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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed an executive order that defunds diversity, equity and inclusion offices and programs in state agencies, including public colleges. The executive order, signed Wednesday, prohibits state funding and state “property or resources” from being used for such efforts. Oklahoma now joins several other Republican-led states
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut appeals court has upheld $75,000 in fines against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for missing a deposition in the lawsuit filed by Sandy Hook families. The lawsuit led to a $1.4 billion judgment last year against Jones for repeatedly calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to China says the relationship between the two countries will be defined by strategic competition in the coming decades but most involve engagement when interests align. Nicholas Burns says the U.S. must engage with China on issues such as climate change, narcotics, public health
Continue ReadingEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University trustees have approved settlements with the families of three students slain in a mass shooting earlier this year on the school’s campus. Trustees voted unanimously Friday to approve separate claims with the families of Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner. The school did not release the
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness to its highest reported level as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, federal officials said Friday. About 653,000 people were homeless, the most since
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — With millions of people expected to fly in the coming days, Southwest Airlines is vowing there won’t be a repeat of last year’s operational meltdown that ruined Christmas for travelers. Southwest CEO Bob Jordan said this week that “it will never happen again, I promise you that,”
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin and Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — A day after the Los Angeles Chargers were blown out by the Las Vegas Raiders, the team announced that head coach Brandon Staley and general manager Tom Telesco have been fired. The Chargers lost to the Raiders 63-21 on Thursday night in Las Vegas, a game
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A village council member in western Ukraine has critically injured himself and at least two dozen other people by detonating three hand grenades during a meeting. A video posted on social media showed a man entering a room where the village council of Keretsky was meeting to discuss and approve the
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump spoke in uncharacteristically personal terms Friday about her experience becoming a US citizen and the challenges she faced traversing a complicated legal system as she made a rare public appearance during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in Washington. The former
Continue ReadingCNN By Kristen Holmes and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump spoke in uncharacteristically personal terms Friday about her experience becoming a US citizen and the challenges she faced traversing a complicated legal system as she made a rare public appearance during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in Washington. The
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named a former senior staffer for former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory as its interim chancellor. A Friday UNC-Chapel Hill news release says that Lee Roberts will take over for Kevin Guskiewicz. Guskiewicz is leaving in January to become the
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A panel of federal appeals court judges has heard arguments on whether charges against Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in a sprawling Georgia election case should be moved. They are expressing some skepticism that the relevant statute applies to former officials. Meadows says his
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Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, se refirió este martes durante la mañanera a la victoria de Javier Milei en las elecciones presidenciales en Argentina el último domingo, donde lo comparó con personajes como Jorge Rafael Videla, Francisco Franco y Augusto Pinochet, aunque aclaró que no romperá relaciones
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Despite its big swings with series like “The Lord of the Rings,” some of Amazon’s clearest Prime Video successes have involved more meat-and-potato-type offerings, like “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” and “Reacher.” The latter returns for a second season that again casts Alan Ritchson as an appropriately hulking version
Continue ReadingASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A small plane crashed on a western North Carolina highway and caught fire Thursday night, but the two people on board escaped life-threatening injuries, authorities said. A single-engine Diamond DA-40 crashed on Interstate 26 near Asheville Regional Airport around 8:15 p.m. with two people on board, the Federal Aviation Administration reported.
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By Maya Szaniecki, Joseph Ataman, Caitlin Danaher, Alex Hardie and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — A British boy who disappeared six years ago is set to return home as early as this weekend after a driver discovered him walking along a roadside in southern France. Alex Batty has not been seen since he was 11
Continue ReadingBy FREIDA FRISARO and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s beginning to look at lot like … hurricane season. At least that’s the case across much of South Florida, where it’s been windy and rainy for two days and the forecast predicts more of the same this busy holiday season weekend.
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT MCFETRIDGE and JIM SALTER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Satanic Temple display inside the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines was destroyed, and a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot running for a statehouse seat in Mississippi is accused of the damage. The display is permitted by rules that govern religious installations
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — For over a year, a three-story house near the University of Idaho campus has served as “the grim reminder” of the gruesome stabbing deaths of four beloved students there in November 2022. Now, the house on King Road is set to be torn down on December
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Demonstrators shut down the Burnside Bridge in Portland for hours on Thursday calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. This coordinated effort in multiple cities across the country comes on the final night of Hanukkah. Seattle’s University Bridge was shut down as
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