By FATIMA HUSSEIN and JENNIFER MCDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration released its highly anticipated proposal for doling out billions of dollars in tax credits to hydrogen producers Friday, in a massive effort to build out an industry that some hope can be a cleaner alternative to fossil fuel power. The U.S.
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A 36-year-old man suspected of driving under the influence and causing a fatal crash was charged today with felony charges including murder. Alexander Frank Ortega was also charged with one felony count each of driving under the influence of alcohol causing bodily injury and driving under the influence of alcohol .08% or more causing bodily
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will not immediately take up a plea by special counsel Jack Smith to rule on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for his actions to overturn the 2020 election results. The ruling is a scheduling win
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US on Friday released newly declassified intelligence that suggests Iran has been “deeply involved in planning the operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson told CNN. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels have launched more than 100 attacks against about a dozen commercial
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL has denied Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro’s appeal of a $100,000 fine in addition to banning him from the sideline for the remainder of the regular season for his role in a scuffle with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw. That’s according to a person familiar with the
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Waldenberg, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed the $886.3 billion National Defense Authorization Act into law, according to a statement released by the White House. The defense policy bill provides the largest raise for service members in more than two decades, temporarily extends a controversial surveillance program and strengthens
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — After a rainy cruise to the Bahamas, some Carnival Sunshine passengers returned to port in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday to a very unpleasant surprise: flooded cars. “It was left up to us to find out that our cars wouldn’t start and were totally destroyed,” said passenger Stephanie Royal,
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s anti-corruption commission has charged the country’s former tourism minister and two others with economic crimes. They were charged Friday in connection with the alleged fraud of tens of millions of dollars in inflated costs for the construction of a hospitality college 16 years ago. Former
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press SHAMONG, N.J. (AP) — New details are emerging about the fatal crash of a Philadelphia TV news helicopter earlier this week. The National Transportation Safety Board says WPVI’s Chopper 6 was returning to its base at Northeast Philadelphia Airport Tuesday night when something caused it to crash into Wharton State
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Near Prague, Czech Republic (CNN) — Prague was in shock and mourning Friday after a gunman killed 14 people and injured 25 more at Charles University, the deadliest peacetime attack in the history of the Czech Republic. The brutal incident on Thursday was also the first-ever school or college shooting in
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street capped its eighth straight winning week with a quiet finish Friday, following reports showing inflation on the way down and the economy potentially on the way up. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% to sit less than 1% below its record set nearly two
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A 27-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in Rancho Mirage pleaded not guilty today to felony charges and authorities sought the public’s help regarding other possible victims of the defendant. Reginald Demond Macon Jr. of Indio was charged with one felony count each of rape by force or fear, oral copulation by use
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Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Alex Batty, el niño británico que fue encontrado en Francia después de estar desaparecido durante seis años, dice que se siente “surrealista” estar de vuelta con su abuela en el Reino Unido. En una entrevista con el diario The Sun publicada el jueves, Batty, que ahora tiene 17 años, dijo:
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, dijo este viernes que se reunirá con funcionarios de Estados Unidos en la Ciudad de México el miércoles 27 de diciembre para discutir sobre inmigración, en medio de un aumento de migrantes en la frontera que comparten los dos países. López Obrador
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The Coachella Valley Firebirds will welcome the Bakersfield Condors in front of a sold-out crowd at Acrisure Arena for this Saturday’s Ugly Sweater and Teddy Bear Toss Night. 🚨 SOLD OUT 🚨 pic.twitter.com/vIxvPAitfb— Coachella Valley Firebirds (@Firebirds) December 22, 2023 The event features a special holiday-themed Head Coach Dan Bylsma Bobblehead giveaway for the first
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — Federal authorities reported a seven-day average of more than 9,600 migrant encounters along the US southern border in December, according to a Homeland Security official, among the highest amounts ever recorded as the US wrestles with an unprecedented surge. Authorities are apprehending record levels of migrants at the
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police who declined to confront an Army reservist in the weeks before he killed 18 people in Maine’s deadliest mass shooting feared that doing so would “throw a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas,” according to video released Friday by law
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A man wanted on felony charges and a police dog have been killed in a shooting involving Connecticut state troopers. State police say troopers went to the Pawcatuck section of Stonington, near the Rhode Island state line, on Thursday evening to serve an arrest warrant on the man and a
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities. The ruling comes less than a year before the 2024 election in
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Safety John Johnson re-signed with the Los Angeles Rams during training camp, when most NFL observers thought this rebuilding team coming off a dismal 5-12 season had only a slim chance of even contending for a playoff spot this year. That didn’t deter Johnson, who
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