By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — A federal civil rights complaint was filed on Monday against Harvard University on behalf of Muslim and Palestinian students who say the school failed to protect them from harassment and intimidation, according to the Muslim Legal Fund of America. The complaint, filed with the Department of Education’s
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CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La lÃder opositora venezolana MarÃa Corina Machado dijo que continuará con su candidatura en una conferencia de prensa en la que resaltó la inhabilidad en su contra dictada por el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, que describió como una “delincuencia judicial” y una “decisión grotesca”. Machado le exigió al Gobierno poner fecha
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge on Monday denied Alex Murdaugh’s bid for a new trial after his defense team accused a clerk of court of tampering with a jury. Judge Jean Toal said she wasn’t sure if Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill was telling the truth that
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips wants the Wisconsin Supreme Court to order that he be put on the primary ballot in the battleground state. The state’s top Democrats only put President Joe Biden’s name on the ballot. Phillips asked the state’s highest court to
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected Cher’s request that her adult son be put into a court conservatorship controlling his money. The Oscar- and Grammy-winning singer and actor had argued in a petition that 47-year-old Elijah Blue Allman’s large payments from the trust of his late
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected Cher’s request that her adult son be put into a court conservatorship controlling his money. The Oscar- and Grammy-winning singer and actor had argued in a petition that 47-year-old Elijah Blue Allman’s large payments from the trust of his late
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he wants lawmakers to change Washington this year. DeSantis held a news conference Monday less than two weeks after suspending his presidential campaign. He spoke as lawmakers are nearly halfway through their annual nine-week legislative session. He says he will
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tickets on at least one secondary-market site were the most expensive in Super Bowl history on Monday, underscoring the anticipation of the game’s Las Vegas debut between the defending champion and what likely is the most popular team in the West. Oh, and the great
Continue ReadingWAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge will hold a hearing in April to consider whether to release the second of two women who nearly stabbed a classmate to death in 2014 to please online horror character Slender Man from a psychiatric facility. Twenty-one-year-old Morgan Geyser petitioned Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren Jan. 16
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A measure that would prohibit smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos has moved forward after three years of going nowhere. That heartened casino workers who say they are literally sick and tired of having smoke blown in their faces at work. The New Jersey Senate health committee
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A tractor-trailer hauling a load of apple juice overturned today at the 60/91/215 interchange in downtown Riverside, spilling juice all over a transition ramp, forcing the California Highway Patrol to shut it down. The crash happened just after 6 a.m. on the eastbound Pomona (60) Freeway transition to northbound Interstate 215, according to the CHP.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti is cracking down on a state environmental department whose heavily armed agents have grown more powerful in recent months and were blamed for violent clashes with police last week. The government on Monday ordered all workers with the National Agency for Protected Areas to report themselves to authorities
Continue ReadingBy MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper accused in the fatal shooting of motorist Ricky Cobb II can remain free without bail while awaiting trial, a judge ruled Monday during a brief court hearing. Trooper Ryan Londregan must surrender his passport and avoid contact with witnesses and Cobb’s relatives, the
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has joined a new nationwide effort to improve outcomes for more prisoners who return to society through an approach focused on education, health care and housing. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order Monday that seeks to reduce recidivism through formal training
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Toyota and General Motors are telling the owners of about 61,000 older Corolla, Matrix, RAV4 and Pontiac Vibe models to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators are at risk of exploding and hurling shrapnel. The urgent warning Monday covers certain Corolla compact cars and Matrix hatchbacks from the 2003
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Five men have been arrested in the investigation surrounding six bodies found last week at a remote dirt crossroads west of Victorville. The dispute was over marijuana, sheriff’s officials said Monday. Authorities discovered the bodies in the Mojave Desert outside El Mirage after someone called 911 and said he had been shot,
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana senators have voted to advance a measure that would allow some statewide officials and their staff members to carry handguns inside the state Capitol. Indiana lawmakers and their staff already have the right to carry inside the complex. The new bill would allow the state attorney
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — E. Jean Carroll, la excolumnista de una revista a la que un jurado concedió US$ 83,3 millones en daños la semana pasada como parte de un juicio por difamación contra Donald Trump, dijo este lunes en CNN que el proceso judicial fue poco más que una “parada de campaña” para el expresidente.
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — La muerte de tres militares estadounidenses en un ataque con aviones no tripulados el domingo sumerge a Estados Unidos más profundo en el conflicto de Medio Oriente y dio nueva urgencia a los esfuerzos para asegurar la liberación de los rehenes en Gaza a cambio de un cese prolongado
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