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By Jeremy Herb and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s attorneys accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of a pursuing a “fantasy” case against the former president by tying hush-money payments made to his former attorney Michael Cohen with the 2016 election. “The People must attempt to try the case they charged, not the
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Efforts to get desperately needed humanitarian aid to war-wracked northern Gaza gained momentum Wednesday with the European Union increasing pressure for the creation of a sea route from Cyprus to Gaza and British Foreign Minister David Cameron saying that Israel’s allies were
Continue ReadingBy Burt Levine Click here for updates on this story March 5, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — In a remarkable display of political prowess, Sheila Jackson Lee, the enduring representative and senior member of the Texas Delegation, clinched a decisive 60% victory in the 18th Congressional District during this Super Tuesday’s electric showdown. Despite the
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Disagreements among Indiana lawmakers could stop passage of a bill aiming to address antisemitism on college campuses, leaving Indiana students and professors uneasy as divisions surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war deepen. House Republicans have dissented from the version amended in the state Senate this week, and lawmakers
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Valadez Click here for updates on this story March 5, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — Fort Bend ISD Fort Bend ISD proudly unveiled the recipients of the 2023-2024 Rookie Teachers of the Year. These exceptional educators’ unwavering dedication to educational excellence serves as a beacon of inspiration for students, faculty, and the entire
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL and TARA COPP Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel on Wednesday, officials said, in the first fatal strike in a campaign
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un ataque con misiles balísticos hutíes contra un barco comercial en el golfo de Adén causó al menos dos muertes entre los miembros de la tripulación, dijeron a CNN dos funcionarios estadounidenses. Se trata de la primera vez que el grupo militante respaldado por Irán mata a alguien como
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– La Corte Suprema anunció que el 25 de abril escuchará los argumentos en el destacado caso sobre la inmunidad del expresidente Donald Trump, que busca establecer si el exmandatario puede reclamarla para evitar ser procesado por subversión electoral. El tribunal había señalado que escucharía los argumentos del caso durante la semana del
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have voted against a proposal to declare a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene to reflect how profoundly human activity has altered the planet. The proposal was rejected by members of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, which is part of the International Union of Geological Sciences, according to
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Madonna is talking about how serious her health emergency was last summer. She told the crowd at the opening of a five-night run for “The Celebration Tour” in Los Angeles that her doctor, Dr. David Agus, and more of her medical team were in the audience. “It was a
Continue Reading By Svitlana Vlasova and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s military on Tuesday claimed another successful attack on a Russian warship, marking the latest in a string of naval defeats for Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet that Kyiv says has reduced its numbers by more than a third since the start of the war. The Defense
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has floated its currency and announced a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase its bailout loan to $8 billion. The moves are aimed at shoring up an economy hit by a staggering shortage of foreign currency and soaring inflation. The flotation of the Egyptian
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mourners in Poland have paid tribute to a young Belarusian woman who died after being brutally attacked and raped on the streets of Warsaw last month, a crime that has shocked the country. In recent years, the Polish capital has become a hub for Belarusians fleeing
Continue ReadingBy David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — OpenAI fired back at Elon Musk, who sued the ChatGPT company last week for chasing profit and diverging from its original, nonprofit mission. Tuesday night, OpenAI published several of Musk’s emails from the early days of the company that appear to show Musk acknowledging OpenAI needed to make
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — The Federal Reserve is in no rush to cut interest rates, Fed Chair Jerome Powell testified before congressional lawmakers Wednesday. That means more pain for Americans, who have already faced almost two years of rising borrowing costs on everything from car loans to mortgages. However, it’s unlikely that there will be any
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer A Microsoft engineer is sounding alarms about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool, sending letters on Wednesday to U.S. regulators and the tech giant’s board of directors urging them to take action. Shane Jones told The Associated Press
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To businesses that rely on social media platforms for advertising, client communication or direct sales, Tuesday’s Meta platforms outage was more than a communal inconvenience. Experts say that whenever there’s an outage — be it social media or other softwarewe’ve come to rely on —
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, CNN Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday he will support Donald Trump for the presidency, a move that comes more than three years after they have last spoken and after the Kentucky Republican pointedly blamed Trump for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. “It is abundantly clear that
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas man was arrested Wednesday on accusations that he schemed to dupe George Santos into wiring him money with the false promise that he could get the criminal corruption charges against the disgraced congressman dropped. Federal prosecutors said Hector Medina of El Paso concocted a
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 25 in the blockbuster case over whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from prosecution in the federal election subversion case. The court previously said it would hear arguments in the case during the week of April 22. On Wednesday,
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