By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — With manufacturing kinks still to be worked out, Tesla delivered the first dozen or so of its futuristic Cybertruck pickups to customers Thursday, two years behind the original schedule amid uncertainty over when large-scale production will begin. CEO Elon Musk showed off the angular electric trucks
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN New York (CNN) — New York court officials have knocked down Donald Trump’s angry social media claims that the wife of Judge Arthur Engoron, who’s presiding over his civil fraud trial, has been posting anti-Trump rhetoric on X. Engoron’s wife does not have an X – formerly Twitter – account,
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A judge has rejected Kari Lake’s request to examine signed ballot envelopes of 1.3 million early voters, giving the defeated Arizona Republican candidate for governor another loss in her third trial related to last year’s election. In an order filed Thursday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah Jr. argued their release
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Seven unions representing teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin have filed a lawsuit attempting to end the state’s near-total ban on collective bargaining for most public employees. Known as Act 10, the 2011 law was the signature accomplishment of former Republican Gov. Scott Walker and
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor says three men held a student from India captive over the course of several months and forced him to work and perform menial tasks, then viciously beat him when he didn’t complete the chores to their satisfaction. The St. Charles County prosecuting
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Most drivers would pay $15 to enter Manhattan’s central business district under a plan released by New York officials. The congestion pricing plan will be the first such program in the United States if it if is approved by transportation officials early next year. Revenue from
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt, Kaitlan Collins and Becky Anderson, CNN Washington and Dubai (CNN) — A deal to extend a truce between Israel and Hamas into Thursday went down to the wire after Hamas declined for hours to produce a list of hostages that had 10 women and children on it – a condition
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — Activist shareholder Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management has launched a new proxy fight against Disney, just months after backing off from its earlier push after returned chief executive Bob Iger announced a vast cost-cutting plan for the media conglomerate. “Investor confidence is low, key strategic questions loom,
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed mostly higher Thursday as the market ended November with its biggest monthly gain in more than a year. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% after drifting between small gains and losses. The benchmark index rose 8.9% in November, its biggest monthly gain since July
Continue ReadingBy FOSTER KLUG and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The death of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew both admiration and scorn Thursday from political leaders around the world, highlighting the complicated legacy of Kissinger’s views about what it meant to serve America’s interests during the Cold War — and how
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press Donations are pouring in at a Christmas charity in Michigan after smoke damage from a fire stymied plans to deliver thousands of gifts for children. Santa Claus Girls of Kent County has been going door-to-door with gifts for struggling families for more than a century in the Grand Rapids area.
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A high-profile entertainment marketing consultant was targeted by a woman who had been stalking one of his friends before she fatally shot him after her forcing her way inside his Los Angeles home, prosecutors said Thursday. This week’s slaying of Michael Latt sent shockwaves through Hollywood
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Another severe thunderstorm threat, including the possibility of tornadoes, will take aim at the southern United States on Thursday, less than two weeks after at least a dozen tornadoes hit Louisiana and Mississippi. Damaging storms that may spin up a few tornadoes are possible from coastal Texas into
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — The long-awaited sequel to 1988’s “Beetlejuice” has finished production, bringing us one step closer to seeing Michael Keaton’s gleefully grotesque “ghost with the most” grace our screens once again. Tim Burton, the visionary director behind the original classic as well as the sequel, shared the production update on his
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A high-profile entertainment marketing consultant was targeted by a woman who had been stalking one of his friends before she fatally shot him after her forcing her way inside his Los Angeles home, prosecutors said Thursday. This week’s slaying of Michael Latt sent shockwaves through Hollywood
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Megan Janikowski of the Cal Poly Humboldt soccer team and Jamel Pink of the Reedley College football team have earned the CalHOPE Courage Award for November for overcoming personal adversity. Janikowski worked through the loss of her mother to cancer and Pink persevered through the death of a brother and then
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN MITCHELL Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — She was attacked, carjacked and concussed, and a woman said what’s happened since then is just adding to her headache. It was the end of October, around 5 p.m., and still light outside when Sophia Green said she parked near the intersection
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço in the Oval Office as he seeks to reaffirm his commitment to Africa. The meeting comes as two devastating wars consume much of the Biden administration’s foreign policy focus. The White House meeting
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Influential longtime Detroit pastor the Rev. Charles Gilchrist Adams has died following an illness. He was 86. Adams’ sister told The Detroit News on Thursday that he died Wednesday following a bout with pneumonia. Adams spent a half-century as pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church before retiring in 2019. He had since
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — El Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico informó este miércoles sobre un brote de sífilis en el municipio de Vieques, una isla ubicada en el este del territorio. Melissa Marzán Rodríguez, principal funcionaria de epidemiología del Departamento de Salud, le dijo a CNN que, en el último informe publicado de vigilancia
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