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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Al menos cinco personas han muerto después de que una poderosa tormenta causó peligrosas inundaciones e interrupciones en los viajes a la costa este y dejó sin electricidad a cientos de miles de hogares y negocios en el noreste, que enfrenta temperaturas frías y nevadas concentradas el martes. El sistema de tormentas
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council has voted unanimously to start the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeeping force from Congo before the end of the year as the conflict-ridden country prepares to elect its next president on Wednesday. The council resolution adopted Tuesday orders “the gradual, responsible and
Continue ReadingBy MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza (AP) — She was born amid war, in a hospital with no electricity in a southern Gaza city that has been bombarded daily. Her family named her al-Amira Aisha — “Princess Aisha.” She didn’t complete her third week before she died, killed in an Israeli
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jake Paul is teaming up with USA Boxing to put a spotlight on the nation’s top competitors at the Paris Olympics. Paul announced the partnership Wednesday with the amateur sport’s U.S. governing body. The YouTube star and professional boxer will train with Olympic qualifiers and
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — A Detroit police officer has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 71-year-old man who fell to the ground after he was punched in the face. Daryl Vance of Detroit died in September after three weeks in a hospital. The prosecutor’s office says Vance was punched during a “verbal confrontation”
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says it’s going to waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes that total less than $100,000 a year for tax years 2020 or 2021. The agency says nearly 5 million people, businesses and tax-exempt organizations will be eligible for the relief,
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By Maria Sole Campinoti, Holly Yan and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — An Ohio woman who had sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN. Brittany Watts, 33, of Warren, has been charged with felony abuse of
Continue Reading CNN Impact Your World (CNN) — The rise in anti-Muslim acts is undeniable and unnerving. Three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont, and when a six-year-old was stabbed in Chicago, his mother couldn’t attend his funeral because she’d been stabbed, too. In Georgia, a middle school teacher was arrested after he allegedly threatened to
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — Tests of cinnamon samples collected during a US Food and Drug Administration inspection of a facility in Ecuador linked with contaminated applesauce pouches turned up lead levels that were more than 2,000 times higher than proposed standards, the agency said Monday. The FDA continues to investigate high lead levels
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with murder in the killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is deriding the case against him as the product of speculation and second-hand testimony as he asks a judge to put him on house arrest
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with murder in the killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is deriding the case against him as the product of speculation and second-hand testimony as he asks a judge to put him on house arrest
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a new law that defines the word “sex” throughout state code as only male or female, based on a person’s biology at birth. The plaintiffs argued Monday that the law denies legal recognition and protections to
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — A Texas man who was part of a romance scam that bilked a Missouri woman out of $1.2 million has been sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay back the money. Rotimi Oladimeji of Richardson, Texas, was sentenced Tuesday, one year after he pleaded guilty to two
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican lawmaker who forced the Universities of Wisconsin to reduce its diversity positions called Tuesday for an in-depth review of diversity initiatives across state government. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos withheld millions of dollars from campuses until regents last week agreed to freeze diversity hires and
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN (CNN) — The controversial social media platform Parler says it’s planning a comeback after shuttering in April following a string of controversies related to hate speech rules and illicit content. Parler is relaunching in the first quarter of 2024 to “return to its roots as a robust marketplace of ideas,” according
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — En la enorme obra maestra de Rembrandt del siglo XVII, “La ronda de noche”, un grupo de soldados civiles se reúne en una habitación a oscuras y se prepara para marchar a defender su ciudad. Rembrandt, maestro de la luz y la sombra, iluminó estratégicamente las expresivas manos y
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Cuando se jueguen los próximos números de la lotería Powerball la noche de este miércoles, un afortunado participante en algún lugar de Estados Unidos podría celebrar la Navidad con un premio mayor de US$ 572 millones. Luego de que ningún boleto acertara los números del premio mayor de US$ 543 millones
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — As the world grapples with the existential crisis of climate change, environmental activists want President Joe Biden to phase out the oil industry, and Republicans argue he’s already doing that. Meanwhile, the surprising reality is the United States is pumping oil at a blistering pace and is
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge is expressing strong misgivings about extending a restraining order that is blocking Arlington National Cemetery from removing a century-old memorial there to Confederate soldiers. Judge Rossie Alston said at a hearing in federal court Tuesday in Alexandria, Virginia, that he issued the temporary
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million of its electric vehicles — an effort to have drivers who use its Autopilot system pay closer attention to the road — relies on technology that research shows may not work as intended. Tesla, the leading manufacturer of EVs,
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