Month: April 2024

NATO looking at options to shore up long-term support for Ukraine amid concerns about Trump winning November’s election

April 3, 2024 8:44 AM CNN Newsource

By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is considering a range of options to shore up long-term support for Ukraine, including establishing a fund of $100 billion over five years from the alliance members, according to three sources familiar with the matter. “It is future-proofing,” said one senior European diplomat familiar with the discussions,

Texas immigration controversy rekindles fight over Arizona’s ‘show me your papers’ law

April 3, 2024 8:43 AM CNN Newsource

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The legal battle over a controversial Texas immigration law could eventually give the Supreme Court a chance to revisit a historic ruling that largely struck down Arizona’s “show me your papers” law and reaffirmed the federal government’s “broad, undoubted power” over immigration. Texas’ SB 4, which allows state officials

Man is arrested in Easter brunch shooting in Nashville that left 1 dead and 5 injured

April 3, 2024 8:42 AM Associated Press

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police have arrested a Tennessee man suspected of an Easter brunch shooting at a Nashville restaurant that killed one person and injured five more. Metro Nashville Police say Anton Rucker was taken into custody Tuesday in Princeton, Kentucky. He is being held there on a fugitive

New details emerge in murder of beloved Port St. Lucie teacher, mother

April 3, 2024 8:39 AM CNN Newsource

By Steve King Click here for updates on this story PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (WPBF) — Investigators say the woman shot and killed by her estranged husband in front of her children in West Palm Beach on Friday had a restraining order filed against him from a previous domestic violence incident. Police say Jamie Felix

Basketball teams were ordered to replay final 0.3 seconds of controversial quarterfinal. The losing side has refused

April 3, 2024 8:36 AM CNN Newsource

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — An Irish basketball team says it won’t replay the final 0.3 seconds of a playoff quarterfinal after it ended in controversial fashion, despite being instructed to do so by Basketball Ireland. The Limerick Sport Eagles beat the Portlaoise Panthers 80-78 on March 23, but have yet to play their

Antony Blinken had yet another problem with his Boeing plane. He had to go in a car instead

April 3, 2024 8:36 AM CNN Newsource

By Chris Isidore and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is the latest person dealing with problems with a Boeing jet. Blinken and other State Department officials who are in Europe for talks about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza were forced to ride by car between Paris

Russia: US shares blame in a concert hall attack claimed by Islamic militants

April 3, 2024 8:23 AM Associated Press

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The head of Russia’s national security council says the United States shares blame for the attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed 145 people, even though a branch of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility. Since the March 22 attack at the

‘I just had to be here’: Community members gather across the Triad to honor fallen Lexington firefighter

April 3, 2024 8:23 AM CNN Newsource

By Kara Peters Click here for updates on this story LEXINGTON, North Carolina (WXII) — It was an emotional day for the Piedmont Triad as the body of Capt. Ronnie Metcalf traveled from Winston-Salem to Thomasville. Monday’s procession began at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, where Metcalf died from his injuries Friday. The procession traveled

Alley Theatre in Texas puts on Thornton Wilder’s last, unfinished play, ‘The Emporium’

April 3, 2024 8:22 AM Associated Press

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For Kirk Lynn, it was like a scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He was in a library at Yale, gingerly opening three bankers boxes. Inside were hundreds of pages of an unknown and unfinished play by Thornton Wilder. He says his face “just

Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in trophy hunting dispute

April 3, 2024 8:20 AM CNN Newsource

By Nadine Schmidt, Sarah Dean and Ingrid Formanek, CNN (CNN) — Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies. ”Twenty thousand elephants for Germany, this is not a joke,” Masisi told German tabloid Bild. The African leader criticised the German government – particularly

NY inmates sue to watch total solar eclipse

April 3, 2024 8:03 AM CNN Newsource

By Molly Ormsbee Click here for updates on this story SULLIVAN COUNTY, New York (WPTZ) — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse. The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8

“Trash House” causes concern, frustration for neighborhood

April 3, 2024 8:02 AM CNN Newsource

By Amanda Starrantino Click here for updates on this story FAIRFAX, California (KCAL, KCBS) — For the past decade, piles of bags filled with what looks like empty cleaning supplies, clothing, and random household junk outside the home called the “Trash House” have left a Fairfax neighborhood frustrated and concerned for the homeowner. “You can

“Trash House” causes concern, frustration for neighborhood

April 3, 2024 8:02 AM CNN

KCAL, KCBS, CITY OF LOS ANGELES, BUILDING AND SAFETY, CNN By Amanda Starrantino Click here for updates on this story FAIRFAX, California (KCAL, KCBS) — For the past decade, piles of bags filled with what looks like empty cleaning supplies, clothing, and random household junk outside the home called the “Trash House” have left a

What do a top-secret CIA mission and the Maryland bridge wreck have in common? Well, the same crane

April 3, 2024 8:02 AM Associated Press

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A floating crane that’s been hauling away shattered steel from a collapsed Baltimore bridge played a much different role during the Cold War. In the early 1970s, it helped to build a specialized ship that would raise a portion of a sunken Soviet submarine. The barge’s powerful crane hoisted into

Nicotine pouches for your mouth are becoming increasingly popular. Here’s why health experts are concerned

April 3, 2024 8:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A relatively new nicotine product with a tobacco-free and smokeless design has drawn in a wave of new users in just the past year: oral nicotine pouches that sit at the gums and are nearly undetectable when in use. The leading brand Zyn, introduced in the United States in

New England braces for major spring snowstorm as severe weather continues to sock US

April 3, 2024 8:00 AM Associated Press

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — More severe weather is barrelling across the U.S. A major spring storm is expected to drop more than a foot of snow in parts of New England on Wednesday, while heavy rains are likely to soak the East Coast. Meanwhile, cleanup work continues in several

Company headquartered in Maine named one of the best workplaces for women, diversity

April 3, 2024 8:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Adam Bartow Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) — WEX, which has its global headquarters in Portland, has been named as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women for 2024 by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group. The awards recognize the efforts WEX is making

Woman faces trafficking charges after cocaine found in child’s backpack

April 3, 2024 7:59 AM CNN Newsource

By Mike Brantley and Daeshen Smith Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — During the execution of a search warrant Mobile County Sheriff’s Office narcotics investigators found approximately two kilograms of cocaine in a backpack being worn by a 3-year-old child, according to the MCSO. During the search of a Harvey

Woman faces trafficking charges after cocaine found in child’s backpack

April 3, 2024 7:59 AM CNN

WALA, MOBILE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE, CNN By Mike Brantley and Daeshen Smith Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — During the execution of a search warrant Mobile County Sheriff’s Office narcotics investigators found approximately two kilograms of cocaine in a backpack being worn by a 3-year-old child, according to the MCSO.

Balloon release held to remember 12-year-old York County boy fatally shot one year ago

April 3, 2024 7:57 AM CNN Newsource

By McKenna Alexander Click here for updates on this story RED LION, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — Friends and family remembered a York County boy on the one-year anniversary of his death. Kain Heiland was 12 when he was shot and killed on April 1, 2023, in Red Lion. During a balloon release, those who knew him

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