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By The Associated Press People in New Orleans and its suburbs were sloshing through flooded streets as forecasters warned of even more rain Wednesday after high winds ripped through the South, collapsing the roof of an apartment building in Slidell, Louisiana. In Slidell, just outside New Orleans, police shared video of what they believe was
Continue ReadingBy Brooke Rogers Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — For one Fort Worth family, Monday’s excitement was eclipsed by an even bigger event: the birth of their baby. Alicia Alvarez gave birth at 1:04 p.m. at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center to Sol Celeste. She came into the world at
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By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The investigation into why a cargo ship lost power and struck a Baltimore bridge last month, causing it to collapse, is currently focused on engine room equipment, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. Hyundai, the equipment’s manufacturer, has sent employees to the Dali ship to help “download data from
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Conan O’Brien visited “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday night, and said it’s been a long time since his days hosting NBC’s “Late Night” in the same building. “It’s weird to come back,” O’Brien told host Jimmy Fallon. “I haven’t been in this building for such a long time, and
Continue ReadingCNN By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Conan O’Brien visited “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday night, and said it’s been a long time since his days hosting NBC’s “Late Night” in the same building. “It’s weird to come back,” O’Brien told host Jimmy Fallon. “I haven’t been in this building for such a long time,
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden told reporters at the White House Wednesday that his administration is “considering” a request from Australia to drop charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In February, the Australian Parliament approved a motion calling for Assange to be released to his home country of Australia. Asked
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man charged with three murders in an unusual doomsday-focused case crafted an alternate reality so that he could fulfill “his desire for sex, money and power,” a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday morning. “When he had a chance at what he considered his rightful destiny,
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un feroz debate que se ha propagado por las redes sociales, los despachos de abogados, las comisarías de policía y la política escocesa también llegó a las calles de Edimburgo este fin de semana. La semana pasada entró en vigor en Escocia la Ley sobre Delitos de Odio y Orden Público,
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A retired U.S. Army colonel who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War has died at age 97. A funeral home says that Ralph Puckett Jr. died Monday at his home in Columbus, Georgia. President Joe Biden presented Puckett with the Medal of Honor in
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Suicide rates among people of all ages in the United States have increased over the past two decades, making it a serious public health problem. Among US college athletes, suicide is now the second leading cause of death after accidents — and rates have doubled from 7.6% to 15.3%
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal safety investigators are focusing on the electrical power system of the massive container ship that veered off course and crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said her agency is gathering data with assistance
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Japan is giving the United States 250 new cherry trees to help replace the hundreds that are being ripped out this summer as construction crews work to repair the crumbling seawall around the capital’s Tidal Basin. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made the announcement as President Joe
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Mientras la amenaza de tormentas severas se mantuvo en algunas partes del sur de Estados Unidos durante la noche de este martes, la amenaza de tormentas severas aumentará a partir de este miércoles por la mañana a medida que la amenaza se desplaza hacia el este del país. Más de
Continue ReadingBy Brian New Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — Thousands of guns sent off by North Texas local law enforcement agencies to be destroyed were first stripped of parts that were then sold online by a private company. Several police departments told the CBS News Texas I-Team they were unaware
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Senate lawmakers in Tennessee have advanced legislation making it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent. The GOP-controlled Senate signed off on the proposal 26-3 on Wednesday. The bill is still advancing toward the floor in the House. If enacted,
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York towns and villages that have post-Prohibition bans on alcohol sales would be forced to lift such restrictions under a bill moving through the Legislature. The bill, which is up for a state Senate vote after advancing out of a committee last week,
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump said Wednesday that an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes too far and the former president called on Arizona lawmakers to change it, while also defending the overturning of Roe v. Wade that cleared states to ban the procedure.
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top general for U.S. forces in Europe told Congress Wednesday that Ukraine will be outgunned 10 to one by Russia within a matter of weeks if Congress does not find a way to approve sending more ammunition and weapons to Kyiv soon. The testimony from Army
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Lawmakers have approved a major revamp of the European Union’s migration regulations. The reforms are meant to end years of division over how to manage the entry of people without authorization and to deprive the far right of a vote-winning campaign issue ahead of June elections. Wednesday’s
Continue ReadingBy Avery Lotz and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — David Hume Kennerly, a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer who served in the Ford White House, announced his resignation on Tuesday from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation board over its “short-sighted” rejection of former Rep. Liz Cheney for the organization’s yearly award. “Today I am resigning from the Gerald
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