rancho Mirage City Council for 23 years. The city was just 27 years old
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police say they are on a manhunt for suspects who robbed a government minister at gunpoint and disarmed her bodyguards of their two pistols on a busy Johannesburg highway. The robbery allegedly took place while transport minister Sindisiwe Chikunga’s bodyguards were changing a punctured in
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended the Internal Revenue Service in a speech Tuesday against repeated threats from Republicans to cut the agency’s funding. “Playing politics with IRS funding is unacceptable. Cutting it would be damaging and irresponsible,” Yellen said. The IRS was allocated an influx of $80 billion
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — Wall Street gained Tuesday as the continued slide in Treasury yields helped propel stocks higher. The S&P 500 index climbed for the seventh day in a row, its longest streak of gains since November 2021, when the benchmark index rose for eight straight sessions. The Nasdaq Composite
Continue ReadingBy Liz Szabo, KFF Health News (KFF Health News) — Oronde McClain was struck by a stray bullet on a Philadelphia street corner when he was 10. The bullet shattered the back of his skull, splintering it into 36 pieces. McClain’s heart stopped, and he was technically dead for two minutes and 17 seconds. Although
Continue ReadingBy KELSY MITTAUER, ANDREA LUCIA Click here for updates on this story ARLINGTON, Texas (KTVT) — At 23, Sierra Simmons had not given much thought to funeral planning. So when her mother died of breast cancer at home, she and her younger brother did what a lot of us would do: she went online to
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Walmart announced Tuesday that it is making changes to create a calmer shopping experience, at least for a few hours every day in all of its US stores. Set to be implemented on Nov. 10, the changes include setting in-store TV walls to a static image, turning
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Russian troops stationed in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia have shot and killed a Georgian civilian near the line of control in what the Georgian authorities denounced as “the most heinous act.” The encounter reflected continuing tensions in the region after the 2008 Russian-Georgian war. The conflict ended with Moscow
Continue ReadingBy Alexis Fernandez Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — The family of a toddler who accidentally shot herself after finding a discarded gun on a preschool playground says her condition is slowly improving. “I mean, nobody expects their two-year-old to be shot, this was completely a senseless act,” Tawnya
Continue ReadingBy KVVU Staff Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — Housing prices in the Las Vegas Valley showed a slight increase in October, although fewer homes were sold, according to a new report. Figures released Tuesday by Las Vegas Realtors showed that the median price of existing single-family homes sold
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — America has a glut of empty offices. Now, some offices face losing WeWork, which has more than 600 locations in major cities. WeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, throwing the future of the real estate company up in the air. WeWork said it would terminate some
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators are holding a meeting to confront Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville about his blockade of almost 400 military nominations, an effort to find a path forward as the senator has dug in on his protest of a Pentagon abortion policy. The unusual
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — The resilient consumer has kept the US economic engine running, but it’s coming at a big cost: Americans are piling up record credit card balances, and more and more are falling behind on those payments. During the third quarter, credit card balances hit a fresh high of $1.08 trillion, rising $48
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — More than two dozen Republican members of Congress sent a letter to University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill condemning the school’s “shocking lack of a prompt and unequivocal condemnation” of the October 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas. The letter, dated November 1, comes after the college
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia, for a meeting at the White House on Nov. 13. The White House says two leaders will discuss, among other issues, continuing the clean energy transition, advancing economic prosperity, and promoting peace and stability in the region. The meeting with Widodo
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is headed for a showdown vote Wednesday on whether to punish Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — the only Palestinian American in Congress — for her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war. A vote to move forward on censuring Tlaib, a punishment one step below
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — The last time America’s housing market was this unaffordable, Ronald Reagan was in the White House. It now takes nearly 41% of the median household’s monthly income to cover the principal and interest payments on a median-priced home, according to research from Intercontinental Exchange. It comes at a time
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two powerful NASA telescopes have detected the oldest and most distant black hole ever found. Data captured via energetic X-rays by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers spot the signature of a growing black hole within the early universe just 470 million years
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