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Month: February 2024

Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will reopen Saturday, close again Monday-Wed to finish repairs to rain damaged roadway

UPDATE: Theย Palm Springs Aerial Tramwayย will reopen forย Saturday, February 3ย andย Sunday, February 4ย after temporary road repairs were completed today following damage caused by this weekโ€™s storm. Regular weekend hours will resume with the first car up at 8:00 a.m., the last car up at 8:00 p.m. and the last car down at 9:30 p.m. The Tramway will

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Brutalism, bureaucracy and beauty: Why Turkeyโ€™s capital city isnโ€™t โ€˜grayโ€™

By Feride Yalav-Heckeroth, CNN (CNN) — Just over a century ago โ€“ 1923 to be precise โ€“ a crumbling, ancient city in the middle of Turkey found itself catapulted into international prominence as the world around it reeled from years of conflict. While Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople, had long been the countryโ€™s seat of

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Haley calls out Trump and his PACs for spending $50 million on legal fees

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday slammed Donald Trump and allied groups for spending more than $50 million of political contributorsโ€™ money on the former presidentโ€™s legal expenses, calling the outlay โ€œunconscionableโ€ and arguing that Trumpโ€™s thin campaign schedule was the result of a cash crunch. โ€œIt

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Haley calls out Trump and his PACs for spending $50 million on legal fees

CNN By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday slammed Donald Trump and allied groups for spending more than $50 million of political contributorsโ€™ money on the former presidentโ€™s legal expenses, calling the outlay โ€œunconscionableโ€ and arguing that Trumpโ€™s thin campaign schedule was the result of a cash crunch.

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Students and police clash in Greece as debate rages over legalizing private universities

By SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC and COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) โ€” Police and student protesters have clashed in the Greek capital after a demonstration against government plans to allow private universities. Demonstrators on Thursday attacked police cordons, set fire to trash dumpsters and threw stones at riot police near parliament and later during clashes

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Wisconsin redistricting experts tell Supreme Court Republican map proposals are gerrymanders

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) โ€” Consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to examine six proposed maps redrawing state legislative districts say the ones submitted by the Republican Legislature and a conservative law firm are partisan gerrymanders. They stopped short Thursday of declaring the other four constitutional. They said only the

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9 hospitalized after 200 prisoners rush corrections officers in riot at Southern California prison

BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) โ€” Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said Thursday. The violence erupted around 10 a.m. Wednesday as officers were escorting an inmate across the yard as part of a contraband investigation at

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9 hospitalized after 200 prisoners rush corrections officers in riot at Southern California prison

BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) โ€” Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said Thursday. The violence erupted around 10 a.m. Wednesday as officers were escorting an inmate across the yard as part of a contraband investigation at

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Neighbor of man who allegedly abducted son says she’s glad Amber Alert ended safely

By Marcus McIntosh Click here for updates on this story     JEFFERSON, Iowa (KCCI) — A Jefferson woman who lives near the man who allegedly kidnapped his 7-year-old son Tuesday said she’s never known him to bother anyone in the neighborhood. Jeannie McDowell recalls receiving the Amber Alert Tuesday afternoon, triggered by authorities after 34-year-old Brandon

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Police: Armed man found dead at Colorado mountaintop amusement park had researched mass shootings

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) โ€” A heavily armed man who was found dead at a Colorado mountaintop amusement park last year had researched mass shootings online, but authorities say they still havenโ€™t determined why he amassed such an arsenal or didnโ€™t follow through on โ€œwhatever he was planning.” The body of Diego

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Arrestan al menos 7 personas tras agresiรณn a agentes de la Policรญa de Nueva York en Times Square

Paulina Nares (CNN) —ย Al menos siete personas fueron arrestadas y estรกn acusadas de atacar a agentes del Departamento de Policรญa de la ciudad de Nueva York afuera de un refugio para inmigrantes, dijo un portavoz de la policรญa a CNN. Segรบn una denuncia penal, al menos cuatro de los arrestados estaban alojados en refugios para

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Los crรญticos de Trump esperan que una opiniรณn del juez conservador Antonin Scalia pueda influir en la Corte Suprema en el litigio sobre la 14ยฐ Enmienda

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los grupos liberales que esperan mantener al expresidente Donald Trump fuera de la votaciรณn por su papel en el ataque al Capitolio de Estados Unidos del 6 de enero de 2021 estรกn recurriendo a una fuente sorprendente mientras presentan su caso ante la Corte Suprema: el fallecido juez Antonin Scalia y

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