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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities in Indianapolis have released the name of a 35-year-old woman who was slain during a shooting that apparently started with an argument between two groups of people at a Waffle House restaurant. Crystal Kennebrew was pronounced dead at a hospital following the shooting early Monday that also left five other people
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By Joshua Berlinger and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Alexey Navalny’s family has made a direct plea to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the release of the Russian dissident’s body, five days after he died behind bars in a penal colony. Standing in the snow outside the facility where her son was imprisoned, Lyudmila Navalnaya
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge will set prison sentences for parenting advice blogger Ruby Franke and her business partner after they each admitted to physically and emotionally abusing Franke’s children. Franke and mental health counselor Jodi Hildebrandt could speak for the first time in their back-to-back sentencing hearings
Continue Reading CNN By Joshua Berlinger and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Alexey Navalny’s family has made a direct plea to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the release of the Russian dissident’s body, five days after he died behind bars in a penal colony. Standing in the snow outside the facility where her son was imprisoned, Lyudmila
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are launching attacks despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes. This week they seriously damaged a ship in a strategically important strait and downed an American drone worth tens of millions of dollars. Their assaults on shipping through the crucial Red
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Scores of tractors have been parked outside Greece’s parliament as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs shifted their protests to Athens. One banner says that “Without us, you don’t eat.” The farmers’ demands are similar to those at farmer protests elsewhere in Europe. The center-right government has expressed sympathy
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court must decide if Pennsylvania voters who put the wrong date on the envelope containing their mail-in ballots should have their votes thrown out. The case argued Tuesday in Philadelphia could be significant in this year’s presidential contest. The NAACP and
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind. (AP) — The court is the same one where Jimmy Chitwood played. The locker room is exactly as it was when Norman Dale coached. The wall separating the bleachers from the floor is still there. Things change. The Hoosier Gym doesn’t. About 35 miles east of Indianapolis
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joaquin Niemann, Matthew Wolff and Louis Oosthuizen will give the Asian Tour field in Oman a familiar look. Missing will be the uniforms and team scores. They are among 21 players from Saudi-funded LIV Golf who are playing the first International Series events on the
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Capital One is acquiring Discover Financial Services for $35.3 billion in an all-stock deal, giving the bank a leg up in the competitive credit card market. Under the terms of the deal announced late Monday, Discover (DFS) shareholders will receive a little over one share of Capital
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — A 13-year-old French tourist has died after he crashed into a tree during a dog sled ride northwest of Montreal. Quebec provincial police say they were called to a property just before noon on Monday in St-Michel-des-Saints. Sgt. Frédéric Deshaies says the preliminary investigation indicates the teen was on a dog sled
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Tuesday it is preparing additional “major sanctions” on Russia in response to opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death last week in an Arctic penal colony. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the sanctions, on the eve of the two-year anniversary of
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden personally directed his senior campaign aides in recent days to focus more aggressively on former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments, according to two sources familiar with the president’s edict. The thrust of Biden’s direction, delivered to his senior-most staff, was to significantly ramp up the campaign’s efforts to highlight the
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Capital One Financial is betting that Americans will keep shopping and use a credit card to pay for their purchases at stores and on the internet. Capital One announced Monday that it would buy Discover Financial Services for $35 billion. The combination could potentially shake
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Police say a student arrested in the shootings of two people who were found dead in a Colorado college dorm room was the roommate of one of the victims. Twenty-five-year-old Nicholas Jordan is suspected of killing 24-year-old Samuel Knopp and 26-year-old Celie Rain Montgomery
Continue ReadingBy Luca Caruso-Moro Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Canada will donate more than 800 drones to Ukraine as part of an additional aid package to the country, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced on Monday. The drones, worth an estimated $95 million, are paid for by the $500 million package
Continue ReadingBy Christl Dabu Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Some Canadians say they are fed up with tipping partly because they think it has become common in places it didn’t exist before. Some say prompts for bigger tips have been the norm since the pandemic when many were supporting local
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The FBI and its international allies have seized a dark-web site that the world’s most prolific ransomware gang has used to extort its victims, according to a message on the website viewed by CNN. It’s a blow to the near-term operations of a multinational ransomware gang known as LockBit, which has
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain, nearly one month after having the company’s chip implanted. But details remain sparse, and other companies working on brain-computer interfaces appear to have so far cleared more technological hurdles than Neuralink.
Continue ReadingBy Emilee Fannon Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The political showdown over Wisconsin’s voting maps has come to an end. On Monday, Gov. Tony Evers signed legislation to enact new legislative boundaries he drew himself to be in place for the November election, a move that marks a significant
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